The most entertaining DnD adventure I've ever read
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
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Love the return to reviews. Seems like it has been a while.
Gotta have been like a hundred years
I love the ape monster with the daily schedule. More adventures should do that!
JASON-SHOLTIS-IS-A-GENIOUS, and that's all.
So happy to see this being reviewed. I had no idea what to expect from this book when I bought it, but I was intrigued by the idea of "gonzo" gameplay and I heard good things about the writer. I was absolutely blown away by how inspiring this adventure was - from the opening "hook", to the many interesting and hilarious elements of the adventure. I became an immediate fan and was quite shocked the book hadn't gotten more attention. I hope this gives it the boost it needs so more people can discover how great this adventure is (and hopefully Sholtis will continue to expand the setting). If you want the TLDR version, this adventure feels like Flash Gordon meets Journey to the Center of the Earth.
This book is the ultimate distillation of unadulterated Sholtis-Gonzo. Great review!
Sounds like a good read even if it doesn't see a table. Added it to my DTRPG wish list.
Great review, Great book, Great host. I appreciate all the work you do for the TTRPG community.
Take a close look at the map at 9:30 of this video. One of my biggest issues is that much of the map is corridors, these corridors lead off the map, rather quickly. That means there is a lot of work for the GM to invent new areas not covered by this adventure text. The main passages are only about 2000’ across. The party hits one of these passages immediately, in the lower left, if they turn left they are about 500’ from the edge of the map and wander into uncharted territory. Note the lower right. There is an underground city here but it trails off the map leaving this for the GM to invent. I’m not against leaving some things up the GM but, I found there was too much of that in this adventure.
I would probably seal off many of the corridors leading off the page if I didn't want to expand things.
@@QuestingBeast don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of great ideas and art in this but, at the table running this offers a few problems. My players ran off the map three times. For example the dwarf fortress spanning the chasm in the upper right, it looks really interesting, you have finagle your way inside to pass through, and… there’s nothing on the far side, unless you want to invent something yourself. You can’t dangle that kind of bait in front of players and not have something to back it up!
So glad youve got this, I got the DCC product recently. Feels perfect for the system!
Great review Ben! Such a great work. All GMs should read this.
The art in this book is incredible!
I think this would be a perfect fit with the Black Hack.
That cover looks absolutely stunning
This would be perfect for my GOZR campaign!
GOZR??
@@delmonte4426 yeah! We use GOZR as our main ruleset and I borrow stuff from all over the place to give it a little more depth.
Questing beast has a video on GOZR-check it out if you haven’t seen it!
@delmonte4426 GOZR is a rules-lite science-fantasy game created by J.V. West. It's meant to play like the stories in Heavy Metal (the magazine and movie). You play as weird mutants in a vaguely apocalyptic wasteland. It's good, deadly fun.
This is THE most gonzo adventure I've ever seen. Goodman Games, give this man a job!
I don't know if it's just me, but I like how that first time we see that one eyes, long tailed, long necked, lizard creature on two legs standing before a cave it could double as a big smiling face with one eye.
awesome, these are my fav types of modules, who cares if it makes sense as long as its fun :)
Friendly Malicious, that’s my character’s alignment 😆
The references to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and various other Americana) is fantastic!
Sounds wonderfully gonza. I love it.
an amazing amount of work and love in that book, great review
Love the reviews - have actually played a few of the ones I have seen on here as part of my larger campaign.
This looks really fantastic. I feel like i could use a lot of this piecemeal. Thanks for doing this review.
This looks amazing
Great review; I've gone and bought this!
i kind of love this. Like, a lot!
I've been waiting for this! Have the two separate books, but now all in one! YES! BOUGHT IT!
I am going to be getting both this and The Dungeon Dozen soon. But I wish someone would make Sholtis re-release the Dimension Z comics he and some other folks were doing back in the late nineties. They were a lot of fun but I wasn't able to get all of them... They operated at the intersection of the Marvel Universe and Saturday afternoon monster movies. I made my music buddy read them when they were coming out and he still makes references to the Mighty Gurnalon and the Flying Atomic Skull. (Note to self: Flamin' Atomic Skull, for Pete's sake.)
This is the type of adventure I would like to run... unfortunately not the type of adventure I can ever get a group to play.
I really enjoyed this review. Very in depth compared to past ones that I felt were far too short and barely covered what was in the book. More like this please.
Welp, I'm sold.
Odious Uplands looks very cool!
Operation Unfathomable has an interesting starting plot but I think I'll put the Nul Rod in the sandbox if I ever get to run it
Glad to see you're back as well!
Looks neat
Damn making me broke
This sounds like it expands on the DCC version that was published earlier.
Woooo new video
I appreciate the like my first comment got. To be honest I was afraid someone might tell me I got a detail wrong about the picture in the book I was originally referring to. I thought someone might say go back and look again it didn't have a long neck or it wasn't a lizard creature. Sometimes I hastily submit a comment on a video, then too late I question if that's how I really remembered what I watched. Hopefully everything's cool now. Thanks for reading my ramblings.
Instant buy ❤
This looks super cool but sadly cuz I have dyslexia that big block of text stuff you mentioned at 10:15 def has me a bit put off
Hey, if we're considering running this with Knave 2e, is the DCC version or Swords and Widardry version more suited? I'm not that familiar with the rule set for either.
These swords and wizardry version would be closer. Knave should be pretty compatible with very little changes
@QuestingBeast could you tell me why the S&W version has a lower page count than the DCC version? Is it just due to the DCC conversions?
I haven't seen the DCC version, but I'm betting that it's longer stat blocks
Reminds me of Oglaf. 😄
Can someone explain how the layout style is better now? I know Ben mentioned it before but I can't remember what it was.
Modern layout uses bullet points, hierarchies, bolding, and so forth to divide up information. That way you can quickly scan a room description and know what's obvious, what's secret, what's loot, etc.
@@QuestingBeast Thanks!
I love this! How close is Swords & Wizardry to OSE?
S&W is like Original D&D with all the supplements (I think they leave out psionics though). It's almost like playing with AD&D classes and monsters but with B/X combat. It should be seamlessly compatible, especially if using the OSE Advanced material.
@@aaronsomerville2124 Awesome - thanks for the response, much appreciated. :)
Roll a save or buy this product 😅❤
Yeah failed that immediately
Rolled a 1. Oh DARN! 😂
I've really been into the idea of running Black Sword Hack. Do you think this would port in well into this system, and if so which version would work best?
Which version do you think would be easiest to run with Shadowdark?
Wish it wasn’t DnD!
Steal the concepts and use your own stats
Probably a coincidence, but the publisher's website for this book is down. Anyone know if a hardcopy of the game can be purchased through the punlisher, or is it only a print on demand from drivethrurpg?
I'm pretty sure that it's only print on demand