{"id":10624,"date":"2026-09-19T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:33:02","slug":"the-unleashing-of-st-nimuanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=10624","title":{"rendered":"The Unleashing of St. Nimuanne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lixu
Lixuni Gaming
OSE
Levels 1-6 (ha!)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Centuries ago, a mortal Myrenean queen named Nimuanne used forbidden rites at a sacred menhir field to transcend death, splitting her essence into three fragments upon her final death: Body, Mind, and Spirit. Grave robbers broke open the funerary urn containing these fragments, plunging the region into a desperate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 79 page adventure presents four or five dungeons with ten to twenty locations each, plus a few small towns in a small region that is having some troubles. Its abstracted text seems out of place given the page count, with a lack of anything specific going on in the adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, so, I got some things to say. And this adventure probably doesn\u2019t deserve to be the one I go off on. It\u2019s not a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, also, this sentence appears in the adventure: \u201cThat independence became its undoing: no walls, no militia, no warning before its own monks were the first to fall when the Mind Stone took root beneath them, spreading house to house until the entire town turned in what may have been a single night.\u201d  I have a blind spot when it comes to spotting AI. But, the triple negative is a a hallmark of AI. I\u2019m not even going to mention the end of that sentence, just focusing on the triple negative. It stands out like a sore thumb. And it\u2019s listed as human created with no AI. I\u2019m no \u201cAI is the bogeyman and everywhere!\u201d kind of person, but this sticks out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think, though, what stood out the mot for me in this adventure was the page count vs the dungeon content. I\u2019m not sure how to frame this so people will understand. The dungeons here are relatively small, ten to twenty rooms. The room descriptions are rather minimal, a sentence or two. \u201cCell 3. A single unlabeled potion of climbing, tucked behind a loose stone, easy to miss without a search.\u201d Or, for a longer room \u201cStoreroom. Broken crates, moldering sacks, the smell of old grain gone to rot. 2 Shambling Husks stir. Loot: a locked strongbox (30gp), and a scroll of protection from undead, wax seal still faintly intact.\u201d Even that is pretty light. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. But, that also means that the dungeon keys fit on a page or maybe a little more, for a ten room dungeon. And there are only, I don\u2019t know, four or so dungeons in this? That\u2019s only a small number of pages. But this is an eight page adventure. I have no idea, honestly, no idea, what those pages are being used for. Stat blocks at the end, tables at the end, maps, I guess. It\u2019s just so offputting. To see a large page count and then see the size of the dungeons and the minimal room descriptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the rest of the content, those in between pages, are not exactly stellar. The local lord is having a dream about three locations. Go check em out and defeat the evil one. I know, I know, i\u2019m hyperbolic, but this is almost the extent of what you get to help launch the adventure. Go ahead and get the party moving based on that. Because that\u2019s about all you\u2019re getting. Oh, there\u2019s a fuck ton of explaining and backstory and so on, but I think thats being confused for gaeable content. The actually hooks in, the specificity, is not there at all. This is supposed to be a sandbox like thing. Do the three in any order and then end up at the final dungeon. But its all so very loose. Maybe, I mean abstracted. \u201cHey, there\u2019s a ransacked village with some pod people in it. You need the party to en up at the local monastery.\u201d Again, hyperbolic, but not by much. But, then, also, augment that with a whole lot of backstory that isn\u2019t really relevant to the game at the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The emphasis here is on the wrong things. You can, as Stonhell demonstrated, get away with some minimal keying. But you do this by adding context and specificity around the general situation in the area. There are things going on, the place is alive, as noted in the general notes for the level\/area. This allows for a rather shorter dungeon key entry. But, importantly, we cannot mistake historical background for \u201ccurrent situation.\u201d Or even, the current situation for \u201cthis shit will impact game play.\u201d If it\u2019s not impacting game play then it\u2019s just padding. A line or two od padding, thrown in here or there, might be fine. You can\u2019t lose sight of the goal: supporting the game at the table. In looking at a page long NPC description, does it matter that dude grew up an orphan? Almost certainly not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This misses the mark with nearly everything. Yes, it does have some interconnected dungeons that are coherent enough to run. But any specificity, in town, in the hook, in the wilderness, outside the dungeon, inside the dungeon, is essentially absent. Anything that could tie things together well and help the DM create the feelings of immersion that a ten session adventure would rely upon is not present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, it\u2019s mostly stabbin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is supposed to be a whole pod person thing going on in one area that can bleed over in to others. None of that comes through well. The interconnections and theming between the sites, doesn\u2019t come across. And, finally, the last dungeon has three separate version, only one of which will be used. This would seem to be a waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s just weird, in the way it abstracted the content and yet is STILL quite lengthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $10 at DriveThru. The preview is fifteen pages. You\u2019ll get some general overview, and none of the dungeons. That overview is, honesty, the most information you\u2019re going to get about the hook and linking things together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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