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Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:42 pm Favorite Living Greyhawk Scenarios

What are some of the best Living Greyhawk scenarios you've seen?

My favorites so far are the Absolute Power adventures by Iquander (River of Blood and As He Lay Dying), but there's an AWFUL lot out there to choose from. Which are gems?
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Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:30 pm Re: Favorite Living Greyhawk Scenarios

Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:12 pm

Thanks much Simpi, I'll check 'em out!
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~basiliv

I didn't design the world,
I merely facilitated its creation

Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:09 pm

Just a note. Folks will doubtless remember the "Isles of Woe" rhubarb from awhile back - their rising etc. Looking through some old Dragons and Dungeons there are at least a dozen descriptions of these events in various issues. I think this is canon - published by the IP holder. Shocked

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GVD

Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:42 pm LG Adventures

I agree with Simpi that COR3-09 Face Value is one adventure to avoid. As are COR3-16 Lerara and COR3-14 Hunt for the Rogue.

My personal favorite Cores have been: 3-13 The Traitor's Road, 3-15 Nine Lives (with an awesome creature at the end), 4-02 Stone Man's Puzzle, 3-01 The Hidden Fortress, and 4-16 The Frozen Spire. CORS4-04 Mad God's Key was fun, too. I judged it for three groups, it was ss popular here. Too bad it's sequel, COR4-12 Key to the Grave was not as good. It was a real frustrating "mystery" for PCs. I liked COR3-17 When Orcs Attack, too. But others around here did not like it so much. The advenure make a small, but good effort to describe Eastfair. I am in the group of people that did not like COR3-19 Folly. I thought E-squiggle was dumb, and I am just not a Zagyg fan.

The Nyrond region has had some fantastic adventures. Too many to list here, but check them out HERE.

As is the case in most RPGA games, the judge will make or break the experience. And there are some adventures that require an experienced GM to make them work (COR4-17 The Real Hero Blues being one of them).

Anyway, just a few thoughts. Back to my regularly scheduled lurking. Happy gaming.
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Don (Greyson)

Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:08 am

I liked Plea from Beyond the Grave. Played it with Timmy! judging and then ran it (taking 5 1/2 hours or so) later and had a blast. DC 30+ disguise checks are fun... Wink

Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:43 pm

Wow, thanks folks, lots to choose from. A few questions though:

callmeAndydammit, do you have any idea what the code is for Plea from Beyond the Grave?? If not, do you know what year, is it COR...?

Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:03 pm Here ya go

Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:05 pm Re: Here ya go

Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:33 am Re: Here ya go

Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:42 pm

Absolute Power Series is terrific -- Erik Mona

Cor 3-13 Traitors Road is a good solid foray into the bright desert

the Brendingund series is superb

Much of the rest, particularly those Core modules published within the past two years is pretty bad and not at all creative

Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:49 am

Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:11 am

For what it's worth, I liked both Crystal Caverns of the Cairn Hills and Hunt for the Rogue. The latter may be just because I have a soft spot for modrons.

The best modules I've played were Atonement, the Splintered Suns metaregionals Crossfire and Ten Minutes, and the Naerie regionals Return to Gefjon and When Nightingales Sing...

Really, the only module I've seen that was irredeemably bad was The Letter.

This must not be confused with modules that are irredeemably evil, such as... well, everything by Creighton Broadhurst and Key to the Grave. The modules are well-written, but there's a sense of a malign intellect behind it all, and the faint sound of giggling at the edges of hearing whenever a PC dies.

Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:52 pm

jejeje...the silk room in Mad´s God Key and the unexpected Vampire in Key to the grave.... Laughing

Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:11 pm

Lererra is really good as are some of the Verbobonc mods. I think my favorite is Return of the Grand Duke a Geoff mod. I also liked Dorakka one of the Iuz metaregionals. I never played 2e City of Skulls but a friend said some of the material in that module reminded him of Dorakka.

For the record, I've written Tropical Intrigue and 2 intros a Geoff one and a Furyondy one.

Mike (McKeown)
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Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:30 pm

Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:00 am

I've not seen nor run any of these, but they sound like an interesting resource. I'm assuming I have to join the RPGA to have access to them?

Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:03 am

Tee Hee

There was a "follow up" to Tropical Intrigue.
The Keoland regional module Tomb of Tloques-Popolocas.
It is retired now, but we already know what they dug up. But nobody wanted to stop by the Gradsul museum and see it.
Cool

The sequel to that is available, and the third module is coming out this year.

(I didn't write any of them, I just approved the initial story arc plot.)

Oh, and yes, anything written by Creighton Broadhurst IS irredeemably evil.

Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:10 am

Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:57 am