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FoE
2009-09-11, 02:46 AM
I was looking through some adventures in Dungeon (I like skimming for ideas, even if I'll never play those adventures). I happened upon this one adventure called "Worse than Death" which I'd never seen, so I downloaded it.

The name of the adventure must refer to the experience of actually playing through it.

This thing is insane. It's like a bad acid trip. The whole thing hinges on this bizarre scheme by this succubus posing as a human to root out his enemies. So there's a fake kidnapping, followed by several detailed descriptions of the apparent conspirators, including this crazy fat guy named Tum-Tum (Tum-Tum? WTF?) who will try to bite you if you fail a skill challenge while interrogating him.

Anyways, the whole thing comes together in this insane eladrin's tower, filled with these hodgepodge of random monsters with encounter levels that are ALL OVER THE GODDAMN MAP. This is a 12th level fight, mind you, and one room has you encountering an 18th level death hag, a Level 10 gibbering mouther and some level 13 minion ghouls. And there's this weird spider-thing called the "Grim Tailor," backed up by some strange minion types called "Slipperies". Again, WTF?

Also, I could not find a single trap anywhere. Granted, I kept having shooting pains in my head every few paragraphs while reading this trash, so if one of you brave souls reads this thing and finds a trap, let me know.

The whole thing caps off with a battle against the eladrin and this weird mass of flesh covered in pus-sucking spiders that I assume walked straight out of the author's worst sexual nightmares.

But the real kicker is the fight illustrated on the cover, which features a couple of maggot constructs (men made of maggots called ... get this ... "crusties") that throw barrels of cockroaches at the players, along with this hulking brute with a pig's head and pus pouring out of his eyes. The name of this beast? HAM.

You know, I saw the movie "Motel Hell" too, but I didn't think it would make the basis of a good adventure. (For those who have never seen said film, Motel Hell ends with a chainsaw fight between a small-town sheriff and a crazed hotel-owner wearing a pig's head. I can only assume that was the inspiration for this dreck.)

And in the end, all you've done is rescue one really bad villain from another really bad villain. What an accomplishment.

Honestly, if William S. Burroughs liked 4E, he might craft an adventure like this. No, it'd probably be a lot weirder. But this is still pretty bizarre.

kpenguin
2009-09-11, 03:19 AM
That sounds... terrible.

Zombimode
2009-09-11, 03:57 AM
Actually I fail to see whats so bad about it. I dont know the adventure so all I know is from your posting.
What I read is:

Its an adventure featuring a succubus that is not family friendly. Well, FINALY. About time.

Its an adventure set in the horror/splatter genre, involving demons for ingame explanation. Seeing that you are disgusted, it seems it does its job pretty well. It would be bad if it tried but FAILED to be horrific and disgusting.

You mention the lack of traps. Your point? Sometimes traps are not appropriate, or would distract from the mood/style of the adventure.
In the same vain you could complain about the lack of pirates or ninjas...

Only the encounter you mentioned sounds iffy. But what EL is this? Its a 12th level adventure, so a 17th level encounter is within the range. Plus, are you sure your supposed to fight it in a conventional way?

Please, enlight me what makes this adventure so bad.

Swordguy
2009-09-11, 04:01 AM
Its an adventure featuring a succubus that is not family friendly. Well, FINALY. About time.


While there is that as a bonus (and about time as well), I'm thinking this is actually one of those adventures that's really being published for the 21-and-over "Drinking & Dragons" crowd. I have a feeling it would make a lot more sense with a fifth of vodka in me.

Kurald Galain
2009-09-11, 04:30 AM
This sounds like the April Fools issue (which brought us the Stale Trail Flail Snail) except less funny.

Yora
2009-09-11, 06:09 AM
It doesn't sound any dumber than "famous" 1st edition adventures.

Zeta Kai
2009-09-11, 08:11 AM
It doesn't sound any dumber than "famous" 1st edition adventures.

