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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9173448" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001part 2/6Honor and Eta: As soon as Oriental Adventures was published in 1985, they got a flood of articles and adventures for it, enough to publish one most months until we hit the early 90s, when it gradually petered out. It doesn’t look like the zeitgeist is with them this time, as this is the only 3.0 OA adventure we’re getting. We’re off to Rokugan for a :sighs heavily: adventure for 1st level characters that assumes they’re complete n00bs who need walking through the concepts of honor and caste. Surely we’ve consumed enough anime and wuxia in the past decade to skip that this time? Anyway, the untouchables have been losing an unusually high number of people to monster attacks lately, so they’ve gone on strike. Someone had better fix it before the higher castes have to learn how to clean their own toilets and do their own executions. In case you try to fob the job off on someone else, several pages are spent establishing how hidebound the people are around here and the various ways they’ll absolutely refuse to take on another caste’s role for love nor money. Once you do set out from town, it turns out the monster is not very subtle so you don’t need any real detective or tracking skills to follow the trail. Cross a bridge guarded by Tengu. Reach a particularly scenic bit of nature with some hidden treasure that you’ll only know how to find if you talked to the right person in town the right way. Get attacked by a small gang of Bakemono. Finally, you reach the main culprit, a not particularly smart weretiger which is confident in it’s invulnerability to normal weapons. (so you’d better have something that can penetrate that DR despite being 1st level or you have pretty decent odds of a TPK.) So this is a tale of two halves, the first a roleplaying heavy bit designed to play up the most irritating parts of an alien culture and the second a linear sequence of combat encounters that introduces you to common monsters of the area. It’s all very basic and handholdy right up to the abrupt spike in difficulty level at the end. Not impressed by this at all. The kind of thing that only gets published because they really want something to tie into a new release and don’t have many submissions so they can’t be as picky as usual.</blockquote>

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