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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8600284" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 48: Jul/Aug 1994part 5/5Honor Lost, Honor Regained: We finish off with another little adventure that'll probably be over in less than a session if the players are focussed. The PC's come across a disheveled crying warrior by the side of the road. Turns out it's a Paladin of Helm who let his arachnophobia get the better of him and fled from a fight, leaving his companion to be webbed and eaten. This cowardice made him lose his paladin powers. You need to talk him through his emotional crisis and get him to buck up, then go back and do a short linear dungeon full of giant spiders with a Drider at the end. Yet another very 2e feeling one where the dungeon crawling part is probably the least interesting part of the adventure, and the real meat is the characterisations of the various NPC's, the roleplaying before and after the fighting and the potential spin-offs you could develop from this involving them. Not really that great for people who just want prefab adventures then, but for DM's who use these as a starting point and then use the casually mentioned ideas later in the campaign it has potential. An issue that's absolutely packed with the bad aspects of 2e, short perfunctory dungeons with lots of railroady talky bits throughout to bore people who prefer to make their own decisions, a general air of trying to make things simpler and more whimsical to attract a younger audience at the expense of their existing one, shoddy worldbuilding & rules design, almost entirely written by recurring writers who are obviously not being edited as strictly as they were a few years ago. It all adds up to one of the least useful issues yet, and given the contents of the letters page, it's obvious that many readers weren't keen on their current direction even back then. I guess the things that led to their downfall continue to progress then. Let's see if next issue is even worse.</blockquote>

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