Yes, but 30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry should have produced better results than this. I've read of much better adventures in freebie homebrew projects. Hell, I've seen better plots in pornography. And if you don't understand how lame & amateurish those names are, then I can't explain it to you.

Morty
2009-09-11, 08:28 AM
Sounds like a perfect match for my gaming group.

Tiki Snakes
2009-09-11, 08:44 AM
Sounds like a bit of fun, I'd say. There is room in the genre for mildly tongue-in-cheek, I think. :)

Burley
2009-09-11, 09:11 AM
Wow... Yeah. That's pretty lame.
Moreover, I've not really been pleased with the Dungeon magazine side of my DDI subscription. Lovin' Dragon, not loving Dungeon.
I almost want to say: "No, I don't read Dungeon magazine, I only look at it for the pictures."

Zombimode
2009-09-11, 09:36 AM
Yes, but 30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry should have produced better results than this. I've read of much better adventures in freebie homebrew projects. Hell, I've seen better plots in pornography. And if you don't understand how lame & amateurish those names are, then I can't explain it to you.

Dunno, but I think alibi-plots and dungeons full of disconected encounters (yes, Rescue at Rivenroar, Im looking at you) are far worse then this.

Like Swordguy mentioned, it seems like a perfect fit for a Drinkin & Dragons evening.

FoE
2009-09-11, 10:34 AM
Its an adventure set in the horror/splatter genre, involving demons for ingame explanation. Seeing that you are disgusted, it seems it does its job pretty well. It would be bad if it tried but FAILED to be horrific and disgusting.

Oh, I like the horror genre. I've even considered writing an essay on horror gaming. But this is just ... crap.


Wow... Yeah. That's pretty lame.
Moreover, I've not really been pleased with the Dungeon magazine side of my DDI subscription. Lovin' Dragon, not loving Dungeon.
I almost want to say: "No, I don't read Dungeon magazine, I only look at it for the pictures."

I think Wizards realized that Dungeon was going generally unread a little while ago, so now they're going to try to carry the DM-friendly articles that used to run in Dragon there.

Kulture
2009-09-11, 10:41 AM
The idea of a pig headed hulk named Ham isn't too bad,
Same vein as Piggsy from manhunt and to an extent Machine from 8mm in that it's a simple name for a character that's meant to throw you off ballance.
This is similiar to manhunt or condemned in storyline, no doubt.

The spider thing called Grim Tailor is actually quite awesome sounding to be honest.

Zombimode
2009-09-11, 11:00 AM
Oh, I like the horror genre. I've even considered writing an essay on horror gaming. But this is just ... crap.

You still havent provided any reasons as for why you think its crap.

Yora
2009-09-11, 11:16 AM
Yes, but 30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry should have produced better results than this.
This wasn't meant to defend anything here.

More like rediculing both. :smallbiggrin:

Darrin
2009-09-11, 11:25 AM
Sounds like one of the worst D&D scenarios ever... or one of the BEST Unknown Armies scenarios ever.

If my group ever upgrades to 4E, I'm totally going to run this on Halloween night as a WTF one-shot.

Starbuck_II
2009-09-11, 11:26 AM
I have to say: crap is apparently not crap. I think the OP went into it with wrong frame of mind.
He was expecting classic stuff not horror.

Matthew
2009-09-11, 11:43 AM
It doesn't sound any dumber than "famous" 1st edition adventures.

Sounds pretty radically different to me.



Yes, but 30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry should have produced better results than this. I've read of much better adventures in freebie homebrew projects. Hell, I've seen better plots in pornography. And if you don't understand how lame & amateurish those names are, then I can't explain it to you.

The technology gets better, the writing pretty much stays the same; sometimes really good, often really bad.



This wasn't meant to defend anything here.

More like rediculing both. :smallbiggrin:

:smalltongue:

FoE
2009-09-11, 11:46 AM
You still havent provided any reasons as for why you think its crap.

