A Non Review of "Monkey Business" by the Disorientated Ranger.
Disclosure: This can't be a review because I'm too close to the project.
Not only did I chat with Jens often during his time working on the project. I also contributed some art. Rather than a review the following text should be considered info piece.
The writer behind the "Disoriented Ranger (DR)" blog has put out a module called Monkey Business.
It is currently available via Drive through RPG, I believe he plans on a POD version later on, though I can't directly speak to that.
Anyone who has followed the DR blog in any capacity will know that Jens does not take a shallow stab at anything. He specializes in deep dives. It doesn't matter if he's figuring out a method to roll up Hierarchies for NPC's or Preparing to Run an adventure he always pulls from diverse schools of thought to put his ideas together. I can say without fear of insulting Jens that he "connects the dots" in interesting ways and designs innovative subsystems for everything he does. He thinks about gaming differently a lot of the time and I mean that in the best way possible.
The same can be said for "Monkey Business."
Jens took the idea of a module and went deeper. Delivering a product that is fun, irreverent, and a bit gonzo, but also useful. It's full tools built for any GM who may want to set up a jungle hex crawl adventure. The author put in a lot of work making sure a GM could use the whole product or any part of it to run anything from a one session wacky adventure to a whole jungle based campaign.
If this is the kind of thing that the reader might have a use for, then by all means give it a look.
Thank you for reading.
-Mark.
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