{"id":3523,"date":"2017-03-25T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:26:33","slug":"dungeon-magazine-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Magazine #127"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDo you want something other than linear combat adventure? Then Dungeons & Dragons is not for you. After wading through all of these Dungeon Magazines, the Internet shift to the OSR makes complete sense.<\/p>\n

Why are you still reading these “Reviews”?<\/p>\n

The Hive
\nBy Phillip Larwood
\nLevel 5<\/p>\n

Ant dwarf hybrids are featured in this linear hack-fest. Linear maps. Rooms with nothing more than combat. Go from room to room, with no choice, and masturbate to your min-max\u2019d characters tactics. This \u201cadventure\u201d is just a simple wargame, and not a very good one. The word count is padded to shit and back. <\/p>\n

The Hall of Harsh Reflections
\nBy Jason Bulmahn
\nLevel 7<\/p>\n

Part blah blah blah of the Age of Worms adventure path. It\u2019s hard to muster much enthusiasm for these. Gate guards abuse you, a couple of COMPLETELY telegraphed street encounters. A fight in a bar. Raid the doppelganger lair. Raid the mind flayers lair. \u201cOh no! The chimera in the parade has escaped!\u201d Who cares. \u201cOh no! Combat in the bar!\u201d Who cares. Some attempt is made, in the beginning to add a bit of variety. Wanderers include bandits, who flee when one of them is killed, and trolls, bitching about some adventurers that raided them. The corrupt gate guards exemplify things. They try to shake you down. They bake off if you insist on your innocence. What if you just kill the fuckers? Are you prepared to deal with that? I mean, the designer instigated the scenario and killing the asshats is certainly in the cards. Pages of text is used where a couple of sentences could suffice, especially for the shit that passes for \u201cadventure\u201d in this thing. The man behind the curtain is boring.<\/p>\n

Blood of Malar
\nBy Eric L. Boyd
\nLevel 13<\/p>\n

Vampires of Waterdeep, part two. This is a 36 room dungeon with a decent looping map. It\u2019s at its worst when it\u2019s engaging in Forgotten Realms simulationist\/historically accurate fetishism, with mountains of text and long ineffective read-aloud. Lots of opportunity for useless background data \u201cA year ago a destrachan crawled up from the underdark and fought some adventurers and died, resulting in this rubble filled room.\u201d Note the contrast between this \u201cexplaining why\u201d and Curse of the Shrine Goddess, where stars disappear from the sky with no explanation of why. One concentrates on play and creates fun. The other concentrates on some historical novelization of the adventure, and sucks shit. There\u2019s some flying finger\/hand monsters. Those are nice. The whole plot thing is is garbage, but can be easily ignored, thank god. Not odious, just not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you want something other than linear combat adventure? Then Dungeons & Dragons is not for you. After wading through all of these Dungeon Magazines, the Internet shift to the OSR makes complete sense. Why are you still reading these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dungeon-magazine","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/d127.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}