OPD Review 8 - The Last Defense (A Low Level Adventure)

So this 12 area "adventure" is a simple location with a few low level opponents, a couple cool features and a trap that... well, I don't like it. In the grand scheme of things, this could maybe be a mission to "set off the trap" to keep this "fortress" from falling into the wrong hands...

Organization: It's the standard organization again. I can see how this could be useful - I know what to expect and where to find things. Later, when the OPD contest gets more "artistic" entries, this is going to be a less static category...

Clarity: Well, it all (mostly) makes sense. The map is pretty helpful for communicating the features of the dungeon. I'm not exactly sure of what to make of Area 6 - it is such a potentially cool feature - a column of stone surrounded by a waterfall - but that's all there is to it. Nothing to see here. Move along. What is the "lake tower" anyway? Sigh... So much potential...

Usefulness: Well, this is probably just a side-jaunt at best. It's all about exploration, I get that, but reading through this I kind of kept going "so what?" Still, I might drop it into a sandbox or maybe as a side level in a megadungeon. Like I said, I want to like this so I might go to some effort to adapt it...

Subjective: There are ideas here to mine. A couple irritants are the completely inaccessible areas - you KNOW the players are going to focus in on that... Sometimes a sentence about finding bones or 1d4 cp per hour of digging or whatever might not bug me so much (but would probably frustrate someone else to no end!).

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