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I just wanted to say that.
I keep seeing the "torture porn" thread pop up over and over, and I can't really read it; I'm playing in Aubrey's ROTRL campaign. I can pretty much surmise what's being said though; same thing as with that spiderweb bikini babe on the cover of Dungeon a few back.
I get little spoils here and there though, and I gather that it's a Texas Chainsaw, or a Deliverance, and there's somebody name of Mama Graul that is real skankersome.
I'm scared for my character, man. There's fates worse than character death, and I get the distinct feeling that these fates are easy to find in The Hook Mountain Massacre. I'm scared.
Scared like when I read Perrault's Fairy Tales, with the Gustav Dore pics, when I was a wee tyke.
Those were some kinda sick, gnarley pic's too in that book...
I don't get the least bit frightened by horror movies; that weak Wednesday Addams wannabe in The Ring steps out of my tee vee she's getting a beatdown. I sweat naught, that punkling anyways. But Mama Graul: that byoch gives me the heebie jeebies, kid.
But "you got a real purdy mouth...." coming from a crew of ogres...that freaks me out, man. That's scary.
I gotta go roll a Wil Save to not read the Hook Mountain Massacre that I picked up at the FLGS today.
Heathansson
I am currently running a RotRL campaign and picked up Hook Mountain earlier tonight. After reading the intro where it's a mix of Deliverance, Texas Chainsaw & Blair Witch, I was scared for my players! ;)
Thanks Nick, for creating another "ghoulish" adventure. :D
Yeah, I'm in the same boat as Heath - playing, so can't read it. I'm both scared for my character and looking forward to that chapter of the game! Have yet to play in a Nick Logue authered adventure - should be good.
Seconded, Nick, these Ogres are back to their old English roots- terrifying degenerate murderers and cannibals. It's great to see the shiny D&D varnish get chipped off to see the original idea squirming underneath.
What I want to see next are a proper Unseelie Court/Drow with none of this second hand Elric of Melnibone/ Drizzt emoing about. Something right scary and primal please.
Seconded, Nick, these Ogres are back to their old English roots- terrifying degenerate murderers and cannibals. It's great to see the shiny D&D varnish get chipped off to see the original idea squirming underneath.
What I want to see next are a proper Unseelie Court/Drow with none of this second hand Elric of Melnibone/ Drizzt emoing about. Something right scary and primal please.
Drow get the treatment starting in Pathfinder 13; and there won't be a single chaotic good scimitar wielding surface dwelling ranger among them. We'll be going for Vault of the Drow-style demon worshiping maniacs. I'm really looking forward to it! :)
Drow get the treatment starting in Pathfinder 13; and there won't be a single chaotic good scimitar wielding surface dwelling ranger among them. We'll be going for Vault of the Drow-style demon worshiping maniacs. I'm really looking forward to it! :)
Suh-weet! If you guys can make goblins into the little psychos that they are, I'm looking forward to what you do with drow. Sucks that Lolth is Wizards' IP.
Could you put in a scene wherein the player characters find the corpse of a CG drow armed with two magic scimitars and a figurine of wondrous power? Please?
I will also have to say thanks Nick i love this adventure keep it up
What other dungeons have you done for Paizo
Since I just updated my C.V. recently I'll just hit you with the whole she-bang my man. Ah, the first several reads like a great trip down memory lane!!!
“Cry Wolf” – Issue #102 Dungeon Magazine
“Winding Way” – Issue #117 Dungeon Magazine
“Obsidian Eye” – Issue #120 Dungeon Magazine
“The Charlatan” – Issue #335 Dragon Magazine
“Black Sheep” – Issue #129 Dungeon Magazine
“Dimension Doors” – Issue #131 Dungeon Magazine
“Library of Last Resorts” – Issue #132 Dungeon Magazine
“Chimes at Midnight” – Issue #133 Dungeon Magazine
Voyage of the Golden Dragon – Wizards of the Coast
“Chains of Blackmaw” – Issue #135 Dungeon Magazine
“Ecology of the Rust Monster” – Issue 346 Dragon Magazine
“Bullywug Gambit” – Issue #140 Dungeon Magazine
“Swords of Dragonslake” Issue #141 Dungeon Magazine
“Mask of Diamond Tears” – Upcoming Issue #143 Dungeon Magazine
“Savage Tidings: Braving the Isle of Dread” – Issue #352 Dragon Magazine
“Warforged Fast and Furious” – Issue #352 Dragon Magazine
“Boromar Clan” – Issue #353 Dragon Magazine
“Way of the Shackled Beast” – Issue #355 Dragon Magazine
“Ecology of the Titan” – Issue #357 Dragon Magazine
“Quoth the Raven” – Issue #150 Dungeon Magazine
Eyes of the Lich Queen – Wizards of the Coast
Monster Manual V – Wizards of the Coast
Crown of the Kobold King – Gamemastery Module D1 from Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder #3: Hook Mountain Massacre – Paizo Publishing
Carnival of Tears – Gamemastery Module E1 from Paizo Publishing
Dragons of Eberron –Wizards of the Coast
“Hell’s Heart” –Wizards of the Coast’s DI Dungeon Issue #151
“Ecology of the Barghest” –Kobold Quarterly #2
Hangman’s Noose – Upcoming Gamemastery Module U2 from Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder #7: Edge of Anarchy – Upcoming from Paizo Publishing
City of Stormreach – Upcoming from Wizards of the Coast
Cold Black - Upcoming Mega Adventure for Bulldogs! Space Adventure RPG
Since I just updated my C.V. recently I'll just hit you with the whole she-bang my man. Ah, the first several reads like a great trip down memory lane!!!