1) The plot is terrible. The adventure starts off with a rather shoddy investigation scenario and never builds to a confrontation with the kidnappers or the succubus who arranged it. Instead, they just run into some random monsters in some ruins, including this loony eladrin that the succubus once drove insane. (Which is something the adventurers apparently never discover.)

The succubus' entire plan revolved around getting fake kidnapped and then having her (his?) kidnappers murdered by the crazy eladrin in the ruins. Her (his?) plan then hinges on sweet-talking the eladrin she (he?) drove crazy. THIS IS IN SPITE OF THE FACT THE SUCCUBUS COULD OVERCOME ALL OF THE KIDNAPPERS ON ITS OWN. The opening notes even admit that the succubus' plan is over-complicated and convoluted, but attempt to justify it by saying that the plan "suits her."

2) The gore and queasy sexual images are way over-the-top. It wouldn't be bad if this was a horror comedy, but I don't really get that vibe from this adventure. The whole thing screams "I HAVE ISSUES!"

Horror requires a fine touch, you know? You can overdo it. "Oh no, a monster wearing human entrails for a coat! Like the last dozen or so beasts we've faced. Yawn."

3) The adventure ends in a dungeon crawl, and the ruins are pathetic by those standards. No interesting terrain, no interesting traps, just a lot of slime pits and wrecked graves.

4) None of the monsters fit here. As I noted, the encounter levels are all over the map. But there's no consistency in the design of the encounter. The PCs chase the kidnappers through a forest to a tower from the Feywild that was trapped in the mortal realm by the Big Bad Succubus. There are only a couple of fey creatures here: the night hag (with a burning candle on its head) and a lamia. In spite of the fact those creatures would be more suited to being the boss. How does the pig monster fit? How does the "Crusties" — constructs made of maggots tossing barrels full of cockroaches — fit? How does the "forester's ghost" or the hulking ogre in one of the earliest encounters fit?

I like building dungeons with some consistent themes. If the adventurers are in a mad wizard's laboratory that's included nothing but constructs to this point, I don't start throwing giant ants at them. If they're in a graveyard filled with undead, they don't start running into unicorns. If they're in Hell, I don't pit them against homebrewed versions of Care Bears!

Yora
2009-09-11, 11:54 AM
The technology gets better, the writing pretty much stays the same; sometimes really good, often really bad.
There's a law postulated by some guy:

95% of everything is crap. ^^

Nerd-o-rama
2009-09-11, 12:01 PM
There's a law postulated by some guy:

95% of everything is crap. ^^Sturgeon.

Also, this isn't horror. This is what passes for "horror" in modern Hollywood films, but the appropriate genre classification would be "splatter", since horror implies that it's actually scary.

FoE
2009-09-11, 12:46 PM
Oh wait: there is one trap. An alarm.

And one sprung trap that consists of ... an adamantitine wire stretched between two trees. The PCs find a corpse beside it. A headless corpse. Apparently (and I s**t you not), the victim was running so hard that when she ran into the thread, it took her head clean off!

Was she made of plasticine? HA HA HA HA HA! :smallbiggrin:

Myrmex
2009-09-11, 12:55 PM
That actually sounds like a really cool adventure.

shadzar
2009-09-11, 12:56 PM
Who wrote this adventure in Dungeon?

FoE
2009-09-11, 01:05 PM
Who wrote this adventure in Dungeon?

Robert J. Schwalb. He also penned the "Madness" trilogy of adventures that ran in Dungeon, which had some pretty similar themes (an emphasis on magically-induced insanity, people turning into murderous tentacle monsters and some weird sexual overones typically involving the tentacle monsters).

In fact, ALL his articles involve the same damn thing! :smallmad:

The Glyphstone
2009-09-11, 01:10 PM
If they're in Hell, I don't pit them against homebrewed versions of Care Bears!

