Thursday, September 15, 2022

Vile Vengeance of the Bees

 By Michael Palacios

Three Swords and Three Ravens

B/X or LL "low level"


Premise: A colony of super-intelligent bees have discovered metallurgy!


What do we get here? 


This is a nine page adventure that comes with four new bee types to fight and a final dungeon that has 9 points of interest.


Usability/formatting


 There is not huge amount of structure to this adventure, you can run it in a fairly free form way. 


 I appreciate the thought the designer put into making it clear the tactics/motivations of the creatures in the various encounters, unfortunately no thought has been put into describing any of the locations to bring things to life. If your players do not just peace out entirely and do get to the final dungeon it is mostly just rooms with monsters in it.


 There is not really much in the way of faction play or magic items on offer, only one of any interest. Once in the dungeon there is a small bit of interactivity but nothing much to write home about.


 Portability


 You need to be open to a bit of gonzo to really want this adventure in your world. Bees dropping fantasy napalm on a village is not going to fit with every setting.


 Recommendation


 On the plus side this adventure is essentially free, on the down side you will have to do some work to bring it to life and even then it looks like it is kind of a slog, especially the village defence section. You can pick it up on drive thru at the link below.


https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/265246/Vile-Vengeance-of-the-Bees

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