Faux Pas has a very LotFP feel to it and is the perfect attention grabber for players who think every encounter is a nail that they must beat with their hammer. Due to the setup, I think this whole adventure would work best placed on a hex map as a location. The adventure starts en media res and will have your player going "WTF" immeditately. Faux Pas is very creepy with lots of body horror and will definitely set smart players on edge. The art is not normally my preferred style, but in this case it works. It is very evocative, interesting and meshes well with the text. I would hazard to say the artist went to an actual art school as it has a very avant-garde feel to it. The gem of this whole piece though is the audio. Why no one has thought of this before, I have no idea. For someone who normally has to drive quite a ways to judge a game, this is PERFECT. I can now prep while driving. What a concept. This significantly cuts down on prep time and is something more game designers should be doing. To top it off, the narrator also has a great voice with good inflection and no annoying accent. For this utility alone, the harried judge should check it out.
I would normally rate this a 4 but due to the excellent and truly innovative audio, it merits a 5.
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