{"id":4533,"date":"2018-11-14T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2018-11-05T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T12:20:04","slug":"campfire-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4533","title":{"rendered":"Campfire Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Mark Craddock
\nCross Planes Games Studio
\nBlack Hack\/Labyrinth Lord
\nLevels 1-3<\/p>\n

Uh \u2026.<\/p>\n

This eleven page \u201cadventure\u2019 details one encounter, a forest clearing. I think not.This review is going to suck because there’s nothing in this “adventure” to review.<\/p>\n

The publishers blurb says \u201cintroductory adventure\u201d and \u201clevels one through three.\u201d In this case \u201cadventure\u201d means one forest clearing that a naga attacks in to while the party is camping. Then a hag shows up to attack also. The end.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Level one. A naga AND a hag. 3HD and 4HD. There\u2019s this certain aesthetic in old school play that overpowered encounters are ok, and I agree with that. The deal, though, is that the players have a choice to engage or not. Your first adventure. You are camping in the forest, 5 minutes after creating characters. Then a 3HD naga crashes in. Uh \u2026 uncool. And then a 4HD hag shows up to kill whoever is left. That\u2019s decidedly NOT old school play. <\/p>\n

And then it does this weird \u201croll to continue the game\u201d thing. You have to make these investigate rolls \u2026 for basic information. And if you miss it, well \u2026 nothing happens? You have to make a roll to notice a thick fog rolling in? And a crescent moon, and the fog, and \u2026 it just makes no sense. <\/p>\n

Side Trek adventure from Dungeon Magazine, crappy though they were, generally had more going on than this ENCOUNTER doe. Not a fucking adventure. ENCOUNTER. I could never have the audacity to publish something like this. Which is why I’m a middle class wage slave.<\/p>\n

This is $1.50 at DriveThru. The preview is five pages. You get to see everything but the hag battle at the end.https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/257669\/Campfire-Tale-for-The-Black-Hack-and-Labyrinth-Lord?affiliate_id=1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mark Craddock Cross Planes Games Studio Black Hack\/Labyrinth Lord Levels 1-3 Uh \u2026. This eleven page \u201cadventure\u2019 details one encounter, a forest clearing. I think not.This review is going to suck because there’s nothing in this “adventure” to review. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4527,"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-4533","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\/11\/camptale.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","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=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}