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#1
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 4:06:15 Just a little bit of nostalgia.. Do you remmeber the first greyhawk module you played? the one that make you discover World of greyhawk and realize that you won't change after, whatever tsr/wotc do...
For me, it was Temple of elmental evil, when it was released. I remember i take it at the shop cause of a nice cover (HEy... we all know how a nice cover is important when you don't what's inside..). The worst is that i also hesitate with another product, a FR one that i don't rememer now. And if i have choosed the FR one, i won't be here,and i am probably sure i won't have the same players for 15+ years...
We finish TO1-4 in 1year and a half, playing every week, sometimes more. Hommlet and its surrounding made a ideal base for my players ( gnarley forest, and future introduction to the gem of the flaness, GReyhawk City).
NO one of my players will ever forget those years, they always tell me about. IT IS GREYHAWK.
Today we started again a new campaign in FR , No i am kidding!, in Greyhawk, with old times players and new ones, and i think we will make good things.
So sad Hasbro put WOG out, i would so like to know why with responsable but it seems impossible.
Does anybody have an idea of the price to pay to buy an out-of print world license?
Bye all.
#2
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 7:55:30
Originally posted by makoma
Does anybody have an idea of the price to pay to buy an out-of print world license?

Rumour has it, $20,000+ USD.
#3
Greyson
Oct 29, 2003 10:19:19 My first Greyhawk module was also T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil. I bought it because it was nice and thick, I liked the cover art and the name was irresistible. The Temple of Elemental Evil sounded sinister, and I liked that.

Turned out to be a pretty dang good investment. We of course ran through Scourge of the Slave Lords and Fate of Istsus after ToEE. Good times...
#4
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 10:36:49 Back in the late 70s one of my friends who was around the same age as me (9 or 10) stole a copy of Tomb of Horrors from his older brother (who was our regular DM) to run for us. We didn't really know what we were doing without some older kids guiding us. We all had 1st level characters and we beat the adventure without a single player death. My friend ended up leaving the module at my house, and I still have it.
Scott
#5
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 10:51:41
Originally posted by ScottyG
Back in the late 70s one of my friends who was around the same age as me (9 or 10) stole a copy of Tomb of Horrors from his older brother (who was our regular DM) to run for us. We didn't really know what we were doing without some older kids guiding us. We all had 1st level characters and we beat the adventure without a single player death. My friend ended up leaving the module at my house, and I still have it.
Scott

No way - Tomb of Horrors was lethal and notorious for its lack of survivors - The Lich for example. Was your GM just kind, or were you just ridiculously lucky....:D
#6
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 10:56:44 You didn't catch the, we were 9 or 10 years old and didn't really know what we were doing part?
Scott
#7
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 11:36:52 Not sure if it was actually GREYHawk or not. All I remember is an insane gnome with a spoon, a debate about whether Polymorph Self would let you turn into a Xorn and move through a stone wall, and our Dwarven Fighter (Int-4) making an obscene gesture at the head of the cultusts and getting a VERY POSITIVE reaction to it.

After that, T1-T4 the day it came out
#8
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 11:38:57 Mine would have to be the the Dungeons and Dragons (not Advanced D&D) module B2 - Castle Amber. Spring 1983

Good module, even for basic D&D.
#9
Halberkill
Oct 29, 2003 12:19:42
Originally posted by rostoff
Not sure if it was actually GREYHawk or not. All I remember is an insane gnome with a spoon, ...

That would be Prit from the Weis/Hickman "Desert of Desolation" Series, which is a really great series. That was my second module that I played through after the original Slavelord series. The DoD series had no particular setting, but it fit well enough in the Sea of Dust with just a few minor changes. Too bad the later combined book was forced into the FR setting.

