{"id":6600,"date":"2020-04-01T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:00:34","slug":"abandoned-glacial-rift-of-blurut-of-the-crepuscular-claw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=6600","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Glacial Rift of Blurut of the Crepuscular Claw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Thomas Denmark\nNight owl Publishing\nLabyrinth Lord\nLevels 4-7<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The frozen lands are dominated by Blurut of the Crepuscular Claw and he has laid plans to expand his reign and dominate the realms. Can the adventurers infiltrate his lair and thwart Blurut\u2019s plans before he unleashes his final assault?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 24 page adventure uses six single-column pages to describe a sixteen room linear set of caves at the bottom of a rift. Stefan says: This adventure has it all! Single column, low content to page count ration, linear, & disorganized and long writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a stunt dungeon. There\u2019s this twitter bit, evidently, that creates rando dungeons. The designer took that and then augmented it in to a dungeon. I have no idea what kind of job the twitter bot does. I\u2019m a big fan of \u201cusing inspiration\u201d to create something. I find that \u201canything is possible!\u201d generally results in a THX mindlock for me. Give me just a little bit to start from and I can create connections and expand content seemingly at ease and on demand. I\u2019ve experimented with this a bit in the past and thus was interested to see how someone else does it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long introduction describes a slightly generic northlands. Long appendices detailing monster stats and a couple of ideas for adding to the dungeon. Single column throughout in a decent font size, hence the high page count and low content count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The actual dungeon is linear. There\u2019s a connecting passage from room two to room sixteen, the last room, but it\u2019s filled with rubble and you can\u2019t dig it out, it keeps collapsing. So why is it there? I don\u2019t know. This is a cave system map, fully linear with just a couple of off shoots. There\u2019s little extra detail, elevation changes, of anything else in it. It is, essentially, a linear set of dungeon rooms with some yeti\u2019s and ice. I would have wished for some elevation stuff, but, maybe that\u2019s a feature of the bot? Oh, no, I just looked it up. It creates a name, that\u2019s it. Hmmm. I now regret my choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rooms are full of history text that add nothing to the adventure.  \u201cThis room was once a \u2026\u201d \u201cThis room was as far as they \u2026 \u201c <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Combine this with the conversations style and if\/then\u2019s. \u201cAfter the fight, if you dig through the rubble \u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Combine this with boring word choices and abstracted descriptions. \u201cThere is a large block \u2026\u201d \u201cMysterious runes are carved \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Combine this with a lot of \u201cit seems to be \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then add A LOT of text for the most of encounters, like some wolverines attacking. Or a room with a ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s just not much going on here. The design is linear. The rooms not very interesting. The rooms not described very interestingly. What there is is either abstracted generalisms or LONG abstracted conversational writing. It doesn\u2019t feel like much of an effort was made at all. Maybe there was. But it doesn\u2019t feel like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no hope. The bread and circuses are over. All that\u2019s left is the mundanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $3 at DriveThru. The preview is six pages and shows you nothing of the dungeon, so it\u2019s a bad preview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By Thomas Denmark Night owl Publishing Labyrinth Lord Levels 4-7 The frozen lands are dominated by Blurut of the Crepuscular Claw and he has laid plans to expand his reign and dominate the realms. Can the adventurers infiltrate his lair … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6599,"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-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/abandoned.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600","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=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}