{"id":3482,"date":"2017-02-25T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T12:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:17:28","slug":"dungeon-magazine-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine #123"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSalvage Operation
\nBy Mike Mearls
\nLevel 2<\/p>\n

An adventure on a twelve-room wrecked ship, with vermin. Get to the hold, get a crate of loot that you\u2019re paid 200gp for (containing a +5 cloak of protection and several figurines of wondrous power) and then exit the ship while it\u2019s being sunk by a giant squid. The \u201cvermin on a ship\u201d angle is ok, and Mearls read-aloud in this is generally a cut-above the usual Dungeon fare (\u201cThick webbing coats this room. Bones, shriveled limbs of men and animals, and other gruesome remains dangle from the sticky tangles.\u201d) Still, it has empty skill checks (\u201cIf the party doesn\u2019t make the check a random sailor points the fact out.\u201d) and it feels both \u2026 empty? And, in spite of the nice-but-not-overdone vermin theme, a little procedural. I really got the sense, in reading this, that it is just a generic adventure formula spiced up a bit. Hook. Slow explore with a couple of monsters. Bad Guy. Dangerous \u201chidden\u201d area that’s the true location. And then a quick escape! It\u2019s a generic formula and works sometimes, but when you can TELL it’s the generic formula .. .then it loses some luster. It feels constructed rather than imagined.<\/p>\n

Crypt of Crimson Stars
\nBy Andy Collins & James Wyatt
\nLevel 6<\/p>\n

This looks like it could be the opening for another adventure path. You\u2019re hired for 2000gp to go get a dragonshard from a crypt. Tribal halflings rising velociraptors guard the tomb and must be killed. Lip service is paid to bargaining with them, but you can\u2019t actually get anything out of it except \u201cwe delay the combat until you come out of the crypt.\u201d Then you get to \u201cexplore\u201d a three room crypt. At least it\u2019s only eight pages for three rooms?<\/p>\n

The Amarantha Agenda
\nBy Phillip Larwood
\nLevel 13<\/p>\n

Nine pages for one encounter. An evil druid & her tree have taken over an elven outpost and destroyed a nearby city. You get sent to figure out why the outpost didn’t warn the city of the attack, and find\/kill the evil druid.<\/p>\n

Quicksilver Hourglass
\nBy Anson Caralya
\nLevel 30<\/p>\n

The world is ending and you need to stop it. I only hold back a *yawn* because at level 30 \u201cthe world is ending\u201d seems like an ok thing to me. This is a dungeon crawl full of combats full of the usual \u201cyou can\u2019t skip the encounter\u201d movement\/passwall\/teleport gimps and ends with a potential 750hp combat with a god. It takes care of the \u201c1 combat work day\u201d thing by aging the party while they are inside \u201cthe hourglass\u201d, forcing them to get their asses in gear or die of old age while they long rest. Some of the monsters in this are conceptually nice. \u201cThe sphere of Ruined Bodies\u201d and giant undead heads. Otherwise it\u2019s just combat tactics porn, room after room., with a decent little story behind it of a god committing suicide. Too bad that little story\/epic premise was wasted in this hack-fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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