Halber
#10
cwslyclgh
Oct 29, 2003 12:28:37
Originally posted by Huron
Mine would have to be the the Dungeons and Dragons (not Advanced D&D) module B2 - Castle Amber. Spring 1983

Good module, even for basic D&D.

that would be X2 Castle Amber, module B2 is Keep on the Borderlands... both of them good modules. My first Greyhawk Module was S2 White Plume Mountain, and I still get nostolgic about it.
#11
waltero
Oct 29, 2003 13:09:18 My first module was X1 - Isle of Dread. It was a D&D module, but my DM converted it to AD&D.
#12
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2003 13:48:35 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. We were kids and didn't know how to play, so we used low level characters. The whole thing was a stealth mission. Edge of your chair stuff. Great fun.
#13
Brom_Blackforge
Oct 29, 2003 16:52:43 I don't know if it was our first, but I remember that, early on, we started the Temple of Elemental Evil. I don't think we finished it though. I don't remember details, but it seems to me that we screwed up and rather than let us all get killed, the DM had our whole party whisked away elsewhere. I also remember going through the old Blackmoor module Temple of the Frog about the same time. Maybe that was where we ended up. That was a long time ago.
#14
zombiegleemax
Oct 30, 2003 14:32:35
Originally posted by cwslyclgh
that would be X2 Castle Amber, module B2 is Keep on the Borderlands... both of them good modules.

My Bad. . . .its been a while;)

On another note, are there a number of late 20's to 30-somethings on this board, or do newbies end up playing hand-me-down modules, cause a number of people are naming pre-1985 modules.
#15
zombiegleemax
Oct 30, 2003 14:40:32 My guess is, there are a lot of people on the board in the 32-40 age range. I'm one of the them 36. Started playing in 1983 while a Sophomore in H.S. My character got mad at a mule, punched it, got kicked in the head and knocked out in my first session. I was dragged along in a litter while everyone else adventured that first evening. I've been slower to anger ever since.

(They need a bearded smiley for this post)
#16
cwslyclgh
Oct 30, 2003 14:59:31 when I started playing in the range of 83-84, a lot of those modules where still floating around in the books stores and such where I bought D&D stuff (or more often had it bougt for me by relatives as I didn't tend to have a lot of my own money as a 10 year old).
#17
Brom_Blackforge
Oct 30, 2003 16:33:13
Originally posted by rostoff
(They need a bearded smiley for this post)

Would that be a gray beard? :D
#18
zombiegleemax
Oct 30, 2003 17:40:23 ghost tower of inverness.

am i the only D&D player in history that never played temple of elemental evil. i don't even think i was ever in proximity of the module. i feel cheated...:sad:
#19
zombiegleemax
Oct 30, 2003 18:46:55 It's never too late...
#20
zombiegleemax
Nov 03, 2003 2:27:40 The revised and updated "Desert of Desolation" supermodule, not the I3-5 series, I found that the updated supermodule version was definetly way better than the original.

I do believe that the Desert of Desolation is actually in the FR world in a place known as the Raurin Desert/ a.k.a. Dust Desert/ a.k.a. Stone Desert, apparently the most inhospitable enviroment on the entire planet, and the place where the first powerful civilization rose up from, the one place that the FR staff has for some unknown reason has never put an accessory out on.
#21
zombiegleemax
Nov 03, 2003 14:41:23
am i the only D&D player in history that never played temple of elemental evil. i don't even think i was ever in proximity of the module. i feel cheated...

Originally by SputnikCorp

Yes
#22
Argon
Nov 03, 2003 16:58:03 I was never really big on modules. I always liked creating things on my own. But Puppets was probaly the first one I was ever run through. Don't worry that didn't kill me off the module thing. But the first module I ran was either Gargoyle or Flames of the Falcon not sure really. But after that I pretty much went on my own or converted some Dungeon adventures to suit my needs.

It was the Greyhawk Box Set 83 that did it for me. While I was never able to pick up Greyhawk Wars Box Set. From the Ashes was well done IMO. So I just continued things from their.
#23
zombiegleemax
Nov 03, 2003 22:01:17 It was the monochrome Tomb of Horrors. This was the late seventies, I think. My brother and I had a ball taking turns and DMing each other. Since we survived few, if any, of the encounters, we had our torch-bearer run out of the tomb only to "find" other characters we had just rolled up for the adventure.

