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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8215159" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 18: Jul/Aug 1989part 4/5Crocodile Tears: Unusually, the oriental adventure this issue is not the most linear one here. The PC's hear a rumour that a whole town was completely emptied out recently, and as adventurers should, go investigate. As is often the case, the title is a spoiler so there's no point hiding it - It was giant crocodiles. Even the babies are pushing at the limits of real world croc size and the parents are approaching kaiju territory. (although with no skyscrapers around they don't need to be quite so vertically large to look suitably terrifying against the urban backdrop. ) Like any good Kaiju story, fighting them head-on would be rather foolish, and you'll need to use missile weapons, traps, poison, or some other form of cleverness to make the area safe again. Fortunately there are some unlikely allies you can make along the way if you're smart and compassionate that'll make it a lot easier. There's some definite morality play elements here where they reward or punish you for taking the good route over the evil one in a somewhat heavy-handed way, but they do at least make allowances for you to make the wrong choices and carry on. So overall, it's mildly irritating but still entirely usable. They've done far worse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8215159, member: 27780"] [B][U]Dungeon Issue 18: Jul/Aug 1989[/U][/B] part 4/5 Crocodile Tears: Unusually, the oriental adventure this issue is not the most linear one here. The PC's hear a rumour that a whole town was completely emptied out recently, and as adventurers should, go investigate. As is often the case, the title is a spoiler so there's no point hiding it - It was giant crocodiles. Even the babies are pushing at the limits of real world croc size and the parents are approaching kaiju territory. (although with no skyscrapers around they don't need to be quite so vertically large to look suitably terrifying against the urban backdrop. ) Like any good Kaiju story, fighting them head-on would be rather foolish, and you'll need to use missile weapons, traps, poison, or some other form of cleverness to make the area safe again. Fortunately there are some unlikely allies you can make along the way if you're smart and compassionate that'll make it a lot easier. There's some definite morality play elements here where they reward or punish you for taking the good route over the evil one in a somewhat heavy-handed way, but they do at least make allowances for you to make the wrong choices and carry on. So overall, it's mildly irritating but still entirely usable. They've done far worse. [/QUOTE]

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