{"id":9334,"date":"2024-08-26T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:37:37","slug":"a-spear-brings-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=9334","title":{"rendered":"A Spear Brings Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By M.Bongers
Stone Gear Studios
OSR
Level ?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
To kill a Unicorn is a tragedy. To murder one and construct a weapon from it’s remains is a sin against the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This eight page adventure presents a single NPC. I guess I should have known better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone I know was getting her oil changed. They told her that she needed to get her air filter and cabin filter changed once a year. $80. She doesn\u2019t know. Every oil change place is a rip off. Every chain auto place is a rip off. You get your oil changed and NOTHING more and hope that they actually do it and don\u2019t fuck it up while ripping you off. The dealer is the same but they are better at lying and charge 5 times more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t you wish you could trust someone? If you buy something you could feel like you didn\u2019t need to worry about getting screwed over? Puffery abounds. More than puffery? Adventure levels one through five! Yeah, but it was written for fives and the one experience is totally different, not expanded upon by the designer, and left as an exercise for the reader. Sandboxes that defy the expectations of a sandbox. And not in a good way. It doesn\u2019t matter what the product description says. Do you research, endlessly, for a $2 product? Why not just buy it? You can afford it, right? Damn the cynicism that builds up from the continual line of garbage that flows obfuscates, beyond the category of outright lies. Is it an apple? What, Socrates, is an apple? The form? The function? \u201cIt is art if you say it is art.\u201d \u2026 and an analogy to D&D adventures? At what point does incompetence become outright fraud? The marketing blurb on DriveThru? Ha! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frank the NPC kills this unicorn and makes a spear out of its horn. He then goes around killing animals, I guess. You stumble upon his campsite outside of a city. He\u2019s got a couple of followers \u201cif the DM wants to make the combat harder.\u201d That\u2019s your adventure. Nothing more. Just you fight this dude at his campsite, which is not detailed. Does he have a personality? Yeah. Paranoid. So he picks a fight with the party if they are nice to him instead of immediately stabbing him. Cause fighting gotta happen, I guess. It\u2019s a long NPC description and then a note that you can fight him at his campsite. Enjoy this adventure. Or NPC. Or whatever it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, hey, not to worry. There are fifteen downloads for this eight page adventure, so you can have those eight pages arrayed any way you might imagine, as well as solo artwork pieces. Wonderful effort there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $1.50 at DriveThru. There is no preview. Which means I can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s an NPC or an adventure. \u201cBut the description says there is an NPC!\u201d And what does the description not say? And I\u2019m supposed to start believing what the marketing says now? Everything is hopeless. Except \u2026 the existence of a good preview, which shows you everything you need to know before you buy. Which this doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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