I think we went through maybe a dozen characters between us. We never killed the demi-lich, but what fun it was!
#24
zombiegleemax
Nov 03, 2003 23:02:59
Originally posted by susurrus
Since we survives few, if any, of the encounters, we had our torch-bearer run out of the tomb only to "find" other characters we had just rolled up for the adventure.

Pity 3ed wasn't around. The torch bearer would've become an epic level commoner :D
#25
Gnarley_Woodsman
Nov 07, 2003 10:19:25 For me it was The Tomb of Horrors aswell. The DM used the tournament "Speed" rules...nothing like rushing to your doom!
#26
darthricker
Nov 07, 2003 13:48:39 A3 - Slave Pits of the Undercity. I was playing Basic and Expert and my dad bought the module for me. Thought AD&D was the next set after Expert then realized it was a totally different game. I think we used the characters in the back when we first played it. Kind of remember their names, Freda, Ogre, I think the halfling was Ghost?
#27
cwslyclgh
Nov 07, 2003 14:57:07 The halflings name was Blogget.

the slavers series was 4 modules long... A1: slave pits of the undercity, A2: secret of the Slavers Stocade, A3: Assualt on the Erie of the Slave Lords, and A4: The Dungeons of the Slave Lords
#28
zombiegleemax
Nov 10, 2003 1:56:42 Records show that the Keep on the Borderlands was his royal majesty's first experience in gaming. The lord of the keep, while noble in countenance, was, however, unacceptable as a figure of authority in his majesty's first gaming experience. Accordingly, the Royal Dungeon Master rewrote the character in the image of Emperor Norton, who later expressed satisfaction with the portrayal. The Caves of Chaos, a menacing masterpiece, proved worthy of his majesty's cunning and, in the end, Norton prevailed. The module's outcome was celebrated in song for many years thereafter.
#29
cwslyclgh
Nov 10, 2003 2:02:19 The Keep on the Borderlands, while a great and wonderful module to be sure... was not officaly a greyhawk module (unless you refer to the IMO much lower quality Return to the Keep on the Borderlands from '99 which was shoehorned and forced into the greyhawk setting, yet retained many, many references to places and people that had been previously set in the mystara setting by TSR for some unkown reason) and thus does not fall under the perview of what the first poster asked about ;)
#30
Lagrange_Baron_de_Banville
Nov 10, 2003 2:45:54 Hhhmmm, I know the statement I'm about to make disqualifies me for being a decent GH-Player/DM/Author or whatsoever, but anyway: ;)

Castle Greyhawk (the one published by TSR). And even worse: I loved it... :D

And yes: I've never played Temple Of Elemental Evil, because it's in the hands of my CO-DM and we never really happened to have the right timing for insert it into our campaign!
#31
zombiegleemax
Nov 10, 2003 22:44:28 I joined a group of kids that had just finished Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and were starting the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. I played a multi-classed elf while the others went with straight characters. We made it through the early stages of the module but the dragon nearly finished us. We had to retreat after that (I can't remember where we hid out), and came back when we were restored to full strength. Later we went through Snurre's hall and the Drow/Spider module, but at the time I remember thinking that the descriptions of the ice caverns were really cool.
#32
zombiegleemax
Nov 11, 2003 22:34:46
Originally posted by emperor norton
Records show that the Keep on the Borderlands was his royal majesty's first experience in gaming. The lord of the keep, while noble in countenance, was, however, unacceptable as a figure of authority in his majesty's first gaming experience. Accordingly, the Royal Dungeon Master rewrote the character in the image of Emperor Norton, who later expressed satisfaction with the portrayal. The Caves of Chaos, a menacing masterpiece, proved worthy of his majesty's cunning and, in the end, Norton prevailed. The module's outcome was celebrated in song for many years thereafter.

