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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Quick Review: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 4: Two-Page Dungeons

Today I'm taking a short look at another 10-pager from the 2021 GURPS PDF Challenge.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 4: Two-Page Dungeons, by the awesome Tetsujin no Llama*.

This book consists of four five two-page adventures for GURPS DF:

From a Sinking Ship

The Blasphemed Shrine

A Cold Day In

All Along the Watchtower

The Floor is Lava

The names do justice to the dungeons. They're generally very short, use vanilla critters from exisiting books, and require more time to read than to set up and play, given existing characters. They're well-written and interesting little bits of delving, too.

I'm sure some wag will point out that GURPS is so damn complex it requires two pages while old-school games can do one-page dungeons. Each of these, though, has a few nice things that take up space, like:

- an easy to read layout

- a small encounter area with sufficient detail to run the game . . . provided you go get the monster stats from the appropriate books

- a nice full-page map, full-color, that can be zoomed in on and printed out to make a battle map for minis

Overall, it's a well-done book. I'm not sure I can expect to use anything from it, since most of my players will also own it, but it's good material for them to use on their gaming groups in turn.



* Larger than a frog, but also iron.

4 comments:

  1. Um...that's five adventures. There's also The Blasphemed Shrine.

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  2. The big SJG headers (and artwork and pull quotes) cut into the available word count, but this looks good otherwise. Would a community two-page dungeon project get much response?

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