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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8109420" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p><strong><u>Dungeon Issue 4: Mar/Apr 1987</u></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>part 2/5</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Kingdom In The Swamp: Another vampire count? (A count by any other title still counts, and should be counted in the census. Ah ah ah!) We only had one 3 issues ago. Couldn't you save those for the october issues? They're the kind of thing that works best when used sparingly. This definitely feels like Ravenloft mad libs. An evil king made a deal with <s>death</s> Orcus for power, then welched on the deal. As a result, he was turned into a vampire with several extra unique powers, lost nearly all his kingdom apart from a tiny domain in the middle of a swamp that he could never leave and has to spend eternity there. Given how boring eternity can get, he'll do his best to keep any visitors alive for a while, playing with his food by capturing them, engaging in hit-and-run attacks, etc, before eventually turning them into his spawn. Pretty familiar, right? He's even used the centuries since to gain levels in wizard, just like Strahd. The big difference is that here you also have to deal with a comic relief cowardly halfling thief sidekick tagging along, as his previous party was captured recently and he'd like to rescue them, but, y'know, the whole cowardice thing. This does not improve the procedings. If Ravenloft was the original Scooby-doo mysteries, this is the new Scrappy-doo adventures. So this is the first sign of diminishing returns in here from repeating ideas. Rather sooner than I'd hoped. Oh well. I signed up to this knowing there'd be a fair bit of repetition. Just got to press onwards and get used to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8109420, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 4: Mar/Apr 1987[/u][/b] part 2/5 Kingdom In The Swamp: Another vampire count? (A count by any other title still counts, and should be counted in the census. Ah ah ah!) We only had one 3 issues ago. Couldn't you save those for the october issues? They're the kind of thing that works best when used sparingly. This definitely feels like Ravenloft mad libs. An evil king made a deal with [s]death[/s] Orcus for power, then welched on the deal. As a result, he was turned into a vampire with several extra unique powers, lost nearly all his kingdom apart from a tiny domain in the middle of a swamp that he could never leave and has to spend eternity there. Given how boring eternity can get, he'll do his best to keep any visitors alive for a while, playing with his food by capturing them, engaging in hit-and-run attacks, etc, before eventually turning them into his spawn. Pretty familiar, right? He's even used the centuries since to gain levels in wizard, just like Strahd. The big difference is that here you also have to deal with a comic relief cowardly halfling thief sidekick tagging along, as his previous party was captured recently and he'd like to rescue them, but, y'know, the whole cowardice thing. This does not improve the procedings. If Ravenloft was the original Scooby-doo mysteries, this is the new Scrappy-doo adventures. So this is the first sign of diminishing returns in here from repeating ideas. Rather sooner than I'd hoped. Oh well. I signed up to this knowing there'd be a fair bit of repetition. Just got to press onwards and get used to it. [/QUOTE]
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