{"id":618,"date":"2016-05-17T00:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:51:41","slug":"review-feast-of-the-preserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/17\/review-feast-of-the-preserver\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Feast of the Preserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"142751\"<\/a>Feast of the Preserver from Shinobi 27 Games is often billed as a \u201csurvival horror adventure\u201d, but that isn\u2019t wholly accurate. It is more a mini-campaign than an adventure, weighing in as a 44 page PDF, there is a lot going on here\u2026and all of it delightfully dark. There are probably 12-16 hours of game play here if players really dig deep and investigate all the opportunities afforded them.<\/p>\n

Written for a party of 3-4th level PCs, this is not an adventure for a novice Judge. There are a number of twists and turns written into the storyline and, if run like a traditional dungeon crawl, the air of doom and menace would become lost. This adventure thrives on the helplessness of villagers, struck by an unknown plague, a raid for ransom by bandits, and the mysterious titular religious feast. Keeping solid notes and establishing a timeline to keep things running smoothly is recommended.<\/p>\n

Once in though? Oh, what an adventure! Survival horror indeed! The players will need to be at their absolute sharpest to escape the hazards they face. It isn\u2019t that the adventure\u2019s threats are overwhelmingly powerful\u2026but they are quite clever. This is an adventure that calls for brains as much as brawn and those seeking to \u201cmurder hobo\u201d their way through it will most likely perish. Fools rush in\u2026to a chipper shredder.<\/p>\n

The quality of the material itself is also top notch: the interior art is dark and evocative, the writing reminiscent of the classic Hammer films, and the new material presented can easily be pulled and dropped into an ongoing campaign (who doesn\u2019t want a new \u201cdark\u201d patron). This is an adventure that can be dropped into any ongoing campaign of appropriate level or one that can be hinted at and built towards from campaign start. The tools are provided to make players more than a little leery of what dwells in the darkness.<\/p>\n

$9.50 gets you a hard copy and the PDF<\/a> and it is very much worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feast of the Preserver from Shinobi 27 Games is often billed as a \u201csurvival horror adventure\u201d, but that isn\u2019t wholly accurate. It is more a mini-campaign than an adventure, weighing in as a 44 page PDF, there is a lot going on here\u2026and all of it delightfully dark. There are probably 12-16 hours of game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6O8t4-9Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctum.media\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}