Wavecrash Maze (LouisJo)
OSRIC for five to seven PCs of levels 4th-6th
I am reviewing these in the order they were submitted. For my review criteria, please check out this post. All reviews will (probably) contain *SPOILERS*; you have been warned! Because these are short (two page) adventures, it is my intention to keep the reviews brief.
I'm not going to lie: this one is a difficult one to parse. I'm guessing English is not the author's first language.
However, it's not just idiosyncratic writing...the layout is a bit confusing.
Let's get down to it: this adventure is like a fever dream...like the designer spent a long weekend playing D&D, then fell asleep, had a crazy dream, woke up, and used it as inspiration for this thing. Except that, rather than actually DRAW a map, he went to mazegenerator.net (literally...he credits this site on his cover page) to randomly create the labyrinth that would fit the idea that came from a dream.
I won't bother to detail the thing. It's weird. It's wild. It was (apparently) play-tested by eight players. Is that two different sessions? Unclear.
The only treasure in this thing is a wand of ice (undigested in the belly of a giant adder), five "altar plaques" worth 300 g.p. each, and a 450# "melted platinum blob" worth 11K. No. This is not The Way.
I know OSRIC is pretty close to AD&D. This is NOT close to AD&D. One (*) star.
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