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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 2011436" data-attributes="member: 1129">Bloody Jack’s Gold is the fourth in the Dungeon Crawl Classics line by Goodman Games. An adventure for 10th-12th level characters, the adventure tempts the characters with legends of the pirate Bloody Jack’s lost treasure, a classic lure, and brings them to an unmapped island to begin their quest.The module has a smooth, yet sarcastic writing style to it. “Picture a bowlful of bubbling, boiling brownish snot, covered with glaring eyes and mouths filled with sharp teeth, all snapping at you, babbling insane nonsense and spitting acid in your face, while trying to eat you. Now make it the size of an SUV. There’s your gibbering mouther.”In terms of capturing the first edition feel, it does a better job than many Necromancer Games products. For example, the cover is done by Erol Otus, a verteran of many a 1st edition cover product. The interior covers are used for maps. The maps are done in blue ink. The internal art is similar to first edition modules, which in my opinion, isn’t always a good thing.At 32 pages for $10.99, the module suffers high price per page, but since it’s one of the few adventurers at that size, for this cost, is in the right range. The adventure is pretty straightforward. This isn’t to say that there aren’t traps and challenging encounters, but it holds true to the classic feel in that there aren’t a lot of role playing opportunities presented in the book itself. The options to have the characters interact with other parts of the adventure, are hinted at, like meeting Bloody Jack himself, but not detailed out. It’s simply beyond the scope of the module. Bloody Jack and indeed, his crew may present some problems for some campaigns for one of his comrades was Coyopultec, a death priest of an Aztechish like god. The death priest is just a little angered at his betrayal and come back from the grave. Not to mention that when the priest came back, he did so at the behest of some fiendish lords of Hell and has brought a whole retinue of fiendish creatures with him. There are also hints to a large empire, one that killed Bloody Jack without recovering the gold. These are minor details and since the main body of adventure itself takes place on an island, hardly an issue. As a matter of fact, since the whole thing takes place on an island, the GM could probably get rid of the whole Bloody Jack storyline and just use this as a high-level dungeon romp. As it stands, this is a good rendition of a 1st level feel module in 3rd edition terms. It’s perfect for a pick up and play game or a convention. Long term or campaign use requires a bit more effort to customize the background and information. With settings like Freeport though, it shouldn’t be too hard to hint at the pirate that was Bloody Jack.</blockquote>

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