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Showing posts with label Adventure. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2020

The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon

As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1.

This isn't a review, but just some random thoughts about the adventure. There will be some spoilers below.

  • I would consider this generally to be a fairly vanilla adventure, but was a serviceable piece that fit my need.
  • Some room entries were pretty sparse.
  • There were one or two good "specials".
  • The idea of a huge magical panther being worshipped as a god fit well with the vibe I am going for in the campaign.
  • The magic items were boring, but I usually replace most of them anyway.
  • Some of the wandering monsters don't necessarily make sense. However, coming up with the rationale for them is part of the fun. Note that, for this campaign, I am reskinning the usual humanoid monsters (goblins, orcs, bugbears, etc) using descriptions which I feel are a bit more sword & sorcery (degenerate pygmy-race, large slavering beast-men, etc)
  • I felt the map was pretty good. It had variety in room shapes and sizes, loops of various sizes, and dead-ends (in which the party had an uncanny knack for getting trapped). However, I needed to do a better job of utilizing the loops. Also, there is an "old-school mapper" in the group. Using his map they were able to make educated guesses as to locations of secret rooms.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Draft Adventure - Crypt of Llatai


Draft - Crypt of Llatai

I have stolen ideas from a few places for this short adventure.
  • Original name, concept and introduction from Scott Driver's World of Thool play-by-post Tunnels  & Trolls game;
  • Most of the map and a few ideas in the adventure from Dyson Logos; and
  • I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting right now.
It is still draft. I still want to add the Rival Adventuring Party, but that might not happen until I have a chance to run it. Also, it is unplaytested.

Let me know any thoughts, play reports, typos caught, formatting issues, problems with the link, etc. It's the first time I've done this. It was fun.