COMMENTS BY EPHESOS
Dilecia

An excellent newcomer scenario, with impressive range, a few nice puzzles (I found the sniper puzzle very unique), and a half-decent plot. Towns and outdoors, well... they lacked, though I might just have strange standards for that. Anyway, they were basically fine. Combat got a bit annoying, and that reminds me about the fact that monster plagues are frowned upon. Cutscenes were great, and they helped explain a lot. All in all, very enjoyable. Oh, and Glup pwns.

Rating: 7.7

Echoes: Renegade
 
It's a TM scenario, with standard TM material. By this I mean a plot that the player isn't really supposed to understand, which tends to revolve around "go kill stuff or the world will end", and "guess what, you were a powerless pawn the whole time". It also means broken items. Thankfully, it also means amazing scripting, very impressive towns and outdoors, and decent characters. And I'm happy to say that the combat was less painful than I'd expected, given Canopy. Overall, excellent, and that's the most important attribute of TM's work.

Rating: 8.4

Magus of Cattalon

I loved the world of this scenario. The outdoors were believable and enjoyable, towns were very well done (notable exception: the giants' towns), and the plot was pretty decent, though I disliked how little influence the magus of Cattalon had on the scenario. Also, combat did get a bit stale... and there were little idiosyncracies like the boulder trap which kills PCs even when they can cast move mountains. But there were touches like Adrian and the storyteller's quest that redeemed that. This was amazing, in short.

Rating: 8.5

Where the Rivers Meet

As an epic newcomer, I have to give WtRM credit. However... I had to stop playing, though I only did so after being informed that it was legal for me to do so. WtRM has issues... and while I can excuse bad grammar and spelling, there are narrative techniques used here that make me cringe. "This wall is full of lava!" stood out, as did the various messages informing me that I'd apparently killed a leader, though I had no way of knowing so. I also love how the scenario hoses parties without nephil and/or mages... and there was one excellent moment where I had to crack open the editor and find a single space to trigger a door, only to find that the narrator wouldn't let me go there yet. Also, there are bugs... like mismatched dialogue nodes which led to me complimenting a cat's cooking. Gah, it was unpleasant, but it was basically whole... and don't get me started on the towns and outdoors.

Rating: 5.9