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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8671626" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>To be 100% clear:</p><p></p><p>I am not being paid for this endorsement. I'm not being cajoled. This won't put a scrap of paper in my pocket or a chance at a writing job on my plate.</p><p></p><p>I just -sincerely- believe that this is freaking cool and want to see more of it, so I'm encouraging everyone I can to buy it so we get more of it in time.</p><p></p><p>And now that I get to see what's really inside? My opinion remains the same. The story itself is dripping with High Adventure style. There's full page art-prints which bear a first person retelling of events or dreams or thoughts in beautiful purple prose. Everything about it -feels- Epic and Fantastical.</p><p></p><p>The guide to creating thematic characters in the setting is pretty great, too.</p><p></p><p>The adventure itself takes up about half the book (the middle half!) and is a fairly straightforward story that's pretty much laid out like a 1980s Sword and Sorcery film. Lots of lurid descriptions, thick history that worldbuilds behind the DM Screen, and not a lot of specific scripted encounters. </p><p></p><p>Sure, you have to reach X location to do Y thing, but there's a lot of expectation on the DM to fill in the travel sequences with interesting encounters and cool concepts that the setting and adventure provide the framework for. This isn't a hand-holding train-ride through the countryside, even though it has specific goals to achieve.</p><p></p><p>No spoilers... but your players will take on titles just as cool as the NPCs, and the NPCs in the game specifically (Scripted) refer to the party by titles which gives some weight to the PCs being as important to the world, which is so simple but also great. None of this "Adventurer" nonsense where you're some interchangeable face from a guild.</p><p></p><p>This adventure? Looks like a ton of fun. Might run it for some friends in an A5e game. Might just keep it to mine for ideas for my own adventures... but it is glorious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8671626, member: 6796468"] To be 100% clear: I am not being paid for this endorsement. I'm not being cajoled. This won't put a scrap of paper in my pocket or a chance at a writing job on my plate. I just -sincerely- believe that this is freaking cool and want to see more of it, so I'm encouraging everyone I can to buy it so we get more of it in time. And now that I get to see what's really inside? My opinion remains the same. The story itself is dripping with High Adventure style. There's full page art-prints which bear a first person retelling of events or dreams or thoughts in beautiful purple prose. Everything about it -feels- Epic and Fantastical. The guide to creating thematic characters in the setting is pretty great, too. The adventure itself takes up about half the book (the middle half!) and is a fairly straightforward story that's pretty much laid out like a 1980s Sword and Sorcery film. Lots of lurid descriptions, thick history that worldbuilds behind the DM Screen, and not a lot of specific scripted encounters. Sure, you have to reach X location to do Y thing, but there's a lot of expectation on the DM to fill in the travel sequences with interesting encounters and cool concepts that the setting and adventure provide the framework for. This isn't a hand-holding train-ride through the countryside, even though it has specific goals to achieve. No spoilers... but your players will take on titles just as cool as the NPCs, and the NPCs in the game specifically (Scripted) refer to the party by titles which gives some weight to the PCs being as important to the world, which is so simple but also great. None of this "Adventurer" nonsense where you're some interchangeable face from a guild. This adventure? Looks like a ton of fun. Might run it for some friends in an A5e game. Might just keep it to mine for ideas for my own adventures... but it is glorious. [/QUOTE]
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