Well, your highness, that's quite a story. We, too, adventured through the Caves of Chaos, but met with disaster when the minotaur sharpened his axe upon our torsi. I guess our dungeon master, while hardly royal, was less sympathetic with our cause.
Still, I wouldn't mind adventuring with an emperor. What share of treasure does his majesty usually claim for himself?
#33
kelanenprinceofswords
Nov 26, 2003 11:27:26 I don't recall the name of the module, but I was no more than 9 yrs old (am now 30), I played a fighter, and the action took place in a tower. I remember some fool eating food that was just lying on a plate upon a table in an abandoned room, and died of poison, and my character met his end fighting either hobgoblins or bugbears, I can't remember which. Anyway, I was riveted, and immediately addicted.
#34
zombiegleemax
Nov 26, 2003 11:37:26 It wasnt "ghost tower of inverness" by harzard?
#35
Monteblanco
Nov 26, 2003 18:44:55 The first module I played was The Keep in the Borderlands. After this one we started a homebrew campaign which slowly developed the world around our characters. When we finally got the World of Greyhawk, we transposed our homebrew setting to the Wild Coast -- an easy task thanks for the vagueness of the original box.

I've played very few of the published adventures. Except for the Keep, all were placed in Greyhawk. First the Temple and then part of the Giants, and finally the small adventures in The City of Greyhawk Box. Years latter we finally played Giants/Drows to the end and last year we tried the Return to the Temple.
#36
carlanco
Nov 27, 2003 10:13:31 When I started gaming in 1987, I joined a group that was already through the ToEE. At that time two of the five players left the party, so I was offered to choose between a dwarven fighter (Gimli) and a human cleric of St. Cuthbert (Alof). Since I was a newbie I decided to start with the dwarf. The other characters were a human paladin of St. Cuthbert (Rolf), a drow magic-user/thief (Elendil Hojanegra) and a hal-elven fighter which I don`t remember the name.

When Gimli was killed by the banshee I contunued the adventure with Alof the cleric. After that the guy playing the drow also left, I continued with it and Alof became an NPC.

After finishing the ToEE, we continued with the A1-4 series, but that`s another story. ;)

Gabriel
#37
kelanenprinceofswords
Nov 29, 2003 7:10:21
Originally posted by makoma
It wasnt "ghost tower of inverness" by harzard?

