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By T. Elliot Cannon\nSleddog Games\nOSRIC\nLevel 5<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou must come to Castle Vezio for the Yule season. We have a special present your father told me to pass on to you. Your uncle, Lord Uri of Lake Unterfallen.\u201d You knew the trip to Castle Vezio would take a few weeks, and the story about your father and your relationship with him has never been a topic of your conversations. You wonder though, what gift did he set aside for you? Why now does your noble uncle reach out from his small wintery kingdom in the northern mountain lakes tucked away from the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 44 page digest adventure is \u2026  useless? An outline of an adventure claiming to be an adventure? At what point is something a useful adventure and at what point is it just an adventure idea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We start this adventure with \u2026 a two page read-aloud. Because life is pain. I hope, by now, we all know why this is bad. Anyway, what follows is a series of scenes. (Or, outlines of scenes, I would suggest) and then some maps\/keyed locations for three places. We get Uncles castle, which is just a generic castle description with no action taking place there. Then a little monastery where everyone is dead \u2026 that only impacts two of the rooms though \u2026 everything else is standard boring monastery. Then a nine room \u201cglacial cave\u201d that serves as the hack part of the adventure, where you kill giants and drow. Everything ends with you falling unconscious and waking up in chains, so the next adventure in the series and start that way. Joy. Fuck off, man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a good description in this. EVeryone in the monastery, including A BUNCH of children, have had their hands tied behind their backs, had their throats slit, and then been hung up inside the chapel to bleed out. Gahhhh! That\u2019s rough! That\u2019s the kindo f shit that should motivate people to get hacking! I like!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otherwise \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The adventure doesn\u2019t really start until page twelve, by the time you get through eighteen different \u201cHow to Play\/To Run This Adventure sections. That say nothing of consequence. Again, not a good portent of Things To Come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What follows is a series of chapters, that could really be called scenes. Uncle takes you out. Want to explore the castle and talk to people? There are a series of things you could learn \u2026 mostly trivia. But \u2026 there is nothing there to SUPPORT that play. No NPC\u2019s. No attitudes of people in and around the castle, or even names of anyone other than uncle. You get to make it all up. Yeah You! Each \u201cchapter\u201d follows the same format. Eventually you get some map\/keys, at the end, to support the hack portion. And the non-hack portion \u2026 even though you don\u2019t in any way need them for anything other than the final assault chapter. You don\u2019t need a map\/key if the play doesn\u2019t require one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, the outline nature of the adventure is the difficulty here. No real specificity to speak of. A lot of \u201cjust handle it\u201d advice in the main text. Or, \u201cin my game the players blah blah blah so I blah blah blah.\u201d There\u2019s nothing really here to support any sort of play beyond the bare minimum that minimally keyed thing might provide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An adventure needs to support the DM. It needs to provide them the tools to run a great game. Yeah, the party could learn something in the rumors by just talking to someone random, and the DM could make them up on the fly. But, part of the value add is the designer providing something. Something specific. A NPC with a quick, to provide the information, or a vignette to show instead of tell. You don\u2019t have to drone on about it, but the DM needs SOMETHING to hang their hat on to riff on for the party. Without it, youve\u2019only provided an outline of an adventure. And, I would suggest, that even if you WERE providing an outline, as the core product, you\u2019d still owe the DM a little more to help bring it to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, this, has no life. Ins pite of trying RALLY hard to have an heir behind everything, who saves his chick friend from the slaughter, and then gets double-crossed by the giants and drow. Cause thats what always happens. The animosity between the heir and the uncle is NEVER brought to life in any way other than \u201ctry to make the party understand he hates his uncle\u201d Great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Pay What You Want at DriveThru, with a suggested price of $5.The preview is thirty pages. More than enough to get a sense of the adventure\/outline\/chapters thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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