{"id":3259,"date":"2016-10-08T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2016-09-27T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:32:55","slug":"dungeon-magazine-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine #103"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"d103\"<\/a>
\nGlacial Inferno
\nBy Kent Ertman
\nLevel 7<\/p>\n

This is full on crap-fest combat-as-sport mode. Pretext after pretext is given for combat. Made with rage. Mad with fury. Mad with pain. The end result of every encounter is that everything in the room attacks the party on sight. Encounters other than \u201cit attacks!\u201d are few and far between and essentially are \u201cNPC feeds you information on what is going on.\u201d Save someone? They attack. Don\u2019t save someone? They attac. Save someone? They give you a bare minimum of information, that, frankly, is irrelevant to the adventure. \u201cKarl is mad and releasing a cold demon!\u201d Oh, joy. And? Let me guess: We need to stab it. If you want set piece after set piece and combat and combat then this adventure is for you! Paraelemental cold \u00bd dragon\/\u00bd harpy attacks you! Joy. It\u2019s rules mastery, for DM & player, as far as the eye can see. <\/p>\n

Forest of Blood
\nBy Wil Upchurch
\nLevel 5<\/p>\n

This adventure is closer in style to the older Dungeon adventures. There\u2019s a random combat to kick things off, which brings the party to the villages attention, and then an incident which causes the town to turn to the party. A little poking around leads to a small wilderness adventure and then a couple of lair sites to invade and kill things. A fair is underway and a trained killer wolf pack invades, killing 1 villager a round, each, if the party doesn\u2019t engage them. Later in the inn the party sees a local lothario leave with a couple of women, with one stumbling back in, later, talking about an attack by bandits. Poking around turns up some rumors (nice rumor table included) and clues to lead the party to the river. Once there they encounter the two lairs, first of the bandis and then the evil mastermind. It\u2019s a pretty typical adventure. The whole lothario thing, combined with the rumors, bumps this up a bit. <\/p>\n

Sinkhole
\nBy Phillip Larwood
\nLevel 4<\/p>\n

During the night the inn you are staying in slides down in to a sinkhole. You gather up the survivors (hopefully!) and try to find a way out. You can think of this as some kind of combination escort\/exploration adventure with a plane of shadow theming, since there\u2019s some nonsense offered to explain the presence of so many shadow creatures. There are three tunnels off the main cave where the inn lands. One tunnel has a room with an exit, and there\u2019s actually nothing in between that room and the main room, so a lucky party could stumble on to the exit quickly. There are some monsters that wander by the inn, so holding up there is no a snooze-fest. This is terse, even by the standards of the mid-100\u2019s, and the NPC survivors have enough of a personality, barely, to make them interesting to throw in to the fun. There\u2019s a mix of asshats and helpful NPC\u2019s also, so it\u2019s not all a Fuck The Party NPCfest. I wouldn\u2019t normally call something like this a standout, not by current reviewing standards anyway, but compared to the usual Dungeon fare, it\u2019s great. Compared to the modern OSR it\u2019s a more than serviceable adventure with, perhaps, it\u2019s only fault being a lack of evocative imagery in the cavern rooms. There are exceptions, like a mural room with a gate to the plane of shadow, which offers classic \u201cstep through the portrait\u201d gameplay. But generally, it\u2019s just cave rooms with either a monster or something else in it. It\u2019s the NPC\/Party interaction that is going to bring this to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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