{"id":8371,"date":"2023-01-07T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2022-12-26T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:51:50","slug":"the-witch-the-shepherd-his-goats-and-their-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8371","title":{"rendered":"The Witch, The Shepherd, His Goats and their Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By James Mishler, Jodi Moran-Mishler\nJames  Mishler Games\nShadowdark\nLevels 1-2<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Help the Shepherd find his Goats and Daughter who have been kidnapped by the Witch of the Woods. The woods are home to all manner of strange, fearsome, and fey monsters\u2026 not to mention the witch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This twenty page adventure, with a fairy tale vibe, has the party exploring a wood with twelve locations to bring back a dudes daughter and goats and kill the witch responsible. Chill vibes but padded to all fuck and back. And you know what we say at tenfootpole: \u201cAre you a fucking masterpiece? No? Then you better get your shit together if you want me to run it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s the day after Christmas and Sants brought me some Vegamite and olives stuffed with anchovies, in my stocking. So that\u2019s breakfast. Along with an IPA. And this thing.Later today I\u2019ll be making a suit out of garbage bags, buying thirty bottles of champagne and reading the Wizard of the Crow. So, you know, D&D will definitely NOT be the highlight of the day. Because of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re pretty close here. It\u2019s got a vibe, brining a good fairy tale thing to the party. Shepherd lives on the edge of a BIG FOREST in a little cottage. His goats have been stolen by the witch of the woods, along with his daughter. You get 5gp per goat returned and 50 for the kid. (Who\u2019s 19.) So close. Dude is a miser and cold-hearted, which is the source of all the troubles for him. I\u2019d change it to 5gp per goat, and another 5gp for the kid. But, whatever. And, the kid is 19? Nahhhh, she\u2019s fucking sixteen. See, dude made a deal with the witch, in exchange for a magic goat hed give her the kid at 16. But he didn\u2019t. Do the witch plotted for three years for revenge? Nah. Make her 16. And keep the rest the same, I guess. Cause the kid hates dad also, and has been taught witchcraft by the witch and is in on ot. IE: some elaborate revenge plot going on here by these two. Fuck if I know man  \u2026 I guess they want to turn dad in to a goat and have some \u201cput the amulet around his neck\u201d thing going on. This part makes little sense. I get that you want the main witch to disguise herself as a black goat, very VVitch. But we\u2019re straining here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otherwise, chill vibes in this one. A dwarf trapped in a fairy circle, complete with bird nests growing on him. A goat on a hill that won\u2019t come down. A goat on a log in a pond. Giant goats next to a goat giant. A harpy \u2026 with the head of a goat. It\u2019s all very fairy tale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One page per encounter. And it\u2019s all padded out to fuck and back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Treasure Tree is a place where, long ago, some dwarves hid a BURIED TREASURE they won from some trolls. They buried it with many runes and curses against it being found and stolen\u2026 then they forget about it. Over the centuries the runes and curses came to life, animating the soil around the chest of treasure, creating a TREASURE GUARDIAN. Recently an adventurer found a map to the long-lost treasure for him, the Treasure Guardian overwhelmed him and his bones now grace the form of the guardian \u2013 as does the recently deceased body of a goat!d has tried to recover it. \u201c That was about 80% of the description of this location \u2026 and it has nothing gameable in it. History. What was. No description of what we\u2019re looking at. No idea what to do, as a DM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not until paragraph three that get one sentence \u201cThe chest is half unburied, with the shovel of the adventurer currently stuck in the body of the guardian.\u201d That\u2019s it. That\u2019s your description. There\u2019s another paragraph that has another description of the history of something in a manner that cant be used, also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a classic \u201cread it\u201d adventure. It\u2019s written to be read. You can\u2019t use it during play without some serious time with a highlighter and note taking. The focus of the writing has to be on the DM using it at at the table. It is almost always the case that how the situation happened is not interesting for gameplay, and especially not so at he start of a description. We don\u2019t dig through three paragraphs of useless info when the party enters the room. WWe need the data, now, to related to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I got other adventures to run that do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $3 at DriveThru. The preview is ten pages. More than enough to see the actual encounters. Good preview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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