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Challenge of the Frog Idol
In the four months I was gone from the interwebs (falling in love & getting surgery – pretty much in that order), hopefully you all finally downloaded and used / adapted / mangled The Challenge of the Frog Idol.
But I know you slackers are probably as lousy at following through on the awesome as I am, so I’m here to remind you of this adventure I wrote for JB’s Fat Frog Challenge. (It can’t all be bad, after all it won the challenge).
But not only JB and I think it is made of awesome. Check out this review I just spotted over on RPGGeek – it is epic and awesome and really highlights what I was going for when writing this thing out.
Oh, and the flavour text of the review is epic.
Black Leaf knew that something was terribly wrong the moment she set foot on the island. The muddy swamp soil that clung to her boots was the colour of greasy half-cooked sausage; the humid air was suddenly thick with the cloying odour of the charnel house; and most ominously of all, no birds were to be heard where only moments before the swamp had echoed with eerie birdsong.
It was only when the ground moved that Black Leaf realised that she wasn’t standing on an island of solid rock, but rather… a floating barge of impossible size where the dead were lashed to the dead with wicker and mud, a hellish vessel gravid with undead crocodiles who even now slithered forth from the foetid hold to drag the thief down, down, down…
Great to see you back, Dyson!
Glad to see your material get some reviews from the folks on RPGG. I think a few of your things have been catalogued in their database.
I hope the surgery didn’t follow on from falling in love
I downloaded your rather excellent adventure when it came out. And I might actually have a need for it now, as my group is roaming freely in the wilds now, looking for adventure (while avoiding copious amounts of undead).
I’m swapping the dwarf fortress out for a back door to an elven forge taken over by a dragon, for my Old School Hack dragon-hunting game. (For some reason, it’s a bad idea to sail your ship up to a coast that is a dragon lair.)
We’ll start Friday, I’ll be sure and post updates.
Thanks for sharing this charming bit of adventure.
You blogging again makes me happier, welcome back!
Seriously, dude, congrats on the whole falling in love thing. It’s a real whirlwind, isn’t it? Hope the surgery went well, too.
Hey Dyson, welcome back! Great to see you blogging again, and sorry to hear about having to have surgery. (I’ve had one too! Wonder if it was the same kind?)
Thought you were dead old chap. So glad you’re still with us. The internet is a more interesting place again.
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As I said, I’m inserting this into my dragon hunt. Here is the first session in the Black Mire. I was especially pleased with how the Alabaster Oracle worked, the meeting with the Frog God, an alternate explanation for the walkways, and one of the hybrid trog/human women living in secret in Courvon. I hope you enjoy the adventure write-up.
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/old-school-hack-the-fictive-way/adventure-log/search-for-the-mountain-door
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