D&D - Lords of Darkness "Zombies" - RPG Review
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- I couldn't resist. I needed to tell everyone about the TERRIBLE D&D Lords of Darkness "Zombies" adventure. Written in 1988, the adventure supplement features several scenarios that feature various undead. While many of them are undercooked, "Zombies" wins the award for the weirdest and most imbalanced one of them all!
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This cropped up randomly in my feed. Very solid review, excellent points well made. Subscribed.
So three wildly out of balance fights that lead to TPKs, no narrative focus and a plot with more holes than swiss cheese. It makes me curious how rushed they where. I would guess they had less than a week to write this whole book if this is the quality they went with. You have a bunch of one shot adventures what would your "Lords of Darkness" collection look like?
I would love to get the inside scoop on this one’s production actually. I wonder if some of them were Dungeon magazine material that got passed over. If I redid the book I would keep the theme intact - one adventure per undead monster - but maybe loosely tie them together so that the PCs needed to hunt each of them down to stop a greater evil. Kind of a fantasy X-Files, where there is a metaplot they uncover along the way. But that idea is just with about two minutes of thought…
It's entertaining how the modern gaming community often assumes that every encounter in classic editions were intended to be fought toe-to-toe by the player characters (and won!).
Oh I am a huge fan of unbalanced OSR encounters. You deserve what you get when you stand up against a stronger foe. In fact, I really don't like adventures where every encounter is exactly balanced. But this adventure contains exactly zero enemies that can be believably fought by level 1 characters, and worse, requires them to fight to proceed!
Gotta love disjoined adventures seemly written by a A.I.
Part of this sounded familiar... I may have been subjected to to read this thing long ago.
Just cross out AD&D and write "Call of Cthulhu". Problem solved.
Too cruel and callous even for CoC players!