Might have been. I don't own that vintage module myself, so I can't be sure.
#38
kursk
Nov 29, 2003 22:51:09 I think it was B2 Keep on the Borderlands but I don't remember if it was Greyhawk specific...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 4:06:15	Just a little bit of nostalgia.. Do you remmeber the first greyhawk module you played? the one that make you discover World of greyhawk and realize that you won't change after, whatever tsr/wotc do... For me, it was Temple of elmental evil, when it was released. I remember i take it at the shop cause of a nice cover (HEy... we all know how a nice cover is important when you don't what's inside..). The worst is that i also hesitate with another product, a FR one that i don't rememer now. And if i have choosed the FR one, i won't be here,and i am probably sure i won't have the same players for 15+ years... We finish TO1-4 in 1year and a half, playing every week, sometimes more. Hommlet and its surrounding made a ideal base for my players ( gnarley forest, and future introduction to the gem of the flaness, GReyhawk City). NO one of my players will ever forget those years, they always tell me about. IT IS GREYHAWK. Today we started again a new campaign in FR , No i am kidding!, in Greyhawk, with old times players and new ones, and i think we will make good things. So sad Hasbro put WOG out, i would so like to know why with responsable but it seems impossible. Does anybody have an idea of the price to pay to buy an out-of print world license? Bye all.
#2 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 7:55:30	Originally posted by makoma Does anybody have an idea of the price to pay to buy an out-of print world license? Rumour has it, $20,000+ USD.
#3 Greyson Oct 29, 2003 10:19:19	My first Greyhawk module was also T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil. I bought it because it was nice and thick, I liked the cover art and the name was irresistible. The Temple of Elemental Evil sounded sinister, and I liked that. Turned out to be a pretty dang good investment. We of course ran through Scourge of the Slave Lords and Fate of Istsus after ToEE. Good times...
#4 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 10:36:49	Back in the late 70s one of my friends who was around the same age as me (9 or 10) stole a copy of Tomb of Horrors from his older brother (who was our regular DM) to run for us. We didn't really know what we were doing without some older kids guiding us. We all had 1st level characters and we beat the adventure without a single player death. My friend ended up leaving the module at my house, and I still have it. Scott
#5 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 10:51:41	Originally posted by ScottyG Back in the late 70s one of my friends who was around the same age as me (9 or 10) stole a copy of Tomb of Horrors from his older brother (who was our regular DM) to run for us. We didn't really know what we were doing without some older kids guiding us. We all had 1st level characters and we beat the adventure without a single player death. My friend ended up leaving the module at my house, and I still have it. Scott No way - Tomb of Horrors was lethal and notorious for its lack of survivors - The Lich for example. Was your GM just kind, or were you just ridiculously lucky....:D
#6 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 10:56:44	You didn't catch the, we were 9 or 10 years old and didn't really know what we were doing part? Scott
#7 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 11:36:52	Not sure if it was actually GREYHawk or not. All I remember is an insane gnome with a spoon, a debate about whether Polymorph Self would let you turn into a Xorn and move through a stone wall, and our Dwarven Fighter (Int-4) making an obscene gesture at the head of the cultusts and getting a VERY POSITIVE reaction to it. After that, T1-T4 the day it came out
#8 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 11:38:57	Mine would have to be the the Dungeons and Dragons (not Advanced D&D) module B2 - Castle Amber. Spring 1983 Good module, even for basic D&D.
#9 Halberkill Oct 29, 2003 12:19:42	Originally posted by rostoff Not sure if it was actually GREYHawk or not. All I remember is an insane gnome with a spoon, ... That would be Prit from the Weis/Hickman "Desert of Desolation" Series, which is a really great series. That was my second module that I played through after the original Slavelord series. The DoD series had no particular setting, but it fit well enough in the Sea of Dust with just a few minor changes. Too bad the later combined book was forced into the FR setting. Halber
#10 cwslyclgh Oct 29, 2003 12:28:37	Originally posted by Huron Mine would have to be the the Dungeons and Dragons (not Advanced D&D) module B2 - Castle Amber. Spring 1983 Good module, even for basic D&D. that would be X2 Castle Amber, module B2 is Keep on the Borderlands... both of them good modules. My first Greyhawk Module was S2 White Plume Mountain, and I still get nostolgic about it.
#11 waltero Oct 29, 2003 13:09:18	My first module was X1 - Isle of Dread. It was a D&D module, but my DM converted it to AD&D.
#12 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2003 13:48:35	Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. We were kids and didn't know how to play, so we used low level characters. The whole thing was a stealth mission. Edge of your chair stuff. Great fun.
