"Review: Temple of the Wurm" Topic

"When I saw the cover of this book, with player characters drooping and flopping like melting Salvador Dali clocks. I groaned. There's no way I'm going to like this adventure. Then I read it, and I was surprised. It's odd and cool and felt like a Cthulhu Mythos excursion without a deep one or squid face in sight.

You could say this adventure is "high concept". The players explore an alien temple where many spells, traps, and alien attacks can make them two dimensional, collapsing to the floor like silhouettes and able to slither up walls and ceilings. There are also effects that can reverse the dimensionality in the other direction, making the players 3-dimensional, or adding additional dimensions, moving the player character through time or into the higher dimensions. It has the potential to be very weird. Note: there are no Dali clocks in the adventure, although time can become twisted; if anything, some of the locales in the alien dungeon have a circuit-board quality with flashing lights that brought to mind a 2-D character entering the movie Tron…"

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