Search the jungles of Chult for the fabled emerald mines, for the Heart of the Jungle, a single gem as large as a man's heart. Also within these pages are new monsters and new character kits: Mage hunters, specialty priests of Ubtao, and spiritlords. This adventure is designed for 6 to 8 characters of levels 5 to 8.
James Lowder has worked extensively in fantasy and horror fiction on both sides of the editorial blotter. He's authored several best-selling dark fantasy novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and has had short fiction appear in such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Genius Loci. He's penned comic book scripts for several companies and the city of Boston. His book and film reviews, feature articles, and role-playing game design work can be found in such diverse publications as Amazing Stories, Milwaukee Magazine, and The New England Journal of History. As an editor, he's directed lines or series for TSR, Green Knight Publishing, Chaosium, and CDS Books. He's helmed more than twenty anthologies, including Hobby Games: The 100 Best and Curse of the Full Moon. In the media, he is a regular contributor to the Public Radio show "Lake Effect" in Milwaukee, provided werewolf lore on the TV show Weird or What? and tabletop game industry lore for the documentary The Dreams in Gary's Basement, and served as a puppeteer on the indie film Misfit Heights.
"You have dinosaurs!" shrieked the Forgotten Realms native wizard, in delight, upon her first arrival to Port Nyanzaru. "Tame dinosaurs! Why did you never tell me about this?" "Why should I?" asked the cleric, who had come from Chult in her youth. "You didn't hear me rave about bunnies." Paraphrased conversation from one of the recent games I ran.
Well worth a revisit, even if it took me a while to set aside the time to read it cover-to-cover. Dungeons and Dragons and Dinosaurs, what's not to enjoy?