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He Who Watches

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Crocodilopolis is famous as the home of the Shrine of Sobek the Crocodile God, “He Who Watches”.  Thousands of pilgrims come to the city each year bearing costly gifts worth millions of drachmae to the shrine and its priests.

 
But now the sacred “Son of Sobek” has been found dead in his pen with mysterious internal wounds, and many pilgrims who perform the traditional ritual of sleeping or “incubating” near the shrine’s catacombs have disappeared.

 
He Who Watches is displeased.


This could get VERY bad for business!

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Piety, bacchanalia, merchantile frenzy.

PCs can...

"incubate" burrowed into the tombs, visit oracles, buy mummy dust, get official sanction to discreetly investigate the catacombs, make new friends, save their new friends, lose new friends to eldritch weirdness, stick their hands down the throats of mummified crocodiles, remove everything of value which isn't bolted down, make enemies, awaken something in the darkness, unleash dangerous magic, set off chemical reactions, rile up angry mobs, die dramatically, die heroically, die pathetically, OR escape with their lives AND fabulous wealth!

Details abound to be used creatively by players and DMs.  Fun MS-Painted illustrations and maps.  This low-level adventure provides the ingredients to detonate beautiful chaos, bounded only by the tastes and brains of the DM and players.

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Eric B March 06, 2019 7:17 pm UTC
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New edits to He Who Watches are now in place. I am also including a bigger additional map of the Catacombs at the end of the adventure.

Because I'm a lazy Luddite, technical problems are my nemesis, but I think I've been successful in sending everyone who has already purchased this the updated version.

The quick preview seems fine to me as of March 6, 2019.

Ever since I uploaded the new version, however, the full-sized preview has been showing only 1 page out of the 6 it was set to show, and that single page is the old version. I've been emailing back-and-forth with the DTRPG/RPGNow technical person in an effort to get this preview problem resolved. I'm confident everything should be fine in a few days.

On a completely different topic, anyone interested in jpg or png versions of the maps in this adventure (or others from Coiled Sheets of Lead) are welcome to email me and ask for them. Jpg or png versions are useful for printing large-scale at copy stores,...See more
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Eric B March 02, 2019 8:03 am UTC
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Hello Zargothrax - Thank you very much for giving time and attention to my material. I appreciate sincere and detailed criticism like this, especially with the book recommendation.

Thanks also, Jeremy, for adding your opinion as well.

I was about to publish He Who Watches right when the Weinstein scandals were breaking out. Maybe I was axe-grinding. I know human beings who have been treated like things by creeps who are much less famous and much more local. So I tacked that bit of text on at the time as a hastily-written visceral reaction.

I want to write a revised, briefer bit which respectfully implies that most people won't need the advice:

"The adventure aims for a mildly weird, fun, and funny tone. Knowing your players as individuals, use your judgement to maintain an appropriate vibe everyone at the table will enjoy."

or

"The tone could be a difficult balancing act. Know your players. Use your judgement."...See more
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Gorgar W March 02, 2019 8:56 pm UTC
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I very much appreciate you taking the time to answer and address my concern, and revise the text. Thank you. You definitely have a fan in me.
For the record, I do agree that no referee should spring sleaze on their unsuspecting table, and I'm no advocate of real-world misogyny. But I'm someone who's run fun games in X-rated territory (Hyboria, Alpha Blue, Tales of Gor) with adults aware of and willing to have fun with exploitation movie tropes. Every table needs to have the "lines and veils" discussion before commencing play. As you say above: know your players.
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fedinand G July 02, 2022 1:27 pm UTC
Ooph, I almost bought it. Sucks that you caved in (no pun intended).
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fedinand G July 02, 2022 1:29 pm UTC
Gorgar, for the sake of everything that's sacred. Next time you write a phrase that starts with "I'm no advocate of real-world misogyny, but"; think thrice (if you can) and don't.

Also, 5 paragraphs of text! Great job. Get a golden star, or whatever adult X-rated appreciators consider cool?.. A leftover bra from a pub?
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Gorgar W February 25, 2019 6:36 pm UTC
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Great little scenario for the price Karel. So it was very disheartening to read this:

"DM: Don’t be a Harvey Weinstein loser-creep! Elements of this adventure should probably be fun and mildly weird and funny for most adult players if you run them in a PG-13 way. Making your players feel like crap by pushing them into a rated-X description means you have failed as a DM. "

This is not only insulting, but also wrong. But, whether or not one agrees with the sentiment, it's not your's nor any one else's job to police a group's table and criticize their play style. A group comprised of adults has ideally determined the "rating" of their game, and already signed off on the milieu — whether it's a lighthearted whimsical fantasy, sleazy, dystopian sword and sorcery; or something between. The players have laid their trust on the referee to bring this vision to them. Once your module is in the wild, YOU DON'T GET to say how consenting adults use the material and you certainly...See more
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Jeremy R March 01, 2019 3:15 am UTC
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He does have a point, it seems rather out of place and you probably shouldn't assume the worst of your audience like that.
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fedinand G July 02, 2022 1:22 pm UTC
TL;Dr ok boomer.

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> YOU DON'T GET to say how consenting adults use the material and you certainly don't have any authority to call someone a creep, a loser, and or a failure. It feels like you personally are grinding an axe here.

Here's the thing, lad: boomer oldschoolers are really keen on sexism, racism and more. Runs in the hobby, and not even wishy wooshy 5E can shake off the racist origins. Give it tome, some day... Well, anyway, there's absolutely nothing wrong with calling that stuff out, even in a metaphorical way.

The fact that this tiny passage made you write three paragraphs of text with TL;DR placed at the end likely means that said tiny passage struck a chord with you. For a reason only you know. The appeals to Gygax are hilarious, btw.
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