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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 8356236" data-attributes="member: 27252">It wasn’t unlamented. I really loved Something Rotten in Kislev - one of the best adventures I’ve ever played in and run.The problem was not that Something Rotten in Kislev wasn’t good, it was that it was incongruous to the rest of the Enemy Within Campaign. The author, Ken Rolston, was best known as a scenario writer and developer for West End Game’s Paranoia, and the feel of SRiK is very much in the same, slightly absurdist, situational comedy tone as that - except in the fantasy genre. It works on its own - and has some brilliant characters in it, including some bizarre minor Chaos Gods - and is hilarious fun. Unfortunately, the rest of the Enemy Within campaign was written by a different set of authors and is much more the tone of a Call of Cthulhu style horror (that also happens to be in the fantasy genre). People found that jarring - it just didn’t fit.In terms of the story, the main objective of the fourth installment of the Enemy Within Campaign is to get the PCs away from the goings on in the rest of the Empire in a side quest. This is a kind of distraction so that, when they come back in the fifth and final episode, they are shocked to find the ‘Empire in Flames/Chaos/Ruins’. The Horned Rat does that job in a way that is better tied in with the rest of the campaign, while its premise was already alluded to as a side campaign in the previous publications of Power Behind the Thrones and the Middenheim City Book.That said, I hope Cubicle 7 can some day republish Something Rotten in Kislev too, as a standalone campaign. It is brilliant!</blockquote>

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