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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Writing: Is the adventure original and fun to read? | #24 | 4.105 | 4.105 |
| Fun: Is the adventure fun to play in an OSR playstyle? | #54 | 3.632 | 3.632 |
| Overall | #56 | 3.632 | 3.632 |
| Usability: Is the adventure easy to use on the fly? | #78 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Very immersive and unique ideas presented for adventure.
Such a unique concept! We loved the voice in this module and how it translated to the adventure presented! Great submission! READ THIS!!
Such a unique concept! We loved the voice in this module and how it translated to the adventure presented! Great submission! READ THIS!!
Wow, now that is how you name and make a creature! The Mad Libber!
Wacky, zany fun! I absolutely love this. I can picture players messing around with the machinery trying to create their own things... Great work on this submission!
Sweet and psychedelic! love the use of conveyor belts and traversal to abstract the physical spaces a marvellous treat I look forward to delving into!
Thanks for your input on the conveyor belts! My thoughts about them were mixed after seeing so many rules in the end, but if they pique your interest I can take that as a sign I’m on the right direction :)
Its as if Willy Wonka was selling NFTs. Great idea.
I hadn’t thought about the stickers as NFT’s but you’re actually quite right! If anything these stickers may be much more non-fungible than the original ones :) being literally made from people’s lifeforce and all.
Ohhhh Noooooo the Adoring Fan!!! xD hahaha love it! It's always great to see an original setting with new handcrafted monsters and original NPCs! You've reminded us all that you don't always need dark caves and evil cults to create a sinister atmosphere. This was tons of fun and very refreshing to read.
Thanks for reading! Happy to know you enjoyed it :) The real world is often more unfeeling, sinister and grim than we like to depict in fantasy, there’s so much to take from it in so many novel ways.
There is something innately disturbing in factories, isn't there? The endless rows of perfectly identical things.
You really captured that oddness here. There was so much I didn't expect - I imagine players would have the same experience and feel a genuine sense of dread at points.
The Flesh Cracklinator and Psychoseed Engine will definitely stick in my imagination. I quite liked the Wonder Sticker table too.
I fear that the images used may have actually been a bit detrimental. Your descriptions were all vivid but I found myself struggling to divorce the starburst wrappers from the more whimsical elements.
Thanks a lot for your detailed impressions! It makes me happy to know I was able to convey my intentions in writing. The lack of proper art is something that I regret quite a bit, there’s so much here that would get people’s imagination going if they had an image to start with. I had assumed, if i wasn’t including anything, it’d be worse than if I didn’t, but at this point I am in complete agreement with you :)
Sweet adventure! Very unique ideas in here. Tendrilettes, psychoseed engine, love the names you came up with 😄.
Oh thanks a lot! Your adventure is very cool as well! I rated it :)
Very psychological in vibe...I dig that. Like the references to other psychological stories. There is a lot going on, so the note-taking player in me is giddy.
Clean layout...only suggestion would be to see what a 16 page format might do for breaking up some of the text (post 6-8 in particular), give a but more gutter space perhaps. However this isn't much of an issue just more of a curiosity.
Love the rich NPC characters. And find myself wanting to know more of their backstories...opens up prequel modules as a possibility. Cheers
Appreciate your insight! My original intention was to pack as much “happenings” within the format, if you don’t consider it too much, that’s a win for me!
It’s my fist time creating a document like this and I agree it would benefit from better readability. The learning process for what I was able to put together was pretty time consuming. As I create more content, I’ll make sure to improve the layout. There was going to be art in this, but unfortunately time limitations prevented that from happening, so when this is revised, it will have quite a handful of them as well :)
I left some details intentionally open for speculation! Some of these might become more modules in the future, including these and more characters!
Can't wait to see what you release
Very interesting adventure. There is a lot going on here. I would be very interested to know what would happen if adventurers were let loose in such a factory.
Thanks for checking it out! If they survive the status of disrepair that the Peddlers are letting the factory go into, they’d then have to manage the ambitions of those who want the place for themselves :)
Wow, this is probably the most original idea I've read so far. It manages to be both whimsical and dark without being ridiculous or outright horrifying. I'd love to know what your inspirations for this are. My first thought is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, of course, but there's so much here that I don't recognize at all.
Thanks for your comments! Happy to know I was able to convey the intended tone :)
The inspirations in no particular order are: