The Cult of the Aquatic Hunt

Figured it might be easier to break down my in-progress hexcrawl into smaller parts or posts. Plus getting some piecemeal feedback will help me make edits for the larger work.

Originally I was going to paste this post directly into blogger but it was screwing up my formatting.

click here for the cult

D6 ways to kill an ogre

 

D6 ways to kill an ogre

Ogre bandwagon

 

1 . reach your soft hand fully into its physical heart

2 . freeze its head in a solid block of ice

3 . rope 

4 . ask Little David at the Big Horseshoe tavern he knows a thing or two about taking ogres straight into the grave

5 . cigarettes 

6 . gamble over a suitably complex game

Bangshot Manor Reflection

I recently ran my oneshot titled Banghsot Manor. 

It was a modest success. 

Things that went well:
- crab window worked as an effective teaser as intended. Players saw crabs from outside the building, and seemed to regularly expect them
- dungeon felt sufficiently complex and nonlinear
- dungeon elements from different rooms were combined. Players got gasparde a tail from the auto doc, they took the treasure map to the island, and broke ice throughout the dungeon with the ice breaking throne
- the pacing seemed ok, without a lot of slack time
- there was some decent tension with the cephalopod creeping around
- the 10 odd rooms took about three hours of play time, which is about what I was aiming for

Things I might have done differently
- players may have been disappointed Mango wasn't actually there
- the adventure did not seem like it challenged the players much. With little or no dangerous traps, and no static hostile encounters, the players were only really threatened by the random encounter table. I rolled 8 encounter checks and got no hostile encounters, so I fudged an easy encounter
- the cyberpunk theming could have been stronger
- I think the whale skeleton could have been more "interactable" with clearly defined wants