{"id":3214,"date":"2016-09-10T07:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:51:29","slug":"dungeon-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon #99"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"d99\"<\/a>
\nTwo adventures. A new low?!?! Or maybe stocking up for issue 100?<\/p>\n

Quadripartite
\nBy Peter Aperlo
\n3e
\nLevel 14<\/p>\n

The very definition of a lame adventure\/the perfect example of a \u2018Combat as Sport\u2019 adventure. It\u2019s just a bunch of forced combats held together by a pretext. Evil cleric of Nerull disguises himself and casts undetectable alignment so the party will go get four pieces of a key that defeats a newly awakened chaos creature. He\u2019s not lying, so the disguise and alignment spell just reinforce the lameness of the inevitable betrayal (and he does! Wow, couldn’t see that coming \u2026) You go in a shrine that you can\u2019t passwall, teleport, ddor, etc and answer four riddles, each teleporting you a different location. There you fight three of four encounters to get part of the key. You then go fight the chaos monster. There\u2019s one possibility to negotiate with someone, but that\u2019s it. Just forced combat after forced combat. The whole mindlessly rolling dice in combat thing eludes me. If you like it then good for you, you would like this adventure. I just wish your game didn\u2019t have the same name as my game, mostly so that I didn\u2019t have to wade through your dreck to find my dreck. IE: the story of my blog.<\/p>\n

Fish Story
\nBy Adam Jortner
\n3e
\nLevel 5<\/p>\n

More interesting than the usual Dungeon fare. Some Locath have moved into the town mill and the party is encouraged by the town to do something about it. An assault OR negotiation (I know, right?!) gets the story that the locaths old encampment, a flooded village, has been taken over. Going there the party discovers a locath ghost who tricks them into going into a small dungeon under the town. Inside THAT is a kobold vampire and a trapped water elemental. The locales in this are a little more interesting than the normal boring fare, and the creatures all seem to have some motivations.The ending is not as simple as just killing everything and ferreting out the \u201cmystery\u201d and the intersecting goals is a large byproduct of the adventure. It\u2019s not quite a faction adventure but it does have a mystery to solve (if convoluted) or you can just blunder through and come out the other side with more unhappy creatures than happy ones. I wish this would get a stronger formatting and the intersecting goals worked out a little more, that would bring those to the players minds in a much more frontal fashion, keeping them there to ponder the consequences of their actions. As it is, the DM is going to have to recognize this element and work harder at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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