{"id":2847,"date":"2015-11-14T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2015-10-30T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:36:00","slug":"dungeon-magazine-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine #65"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Knight of the Scarlet Sword
\nby Jeff Crook
\nAD&D
\nLevels 4-6<\/p>\n

Quite verbose, but full of stuff to get into trouble with. A misguided knight in a small village. A polymorphed imp misguiding the knight. A doppleganger impersonating the blacksmith working with the imp who is acting mayor, a thuggish\/brutal group of constables, falsely accused villagers, a homunculus, a cave that’s the source of a local myth, an old wizard’s lair, and an \u201cevil\u201d wizard who is turning himself into a lich. Decent rumor table. The thing is laid out in a sandbox form, with a suggested timeline. Could use a little more \u201cVillage Life\u201d stuff, but not bad for Dungeon.<\/p>\n

Flotsam
\nby John Baichtal
\nAD&D
\nLevels 6-8<\/p>\n

A side-trek. You pick up two shipwreck survivors. One is a disguised goofy pirate and one a poly\u2019d rakshasa. They do not necessarily mean the party harm, and there\u2019s nothing more. IE: this is two NPC\u2019s disguised as an adventure.<\/p>\n

The Ice Tyrant
\nby Christopher Perkins
\nDragonlance Fifth Age<\/p>\n

DL5 is an act\/scene based game, and so this is an act\/scene based adventure. It has the usual problems: it assumes you did what you were supposed to do in the previous scene. Scene two has you allied with some elves from scene one. It you killed the elves (I would, they act like assholes) then the DM has problems in scene two. And three. And so on. It\u2019s a juvenile attempt using a broken format, and the format is badly done at that.<\/p>\n

Reflections
\nby Lisa Doyle
\nAD&D
\nLevels 3-5<\/p>\n

Another side-trek. Some people in town have gone missing. There\u2019s a cave, with a will-o-the-wisp that lures people to a gibbering mouther. This has a very nice rumor table (\u201cI think the ran off with that Jones girl without her parents permission!\u201d) but that\u2019s otherwise the only highlight.<\/p>\n

The Unkindness of Ravens
\nby Jason Kuhl
\nAD&D
\nLevels 3-5<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fond of this and I\u2019m completely sure why. It\u2019s a murder party in a small castle\/manor. During dinner a servant is murdered. The party looks into it. The host is not a dick, and the servants are not either \u2026 both quite unusual. There\u2019s a brief timeline and a lot going on. It\u2019s got a \u201cfantasy but not D&D\u201d vibe going on that I like a lot. The prevalence of ravens and other blackbirds, an orangutan demon (yes, it\u2019s a barluga. Piss off, it\u2019s a monkey demon.) Ghostly dwarfs who talk to you in their tomb. It\u2019s got a great vibe. The rooms are not overly described (which alone should win this adventure \u201cDungeon Adventure of the Year\u201d award) and the NPC\u2019s are brief enough to enjoy and expand upon. The magic items are nothing to write home about. There\u2019s a brief timeline that could use a little work and I\u2019d prefer to have the NPC\u2019s written up outside of their rooms, but otherwise this feels more like a good Nancy Drew fantasy than bog-standard boring-fuck Realms D&D. That\u2019s a compliment.<\/p>\n

The Beast Within
\nby Paul Beattie Jr.
\nAD&D
\nLevels 1-3<\/p>\n

This is really just a side-trek, and in that it\u2019s really just an NPC. There\u2019s a guy (a cleric) barricaded in a hut with a bunch of lambs tethered outside. He\u2019s been bit by a werewolf and is trying to contain himself. The \u201cadventure\u201d here is non-existent, but the concept of a NPC cleric for the party to use is a good one. Lots of fun things to do with a friendly high level cleric who has a problem. As written this has a bunch of the bullshit implied morality that I hate. Kill the guy? Oh No! That\u2019s murder! His god doesn\u2019t like you and curses you! Loot the hut after killing him? Oh no! You\u2019re a thief and the law comes after you! There\u2019s no excuse for a dick DM. Baby orcs are there to kill. If you\u2019re DM puts them there to test you, or fuck with you, then you need to go find a new DM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knight of the Scarlet Sword by Jeff Crook AD&D Levels 4-6 Quite verbose, but full of stuff to get into trouble with. A misguided knight in a small village. A polymorphed imp misguiding the knight. A doppleganger impersonating the blacksmith … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","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\/10\/d65.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","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=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}