{"id":3406,"date":"2017-01-11T07:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:48:20","slug":"too-many-kobolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3406","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Kobolds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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aka: One Too Many Kobolds<\/p>\n

By Mark Reed
\nHeroic Journey Publishing
\nSwords & Wizardry
\nLevels 1-3<\/p>\n

The player characters have been hired first by the town of Coventon to clear out a pesky Kobold nest that has been harassing the town.<\/p>\n

This is an eight page ultra-minimal adventure with a one-page village, a one-page five room kobold lair and a one-page ten room goblin lair. The town and set up has some nice bits, but the lairs are WAY too minimal. Frankly, there\u2019s not really enough content here to even do a review.<\/p>\n

The intro is about half a page, single column, and is more of an outline or the adventure than an introduction. The mayor hires you. The kobolds retreat. A few days later a halfing hires the party to clean out the kobolds again, since they retreated to his land. But it\u2019s a double-cross! The kobolds paid him to send the party to goblin caves! It\u2019s suggested, as a follow up, that another group of kobolds then hires the party to give them advice about their own caves, since the party is such experts at cleaning out kobold\/goblin caves and they don\u2019t want to get caught in a bad situation by adventuring murder-hobos \u2026 and then further that maybe another party shows up while the party is in the caves giving advice! There are a few other details present in this section, like how many kobolds and goblins are present in the lairs. That\u2019s important because \u2026<\/p>\n

WOW are the lairs minimally keyed. The map, monster stats, and keyed descriptions all fit on one page for the kobold lair and another page for the goblin lair. The descriptions are \u201c2. The Kobolds main Room. The majority of the warriors are located here eating or training.\u201d That\u2019s pretty fucking minimal. No treasure listed. Not even monster counts. That\u2019s all up to the DM. The shamen room has this gem It is decorated to venerate the god this band follows.\u201d \u2026 nothing more.<\/p>\n

The village fairs a little better, with a few more bits of detail to flesh things out. The halfling innkeeper has cheap rooms but pushes \u201cupgrades\u201d for everything & service. That\u2019s something to run with. It makes him interesting and memorable with lots of opportunity for fun play emerging from it. Likewise, the mayor offers 30gp each, even though the merchants put together 50gp each. Mayors got to have a finders fee, right? It also provides one of the best explanations ever in an adventure on why\/how someone is willing to go up in reward price.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s really just not enough here though. The core concepts are nice but the fleshing out of them is essentially non-existent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a buck a DriveThru.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/193404\/Too-Many-Kobolds?1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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