{"id":8436,"date":"2023-02-20T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:51:23","slug":"the-lair-of-amanitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"The Lair of Amanitus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Armored Storyteller Publishing\nSelf Published\nOSE\nLevels 5-10<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It features a dragon\u2019s lair with a fungal Green Dragon served by Chaotic Mycelian<\/p>\n\n\n\n
cultists and other fungal dangers. It is high risk, high reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This eight page adventure features a small dragons lair with six rooms. A couple of ok imagery bits don\u2019t make up for the absence of joie de vie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s eight pages. Except drivethru says it\u2019s ten. Except it\u2019s spreads, so it\u2019s fourteen pages. Oh, and you don\u2019t get an option for non-spreads \u2026. You\u2019ll take your spreads and like it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s see – there\u2019s a new wandering monster system called Risk & Danger. It\u2019s exactly the same as a normal wandering monster system. Great. And all of the wanderers have some little bit extra to them, just the way I like it. Except the little bit extra is \u201cYou\u2019ve intruded in to their territory and they attack!\u201d or some such. \u201cThey Attack!\u201d Man, there\u2019s no need to put extra words to it if its just going to be that you\u2019ve stumbled on them and they attack, or some derivation thereof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Formatting is ok. Each room starts with one sentence \u201cThis cavern has stalactites and stalagmites.\u201d It\u2019s pretty basic and really does not much. Then there\u2019s a bullet list of what\u2019s noticeable, and another of what\u2019s not immediately noticeable. And then, maybe, some DM notes ot monster stat block or trap details or some such. Meh. It\u2019s ok. It\u2019s essentially a read-aloud summary and a DM notes summary, with the other text being specific to certain things that need more detail. Like I said, it\u2019s ok. I think it gets a little long, but you can scan it, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you ignore the \u201cintro\u201d sentence, then the what\u2019s noticeable section provides some decent imagery. \u201cA haze of dust and particles float about in the air. \u2022 It\u2019s humid and strange fungal growths cover the walls and ground.\u201d That\u2019s not too bad. I can quibble with \u201cstrange\u201d as a conclusion\/abstraction. And covers the ground isn\u2019t the most exciting description of that, but, overall, the read-aloud substitute descriptions are not terrible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interactivity is all over the place. It\u2019s only six rooms, and there\u2019s a decent number of enemies to stab. Not the best recommendation. But, also, there\u2019s a dead adventurer that can give a clue if you speak with dead on him. Nice! The dragons got what looks to be decent treasure (for lower levels) but the magic items are all book. There is a heavy fungus theme, with the usual assortment of tricks, traps and fungus themed monsters showing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are some misses. If the dragon detects you it doesn\u2019t change anything \u2026 except now there are eight more vegipygmies in the room. Exciting. And, sometimes the descriptions ARE lacking \u2026 like the room with 20 of them in it. Or, formatting misses, like telling us deep in the text that there\u2019s a dude chained to the alter in the room. I think I might notice. Or, if I don\u2019t, then maybe but it in the Things I Might Not Notice Immediately section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s six fucking rooms man. In fourteen pages. What do you want man? Something different? Something special? Oh no honey, not for two dollars. It fulfills its purpose in life in being inoffensive and not very remarkable. But, also, it\u2019s rather dull and straightforward, with none of the wonder I might expect in an adventure with lots of fungus and a dragon. It\u2019s fine. Really. It\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make me regret every decision I\u2019ve ever made in life. But, also, it does nothing for my ennui.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $2 at DriveThru. Preview is four pages. Enjoy those spreads \u2026 although it does give you a good idea of what to expect in the adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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