“Cry Wolf” – Issue #102 Dungeon Magazine
“Winding Way” – Issue #117 Dungeon Magazine
“Obsidian Eye” – Issue #120 Dungeon Magazine
“The Charlatan” – Issue #335 Dragon Magazine
“Black Sheep” – Issue #129 Dungeon Magazine
“Dimension Doors” – Issue #131 Dungeon Magazine
“Library of Last Resorts” – Issue #132 Dungeon Magazine
“Chimes at Midnight” – Issue #133 Dungeon Magazine
Voyage of the Golden Dragon – Wizards of the Coast
“Chains of Blackmaw” – Issue #135 Dungeon Magazine
“Ecology of the Rust Monster” – Issue 346 Dragon Magazine
“Bullywug Gambit” – Issue #140 Dungeon Magazine
“Swords of Dragonslake” Issue #141 Dungeon Magazine
“Mask of Diamond Tears” – Upcoming Issue #143 Dungeon Magazine
“Savage Tidings: Braving the Isle of Dread” – Issue #352 Dragon Magazine
“Warforged Fast and Furious” – Issue #352 Dragon Magazine
“Boromar Clan” – Issue #353 Dragon Magazine
“Way of the Shackled Beast” – Issue #355 Dragon Magazine
“Ecology of the Titan” – Issue #357 Dragon Magazine
“Quoth the Raven” – Issue #150 Dungeon Magazine
Eyes of the Lich Queen – Wizards of the Coast
Monster Manual V – Wizards of the Coast
Crown of the Kobold King – Gamemastery Module D1 from Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder #3: Hook Mountain Massacre – Paizo Publishing
Carnival of Tears – Gamemastery Module E1 from Paizo Publishing
Dragons of Eberron –Wizards of the Coast
“Hell’s Heart” –Wizards of the Coast’s DI Dungeon Issue #151
“Ecology of the Barghest” –Kobold Quarterly #2
Hangman’s Noose – Upcoming Gamemastery Module U2 from Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder #7: Edge of Anarchy – Upcoming...
Quite a list, I think once I get home from work I will have do have a dig through the bookcase and see how many of these I have.
Oh and thankyou Nick, for HMM and Skinsaw. They really get across the "evil" that monsters do. I know there is alot of controvosy at the moment about said adventures, but many of us really appreciate the more realistic overtones.
I'm adding my thanks to all of you at Paizo as well. Seriously, these are some of the best written adventures - let alone campaign setting - that I've seen in years.
Seeing that that "other" thread has gotten out of hand, let me just say that the scenes that are depicted in Hook Mountain Massacre, while admittedly disgusting, are very much in keeping (in my mind) with the juvenile, imbecilic nature of amoral, low intelligence brutes such as ogres.
One of my favorite things about the Pathfinder series so far is that, the NPCs and monsters you guys have created - not only in Hook Mountain Massacre but in all the Rise of the Runelords issues - have detailed motivations and backstories. This, in my mind, makes them more real to me as a DM, which (I hope) will make them more real to my players in turn. They're not just differently shaped packages of danger and XP waiting for the PCs to come along.
It is true that the ogres in this latest issue have a rather disgusting backstory, and that their lack of sanitation forces the PCs to explore some rather unsavory scenes of the attrocities commited by the ogres. As a DM, I know I can't help but be disgusted when I read through the adventure - and I hope my players are as well when I finally get to run them through it.
Why? Well, isn't that the point? Isn't it the intention of the writer of a story - regardless of medium - to invoke an emotional reaction of some sort in the reader? Isn't that the goal of literature, cinema - even D&D adventures - to involve its audience in the story? Sometimes the emotions a story invokes are not necessarily positive ones but, if the writer has done his job right, they add to the emotional impact the story has on the reader. Of course, this is all subjective, but I believe Nicolas Logue has done that for Hook Mountain Massacre (as have Richard Pett and James Jacobs).
Sorry about the length. I'll get off my soapbox now. Thanks, Paizo. You've made a great product line. Keep up the good work!
Seeing another post dedicated to Nick is heartwarming.
Or is the Heart-worming...? Leave it to Nick to make that adventure so damned enjoyable...and as a proper send-off...
There. I think I made my point! Go Nick!
Oh, I was just trying to do the Deliverance Duelling Banjos theme.
Boy, them's fightin' words. The name of the song is Feudin' Banjos!" At least, that's how mah pappy learned it to me!
Useless trivia note:
While in college, I had a roommate who played the banjo. Best way to hack a banjo player off is to say, "that was a funny version of "Dueling Banjos" after he (and others) finishing playing the Ashokan Fairwell.
Drow get the treatment starting in Pathfinder 13; and there won't be a single chaotic good scimitar wielding surface dwelling ranger among them. We'll be going for Vault of the Drow-style demon worshiping maniacs. I'm really looking forward to it! :)
Thank you. Paizo is doing a great job in putting back the evil factor in the monsters: they're no longer just a bunch of stats with some cool quirk and a funny name.
They're dangerous because they're downright nasty. Refined, brutish, ugly, deranged, cunning, horrible, and most of all, evil.PCs have to fight them not to get XPs, but to survive.