The Shrike Review | 2025 Gold Ennie Winner | Modular Sandbox Hellscape for Old School Essentials!

Описание: Welcome to the full review of The Shrike, the 2025 Gold Ennie Award Winner for Best Long Form Adventure!

This incredible modular sandbox setting, penned by Leo Hunt (creator of Vaults of Vaarn), drops your adventurers into the heart of an abandoned fragment of Hell — a towering black iron blade embedded in a dying god’s heart. Welcome to The Shrike — a world of rust, blood, fog, and existential horror.

Written for Old School Essentials, but fully compatible with most d20-based fantasy RPGs, The Shrike is a heaven-harrowing megadungeon where infernal geography meets cosmic decay. Explore a rust-covered hellscape filled with masked devils, monstrous abominations, bizarre life-giving blood, and twisted magic. Every spire and corridor oozes dread and dark wonder.

Includes:

Open-ended sandbox structure
Dozens of dangerous, richly described locations
Haunting factions, horrifying monsters, and cursed treasures
Utterly unique setting design and themes

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Physical copies available now on the publisher’s website!

If you’re running OSE, D&D, or any OSR-style game and want to inject dark beauty, moral ambiguity, and epic weirdness into your campaign, The Shrike is a must-have.

Let me know your favorite location or encounter from The Shrike in the comments!

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Buying The Shrike
03:00 The Review
26:59 Final thoughts