{"id":5865,"date":"2019-03-11T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2019-03-08T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:36:33","slug":"the-mountain-tollkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=5865","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain Tollkeep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Peter Lattimore
Garblag Games
OSR\/Warhammer<\/pre>\n\n\n\n

High on a mountain side where the pass skirts the flank of a massive peak sit two towers standing proud against the sky. Between them a thick wall and portcullis bar the path of anyone seeking to sneak from one land to another, for whatever purpose. The walls of this structure have witnessed many things: diplomatic envoys hell-bent on trade deals, generals on horseback with declarations of war, displaced peasantfolk hammering on it\u2019s gates with malnourished hands.

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This ten page \u201clocale\u201d is not an adventure. It describes a location, barely. Two towers with a wall running between them, closing off a mountain pass between two countries. It is devoid of any but the most basic location information.
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Not an adventure. It is basically a map and then some text describing the map in a VERY basic way. Like, the map shows murder holes and the text says \u201cthere are murder holes on the wall\u201d, or the map has two rooms on a floor labeled \u201cbunkrooms\u201d and the text of the product says \u201cthere are two bunkrooms on this floor.\u201d IE: the text almost always adds nothing to the map and, while it doesn\u2019t describe room dimensions, it does essentially the same thing with everything on the map EXCEPT room dimensions.
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There are no NPC\u2019s. There\u2019s no garrison commander, or drunk soldiers, or anything like that. When it mentions people, and it seldom does, it mentions them in the most generic way possible. \u201cThe commander might \u2026\u201d
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And it\u2019s full of \u201cmight.\u201d It contains useful advice like \u201cyou can change the walls from stone to something else to fit your campaign better\u201d or \u201cdefenders are most likely to be seen on the walls\u201d, or, in a hook \u201cwe\u2019ll leave the blackmail option up to you.\u201d So, basically, this product is a one page map expanded to ten pages with almost nothing else. 
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And even the map suffers. The two towers are called Falcon and Eerie, but the maps generally don\u2019t note which tower is which. 
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I bought this on DriveThru and was gonna print it out, but it says i can\u2019t reproduce it in ANY way unless I contact the designer, and I can\u2019t find contact information for them. Yes, I\u2019m being an ass.
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There\u2019s nothing here. I\u2019d say it\u2019s not even a location, but rather just a map. 
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This is available on DriveThru for $2. There\u2019s no preview, otherwise you might know beforehand what you\u2019re buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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