{"id":3325,"date":"2016-11-21T07:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:32:44","slug":"the-quirtion-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"The Quirtion Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"quirtion\"<\/a>
\nBy Steve Willett
\nPolyhedron Games
\nKISS
\nMid-level?<\/p>\n

WoW! Seldom have I seen the likes!<\/p>\n

This twenty page adventure is more like an outline of an adventure. And I\u2019m being quite generous by using the word \u201coutline.\u201d The twenty pages have about eight-ish pages of content, single spaced single column with long paragraphs, with the rest of the adventure pages being a kind of monster manual for mostly \u201cstandard\u201d monsters, like griffins and owlbears, but in the KISS system. Not only hard to read, but both overly abstracted AND very specific. This is more of a stream of consciousness \u201clet me tell you about my character\u201d story from a convention, except it’s \u201clet me tell you about my adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know where to begin. You\u2019re hired by a guy who wants you look in to some abductions, which are suspected to be attributed to another kingdom. There\u2019s not detail on them except \u201csome press gangs.\u201d That’s it. Nothing else, for the DM or players. You\u2019re expected to go seek out sages in far away lands to learn about the other kingdom. There mountains of details about the Bloody Crag\u201d and \u201cThe Sanguine Mage\u201d, an offworld archmage\/sage. This is the DM\u2019s character, \u201cBloody Mage\u201d, which is why his lair\/fortress gets half a page of detail. Travel to the evil kingdom gets about half a page. The bulk of the adventure, taking place in the evil kingdom, gets one page. Here\u2019s the sea \u201cadventure:\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOut on the high seas, before reaching Denga?l, they will fall prey to a sea hag one moonless night. Their final encounter at sea will depend upon their route. If they track through the strait, they will fall prey to Kraeldonian raiders. If they head for open ocean west of Denga?l, they will be beset by a kraken!\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s your sea adventure. The details for the evil kingdom are likewise at this VERY high level. Vampire Bob is found in the capitol. The undead armies are found in pens. Three vampires guard the pens. If you kill Bob you must also kill the other three to keep one of them from taking his place of leadership. That\u2019s not exactly word for word, but it’s pretty close. That\u2019s the detail of the capitol of the evil kingdom and their undead armies. Everything is like that. Just the barest outline. There’s this emphasis on explaining travel routes and kingdoms, but no map to support it, meaning it comes off as a confusing mess, almost to the point of being incoherent.<\/p>\n

This review makes me uncomfortable. The author passed away awhile ago. This feels like kicking a man while he\u2019s down. This, and the next adventure popped up in my queue so I bought them, not making the connection. I\u2019m going to review the next one also and then probably remove the rest of his adventures from my queue. There\u2019s no value here, either in the adventure or in reviewing it.<\/p>\n

This is available at DriveThru.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/100108\/The-Quirtoin-Affair?1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steve Willett Polyhedron Games KISS Mid-level? WoW! Seldom have I seen the likes! This twenty page adventure is more like an outline of an adventure. And I\u2019m being quite generous by using the word \u201coutline.\u201d The twenty pages have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3324,"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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-the-worst-evar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/quirtion.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","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=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}