{"id":6152,"date":"2019-08-07T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:27:08","slug":"shrine-of-the-wolf-maidens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6152","title":{"rendered":"Shrine of the Wolf Maidens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Catherine Evans\nAegis Studios\nB\/X\nLevels 2-3<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
An adventurer named Jorasco Vinn was commissioned by Madeina Ilrekar, a prosperous merchant from the town of Dela\u2019s Tor, to explore a certain area of the Untamed Gauntlet for signs of precious metals worth mining. All he found was an old shrine to a minor local deity whose name is long forgotten. Now Madeina\u2019s daughter Silvega has gone missing and there is no sign of Jorasco. Madeina has put two and two together and made five: she believes he has kidnapped Silvega and stolen her away to this ancient shrine\u2026 where human sacrifice was routinely practiced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This ten page adventure, with about four actual content pages, details about six linear encounter areas in a small shrine. It\u2019s ok, nothing special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s just not much here to review. Six-ish encounters is not much at all. Meet some centaurs in the woods and talk to them. Then go through a linear five room shrine dungeon and fight some wolves and then a proto-werewolf.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read aloud is about four sentences per encounter. Your quest-giver has her information laid out in bullet points. The dungeon is linear and the two combats are, obviously, forced. Usually not a good thing in an OSR adventure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like the O&L setting of writs of exploration and reconquering the frontier \u2026 but that\u2019s a setting thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a random trap in a hallway and I\u2019m almost never fond of that. \u201cIf the thief detects traps \u2026\u201d I think this slows down play. Either the thief is continually checking\/rolling\/asking or they will be after a rando hallway trap. The thief mechanics for hallway traps just don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will say, though, that\u2019s a cypher puzzle that done well. It\u2019s just a simple letter substitution, but it\u2019s left to the players, with a good hint, to solve as opposed to their characters. Stuck? Some int\/skill checks will have the DM giving you some hints at certain levels. Don\u2019t want to bother? Bashing the door down is covered as an option. Can\u2019t succeed on your bash? Then the DM is instructed to just provide some damage as the door falls down to the parties attempts. THis isn\u2019t the same old roll to continue the adventure nonsense. It\u2019s a player puzzle, which is great, with options to bypass it, which is also great. It goes on a little long, but clearly shows a greater knowledge of design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can you have a B\/X dungeon with five rooms? I guess so. But then it feels more like a \u201cplot\u201d adventure from 3e\/5e. Linear. Forced fights. But then the chosen format would get long, at almost a page per room any real length would be hard to manage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess a \u201cits ok\u201d means I don\u2019t hate it, but there\u2019s just not much to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $2 on DriveThru. The preview is three pages. The last page shows you the (probable) non-combat centaur encounter. Longish, but ok I guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Catherine Evans Aegis Studios B\/X Levels 2-3 An adventurer named Jorasco Vinn was commissioned by Madeina Ilrekar, a prosperous merchant from the town of Dela\u2019s Tor, to explore a certain area of the Untamed Gauntlet for signs of precious … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6151,"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-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wolfm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","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=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}