
“The adventure you see before you was created from the imagination of a 7-year-old Game Master known as the “Inkling.” The Inkling doesn’t need a backstory and doesn’t care what level your characters are. The only thing the Inkling cares about is stocking the dungeon with scary, hard to beat monsters and traps, and rewarding you with more loot than you can carry.”
In
that single paragraph is all anyone needs to know, the adventure is
short (maybe filling a single 2 to 3 hour session) filled with
interesting variations on creatures, a heck of a lot of coppers and
an interesting trap to bugger your players with and create stories
for good times to come.
There
is no story, no adventure hooks and everything as such is left in a
hands of the Game Master to figure out. Each of the area is written
in a simple concise style that gives the GM all the information he or
she needs but leaving enough open to add in original or edited
material (for example when I ran this it took place in a derelict
space transport) and is highly adaptable.
+Frank Turfler's art is, as usual, incredible and the map (the first time
I've seen his cartography) is a small isometric piece that shows
everything needed to the GM. The adventure's presentation and layout
also lend to the age of the author as it is set-up to appear as it
was written on scrap loose-leaf and post-it notes. The random
background scribbles and drawings lend to the overall feel of coming
from a 7-year-old instead of an adult pretending to be a child and
lends to the feelings this style of adventure are supposed to invoke.
While
lack in story, the monsters and traps offered by this adventure show
a massive creative mind that wants to fill everything with new and
interesting material. I honestly CANNOT wait for the next inkling
adventure to see what this Father (artist) & Son (writer) team
can produce next.
Oh
… beware the Vampiric Bugs … or ignore them … they may only
exist in the mind … or maybe not.
Inkling
Adventures – Raiders of the Forgotten Treasure is available at
Gumroad for $2.00 and comes with an adventure,
map, paper minis and a tile set.
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