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Zenopus
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:35 am

Not yet nominated:
World of Greyhawk Folio & Boxed Set

Honorable Mentions:
AD&D Coloring Album
GW1 Legion of Gold
Geomorphs (original versions with sample encounters)

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:28 am

zhowar wrote:World of Greyhawk Folio & Boxed Set

I found the writing problematically dry.

zhowar wrote:AD&D Coloring Album

An excellent exhibition of EGG's densely written prose.

zhowar wrote:Geomorphs (original versions with sample encounters)

Some inventive encounters, but unfortunately not a hit with the buyers.

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:45 am

brute wrote:[ Image ]

Just ran that tonight as a one-off. Half the party died fighting the ogre and goblins, the other half killed each other off afterwards; one player had set a character goal of 500 gp, so he went to head back to civilization after they looted the ogre's lair. (He found the gold-covered lead and thought it was real.)

Rest of the party didn't take kindly to being abandoned without all the gold and made sure he knew this. :lol:

"Reader, Carthegena was of the mind, that unto thoſe Three Things, which the Ancients held Impoſſible, there ſhould be added this Fourth ; To find a Book Printed without Errata's."

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:18 am

Without a doubt ... B2 ... you never forget your first ... :wink:

And as a close second and I agree with Xaxaxe on this point, T1. Although after Friday night's game battling the Master in the dungeon, it should be called T1: The Victims of Hommlet. Not even self-immolation by an NPC nor the typical assault with oil flasks could help our doomed party. We ran out of the dungeon with our asses kicked three ways to Wednesday.

Thanks Gary!

Hello Mrs. Cleaver, Theodore.

Gee, Mrs. Cleaver ... That certainly is a lovely dress.

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:54 am

smarmy1 wrote:Without a doubt ... B2 ... you never forget your first ...

And as a close second and I agree with Xaxaxe on this point, T1. Although after Friday night's game battling the Master in the dungeon, it should be called T1: The Victims of Hommlet. Not even self-immolation by an NPC nor the typical assault with oil flasks could help our doomed party. We ran out of the dungeon with our asses kicked three ways to Wednesday.

Thanks Gary!

What a life you lead...being Dm'd through both B2 and T1 at the same time!!!! What lotto did you win? :wink:

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:19 pm

Hi everyone,

I'd have to go along with module T1 The Village of Hommlet as one of my favorites of Gary's works.

I also have a soft spot for his Gord the Rogue novels and their over-the-top approach to everything. Particularly the demons' insults to each other ("you perfumed butterfly!") and that foppish nobleman with the cerise-colored leather gloves and a propensity for spouting "Nuncle" whom Gord and his barbarian chum kept getting involved with. Plus Keek (including the obvious "Geek" joke) and Obmi, and the in-fighting between Iggwilv, Iuz and Zuggtmoy during the last couple books.

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:48 pm

T1 was one of my first adventures...I died on the 1st encounter, killed by a giant frog.

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:56 pm

DMG or 83 Greyhawk boxed set. Too tough to call.

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:12 pm

Digital D&D, 1981.

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Oh wait, that's unpublished and I have the only copy...

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:22 pm

The Castle Yggsburgh Bible.

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:40 pm

ExTSR wrote:Digital D&D, 1981.

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Oh wait, that's unpublished and I have the only copy...

I'll bite, what is it?

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:44 pm

DMG all the way...

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:45 pm

Some say they have it memorised but I still occasionally thumb treough it and find something new!

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:11 pm

T1 - I remember reading it for the first time and thinking how perfectly Gary captured the town. The moathouse, however, was so unbalanced I made several "adjustments" so the party wouldn't get slaughtered.

B2 - the classic dungeon crawl.

S3 - just plain cool

S1 - you can't deny instant death.

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:42 pm

bbarsh wrote:S1 - you can't deny instant death.

And yet so many continue to try!

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

gyg
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:43 pm

As it goes I've never been convinced that S1 was meant to be 'do-able' - I am deeply suspicious af any party that sailed through it.

(No party I ever DM'd back in the day made it to the end (some fled before death!)), and if I'm honest I was quite a lenient DM!!)

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:36 am

gyg wrote:As it goes I've never been convinced that S1 was meant to be 'do-able' - I am deeply suspicious af any party that sailed through it.

(No party I ever DM'd back in the day made it to the end (some fled before death!)), and if I'm honest I was quite a lenient DM!!)

i agree. nobody i ever DMd completed it either.

one mod i never got to DM and always wanted to, S3. that module is plain cool and lots of fun.

Al

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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:55 am

zhowar wrote:Not yet nominated:
World of Greyhawk Folio & Boxed Set

Honorable Mentions:
AD&D Coloring Album
GW1 Legion of Gold
Geomorphs (original versions with sample encounters)

GW1? Which world, and how hard is it to find today?
Also, is that the only GW-series module, or are we talking
about the Gamma World milieu?

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