#13 Brom_Blackforge Oct 29, 2003 16:52:43	I don't know if it was our first, but I remember that, early on, we started the Temple of Elemental Evil. I don't think we finished it though. I don't remember details, but it seems to me that we screwed up and rather than let us all get killed, the DM had our whole party whisked away elsewhere. I also remember going through the old Blackmoor module Temple of the Frog about the same time. Maybe that was where we ended up. That was a long time ago.
#14 zombiegleemax Oct 30, 2003 14:32:35	Originally posted by cwslyclgh that would be X2 Castle Amber, module B2 is Keep on the Borderlands... both of them good modules. My Bad. . . .its been a while;) On another note, are there a number of late 20's to 30-somethings on this board, or do newbies end up playing hand-me-down modules, cause a number of people are naming pre-1985 modules.
#15 zombiegleemax Oct 30, 2003 14:40:32	My guess is, there are a lot of people on the board in the 32-40 age range. I'm one of the them 36. Started playing in 1983 while a Sophomore in H.S. My character got mad at a mule, punched it, got kicked in the head and knocked out in my first session. I was dragged along in a litter while everyone else adventured that first evening. I've been slower to anger ever since. (They need a bearded smiley for this post)
#16 cwslyclgh Oct 30, 2003 14:59:31	when I started playing in the range of 83-84, a lot of those modules where still floating around in the books stores and such where I bought D&D stuff (or more often had it bougt for me by relatives as I didn't tend to have a lot of my own money as a 10 year old).
#17 Brom_Blackforge Oct 30, 2003 16:33:13	Originally posted by rostoff (They need a bearded smiley for this post) Would that be a gray beard? :D
#18 zombiegleemax Oct 30, 2003 17:40:23	ghost tower of inverness. am i the only D&D player in history that never played temple of elemental evil. i don't even think i was ever in proximity of the module. i feel cheated...:sad:
#19 zombiegleemax Oct 30, 2003 18:46:55	It's never too late...
#20 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2003 2:27:40	The revised and updated "Desert of Desolation" supermodule, not the I3-5 series, I found that the updated supermodule version was definetly way better than the original. I do believe that the Desert of Desolation is actually in the FR world in a place known as the Raurin Desert/ a.k.a. Dust Desert/ a.k.a. Stone Desert, apparently the most inhospitable enviroment on the entire planet, and the place where the first powerful civilization rose up from, the one place that the FR staff has for some unknown reason has never put an accessory out on.
#21 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2003 14:41:23	am i the only D&D player in history that never played temple of elemental evil. i don't even think i was ever in proximity of the module. i feel cheated... Originally by SputnikCorp Yes
#22 Argon Nov 03, 2003 16:58:03	I was never really big on modules. I always liked creating things on my own. But Puppets was probaly the first one I was ever run through. Don't worry that didn't kill me off the module thing. But the first module I ran was either Gargoyle or Flames of the Falcon not sure really. But after that I pretty much went on my own or converted some Dungeon adventures to suit my needs. It was the Greyhawk Box Set 83 that did it for me. While I was never able to pick up Greyhawk Wars Box Set. From the Ashes was well done IMO. So I just continued things from their.
#23 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2003 22:01:17	It was the monochrome Tomb of Horrors. This was the late seventies, I think. My brother and I had a ball taking turns and DMing each other. Since we survived few, if any, of the encounters, we had our torch-bearer run out of the tomb only to "find" other characters we had just rolled up for the adventure. I think we went through maybe a dozen characters between us. We never killed the demi-lich, but what fun it was!
#24 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2003 23:02:59	Originally posted by susurrus Since we survives few, if any, of the encounters, we had our torch-bearer run out of the tomb only to "find" other characters we had just rolled up for the adventure. Pity 3ed wasn't around. The torch bearer would've become an epic level commoner :D
#25 Gnarley_Woodsman Nov 07, 2003 10:19:25	For me it was The Tomb of Horrors aswell. The DM used the tournament "Speed" rules...nothing like rushing to your doom!
#26 darthricker Nov 07, 2003 13:48:39	A3 - Slave Pits of the Undercity. I was playing Basic and Expert and my dad bought the module for me. Thought AD&D was the next set after Expert then realized it was a totally different game. I think we used the characters in the back when we first played it. Kind of remember their names, Freda, Ogre, I think the halfling was Ghost?
#27 cwslyclgh Nov 07, 2003 14:57:07	The halflings name was Blogget. the slavers series was 4 modules long... A1: slave pits of the undercity, A2: secret of the Slavers Stocade, A3: Assualt on the Erie of the Slave Lords, and A4: The Dungeons of the Slave Lords
