{"id":7321,"date":"2021-05-15T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2021-05-04T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:34:11","slug":"the-valley-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=7321","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of the Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Allen Farr\nWinterblight's Challenge\nGeneric\/Universal\/OSR\nA Weariness in Soul<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Seemingly created by mad gods, the Valley of the Lost has been reshaped as if all creation has been allowed to run amok. Will you succumb to the toxicity of the Path of Madness or meet your end in the darkness of the Path of Shadows? Perhaps the guardians of the Path of Light will be your undoing or will you wander endlessly on the Path of the Lost until you meet your demise? These are the dangers that must be endured to reach the Ascent of Kings and discover the Valley of the Lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m on a roll baby! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This eleven page thing is nothing. It\u2019s a setting guide, with little specifics, for a tv show. It\u2019s a work of fiction aimed at a DM, to inspire them to create a game to run. It\u2019s masquerading as an adventure, with a hex map, when it is, in fact, just an idea. \u201cYou could do something having to with many worlds.\u201d ARG!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find products like this frustrating. One the one hand, there is certainly a role for fluff books, books which inspire the DM or detail a background, or some such that a DM can expand upon. On the other hand, I seldom wan any fucking thing to do with them, especially when I\u2019m looking for \u201can adventure.\u201d The hex map here might fool you \u2026 there is no adventure here and it\u2019s just generalized background and a few ideas. \u201cThere could be dinosaur people. You should make your own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a long backstory about an evil wizard and summoning a nexus of worlds. This has almost nothing to do with this location. Any \u201cpossible worlds\u201d isn\u2019t really handled at all. I guess you could use it as an explanation for the various magical effects in the valley, but this ain\u2019t Rifts, our Incredible Journey or anything like that. The only possible worlds is the background mentioning \u201ca nexus of possible worlds.\u201d And that\u2019s the problem with this entire product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It says things and doesn\u2019t follow through. There could be dinosaur people and they should have different unique attacks. Go create them.\u201d Uh \u2026 ok. It\u2019s a nexus of worlds \u2026 with nothing related to a nexus of worlds. It has a pretty nice hex map full of features, icons, and the like. With no legend, disnace markings and NONE of the features detailed. Just little red dots on the maps. Not even a one sentence of them. Nothing. It\u2019s like the map doesn\u2019t exist at all for the purposes of the products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which isn\u2019t exactly true. There are a number of passes in to the valley. \u201cThe path of Light\/Darkness\/Madness\/Lost.\u201d Each has some special effect and is shown on the map as a lightly fitted line. \u201cYou go could go mad on the paths of madness. The party should roll a save and the DM should come up with a suitable madness.\u201d This is the extent of the detail in the adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I said, I guess if you wanted fluff you could buy this. There\u2019s even a product category on DriveThru called \u201cSetting Guides.\u201d Note that this is a completely separate category than \u201cAdventures.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m so sick of this shit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe GM should use the Places of Creation to come up with unique creatures, or even have the player characters undergo some kind of transition, perhaps gaining a new power or some deformity that hinders them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one point there\u2019s a page of gothic bold font, representing a journal entry, to describe a location. It is hard to read, meant only for the DM to inspire them. This is indicative of the entire product. A complete misunderstanding of what it should be doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $3 at DriveThru. The preview, of course, doesn’t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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