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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8215950" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 18: Jul/Aug 1989part 5/5Chadranther's Bane: Aka Honey, I Shrunk the Adventurers. The inspiration for the final adventure is very obvious indeed. The PC's come across a magical artifact that shrinks anyone near it to lilliputian size. (And thankfully their equipment as well, as surviving at that size is tricky enough without having to do it naked. ) Just leaving the area won't reverse the effects, so you'll need to explore the world from your new perspective, facing regular sized animals that are now terrifying giants, and deal with several feuding communities of tiny people who managed to survive, and have been living in the rafters, floorboards and garden for years, adapting to their new situation the best they can in different ways. To get out of this, they'll need to figure out what exactly caused their transformation, and then destroy it, which will probably involve conquering or forming an alliance with one of the humanoid groups so you can assemble the equipment and manpower to get the leverage to move it at all. It's a pretty neat sandbox, (although it misses a trick by not including a literal sandbox in the garden) giving you a setting that could last quite a few sessions along with general rules for being tiny that can be reused for other scenarios. (Although as usual, they underplay just how much the square-cube law makes things work differently at different sizes when it comes to things like carrying capacity and falling) It's like going to a different plane of existence without ever leaving the house. I thoroughly approve of this kind of envelope pushing. Let's hope they can come up with another big twist adventure next issue.An increase in the number of recognisable name authors ironically brings about a mild reduction in the average quality, with Ed in particular dragging the batting average way down for everyone else. A demonstration of the problem with not holding people you know to the same standards as strangers and just waving their submissions through the door. That's almost definitely going to become a bigger problem over the years. Let's see if next issue continues in the same direction, or they'll intentionally mix it up for variety's sake again.</blockquote>

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