{"id":2635,"date":"2015-07-18T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2015-07-13T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:57:44","slug":"dungeon-magazine-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine #48"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To Bite The Moon
\nby Lisa Smedman
\nAD&D
\nLevels 9-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a weird little adventure. In a gnoll cave, with 70-some odd gnolls, the party is turned in to gnolls by a wish. There\u2019s then a little straight-forward cave system. The cave adventure has a nice three-levels-on-one-page map with ten rooms, but the encounters are generally nothing to speak of at all. There\u2019s some snake skins and a lavender mold which is nice, but otherwise it\u2019s just \u201c3 giants in the room\u201d or \u201ca cave fisher.\u201d The noteworthy part of this adventure is that the party is turned in to gnolls in the first room. This is a bit of a railroad, but it\u2019s also presented in such a way that it\u2019s actually the hook \u2026 and the hook is always allowed a bit more leeway. There\u2019s a bit if roleplay around this, as the tribe interacts with the party, but it\u2019s otherwise not really a part of the adventure. I find this quite odd. It\u2019s almost like a random event, but presented like it\u2019s one of the chief components of the adventure. Half-measures and potentials not realized.<\/p>\n

The Oracle at Sumbar
\nby Paul D. Culotta
\nAD&D
\nLevels 3-6<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a strange little thing. It\u2019s wordy, convoluted, straightforward, and weirdly enjoyable. Dungeon is full of exposition, every adventure being more wordy, by far, than it need be. This one goes even further though. And yet it\u2019s focused. You\u2019re implored to help a woman with a debt by selling a book for her. Each of the potential places you might stop is detailed. One of them leads to an Oracle. Hiring a ship takes you to the oracle and then on to the treasure of a pirate king. There is the usual \u201cyou were tailed and now they pop up at the end.\u201d There is a great deal of advice given. There are a great number of \u2026 paths? explored. There\u2019s a great number of small interesting things going on, It is a very richly environment that is painted.That rich environment is always what I\u2019m after, however I\u2019m generally looking for a much terser application of the principal. Given a good read-through I think you could run this WITHOUT extensive notes prepared in advance, or maybe not even a highlighter. This speaks to the skill of the writing, particularly given how wordy it is. <\/p>\n

Them Apples
\nby Christopher Perkins
\nD&D
\nLevels 1-3<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is trying to set up a little fairy tale\/folklore adventure. Halfling apple trees are poisoned. The cure was stolen by a giant. What follows is supposed to be a charming little adventure, with giant wives & daughters, giant wooden spoons. What we actually get is a standard little giant house layout with the usual things in it. The problem here is that it\u2019s presented as a straightforward \u201cexplore the house\u201d adventure when in fact it\u2019s not. While the chief giant is an erudite fellow not inclined to violence, and the other giant women strike generally to subdue, it has no \u2026 charm? It\u2019s clear what is SUPPOSED to happen, but it\u2019s all up to the DM to make it happen. Hmmm, that didn\u2019t come out right. The adventure, as written, has a certain tone to it. If you\u2019re familiar enough with folklore you can ignore the presented tone and mold this in to a good adventure.<\/p>\n

Melody
\nBy Leonard Wilson & Ann Wilson
\nAD&D
\nLevels 6-8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Uh \u2026 a small tower with some orogs and ettins in it. The hook is that the party is lured there by an enchanting song. It\u2019s a harpy polymorphed into an elf as a child and raised with no understanding of her past. This is clearly the most interesting part of the adventure. As a nice way to introduce a long-term NPC quest-object it would be great \u2026 if a little long. The core adventure is just a throw-away while the \u201cfurther adventures with the harpy\u201d section contains mostly generalities. Had it instead laid out some specifics then you\u2019d have great advice for taking the elf\/harpy NPC and integrating it well and fully into your campaign: lots of hooks, lots of adventures and quest ideas. Instead we get sentence after sentence reinforcing that her voice is enchanting. Ug. And people say _I_ beat flog my grounded horses!<\/p>\n

Sleeping Dragon
\nby Bill Slavicsek
\nAD&D
\nLevel 6 Dragon<\/strong><\/p>\n

1-on-1 with a Dragon PC.<\/p>\n

Honor Lost, Honor Regained
\nby Paul Hamilton Beattle Jr
\nAD&D
\nLevels 4-6
\n<\/strong>
\nThe party must escort a fallen paladin, who\u2019s afraid of spiders, in to a cave with spiders and a drider. That\u2019s it. There\u2019s nothing to do. You get to help a pompous ass. Yeah you! The cave has 5 encounters. All straight-forward spiders. Zzzz\u2026…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Bite The Moon by Lisa Smedman AD&D Levels 9-12 This is a weird little adventure. In a gnoll cave, with 70-some odd gnolls, the party is turned in to gnolls by a wish. There\u2019s then a little straight-forward cave … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dungeon-magazine","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/d48.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}