Is The Orc and The Pie a well-designed adventure module?

[Evilhalfling]

Ran this one as a demo game for wife and one of her friends. I had to add in a bit more background and a few extra details. It went pretty well except for the loss of 1 PCs paladin-hood, when she bought a replacement pie, and tried to pass it off as the stolen one instead of chasing the orc.
(please do not turn this into a paladin thread)


It also spawned the IC phrase "easy as taking pie from a pig in a ten"

 

[Brother MacLaren]

Yeah, and when are we going to get the treasure breakdown of this?

Energy 223 kcal
Protein 1.9 g
Total Carbohydrates 32.9 g
Total Sugars 15.3 g
Total Fat 10 g
Saturated Fat 1.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.7 g
Monounsaturated Fat 4.2 g
Dietary Fiber 0.8 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 270 mg

 

[BOZ]

good? how could anything possibly be better?

it's the ultimate in design simplicity!

 

[IcyCool]

You just opened up a can of worms there.

In the new new errata for polymorph, this will give the Orc the name "pie," the caloric value and aroma of a pie, the general appearance of a pie, the HD of the baker who made the pie, and the natural attacks of a clown or student protestor (that is, a pie), while retaining the type "orc." Some other pie elsewhere will then take on the movement forms and special qualities of an orc, without actually being an orc, except on Tuesdays.

It's quite clever really, now the creature is both orc and pie, simultaneously. This grants it quite a few tasty advantages, and one rather large disadvantage.

 

[Monte At Home]

It's quite clever really, now the creature is both orc and pie, simultaneously.

Like Schrodinger's Orc. Or would it be Schrodinger's Pie? You don't know if it's monster or treasure until you go on the adventure.

 

[MarkB]

Total Fat 10 g
Saturated Fat 1.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.7 g
Monounsaturated Fat 4.2 g

I think you'll probably need to SBLOCK the answer to this (and I hope I'm not spoiling the module just by asking, not that current players should really be browsing this thread), but what does the other 0.6 g of fat consist of?

 

[DonTadow]

mmmmhmmmmm pie.

It's a cute little encounter. Sure its not long, there's little player choice but thats part of its beauty. It's simple. You can expand it if you like

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Sure its not long, there's little player choice but thats part of its beauty. It's simple.

I want your players. With mine, this adventure is far to complicated to prepare for. Assuming their goal is to get the pie (some days, their goal might be to acquire the orc), they might:

- Kill the orc, take the pie
- Use diplomacy on the orc to get the pie
- Intimidate the orc to give them the pie
- Insult the orc, and get the pie thrown at them
- Sneak past the orc, and steal the pie
- Tunnel under the orc, and take the pie
- Buff, scry the orc, teleport in, and take the pie
- Teleport in and eat the pie while fending off the orc with total defense
- Charm the orc, and make him open a bakery
- Attack the orc with nonlethal damage, capture him, and use him as slave labor in their pie factory
- Pickpocket the orc to obtain the receipe for the pie, which is then sold to the highest bidder
- Perform an obscene ritual to corrupt the pie, thus leading to the downfall of the orc tribe, after which the party steals the receipe and bakes their own pie
- Summon nature's ally to have a raccoon, a dodo, and an undead monkey steal the pie for them
- Develop a religion around the relationships of orcs and pies

I mean, how do you possibly prepare for so many options?

 

[GSHamster]

I mean, how do you possibly prepare for so many options?

Not to mention that some groups might just say, "Who cares about pie, let's go find some cake!", completely ruining all the DM's hard work.

 

[ssampier]

I think it is. Simple and straight-forward.

I once thought about writing a techno-thriller called “Orc & Pi” but then passed my sanity check and didn’t.

Sounds like math murder mystery. I'm disappointed you didn't write it (and it sounds 20 times more exciting than Numbers).