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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8171683" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 13: Sep/Oct 1988part 5/5Of Nests and Nations: So this is where King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard got their name from! That's an incredibly obscure bit of gaming history to reference, which i guess is fitting for a band which makes such weird and progressive music. Equally fittingly, this is a rather weird adventure in itself. A highly specific mystery adventure set in Specularum, referencing lots of things from other basic D&D supplements to the point where it's considerably more advanced than any of the AD&D adventures this issue. It does lots of cool rules as physics tricks, and meticulously explains it's workings for the DM behind the scenes, while still being tough and complex enough that players will probably be baffled even though there are plenty of clues if you know the right questions to ask. The dinosaurs appearing mysteriously in the middle of the city make perfect sense in context, and the timeline of escalating weirdness gives it plenty of flexibility and nonlinearity. I'm definitely not going to spoil the finer details, as that'd ruin the adventure, but this was an awesome read, and hopefully an awesome game for those groups who fit the qualifications to use it. Even more than the last adventure, it's sufficiently complex and specific in flavour that it won't work with every group, but for those it does fit, it'll REALLY work brilliantly. This is definitely the kind of uniqueness that I crave in adventure design and I love it even more than Tortles of the Purple Sage.With two adventures that are completely combat-free, two more that are quite setting specific, and lots of worldbuilding details in all of them, this issue pushes the limits of what they define as adventures by a fair bit. Even more interestingly, all these experiments are on the good end of the quality spectrum, making this issue very fun overall to read and review even if they definitely won't all fit every group and setting. Let's hope they find another different set of pleasing experiments to push the limits of what you can do with your game next time as well.</blockquote>

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