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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8203310" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 17: May/Jun 1989part 2/5The Pit: We start off with one of your basic dungeon crawls that can easily be used in any campaign. An abandoned underground temple to an evil god that long ago lost all it's worshippers due to poor flock management and pissing off the adjacent community. An excellent example of how evil can be it's own downfall by making the cruelty more important than the competence. Of course, there's still more than enough traps and undead left to challenge PC's that find it, and enough treasure left to make fighting through them worthwhile, including a particularly nasty magical artifact of the kind that'll probably be more trouble than boon if the PC's decide to keep it. The kind of adventure where the PC's can and should take it slow and rest up between challenges, because there's no time constraints until you activate the monsters sitting in their rooms, and the traps are pretty nasty if you do just blunder in everywhere and trigger them instead of using your senses and 10 foot poles to examine things like sensible adventurers. So this is a back to basics palate cleanser after recent issues that have been quite heavy on setting material and timelines. Like the list of acronyms in the editorial, they need to do one of those every now and then to keep it accessible to newbies. Solid middle of the road starter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8203310, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 17: May/Jun 1989[/u][/b] part 2/5 The Pit: We start off with one of your basic dungeon crawls that can easily be used in any campaign. An abandoned underground temple to an evil god that long ago lost all it's worshippers due to poor flock management and pissing off the adjacent community. An excellent example of how evil can be it's own downfall by making the cruelty more important than the competence. Of course, there's still more than enough traps and undead left to challenge PC's that find it, and enough treasure left to make fighting through them worthwhile, including a particularly nasty magical artifact of the kind that'll probably be more trouble than boon if the PC's decide to keep it. The kind of adventure where the PC's can and should take it slow and rest up between challenges, because there's no time constraints until you activate the monsters sitting in their rooms, and the traps are pretty nasty if you do just blunder in everywhere and trigger them instead of using your senses and 10 foot poles to examine things like sensible adventurers. So this is a back to basics palate cleanser after recent issues that have been quite heavy on setting material and timelines. Like the list of acronyms in the editorial, they need to do one of those every now and then to keep it accessible to newbies. Solid middle of the road starter. [/QUOTE]

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