In what sort of bizzare mirror universe do the Care Bears not exist as hellspawned fiends of evil?:smallconfused:

valadil
2009-09-11, 01:13 PM
Sometimes it's nice to be reminded why most of society frowns on my beloved hobby. If people are getting an impression of D&D from games like this one, I can see why they don't approve.

shadzar
2009-09-11, 01:20 PM
Robert J. Schwalb. He also penned the "Madness" trilogy of adventures that ran in Dungeon, which had some pretty similar themes (an emphasis on magically-induced insanity, people turning into murderous tentacle monsters and some weird sexual overtones typically involving the tentacle monsters).

So he turned niche cult anime concepts into a D&D adventure? :smallconfused:

Sex is the only reason tentacle monsters exist, to rape the magical girls that defend the world.

I guess it told you to play all female characters, if not...then is a sick mind! :yuk:

Yes, he does have a sick mind you can tell by the other people he worked with on some things like....


Tome of Magic (2006, with Matthew Sernett, Dave Noonan, and Ari Marmell)

I think all of them play as if Dungeonland, and the other joke adventure based on Alice stories by Charles Dodgson, is how D&D was meant to be played. :smallscared:

Jerthanis
2009-09-11, 01:48 PM
Haha, sounds awesome. I'd play it. I have one DM who would make it work.

Towards the end of the first campaign I played with him, I had to swim through liquid flesh to get to a different level of a living tower of apocalyptic madness called "The Grendel", and had to make a saving throw versus nausea at the flesh swimming up into my character's mouth and nostrils.

Making the save, my character nonchalantly spit out the flesh, blew his nose and said, "You know guys, a month ago this kind of thing would have phased me, after spending time with you guys, this is nothing."

One of the characters in that game was host to a... something... that was giving him tentacles and mouths in places that didn't normally have tentacles or mouths.

It's really a matter of whether you like Cronenburg movies or not.

TheThan
2009-09-11, 02:04 PM
This rather horrible attempt at horror could very easily be salvaged, naturally you need to erase about 99% of it.

The basic idea is ok.
A succubus is trying to get rid of her competition. So the pcs investigate the murder of said competition. The rest of it sounds like junk to me, but still the basic idea is fine.

magellan
2009-09-11, 02:20 PM
Sturgeon.

Also, this isn't horror. This is what passes for "horror" in modern Hollywood films, but the appropriate genre classification would be "splatter", since horror implies that it's actually scary.

And splatter devolved into torture porn. Sounds true to genre from that perspective (also: the eye and hand golems of vecna)

FoE
2009-09-11, 02:26 PM
The basic idea is ok.
A succubus is trying to get rid of her competition. So the pcs investigate the murder of said competition. The rest of it sounds like junk to me, but still the basic idea is fine.

Oh no. No, no, no.

The PCs investigate the kidnapping of a wealthy noble. But the noble is a succubus that instigated the kidnapping to eliminate its enemies and was never in danger. And then the kidnappers get killed by other kidnappers. So all the PCs do is rescue a victim from a situation she was never really in danger from because she secretly planned the whole thing.

Demonix
2009-09-11, 02:30 PM
You know, back in the 1st and 2nd ed days, you could find adventures all over the place; I had (and still have) a worthy collection of modules and dungeon magazines that led my players on many a crazy and unexpected adventure.

With the advent of 3rd, I could no longer find these adventures, and I found the CR system so broken that I couldn't make my own.

With 4th, it seems that more adventures are getting published, but the encounter construction rules have once again become reasonable so that I can make my own scenarios.

After reading about this particular gem, I think I will continue to spend my time and effort making my own damn adventures, thank you very much.

-sighs- something about 2nd edition being EASIER? What is this world coming to?

Starbuck_II
2009-09-11, 02:32 PM
Oh no. No, no, no.

The PCs investigate the kidnapping of a wealthy noble. But the noble is a succubus that instigated the kidnapping to eliminate its enemies and was never in danger. And then the kidnappers get killed by other kidnappers. So all the PCs do is rescue a victim from a situation she was never really in danger from because she secretly planned the whole thing.

What a Twist?!

