{"id":7108,"date":"2021-01-25T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:03:29","slug":"under-a-funeral-moon-dd-adventure-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=7108","title":{"rendered":"Under a Funeral Moon, D&D adventure review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Scott Myers\nSelf Published\nCastles & Crusades\nLevel 1<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This 33 page adventure features a ten room dungeon with two monsters in it. It is boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, it tries in a couple of places. There\u2019s a Tomb Worm that has egg sacks that burst worth with a larvae swarm monster. Gross! One encounter has a zombie with its back legs missing, crawling towards you, eyes glowing yellow. And there\u2019s a ghost child looking for its mommy as a throw away wanderer.  That\u2019s it. And even that is not that well done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ghost child gets almost nothing to it, which, normally, I\u2019d be fine with. But if you\u2019re going to make something like this, something that stays with the party a bit, then you need to provide a little bit more to it. And this don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, so, you start out as caravan guards. Boring. You get paid 20gp for 2 days work. Sweet work if you can get it, I guess. Making bank! Your latest caravan includes a corpse going to the next town for burial. At this point, as a player, I\u2019ve already defiled that corpse, chopped it up, burnt it, etc. But, I guess your players are stupid and wait for it to reanimate and attack. Which it does. Boring. Along the way to the next town you are attacked by 4 skeletons. \u201cSometime after midnight the PCs are attacked by 4 Armored Skeletons, their eye sockets glow a mysterious yellow.\u201d Can you contain your excitement yet? No? Bored? Yes. That\u2019s after three pages of read aloud and a couple of paragraphs of DM notes. Just \u201cattacked by skeletons in the night.\u201d *Sigh* <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Halfway in and you\u2019re attacked by those four skeletons and the corpse you were escorting. You reach a town where the Level 0 innkeeper woman has a ring of invisibility, an amulet of protection and ring of protection. It pays, it seems, to have questionable morals in D&D. I\u2019d stab her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess you go to the dungeon nearby out of the goodness of your heart. The locals don\u2019t really seem to care that the dead are reanimating. No local outage, or worry. Just a \u201cthanks man, for killing that corpse\u201d and off you go to the dungeon, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dungeon thankfully does away with the (long) read aloud and has none, but transitions in to boring room descriptions with nothing going on. There\u2019s a combat with a dog and another with that Tomb Worm\/Larvae thing. A six hd tomb worm, for a first level party. WIth a 3hd swarm of larvae added on. Uh huh. First level. Right. I\u2019m all for not balancing, but, there\u2019s a limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe first thing you notice in this room \u2026 is rather typical. It\u2019s a loose writing style full of this sort of padding. \u201cIf you defeat the skeletons then they can be searched \u2026\u201d This is how we get multiple DM text paragraphs for a simple sety up. A joy to wade through. A boring boring boring of boringness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why the fuck do I do this? I\u2019m just killing time until I die. There must be something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $2 at DriveThru. To it\u2019s credit the preview is the entire thing. Check out page fourteen, for that first encounter. The long read-aloud. The simple combat. The lengthy DM notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/330437\/Under-a-Funeral-Moon?1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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