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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8435594" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 37: Sep/Oct 1992part 2/5Serpents of the Sands: Snakes without badgers or mushrooms? Haven't you ever heard of foreplay? Looks like the Yuan-ti have decided to diversify from their usual tropical jungles to desert terrain as well. A previous adventuring party took some of their valuable magic items, and now they want revenge. After a lengthy bit of infiltration and scheming the players play no part in and will probably never find out the precise details of, but are fully written out anyway to show how clever the writer is, they kill their target, (with considerable collateral damage in the process) steal their stuff back, and make their escape. Presuming the heroes act in a suitably heroic manner in the immediate crisis, they'll be sent in pursuit, to face a dungeon with nice wheelchair accessible ramps between levels and lots of reptile themed monsters, capping things off with a yuan-ti/medusa hybrid with all the best powers of both. It puts the yuan-ti's powers to good use, particularly their polymorphing powers, which have all sorts of utility tricks a less clever DM might forget. It's a fairly interesting read, but a bit too enamoured of expositing on details that won't be relevant to the adventure at the expense of ones that might, and the dungeon design is rather more linear than I would prefer as well. It's still entirely usable, and as usual, even a below par adventure for Dungeon offers much more freedom, worldbuilding and interesting challenges than the average Polyhedron one, but it still feels like it could have been improved quite a bit with another editing pass. A pretty middling start to the proceedings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8435594, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 37: Sep/Oct 1992[/u][/b] part 2/5 Serpents of the Sands: Snakes without badgers or mushrooms? Haven't you ever heard of foreplay? Looks like the Yuan-ti have decided to diversify from their usual tropical jungles to desert terrain as well. A previous adventuring party took some of their valuable magic items, and now they want revenge. After a lengthy bit of infiltration and scheming the players play no part in and will probably never find out the precise details of, but are fully written out anyway to show how clever the writer is, they kill their target, (with considerable collateral damage in the process) steal their stuff back, and make their escape. Presuming the heroes act in a suitably heroic manner in the immediate crisis, they'll be sent in pursuit, to face a dungeon with nice wheelchair accessible ramps between levels and lots of reptile themed monsters, capping things off with a yuan-ti/medusa hybrid with all the best powers of both. It puts the yuan-ti's powers to good use, particularly their polymorphing powers, which have all sorts of utility tricks a less clever DM might forget. It's a fairly interesting read, but a bit too enamoured of expositing on details that won't be relevant to the adventure at the expense of ones that might, and the dungeon design is rather more linear than I would prefer as well. It's still entirely usable, and as usual, even a below par adventure for Dungeon offers much more freedom, worldbuilding and interesting challenges than the average Polyhedron one, but it still feels like it could have been improved quite a bit with another editing pass. A pretty middling start to the proceedings. [/QUOTE]

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