FoE
2009-09-11, 02:36 PM
What a Twist?!

Your treasure might as well consist of clothing that says "I Was Violated By Pig Monsters and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt."

Sipex
2009-09-11, 02:38 PM
Maybe this adventure was created to clear out your D&D group if you have trouble telling them to leave?

Myou
2009-09-11, 02:41 PM
Your treasure might as well consist of clothing that says "I Was Violated By Pig Monsters and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt."

What about the fat guy though?! An obese guy called Tum-Tum who bites you if you faill a skill challenge?! That's just awesome!

TheThan
2009-09-11, 02:46 PM
Oh no. No, no, no.

The PCs investigate the kidnapping of a wealthy noble. But the noble is a succubus that instigated the kidnapping to eliminate its enemies and was never in danger. And then the kidnappers get killed by other kidnappers. So all the PCs do is rescue a victim from a situation she was never really in danger from because she secretly planned the whole thing.

ahh I misunderstood the situation surrounding the succubus. Sounds like she's not even a necessary component of the adventure.

chiasaur11
2009-09-11, 02:48 PM
What about the fat guy though?! An obese guy called Tum-Tum who bites you if you faill a skill challenge?! That's just awesome!

Last night, I saw an episode of The Wild Wild West with the worst criminal gang ever.

We're talking losers among losers. Guys who try to use Tarantulas as murder weapons.

And they still would have laughed that guy out of the building.

FoE
2009-09-11, 02:49 PM
What about the fat guy though?! An obese guy called Tum-Tum who bites you if you fail a skill challenge?! That's just awesome!

And gives you cackling fever. OK, that might be a little cool, if really frelling strange.

I just want to emphasize again the poorly-designed encounters, bad dungeon design and bad plot. As well, the really bizarre trend of having all the powerful monsters either be female or insane males driven to evil by females.

1) The kidnappers are all driven to jealousy by the evil succubus.
2) A forrester's ghost driven to suicide and then murder by the evil lamia attacks the heroes.
3) The evil eladrin was driven insane by the evil succubus.
4) The evil night hag stirring a big soup "bowl" of liquefied flesh, which is singlehandedly the strongest creature in the entire adventure. Also, she has a candle on her head and is inexplicably described on first reference as a man.
5) The Amalgamation, a female "queen" of slithering flesh covered in pus that ignores the evil eladrin's loving attentions. She's also enveloped in pus-sucking spiders and the text describes the spiders going to protect their "father" in battle.

SEXUAL INSECURITIES HO!

Tengu_temp
2009-09-11, 02:56 PM
One of the characters in that game was host to a... something... that was giving him tentacles and mouths in places that didn't normally have tentacles or mouths.


Where exactly a human normally has tentacles?

Starbuck_II
2009-09-11, 03:42 PM
Where exactly a human normally has tentacles?

Inside.

No really, cillia, flagella, etc are similar to tentacles. Both can be used for locomotion (octopusi at least do).

Ripped Shirt Kirk
2009-09-11, 03:56 PM
Oh wait: there is one trap. An alarm.

And one sprung trap that consists of ... an adamantitine wire stretched between two trees. The PCs find a corpse beside it. A headless corpse. Apparently (and I s**t you not), the victim was running so hard that when she ran into the thread, it took her head clean off!

Was she made of plasticine? HA HA HA HA HA! :smallbiggrin:

Actually, in WW II, the Nazis would put up barbed wire in the streets of towns, just high enough to hit the neck and severe it. It actually worked. (I think, but this might be some other war, because I remember hearing something about improv barbed wire using piano strings)

FoE
2009-09-11, 04:07 PM
Actually, in WW II, the Nazis would put up barbed wire in the streets of towns, just high enough to hit the neck and severe it. It actually worked. (I think, but this might be some other war, because I remember hearing something about improv barbed wire using piano strings)

Oh, sure. The old "wire across a road" could be very dangerous ... for anyone driving in a vehicle, like a motorcycle.

