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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lwaxy" data-source="post: 6913048" data-attributes="member: 53286">Very difficult to decide. Apologies for this being a bit short, but I  seem to have gotten a fever and have a bit of a problem staying awake. Rules - my word count had both slightly over, so no advantage here. Both were in time. Use of ingredientsHeir to Nothing - Both adventures used this in a similar way (not that surprising) and both uses were good. No advantage. Silken Wallpaper - I love the drider webbing in Get Ye to the Underdark.  It could,of course, be completely avoided by the players, which makes  it less strong. The walls in Corporate Downsizing,  however, could have been made from any other material. Not really bad  because the ingredient has to go somewhere. But I liked the drider  webbing a tad more. Advantage Get Ye to the Underdark. Useless Glue - While I had a laugh at Glue the Centaur because we have a  saying here that useless horses become glue, and I kept reading Ikea  instead of Ikeda and with Ikea you often do need glue ... anyway, it's  just a name. The drider bile in Get Ye to the Underdark is an actual  part of the story. Advantage Get Ye to the Underdark. Headless  Hunter - Yeah, well... the cyberzombie in Corporate Downsizing was more  relevant as a hunter - if only slightly. Technically, it didn't hunt but  just leash out at people. However, the golem in Get Ye to the Underdark  wasn't really doing any hunting either. it was mostly there to carry  the lazy beholder around. In coolness, cyberzombie wins over iron golem  anytime. Advantage Corporate Downsizing. Gutted Machine - In Get Ye to the Underdark, this is the thingamajig  carrying the whole story - the beholder wants his portal partials back  or he wouldn't have bothered. Yet, it is also a weak part. How did the  beholder's crew follow the drow that fast if their means to travel was  disrupted? Even if their lair was relatively close to the surface, they  would have needed a means to find out where their foes had ended up. So  all that explains this here could be "it's magic"in one way or the  other, which is fine but leaves a bit of an unfinished feeling. In  Corporate Downsizing, it's the cyberzombie gutting himself, which is  cool enough. But then, this is not a guaranteed outcome nor that  essential. After all the cyberzombie might as well be thrown off the  roof or end up disabled by any other means, knowing that Runners will be  Runners. Advantage Get Ye to the Underdark. Star Crossed Book - In Corporate Downsizing, it's the love getting to  the cyberzombie's heart, but again, it's not sure if the PCs ever  encounter this. In Get Ye to the Underdark, it's the spellbook the drow  wants, and not for love alone but for the usual scheming reasons drow do  things. Problem with this is, again, that the PCs might never even hear  about it, as drow aren't likely to share any sort of unneeded  information, especially not with temporary allies in case the PCs rather  side with the drow. No advantage here. Lazy Eye - And again, in both cases, it turned into names. In both  cases, the use was creative enough for it being names. No advantage. ReadabilityCorporate  Downsizing was easy to read, no big twists and turns to look up again  later. Get Ye to the Underdark suffers a bit from a wall of text for  backstory the normal group of adventurers will never hear about. There  was also a slight issue with long sentences (we call it boxed sentences  or run away sentences here - one sentence sits in the other until you  don't know what's what anymore). Advantage Corporate Downsizing. Use in game playGet  Ye to the Underdark leaves a lot for the GM to develop and explain,  which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's for the most part a sandbox  style adventure. Who do the PCs side with, what could the respective  sides offer them) do they even side with anyone or will they try to play  both sides or just go all in and slaughter them? Or maybe they bring  food enough diplomacy skills to have them make a deal. It could last  several sessions or be over with before the average GM can even think  about adding more complications. I like the idea of drow not only being  motivated by simple greed and need, but unless the group teams up with  them or even returns with them to the underdark, this will sadly not  play much of a role other than in the backstory. And that is one of my  pet peeves in adventures - so much backstory no one will ever find out  about. While it makes a good read for the GM, it is wasted unless there  is a reliable chance to encounter the information, and that's not the  case here. With Corporate Downsizing, you will definitely have  them going in considering a Runner looking for a job most likely needs  the money. It is a clear, linear adventure which could need a bit of  improving in regards to the mix of challenges the team will face. Even  if The Eye is just out of retirement briefly and has little concern for  Ikeda, his professional pride alone would not likely let him sit by and  do nothing while a terrorist and a Runner team go about business in a  building he's supposed to protect. He might not be a challenge with the  lack of good equipment provided, but he must sure carry his own or at  least make the best of what he has. Also, if the runners know The Eye  will not be paid, there is little incentive for them to take the job  unless they've been paid beforehand, and we know how likely that is to  happen. Glue strikes me as someone who would rather try and convince the  Runners to aid his cause . after all, their objectives aren't that  opposed. The cyberzombie, on the other hand, suddenly jumps the  difficulty of the mission up by a lot. This can make for a cool twist,  as the adventure says, the milk gets sour. But it is difficult to keep  the interest of experienced Runners long enough for this to happen,even  if you are just going for a few hours of play. Last but not least - what  is the point in destroying all the data? In the building, sure, but if I  was Jiro I would want the data extracted for my own use. At the end, Corporate Downsizing has the clearer, less background-info-drow<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(n)" title="Thumbs down    (n)"  data-smilie="23"data-shortname="(n)" />ed story. Advantage Corporate Downsizing.Would my players have fun with it?Yes to both, but they would have slightly more fun, I believe, with Corporate Downsizing. So for me the winner, if not by much, is Corporate Downsizing.</blockquote>

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