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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8551792" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 45: Jan/Feb 1994part 2/5An Artist's Errand: Steve Kurtz continues to send in more Spelljammer adventures than everyone else put together, on top of his freelance work on Al-Qadim. The PC's are approached by a strongly (but deniably, because code of conduct) bisexual-coded Reigar to retrieve her stolen necklace. As usual for mysterious employers who hire adventurers in seedy dive bars, she's not telling the PC's everything, and it's considerably more important to her than just an expensive family heirloom. If they accept the mission but don't have a ship of their own, they'll find themselves supplied with a rickety tradesman called the Astral Empress staffed by comic relief gnomes and powered by giant space hamsters. Pursuing the magical signature of the necklace, they find out it was stolen by a Drow disguising himself as a regular elf, and has the power to open magical gates large enough for a whole ship to travel through, which has immense logistical purposes for a bunch of sneaky pirates. As usual for Steve, this is a fairly long adventure, going through multiple locations, each with quite linear maps. On the plus side, it doesn't end in a big treasure destroying explosion this time, unless you brought along your own ship with considerably better weaponry than the default. It also seems like spending time working on Toril has rubbed off on him, as there's considerably more detail on the sex lives of the NPC's than usual. He continues to be the very 2Eiest of the 2e authors, with lots of probably extraneous worldbuilding, (but you never know, it might come in handy) opportunity to ham up the roleplaying and big action setpieces which give you a chance to break out the ship to ship combat rules. It's not the most annoying adventure he's done. He continues to be an interesting read with plenty of flavour, but one I'm ambivalent about using in actual play.</blockquote>

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