A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Gregorius21778: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater…

Gregorius21778: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater… is a role playing game supplement written and published by Kai Pütz a.k.a Gregorius21778 for use with Lamentations of the Flame Princess. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is a Halloween supplement that will only be available during October.

The supplement is available as a 12 page Pay What You Want supplement from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, half a page is the front matter and one page is the Open Game License. The PDF comes in two versions, the second a printer friendly version with no page backgrounds and black and white illustrations.

The introductory paragraphs explain that the supplement is based on a nursery rhyme and that it is essentially a railroad.

Background explains how the wife of the titular Peter was always unfaithful, and he made a poor bargain with the devil to fix this. A sidebar explains that the story is not quite true as to how it happened.

Danger! Railroad ahead! explains that the adventure is essentially a railroad and, following the advice in the Referee’s Book, the best way of dealing with this is telling the players up front and explaining that they’ll need to go along with the plot. Next are some hooks for involving the characters. There’s a pumpkin field and the characters can potentially get dragged in that way. Should the characters acquire a pumpkin, the local villagers will be upset. Alternatively, they witness a villager who foolishly acquired a pumpkin themselves.

The characters will need to solve the mystery of the pumpkin field and defeat the evil creature that caused the events to happen. There are a couple of d6 tables of messages and events and details of experience awards, along with information on a trapped soul and the evil.

Gregorius21778: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater… in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough that these would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and a number of minor errors were noticed (the author makes their standard declaration about not being a native English speaker; none of the errors make the supplement impossible to use). There are a few pieces of stock art, one colour. Presentation is decent.

The warning about this being a railroad might make a reader think that characters are being forced into things. Truly, as railroads go, this is nothing. The only railroad-y part of it is that the characters have to follow the adventure hooks – which is pretty much the case with any adventure. The adventure itself is moderately linear, but that’s it. Gregorius21778: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater… is a decent little Halloween side adventure and it can be found by clicking here.