Originally posted by abysslin
...Any inspiration to share on the following? What do you guys think about the placement of Dungeonland, Palace of the Silver Princess, and Land beyond the Magic Mirror? The freebie general mods off the WoTC site? [/b]
as for Palace of the Silver Princess...when I ran it in Greyhawk I set it in the Lortmils, north of the Duchy of Ulek.
I never played or DMed B3 Palace of the Silver Princess. Ulek, Duchy of, sounds good to me. That area has the different terrains featured in B3.
Originally posted by abysslin
And since Troll Lords is about 2 years off from releasing Castle Greyhawk and I've already abused the heck out of WGR1, I was thinking anywhere in the Cairns would be good for Dungeonland, and the Magic Mirror made most sense to me to be put on Lendore Isle?
You could certainly go that route. IIRC, the box set places these modules on actual hexes on the Darlene maps: ah yes, both in D4-86, smack dab in the middle of the hex above Greyhawk City, which I guess would be consistent with the Castle's location. For some reason I though that hex location placed them much farther into the west....
You could also make them gate trap destinations: wander into the wrong magical cavern, walk through the wrong doorway, read the wrong cursed scroll, and WHAMO---you're face-to-face with the bandersnatch, or tumbling down a shaft, or aswim in a sea of crocodile tears, the next meal for the Walrus & Carpenter, etc.
Well as you know it has appeared three times in print, the original version by Wells which was recalled (the one at the WotC site), the re-released version by Wells and Moldvay, and ther reprint of the Wells/Moldvay version in the super module “In Search of Adventure, B1-9”.
I used the IsoA version, infact I didn’t even know that the recalled version existed at the time, this was more then 10 years ago after all… however I must say that the changes that I made to the module ended up making it more similar to the original in one key way, I set the event that had befallen the palace and the valley about it have happened long ago, rather then just the other day.
Other changes I made to it, lets see I replaced Arik with Tharizdun (one of the few times I hve ever used him in any of my greyhawk campaigns, I can’t stand him, and have been somewhat distressed by the tend in later greyhawk material to want to make him responsible for every thing bad). And I made Argenta the ruler of an small Flan realm from about the time of the migrations
Originally posted by DarthRicker
I used EX1 and EX2 as an extension to WGR1. I think there was a room in WGR1 that said it led to demiplane that sounded like Alice in Wonderland. It was a few years ago when I ran it, so I don't quite remember the description. I'd have to look through the module again.
It would be cool to see a Return to Dungeonland and/or Land Beyond the Magic Mirror in Dungeon magazine. You would have a LGJ article to support the adventure (or maybe two).
Opinions? Comments? Concerns? Threats?
Knightfall
I pulled out some world maps, they weren't Greyhawk (maybe the were Realms?), so I packed the maps back into the box and haven't opened it since.
You really should take a look at the adventure, its pretty good.
the designer who created the Rod of Seven Parts had Greyhawk in mind when the Artifact and its accompying adventure were created.
The Rod of Seven Parts was created long before the adventure (first appearing in the D&D suplement Eldritch Wizardry from 1976).
other then that I do not have the Rod of Seven Parts adventure, so I can not comment on how to incorperate it into Greyhawk (which you would think would be relativly easy if it was originaly designed for that setting and then genericized, like the Night Below adventure).