hey guys

just something i wanted to mention too, though its kinda covered in another thread elsewhere.

at gencon, i decided to run the old version of Tegel Manor. ie. the small orange 1st print booklet with hardly anything in it.

did it work in the modern days game? youre damn right it did. ask the guys who played it Mike, Martin and John. They all thought it was a blast and for me, it just shows that with the right touches and some quick thinking, its easy to bring one of the older products to life so well.

the game flowed very well and things were fun and exciting all the time.

some of the stuff is a little out-dated for sure, but with a little amending and nudging here and there, you can make it fit just right.

i have to give Tegel a solid 10 out of 10 and for me, it still remains as one of my most favorite modules to DM. i was just so glad that the guys enjoyed it so much. i honestly think they enjoyed this more than they would have Q1 or R1 (which i also had with me ready to play).

makes me happy that Judges Guild still stands up well in a good game - these were experienced gaming guys too.

next time i will use a different item just off the cuff, but i will take tegel with me again once more (modified slightly to suit my own style of DMing), so any of the guys who want a quick bash at it, are welcome to do so!

has anyone else used them in games? i would be real interested to know what they thought of them from a DMing perspective and what the gamers thought.

Al

Cushionsnbeans wrote:I'm in the planning stages now.

Going to use a couple of items from the  Treasure Maps series they should be quite easy to integrate into the campaign.

Will let you know how it goes.

D.

you know i "almost" took that along instead of Tegel as the adventures are pretty cool and quite short and easy to play. will be really interested to see how they pan out!

be sure to pipe in and lemme know please.

Al

Plaag wrote:I used a modified Thieves of Badabaskor before (only the top two levels) and that went over well.
I have done a little with Tegel Manor, but only with the village before things cropped up. Course I'd played in it at a GenCon 4-5 years ago and it started me on the Judges Guild frenzy I'm in today
Man makes me want to just sit down and read that booklet again.

ShaneG.

shane you really should man. i forgot how cool it really was. when i was reading it through pre-gencon, i had it quite clear in my head how encounters were going to flow and everything....it was just so cool!

i also had a look at the gamescience one for the 1st time too and you know what? that is equally as good as its fleshed out a lot and pretty cool as well, though in a different way. i still like the old one better, only because it suits my way of DMing more as i like to mould things myself and not have them narrated out for me.

Al

Cushionsnbeans wrote:Some of us havent got a Tegel........

well bar for one and the one martin bought, i bought all of them in GenCon   (the gamescience ones that is)

Al

One more reason to try and get out there next year....

This thread highlights the major flaw in the way that WOTC is presenting their 4e.
RPG's should be about shared time, a few laughs, group imagination, storytelling and friendships.
It should not be confined to rigid rule sets that remind me of programming 101 flowcharts.
I have had entire evenings of running a game when I don't even look at a rulebook.
If I want the monster to lurk beyond the range of light cast from the lantern then that is what will happen.
To me it is about the narrative that the group builds together.
I discovered that way back around 1980 when I was winging an encounter in a Gamma World game I was running for some new people.
They were scared to death for over half an hour while exploring a ruined gas station and were sure they were being attacked when somebody triggered the drawer spring on an old cash register.
Rules in use during that session were almost zero, memories...priceless.  

I am using Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia in a game. I don't own a TM yet but I'm trying to find one.