{"id":3171,"date":"2016-08-13T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2016-08-08T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:44:30","slug":"dungeon-magazine-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine 95"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"d95\"<\/a>
\nThe Jackal\u2019s Redemption
\nBy Chad MacPhee & Greg Oppedisano
\n3e
\nLevel 9<\/p>\n

Fourteen mostly linear encounters in a wizards tower and caves in Gehenna. A wizards tower phases in & out of existance, which started right about the time four armed demons started aabducting townfolk. Really just an excuse to throw xill & a couple of devil-like folk at the party. LOTS of read-aloud \u2026 the second room has four paragrapghs of read-aloud, as do a few others. The adventure like to describe former uses and mundane thigns that are irrelevent to the adventure. A journal appears to relate the backstory, because someone, someone, somewhere once thought that was a good idea. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s an easy idea. Bits & pieces sometimes get good: an imp whispering to captive how much pain they\u2019ll be in when the xill egg hatches, villagers who can\u2019t believe the wizards disappearance had anything to do with the demon attacks. But it\u2019s mostly just boring old combat. Here\u2019s one of my favorite, useless, lines: \u201cTotal immesion in molten rock is potentially deadly, even for 9th level characters.\u201d And then two more paragrapghs on magma. Or, how about \u201cAnkle-deep Magma: 2d6\/second+1d6 for 1d3 seconds after leaving.\u201d Sorry, sorry, I should know better. <\/p>\n

The WItch of Serpent\u2019s Bridge
\nBy Russell Brown
\n3e
\nLevel 3<\/p>\n

A workmanlike adventure, tracking down a mystery that leads to a lair that leads to a humanoid camp that culminates with an attack on the village. It\u2019s not particularly imaginative but it\u2019s not particularly loathsome either, being relatively terse by Dungeon standards.The adventure has a very generic feel to it, with not much village detail or even interesting things in the lair or camp. When it gets specific you get glimpses of interesting content. The village priest says he had a vision that if they built a temple then Kord would rid the woods of evil \u2026 which is kind of true since the party will rid the woods of the threat. There\u2019s also a young lady, a dead trapper’s daughter, who is obsessed with finding\/killing boars, since once killed her father. Both of these are presented with about the same level of detail as I just related \u2026 really just some facts. And both have this \u2026 potential to them that you can build upon if you glare hard and twist them a bit. The fervent young priest. The girl who emulates boars, dressing up like them, rooting around like them. They need just a little more to push them over the top and the rest of the encounters need this extra bit also \u2026 good things are few & far between in this. It does end with a mass attack on the village, which is a nice touch. Yet Another Journal shows up in this adventure, in order to explain the monster backstory. *sigh*<\/p>\n

Lust
\nBy Bradley Schell
\n3e
\nLevel 4<\/p>\n

*sigh* Side-trek. A page of background for three charmed knights fighting with each other, and the party \u2026 all charmed by a Satyr. <\/p>\n

Porphyry House of Horrors
\nBy James jacobs
\n3e
\nLevel 10<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a boob in some artwork in this, which is why I guess it warranted the sealed nature of the adventure? Oh, no, it must be that the main location in this adventure is a brothel with many perversion rooms described, and \u201crape\u201d being included in about half the NPC backstories. The main claim to fame in the brothel is that the yuan-ti running the place polymorph animals and monsters into human form and use them as their prostitutes. I don\u2019t tend to be judgy of sex stuff, but I do tend to be judgy of crappy stuff, and just tossing in boobies, dildo\u2019s, orgy rooms, and an orgy regisration form that asks for the applicant’s sexual history does seem a bit much. A wizard has sex with his imp all the time, a regenerating ogre is bound in a bar for all to torture \u2026 it\u2019s all a bit simple and forced and prurient for the sake of being prurient, rather than an integral part of the adventure. Page long NPC\/encounter descriptions don\u2019t help much, nor does the fact that the brothel has a room dedicated to \u201cWand Storage\u201d or the fact that when you free the raped polymorphed sex slave harpies \u2026 they attack you. There\u2019s not really enough background information for the city to run it free form (although there IS a lot of text, a lot of it is not gameable.) and yet free form is how the place is supposed to be run, with sneaking around, almost like a caper or heist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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