{"id":6484,"date":"2020-01-29T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:31:46","slug":"at-the-high-point-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"At the High Point Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Bill Reich\nSelf-Published\nOSR\nLevel 1<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This fourteen page adventure is set in an inn. There\u2019s a fight, I think, that happens? In the inn? More than that I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019m not even sure what system this is for. It\u2019s very hard to figure out what is supposed to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As best as I can tell, you go to an inn to stay the night, someone hires you, or tries to, for protection. AT some point during the night three dwarves staying in the inn star a fight. Or kill the guy? Or something? It\u2019s never really stated. This is really as close as the adventure gets: \u201cIf Barnart Hartwell is alone in the Taproom, the dwarfs prevent him from sounding an alarm that might warn other inn residents. Barnart may survive an attack by these ruthless, practiced fighters.\u201d So \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This IS, I think, all there is of the adventure. Arrive at inns common rooms. Maybe get hired. Hear and\/or engage in a fight with three dwarves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now on to the system. It\u2019s listed as OSR and the cover states OSR\/D20 systems. But then it talks about air, body, and power magic. That\u2019s not OSR\/d20? And a point of magic protection and two points of undead protection? That\u2019s not D&D? Or d20? Mineral fiber and plat over fiber? Is that some system? It\u2019s got AC, HD, and HP, as well as a single \u201cSave\u201d number. Weapons are d4\/d8. Spells include some recognizable ones and \u201cDarkness Globe,\u201d I have no fucking clue what system this is for. Money is in $, 80$ and such. No clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first two or three pages are oriented at the players, I think. I think it might be read-aloud. I think. It\u2019s not formatted like that. But it does use language \u201cUpon entering the taproom you recognize \u2026\u201d and other first person kind of text that seems oriented toward telling the party what they see, feel, think or do. The lack of \u2026 understanding? Formatting? Provided to differentiate the text is one problem and text that IS read-aloud that tells the party what they think or feel is another common mistake. There\u2019s also this weird abstraction of detail that\u2019s present. Or time dilation? \u201cTable H is the rowdiest table in the room, what with three dwarfs playing cards and drinking by-the- mug lite. Later, as they switch to a by-the-pitcher dark brew, the table quickly fills with bronze coins. You hope that they are not mean-spirited when drunk.\u201d  Note not only the \u201cYou hope \u2026\u201d text but also the \u201cLaster, as they switch to \u2026 \u201c text. Rather than playing EITHER section out in the game both are summarized. The You Hope portion should be something that the players actually feel, rather than being told that they feel. The \u201cLater \u2026\u201d section should come through roleplaying. Instead it\u2019s this weird time compression. And almost all of the first few pages  are like this, the text weirdly summarizing things and telling the party what they think \u2026 without any regard to the formatting. It\u2019s almost like there should be a boxed about the first two pages of text, to indicate read-aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, during the night, \u201cAny PCs in the corridor come to the aid of Hobson and Bifur.\u201d Uh, no I don\u2019t \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are some timelines present, and some NPC\u2019s, as well as a summary sheet of a BUNCH of NPC\u2019s. I THINK the party is supposed to talk to people and that there are supposed to be differing alliances from the NPC\u2019s and the party talking to them is supposed to do something, like make the fight larger? But that\u2019s conjecture, there\u2019s nothing like that. I\u2019m just guessing because there are a lot of NPC\u2019s presented and some kind of political overview about internal and external dwarf factions. I have no idea about the timeline. Someone takes a bath at 3am? Is that relevant for some reason? The action happens before then, pretty sure, based on the timeline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the system seems all over th place. The text is all over the place. I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s supposed to happen in this \u201csandbox\u201d expect for a fight \u2026 lethal, non, no clue. It seems like the NPC\u2019s and timeline should interact with everything somehow, but it\u2019s not clear how. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $.5 at DriveThru. The preview is six pages. Pages two and three are that weird maybe read-aloud? Page six has an adventure overview section that details the action? I think? Based on this can you run the adventure? Because the other other pages don\u2019t really help much more. At all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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