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By Daniel Harila Carlsen
Mudnight Media
Knave
Levels 1-3<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Crimson Creek, a scenic slope up a young mountain. Your adventure starts of in a familiar, almost homely fashion. There\u2019s a hamlet, home to quirky villagers with mundane problems. But every trail you follow will take you deeper down into the meat of the mysteries, scandals, and unusual horrors hidden under the red moss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 24 page hex crawl presents seven hexes in a dark whimsyish environment of orphans and necromancers. It mostly hits the technical aspects, but is just weird for the sake of being weird, and shows, with low stakes being the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watch some horror but I tend to not watch the ones with demons and ghosts. There is a tendency amongst those to have No Rules. The demon\/ghost can do whatever they want whenever they want. Knowing this, it\u2019s hard for to buy in and attach. Whats the point of attachment and\/or caring if the game world rules just don\u2019t make sense at all? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be obvious where I\u2019m going with this. The technical aspects of this adventure are relatively decent. It\u2019s laid out fine. The whitespace and bullets are mostly ok and the language, while strained at times, does an ok job. The pink\/red shit that it uses as color is a little busy, in my opinion, but it\u2019s not a no go. But the problem is one of tone and\/or understanding what a D&D adventure is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The adventure just does shit. \u201cBully Dregbuck, miserable ratcatcher. Spine replaced with an untuned accordion. Hates rats. Can\u2019t sneak, stalk, or hunt. Got kicked out of the graverobbers guild. Followed by his one-eyed cat, Astrid. Carries rat-stabbing spear, traps, chewing tobacco, catnip.\u201d So, dudes got an accordion for a spine. The adventure has told us, up front, that theres this dude who is replacing peoples parts with prosthetics. I think that word means something else though. An accordion for a spine seems somewhat different. As does a tub for a head. As does a wood stove for a stomach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the world that this adventure takes place in. I don\u2019t see how you can adventure here. In a world in which there is no logic AT ALL then all actions are as likely to succeed as fail. Just stab your friend to do damage to the monster, because I mean, there\u2019s no indication that you should NOT, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this fucking does this, over and over again. And it does it while also tossing in shit like \u201cGrimspoon\u2019s Home for Bastardly Children\u201d as the name of an orphanage. That\u2019s not bad. It\u2019s like, I don\u2019t know, Series of Unfortunate Events turned up to eleven. But then it also, in all seriousness, has a black bear in a point hat in the tavern, on stage, playing the bagpipes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this shit extends to most aspects of the adventure. \u201cGarden: An overgrown shrubbery of<\/p>\n\n\n\n
thorns (d4 damage). A small skeleton can be found deep inside\u201d This is meaningless. It has no impact on the adventure. It\u2019s just some bit of trivia thrown in. And a HUGE part of the adventure is this trivia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I were to write \u201cA kklsdfkjhd is sdkljfhsdkjfh here.\u201d then you\u2019d, rightfully, be wondering what the fuck what was going on. You have no basis for running this. There is not context to help you figure this out. Ok, so, what about a human face, no longer attached, that now shits coins. It\u2019s not a head. It\u2019s explicitly a face. Not attached. Eating corpses and shitting coins. There\u2019s just not enough here to do something with. \u201cA printing block of flesh.\u201d Uh, ok. \u201cA grandfather clock that records the history of the universe.\u201d Uh. \u2026 ok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the standard nineteen hex flower. Seven are populated. It takes 24 pages to do that. The titular Crimson Creek makes no appearance in the adventure. And there is just nothing here that matters. The world rules don\u2019t matter. The words looks like they were randomly generated and then pieced together in to an adventure. It\u2019s Porky in Wackyland. There is a semblance of plot, with necro dude making monsters who have escaped, but that\u2019s it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is this the kind of work you\u2019d like to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is $9 at DriveThru. There\u2019s no preview. Else you wouldn\u2019t buy it, silly goose!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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