{"id":4130,"date":"2018-03-31T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:18:15","slug":"the-oracle-of-basylthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"The Oracle of Basylthor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?attachment_id=4129\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orac-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orac-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orac-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orac-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orac.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Walter J. Jones Jr.<br \/>\nNew Realms Publishing<br \/>\nGeneric<\/p>\n<p>Your boots scrape off the bloodstained flagstones as you step into hall. Fluted columns rise to support a arched ceiling lost in the shadows. A scrape of leather on stone and a jangle of mail echoes off the walls as a mail-clad skeleton steps out from behind a column.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fuck me. NOT an adventure. Not in my taxonomy.<\/p>\n<p>This fifteen page \u201cAdventure\u201d is organized around a deck of cards. You print out a deck of locations, a deck of encounters, and a deck of treasures. You draw a room, roll for an encounter, and maybe a treasure. After experiencing about eight rooms you get to the boss, a harpy, and finish up the adventure. It\u2019s straightforward, generic, and solo capable. <\/p>\n<p>None locations. \u201cEmpty shelves line the walls and broken crates and tattered sacks litter the floor of this room.\u201d or \u201cBroken shelves and crates and toppled weapons racks litter the floor of this dusty room.\u201d None monsters. Nine treasures. <\/p>\n<p>Now that I have seen the adventure then the description makes sense. It says there are none cards of each. What I failed to comprehend, from the description, is that this is the ENTIRE adventure. A card driven \u201cwalk in to room, killa thing, move to next room\u201d until you reach your eight room goal.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I gotta pay more attention when buying.<\/p>\n<p>NOT an adventure.<\/p>\n<p>This is $6 at DriveThru. The preview is three pages and doesn\u2019t really inform you that you are buying just a couple of card decks.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/237932\/Universal-Adventures-Adventure-Module-EG1-The-Oracle-of-Basylthor?affiliate_id=1892600\">https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/237932\/Universal-Adventures-Adventure-Module-EG1-The-Oracle-of-Basylthor?affiliate_id=1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Jones Jr. New Realms Publishing Generic Your boots scrape off the bloodstained flagstones as you step into hall. Fluted columns rise to support a arched ceiling lost in the shadows. A scrape of leather on stone and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4129,"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-4130","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\/orac.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}