{"id":8739,"date":"2023-09-04T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:24:27","slug":"earthworms-have-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=8739","title":{"rendered":"Earthworms Have Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Thomas Scott Ingle\nSelf Published\nLotFP\nLevel ?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Level range? Why do you believe that you, as a consumer, deserve a level range? Tell me about your childhood trauma that led to that belief?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The morning after a pair of young, orphan boys (Harry, and Measel) pretend to be wizards casting a pretend spell, their odd words come to fruition, and the superstitious adults of South Chapel accuse them of practicing black magic! But all is not as it seems… Are the boys really responsible for the ills suddenly befalling South Chapel? Could it be dark spirits from the Old Sminkle place? …Or is it something else…? The only way for the Pcs to find out is to explore South Chapel and investigate the strange goings on…!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 34 page digest adventure describes a village with people in it going mad. It has a bunch of descriptions that are not needed and A LOT of text that obfuscates what is really going on. In the end, it\u2019s a go nowhere adventure. You\u2019ll find no joy today me buckos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You arrive at the village and there\u2019s various mobs hunting two little kids, to hang them for witchcraft. Gallows and all. Seems there are now worms flying around with wings. You wander around the village while the DM rolls on the \u201cweird shit\u201d table until everyone mutates and\/or all of the villagers go crazy in a riot. Seems that there is a meteorite in the pond in the center of the village, causing it all. THis is, of course, two massive tropes: that there\u2019s an outer space meteorite causing shit to happen in a Lamentations adventure and that the town water source is poisoned. The usual for a Lamentations adventure, or, any crazed villagers adventure it seems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The individual buildings and farms, in particular, are too well documented. The names, ages of everyone and some little blurb about thor backstory that almost never bears any significance to the adventure. Wasted space and wasted cognition for the DM trying to run this. The VAST majority of shit could just be described by a villager table. After all, their import is in the fact that they are mobbing, not that they grow cabbages. \u201c[they all] work the farm, shearing sheep, milking goats, spinning wool, churning butter, and making cheese\u201d Wonderful. My game is enriched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A couple of locations are different though. You get a full accounting of the church and of a three story haunted house. A FULL accounting. In WAY too much detail. Paragraph after paragraph for rooms. A bunch of words that mean nothing for the adventure at hand. And, you literally just wander around the village. While the DM rolls on the mutations table to see what weird shit the villagers do. That provide no clues to the adventure. I guess you just stumble on the water source, if you do at all. This all comes after a disaster of an intro, full of text, that, I guess is meant to be run as the intro to the village but is so long, at multiple pages f first this and then this, that I don\u2019t see any sane person could use it. For that matter, the wandering around the village part is not really supported at all either. No good mob tables or anything. And, when we get to the items in the adventure? \u201cRoll to determine one or two forgotten magic items.\u201d Jesus people, this is not how randomness works in an adventure. Just place the fucking items. Don\u2019t waste the creativity on things that won\u2019t be placed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It does allow you to bring villagers out of their crazed state by splashing cold water on them. That\u2019s a nice touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otherwise, this is just a MASS of text that doesn\u2019t really support the main adventure at all. Just mountains of it, that you get to dig through, while trying to run a village hunt without any support for the hunt proper. Another wasted PDF that makes little baby Jesus cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $5 at DriveThru. The preview is five pages. That\u2019s not enough to really see what\u2019s going on, but you can get a sense of the tedious writing style from it. Imagine that throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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