I doubt someone running into a tightly-stretched wire could be decapitated no matter what the strength of the wire was, unless they were moving at super-speed. I might slash open my throat if it's sharp enough, but taking off my head? Bullcrap.

Shademan
2009-09-11, 04:08 PM
Inside.

No really, cillia, flagella, etc are similar to tentacles. Both can be used for locomotion (octopusi at least do).


http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/134/b/7/TENTACLE_TIEM_by_dragonsdale.jpg

NorseItalian
2009-09-11, 04:12 PM
I think you're confusing "crap" with "bizarre." This may be extremely weird, and terrible for a high fantasy campaign, bu that doesn't make it bad.

Grumman
2009-09-11, 04:14 PM
And one sprung trap that consists of ... an adamantitine wire stretched between two trees. The PCs find a corpse beside it. A headless corpse. Apparently (and I s**t you not), the victim was running so hard that when she ran into the thread, it took her head clean off!

Was she made of plasticine? HA HA HA HA HA! :smallbiggrin:
Maybe it was Vorpal piano wire?

Note to self: create Drunken Master / Bloodstorm Blade with Vorpal throwing pianos.

Mando Knight
2009-09-11, 04:14 PM
(octopusi at least do).

Octopi. Octopusi is a bad double entendre.

FoE
2009-09-11, 04:21 PM
I think you're confusing "crap" with "bizarre." This may be extremely weird, and terrible for a high fantasy campaign, bu that doesn't make it bad.

Also being badly designed (poorly made encounters, total lack of traps, bad plot) in addition to being bizarre makes it crap.


Octopi. Octopusi is a bad double entendre.

Which makes it the perfect name for a James Bond film! :smallbiggrin:

Thane of Fife
2009-09-11, 04:24 PM
Octopi. Octopusi is a bad double entendre.

Technically, octopodes (http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/plural-octopus.html). Or octopuses if you want to be boring.

Oslecamo
2009-09-11, 04:44 PM
Where exactly a human normally has tentacles?

Both the tongue and fingers are somewhat short tentacles.

Myou
2009-09-11, 04:45 PM
Last night, I saw an episode of The Wild Wild West with the worst criminal gang ever.

We're talking losers among losers. Guys who try to use Tarantulas as murder weapons.

And they still would have laughed that guy out of the building.

They're just jealous! :smallcool:


And gives you cackling fever. OK, that might be a little cool, if really frelling strange.

I just want to emphasize again the poorly-designed encounters, bad dungeon design and bad plot. As well, the really bizarre trend of having all the powerful monsters either be female or insane males driven to evil by females.

1) The kidnappers are all driven to jealousy by the evil succubus.
2) A forrester's ghost driven to suicide and then murder by the evil lamia attacks the heroes.
3) The evil eladrin was driven insane by the evil succubus.
4) The evil night hag stirring a big soup "bowl" of liquefied flesh, which is singlehandedly the strongest creature in the entire adventure. Also, she has a candle on her head and is inexplicably described on first reference as a man.
5) The Amalgamation, a female "queen" of slithering flesh covered in pus that ignores the evil eladrin's loving attentions. She's also enveloped in pus-sucking spiders and the text describes the spiders going to protect their "father" in battle.

SEXUAL INSECURITIES HO!

Daaaamn, that guy rocks, and yet he really is just the tip of the iceberg! This almost makes me want to play 4e! :smallbiggrin:




I think you're confusing "crap" with "bizarre." This may be extremely weird, and terrible for a high fantasy campaign, bu that doesn't make it bad.

No no, this is clearly very very bad.

bosssmiley
2009-09-11, 04:51 PM
Honestly, if William S. Burroughs liked 4E, he might craft an adventure like this. No, it'd probably be a lot weirder. But this is still pretty bizarre.

How is this not awesome? :smallconfused:

Seriously, if you can't cope with the idea of non-level appropriate threats in a horror scenario, or with the idea of gonzo in D&D, then the problem probably doesn't lie with the module.

