{"id":2904,"date":"2016-02-24T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2019-02-21T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:40:16","slug":"the-evil-of-witches-fen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"The Evil of Witches Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?attachment_id=2900\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2900\" src=\"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tbg-296x300.png\" alt=\"tbg\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tbg-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tbg.png 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nby Joe Johnston<br \/>\nTask Boy Games<br \/>\nLabyrinth Lord<br \/>\nLevels 4-7<\/p>\n<p>Uh \u2026 DeRp? A one page hex crawl in a foul swampy region. It gives it the old college try but falls short in its lack of verbs \u2026 and content.<\/p>\n<p>I usually try and avoid reviewing one page things, but evidently I\u2019m too dense to understand what I\u2019m buying. It\u2019s hard to justify a review with twice as many words as the product you\u2019re reviewing. it just feels like I\u2019m picking minutia apart, which is unfair to the designer.<\/p>\n<p>The language used in this is pretty good: \u201cbaleful vapours issuing from Mt Foul\u201d is some great imagery, as is some of the laconic humor: \u201cyour party has been stranded here until the next ship from capitol arrives (17: chance; check once per month.) Ouch! That\u2019s a mood setter, if a bit subtle. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a distinct lack of content here. Repeats of the map take up a lot of space. Repeats of swamp travel take up extra space. Things on the map are unexplained. But the real sin here is the lack of verbs. The folks in the hexes just sit there, as nouns. To paraphrase: \u201cThere\u2019s a dragon in this hex\u201d or \u201cthere\u2019s undead in this hex.\u201d In this way the crawl is similar to Isle of the Unknown, which also suffered from this problem. The good parts of The Wilderlands, and Nod, etc, are where there\u2019s some kind of verb involved. The undead are collecting heads to build a ziggurat, or the dragon tends his near mortal wounds with rare herbs. This turns the description from a static feature to a dynamic encounter with possabilities for the DM to expand upon.<\/p>\n<p>This don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>This is available on DriveThru.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/113026\/The-Evil-of-Witches-Fen?1892600\">https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/113026\/The-Evil-of-Witches-Fen?1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Joe Johnston Task Boy Games Labyrinth Lord Levels 4-7 Uh \u2026 DeRp? A one page hex crawl in a foul swampy region. It gives it the old college try but falls short in its lack of verbs \u2026 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=2904\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tbg.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}