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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8107312" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 35: Mar/Apr 1987part 3/5And All The King's Men: Our Finnish tournament modules take a turn for the increasingly railroady, expecting the players to stand by dumbfounded while political machinations and assassinations happen, and then follow the mission given to them despite it being fairly obvious they're being played. The person you rescued last instalment gets assassinated with no chance to save them, the king gets nearly assassinated, and the meat of the actual adventure is an abandoned warehouse, which isn't very cultural at all. It all smells somewhat of filler, like they decided how many rounds they were going to have before they wrote the adventure, and had to pad out the number of events to get that number. It's thrown into particularly sharp relief by the more open-ended modules in Dungeon that are using an interesting variety of terrain-based and social challenges. To top it all off, it seems like they've skipped an instalment, as last issue was part 2, and this one says part 4. That's more a problem with the overall chaos in the staff rather than the writers of this adventure, but it shows how little they have their naughty word together with the revolving door of guest editors. This isn't going well at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8107312, member: 27780"] [b][u]Polyhedron Issue 35: Mar/Apr 1987[/u][/b] part 3/5 And All The King's Men: Our Finnish tournament modules take a turn for the increasingly railroady, expecting the players to stand by dumbfounded while political machinations and assassinations happen, and then follow the mission given to them despite it being fairly obvious they're being played. The person you rescued last instalment gets assassinated with no chance to save them, the king gets nearly assassinated, and the meat of the actual adventure is an abandoned warehouse, which isn't very cultural at all. It all smells somewhat of filler, like they decided how many rounds they were going to have before they wrote the adventure, and had to pad out the number of events to get that number. It's thrown into particularly sharp relief by the more open-ended modules in Dungeon that are using an interesting variety of terrain-based and social challenges. To top it all off, it seems like they've skipped an instalment, as last issue was part 2, and this one says part 4. That's more a problem with the overall chaos in the staff rather than the writers of this adventure, but it shows how little they have their naughty word together with the revolving door of guest editors. This isn't going well at all. [/QUOTE]

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