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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8702697" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 55: Sep/Oct 1995part 4/5Tulips of the Silver Moon: Ah yes, the tulip mania of the 17th century. A classic example of a financial bubble driven by speculation over exclusive luxuries. Still less dumb than the artificial scarcity of NFT's because at least you were getting a real thing that took effort to breed and raise in particularly unusual color combinations. The shenanigans that grew up around that are rich ground for an adventure. An eeevil hunchback (nice ablism ya got going there :sighs: ) tries to steal the best tulips from a rival in the hope of winning the hand of a fair maiden. (fat chance even if he gets away with it) Caught in the act by the butler, he unleashes some fire spells to set the place ablaze while he flees. The PC's happen to be in the right place at the right time to see the smoke in the distance, and hopefully investigate &amp; assist in the pursuit. Will you hunt for tracks in the fields and follow them if you roll well enough, will you go to the local village and try a more social detectiving approach, will you use some magic to make the whole process easier? A decently nonlinear little detective story with several sidequests and red herrings put in to keep you busy even if you don't take the correct route at first, this all seems pretty solidly put together, mixing social and combat encounters in a way that makes sense, with particular attention paid to the main antagonist's stats, including versions for people who play corebook only and slightly more interesting variants if you have the splatbooks to support them. Hopefully that'll keep both kinds of DM's satisfied. Despite a few problematic social attitudes it still seems good enough overall to use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8702697, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 55: Sep/Oct 1995[/u][/b] part 4/5 Tulips of the Silver Moon: Ah yes, the tulip mania of the 17th century. A classic example of a financial bubble driven by speculation over exclusive luxuries. Still less dumb than the artificial scarcity of NFT's because at least you were getting a real thing that took effort to breed and raise in particularly unusual color combinations. The shenanigans that grew up around that are rich ground for an adventure. An eeevil hunchback (nice ablism ya got going there :sighs: ) tries to steal the best tulips from a rival in the hope of winning the hand of a fair maiden. (fat chance even if he gets away with it) Caught in the act by the butler, he unleashes some fire spells to set the place ablaze while he flees. The PC's happen to be in the right place at the right time to see the smoke in the distance, and hopefully investigate & assist in the pursuit. Will you hunt for tracks in the fields and follow them if you roll well enough, will you go to the local village and try a more social detectiving approach, will you use some magic to make the whole process easier? A decently nonlinear little detective story with several sidequests and red herrings put in to keep you busy even if you don't take the correct route at first, this all seems pretty solidly put together, mixing social and combat encounters in a way that makes sense, with particular attention paid to the main antagonist's stats, including versions for people who play corebook only and slightly more interesting variants if you have the splatbooks to support them. Hopefully that'll keep both kinds of DM's satisfied. Despite a few problematic social attitudes it still seems good enough overall to use. [/QUOTE]

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