A decent DM could probably give his players a lot of fun with the schlocky gornfest you've just described. :smallamused:


Yes, but 30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry should have produced better results than this. I've read of much better adventures in freebie homebrew projects. Hell, I've seen better plots in pornography. And if you don't understand how lame & amateurish those names are, then I can't explain it to you.

30 years of refinements of the genre & the industry gave us Bear Lore (http://1d4chan.org/images/7/7d/Bear_lore.png). :smallwink:

Tiki Snakes
2009-09-11, 07:39 PM
Just a point;

Lack of Traps is does not make a module good or bad. It's just a thing. Not every module needs traps, mmkay?

FoE
2009-09-11, 08:01 PM
Seriously, if you can't cope with the idea of non-level appropriate threats in a horror scenario, or with the idea of gonzo in D&D, then the problem probably doesn't lie with the module.

I said William S. Burroughs, not Hunter S. Thompson. I imagine the latter's idea of a module would involve a lot of goddamn bats. :smalltongue:

Honestly, I don't know what the hell you're talking about when you throw out the term "gonzo", unless you believe that every horror module should involve a popular Muppet character with an affinity for chickens.

But I don't have an issue with powerful encounters in horror campaigns; I have an issue with poorly-designed encounters in puerile and decidedly unfrightening D&D modules. The only thing scary about "Worse than Death" is how bad it is.

Zeta Kai
2009-09-11, 08:07 PM
Robert J. Schwalb. He also penned the "Madness" trilogy of adventures that ran in Dungeon, which had some pretty similar themes (an emphasis on magically-induced insanity, people turning into murderous tentacle monsters and some weird sexual overones typically involving the tentacle monsters).

In fact, ALL his articles involve the same damn thing! :smallmad:

Reading this, I ran to my Dungeon magazines (okay, I actually walked) to see if he wrote my favorite published adventure (And Madness Followed, from Dungeon #134). Thankfully, he did not.


Sex is the only reason tentacle monsters exist, to rape the magical girls that defend the world.

A certain Mr. Lovecraft would like a word with you. So would 75 years worth of Lovecraft fans.

FoE
2009-09-11, 08:11 PM
Reading this, I ran to my Dungeon magazines (okay, I actually walked) to see if he wrote my favorite published adventure (And Madness Followed, from Dungeon #134). Thankfully, he did not.

Oh, sorry. I'm referring to Touch of Madness, Depths of Madness and Brink of Madness. (Which actually weren't too shabby, so perhaps he'd gotten a stern talking to by upper management over "Worse than Death.")

Actually, I am mistaken. His "Demonomicon of Iggwilv" article on Yeenoghu, which I enjoyed, was tentacle monster-free. (Not so much the "Demonomicon of Iggwilv" article on Baphomet, however.)

Kulture
2009-09-12, 01:47 PM
This thread has inspired me to write up silent hill 2's entire plot as an adventure.

Okay, now to make a Fiendish goliath warblade with EWP: Fullblade, a modified helm of dread and plenty of ranks in intimidate.
We'll have this guy scraping his way down hallways in no time...

Thunk thunk, smash, scrape, Pyramid head is here to...how does the rest of this go again?

FoE
2009-09-12, 01:48 PM
Thunk thunk, smash, scrape, Pyramid head is here to...how does the rest of this go again?

I think he hands out flowers. :smalltongue:

Yukitsu
2009-09-12, 02:00 PM
This thread has inspired me to write up silent hill 2's entire plot as an adventure.

Okay, now to make a Fiendish goliath warblade with EWP: Fullblade, a modified helm of dread and plenty of ranks in intimidate.
We'll have this guy scraping his way down hallways in no time...

Thunk thunk, smash, scrape, Pyramid head is here to...how does the rest of this go again?

You'd have to have an err... odd group if they have the emotional problems needed to make silent hill 2 a decent delving into the depravity of a twisted, frustrated mind. Otherwise it's just fanservice.