I ran a one-shot with that worked out great. The festival had great activities and plot hooks, and the dungeon was just enough to wrap up in a 5 hour session. Definitely worth the purchase!

Definitely check out Between Two Cairns and the guests/feed curated by Yochai. I've also enjoyed running Vaults of Vaarn, a science fantasy TTRPG.

Interesting ideas. In my experience it's been harder to design encounters that are hostile _to the players_ instead of just _hostile_, but that difference can lead to more dynamic gameplay.

Importantly, the necromancers control over his minions is in complete and he can only vaguely suggest commands to them by way of saying "wouldn't it be cool if..."