{"id":4104,"date":"2018-03-14T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:19:42","slug":"dungeon-lord-the-first-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Lord – The First Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy: Various
\nDeath Machine Press
\nDCC
\nLevel – Various<\/p>\n

This is a 28 page zine with a kick ass cover. It has three dungeons in it, as was published in 2014. Good ol\u2019 Bryce, always on the ball. I don\u2019t seek out magazines\/zines magazines, but the cover lured me in. I wonder why the adventurer is naked? THis claims DCC, but I think most of the issue has a great OD&D thing going on.<\/p>\n

Calcified Caves of the Slime Yeti – Ron Yonts
\nAnd another anomaly: a one pager. Again, I don\u2019t usually review these. I like a good one-pages, but the amount of content usually strains my ability to say something interesting about it in a review. This cave system is both wt and dry and features some sloping caverns and holes in the ceiling to get to other area, as well as a river to explore other areas and other terrain effects. That variety is a very good thing, bringing out the exploratory nature of D&D and offering combat options. Note also that it\u2019s not a river. It\u2019s an ICY river. And it\u2019s not a yeti it\u2019s a SLIME yeit, and not caves but CALCIFIED caves. It\u2019s a simple trick but it helps amp up the imagery. This continues with a dried streambed, dry corpses, stirge husks, and dangling buckets. This isn\u2019t stated and the fifteen room adventure has three monsters, in addition to the wanderers, but mixed in are traps and magic pools and the like. I think it\u2019s an excellent example of a one-pager and much much better than most of the adventures I review. I\u2019ll take this as a Lair or Side Trek any day of the week.<\/p>\n

The Caves of the Sacred Seven =
\nThis is a thirty room cave complex roughly divided in three sections: cavemen, reptile men, and prehistory \u2026 with a map that could easily be easier on the eyes, As you get deeper in freaky things start happening in the corridors (a d30 table) as you experience all the weirdness of the underworld. The rules are all wrong and every perversion is justified when adventurers journey to the mythic underworld, Aisha. The encounters are decent, with some willing to talk and\/or trade, and a bit of silliness mixed in. Ooze pits mutate you, and egg incubation chambers await. The text style is very \u201cwal lof paragraph.\u201d The incubation chambers starts with \u201cThis chamber appears to be a sort of nesting area for reptilians with many eggs \u2026\u201d Yes \u2026 that\u2019s why the room title is \u201cIncubation Chamber.\u201d The text also spends a decent amount of time describing the physical logistics of rooms \u201cthe north path runs along the edge of the lake\u201d and so on, as well as delving in to generic descriptions like \u201cThis large chamber \u2026\u201d Focused writing with a strong edit would shorten the rooms and make them more scannable at the table and make this an ok adventure.<\/p>\n

Tomb of Zarfulgar the Lost
\nThe last entry has a linear map that spells out \u201cABQ Zine Fest 2014,\u201d so it\u2019s a bit of a funhouse adventure. It\u2019s fifteen rooms, in a tortuous typeface. A gnome with a big treasure sack that grows sharp teeth and tries to eat the adventurers. A room full of friendly clones of the wizard in question, with one doppleganger. Buzz saw blade corridors and creatures made of light that bludgeon you to death with their shoes. It\u2019s a decent funhouse that is a pain to run because of the typeface and wall of text paragraph style. Too bad, it looks fun.<\/p>\n

This is $6 at DriveThru. The preview only shows you the one-pager, with the other five preview pages being table of contents, etc. Bad zone writers!https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/138701\/Dungeon-Lord-the-First-Issue?affiliate_id=1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Various Death Machine Press DCC Level – Various This is a 28 page zine with a kick ass cover. It has three dungeons in it, as was published in 2014. Good ol\u2019 Bryce, always on the ball. I don\u2019t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dunlog.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","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=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}