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zomg like one of the best adventures ever
Nov. 30th, 2011 07:54 pmWhile staving off a bad patch of depression today, I grabbed one of my old Dungeon magazines to read. I have a fairly decent collection of Dungeons, covering first edition through even a few issues of Pathfinder (and let's face it, Pathfinder is Dungeon magazine in spirit if not in name), but issue 148 includes one of the best adventures ever, "In the Shadows of Spinecastle."
"In the Shadows of Spinecastle" takes the PCs, disguised as mercenaries, slave trader or other low-lives, into a monster-occupied city in search of a missing spy, who has in fact been kidnapped by a sinister agent of Hextor - and pursuing that agent takes the PCs far below the city where they take on weird golems made of blood but covered with steel plates, and undead barbarian princes seated on thrones with naked longswords resting on their bony knees. I am seriously, seriously in love with this adventure.
This is how kickass "Shadows of Spinecastle" is. Most of the time when the PCs show up in a tavern, it sounds sorta like this, which is pretty cool.
But when the PCs show up in The Black Gauntlet, a drinking establishment where the orc owner and his troll bouncers keep things peaceful by having bar brawls settled as pit combat (literally; there's a big hole in the floor, and competitors duke it out in what used to be a wine cellar, while above them, goblins, gnolls and drow make bets and throw insults and refuse on the brawlers), it sounds more like this.
"In the Shadows of Spinecastle" takes the PCs, disguised as mercenaries, slave trader or other low-lives, into a monster-occupied city in search of a missing spy, who has in fact been kidnapped by a sinister agent of Hextor - and pursuing that agent takes the PCs far below the city where they take on weird golems made of blood but covered with steel plates, and undead barbarian princes seated on thrones with naked longswords resting on their bony knees. I am seriously, seriously in love with this adventure.
This is how kickass "Shadows of Spinecastle" is. Most of the time when the PCs show up in a tavern, it sounds sorta like this, which is pretty cool.
But when the PCs show up in The Black Gauntlet, a drinking establishment where the orc owner and his troll bouncers keep things peaceful by having bar brawls settled as pit combat (literally; there's a big hole in the floor, and competitors duke it out in what used to be a wine cellar, while above them, goblins, gnolls and drow make bets and throw insults and refuse on the brawlers), it sounds more like this.