Perhaps the players will have to bake a cake for the king using ingredients guarded by mythical creatures. There’s arena combat with monsters, of course, but also puzzles and games designed to test the players’ cleverness. The competitors are drawn from the audience of the events where they are thrown into survival challenges of various types. Tournament of Pigs is a boxed set adventure where players compete in a deadly tournament for the amusement of a decadent king. Does this twisted game show deliver big money and big prizes? Let’s play to find out. The adventure is available for both 5e and Dungeon Crawl Classics and they sent along a DCC boxed set for review. Tournament of Pigs, from design house Weird Works made up of designers Thom Denick and Brenda Ho, offers a funnel adventure that has as much more in common with The Running Man as Tomb of Horrors. It also often takes the form of a killer dungeon.
It’s a tribute to the lethality of older materials that keeps the player in the game without having to wait around for them to make a new character. These adventures encourage players to make multiple low-level characters that are meant to be folded, stapled and generally maligned by the adventure. One of the most fascinating things to come out of the OSR for me is the concept of “the funnel”.
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