#28 zombiegleemax Nov 10, 2003 1:56:42	Records show that the Keep on the Borderlands was his royal majesty's first experience in gaming. The lord of the keep, while noble in countenance, was, however, unacceptable as a figure of authority in his majesty's first gaming experience. Accordingly, the Royal Dungeon Master rewrote the character in the image of Emperor Norton, who later expressed satisfaction with the portrayal. The Caves of Chaos, a menacing masterpiece, proved worthy of his majesty's cunning and, in the end, Norton prevailed. The module's outcome was celebrated in song for many years thereafter.
#29 cwslyclgh Nov 10, 2003 2:02:19	The Keep on the Borderlands, while a great and wonderful module to be sure... was not officaly a greyhawk module (unless you refer to the IMO much lower quality Return to the Keep on the Borderlands from '99 which was shoehorned and forced into the greyhawk setting, yet retained many, many references to places and people that had been previously set in the mystara setting by TSR for some unkown reason) and thus does not fall under the perview of what the first poster asked about ;)
#30 Lagrange_Baron_de_Banville Nov 10, 2003 2:45:54	Hhhmmm, I know the statement I'm about to make disqualifies me for being a decent GH-Player/DM/Author or whatsoever, but anyway: ;) Castle Greyhawk (the one published by TSR). And even worse: I loved it... :D And yes: I've never played Temple Of Elemental Evil, because it's in the hands of my CO-DM and we never really happened to have the right timing for insert it into our campaign!
#31 zombiegleemax Nov 10, 2003 22:44:28	I joined a group of kids that had just finished Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and were starting the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. I played a multi-classed elf while the others went with straight characters. We made it through the early stages of the module but the dragon nearly finished us. We had to retreat after that (I can't remember where we hid out), and came back when we were restored to full strength. Later we went through Snurre's hall and the Drow/Spider module, but at the time I remember thinking that the descriptions of the ice caverns were really cool.
#32 zombiegleemax Nov 11, 2003 22:34:46	Originally posted by emperor norton Records show that the Keep on the Borderlands was his royal majesty's first experience in gaming. The lord of the keep, while noble in countenance, was, however, unacceptable as a figure of authority in his majesty's first gaming experience. Accordingly, the Royal Dungeon Master rewrote the character in the image of Emperor Norton, who later expressed satisfaction with the portrayal. The Caves of Chaos, a menacing masterpiece, proved worthy of his majesty's cunning and, in the end, Norton prevailed. The module's outcome was celebrated in song for many years thereafter. Well, your highness, that's quite a story. We, too, adventured through the Caves of Chaos, but met with disaster when the minotaur sharpened his axe upon our torsi. I guess our dungeon master, while hardly royal, was less sympathetic with our cause. Still, I wouldn't mind adventuring with an emperor. What share of treasure does his majesty usually claim for himself?
#33 kelanenprinceofswords Nov 26, 2003 11:27:26	I don't recall the name of the module, but I was no more than 9 yrs old (am now 30), I played a fighter, and the action took place in a tower. I remember some fool eating food that was just lying on a plate upon a table in an abandoned room, and died of poison, and my character met his end fighting either hobgoblins or bugbears, I can't remember which. Anyway, I was riveted, and immediately addicted.
#34 zombiegleemax Nov 26, 2003 11:37:26	It wasnt "ghost tower of inverness" by harzard?
#35 Monteblanco Nov 26, 2003 18:44:55	The first module I played was The Keep in the Borderlands. After this one we started a homebrew campaign which slowly developed the world around our characters. When we finally got the World of Greyhawk, we transposed our homebrew setting to the Wild Coast -- an easy task thanks for the vagueness of the original box. I've played very few of the published adventures. Except for the Keep, all were placed in Greyhawk. First the Temple and then part of the Giants, and finally the small adventures in The City of Greyhawk Box. Years latter we finally played Giants/Drows to the end and last year we tried the Return to the Temple.
#36 carlanco Nov 27, 2003 10:13:31	When I started gaming in 1987, I joined a group that was already through the ToEE. At that time two of the five players left the party, so I was offered to choose between a dwarven fighter (Gimli) and a human cleric of St. Cuthbert (Alof). Since I was a newbie I decided to start with the dwarf. The other characters were a human paladin of St. Cuthbert (Rolf), a drow magic-user/thief (Elendil Hojanegra) and a hal-elven fighter which I don`t remember the name. When Gimli was killed by the banshee I contunued the adventure with Alof the cleric. After that the guy playing the drow also left, I continued with it and Alof became an NPC. After finishing the ToEE, we continued with the A1-4 series, but that`s another story. ;) Gabriel
#37 kelanenprinceofswords Nov 29, 2003 7:10:21	Originally posted by makoma It wasnt "ghost tower of inverness" by harzard? Might have been. I don't own that vintage module myself, so I can't be sure.
#38 kursk Nov 29, 2003 22:51:09	I think it was B2 Keep on the Borderlands but I don't remember if it was Greyhawk specific...