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Pit of the Imp Queen (Starter Adventure) $0.74
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Pit of the Imp Queen (Starter Adventure)
Publisher: Micro RPG
by Gene H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/15/2020 18:16:49

The Good I like the story and theme. The different versions of imps is cool. The lava themed rooms is thematic. I also really like the idea the player rolls for the size of the room but the shape is totally up to the player to draw out. Most dungeon crawls have a shape of a room to go with the room roll. Shaping the rooms and the dungeon overall is enjoyable.

The Bad Way too much dice rolling for me. Way to hard to survive also. I used the easier 9 point ability point buy and gave myself a wealthy 9 gold. I bought the magic armor with +6 health and +6 wits. I only lasted 3 rooms before I died. The only real decisions to make is running away from a monster. I tried that and failed 4 times. The beat down was butal. All the monsters felt the same in combat because your ability to hit is determined by your own stats and has nothing to do with the monster you are trying to hit.

The Hack -reduce dice rolls. I would make monster damage a set number instead of a dice roll every time. -take more than one character into the dungeon because one isn't enough -treat the random encounter table as levels of the dungeon instead of a d6 encounter roll. So the first level of the dungeon, only encounter the imps listed under the number 1 so you can build some wealth and treasure -allow going back to town buy some stuff, rest, level

The Suggestion Add more tables. The tables were thematic and interesting. The battles were brutal and demoralizing. What about a table for conversation with the monsters. Or a table for other stuff you find in the dungeon, a chained NPC, a fire elemental that is not happy with the imps and offers to help or reveal a weakness of the imps, etc. More story through tables! I wonder if you could make each monster a table unto itself for combat. That would be interesting. I think you might do better stripping away the dice rolling game and working up more story material and selling this as a system neutral module.

The Buy To me, it is worth buying for the story and tables. But I would be using another system role play it.



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