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Eternalknight
Australia
117 Posts
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 Posted - 25 Apr 2003 : 14:45:58       
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If you could choose just one book to be done, what book would that be?
My choice:
Night Dragon |
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Rabel
United Kingdom
37 Posts
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Posted - 25 Apr 2003 : 16:39:00
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Well, its a hard question but, on reflection, I would painfully overule Deathtrap Dungeon and Trial of Champions in favour of:
Beneath Nightmare Castle
just because it would make a really evil d20 adventure that I could torture my players with. |
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Yaztromo
United Kingdom
18 Posts
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Posted - 26 Apr 2003 : 06:55:16
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I have to follow my dungeon crawling soul and go fdor the obvious:
Deathtrap Dungeon.
Witty phrase pending. |
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Shelka the Bold
Australia
6 Posts
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Posted - 26 Apr 2003 : 08:12:13
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Island of the Lizard King I know it's not the best FF book ever, but it was the first one I ever bought with my own money (I raided my piggy bank when I was about 10 and paid for it with 5c pieces  ) |
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nyarlathotep
United Kingdom
5 Posts
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Posted - 27 Apr 2003 : 12:58:47
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It would have to be Forest of Doom for me, I bought it at a book fair from my school when I was 10, it was such a revelation to me that reading could be interactive, and my first step towards roleplaying. Now 20years later I'm teaching my 10years-old son how to roleplay and along come the D20 FF conversions - Fate smiles down  |
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Eryx
United Kingdom
75 Posts
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Posted - 01 May 2003 : 17:39:22
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It would be a difficult choice between Forest of Doom, Deathtrap Dungeon or Island of the Lizard King.
Personally, I'd probably go with Island of the Lizard King.
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Yokiboy
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Posted - 03 May 2003 : 09:55:24
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Definitely Deathtrap Dungeon! I've converted this adventure myself to so many different RPGs that I would love to see what Myriador could come up with. 
The trick with converting FF books to d20 is setting the party level. Doing Deathtrap Dungeon for 1st level characters will be next to impossible, I'm curious to see what they might come up with. I'd recommend a solution where you include scalable encounters, and perhaps as many as 3 versions of each character/creature/monster so the adventure can easily be fitted into any campaign.
Another trick to doing Deathtrap Dungeon correctly is do you go solo or party adventure? Doing it as a party adventure, then you must change the entire premiss of the adventure, but as a solo (meaning DM vs Player here) it's audience level will be much different.
If it were meant to be run by a DM with just 1 player, or at least 1 player entering the dungeon at a time, the adventure might not be incorporated into campaign play, but rather played as a one-off adventure. This would certainly not be anything bad, and might actually make the adventure more marketable as almost anyone could run it as long as at least 2 friend get together.
Anyhoo... enough of my ramblings.
Deathtrap Dungeon still gets my vote!
TTFN,
Yokiboy
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Eryx
United Kingdom
75 Posts
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Posted - 03 May 2003 : 14:37:25
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I agree that the scaling of these is going to be difficult. If I could throw my opinion in, I'd like to see these modules done for different levels and for parties as opposed to one player/one DM.
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Guillermo
Mexico
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Posted - 03 May 2003 : 23:06:34
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| Deathtrap Dungeon was originally planned as a competitive adventure between individuals (every hero looks for him/herself, there is almost no group play and what little there is is only temporary). How is Myriador going to get around this and convert it for a group adventure? Keeping track of six different players all going their own way would be impossible for the best Dungeon Masters. |
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Eternalknight
Australia
117 Posts
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Posted - 04 May 2003 : 09:59:16
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| It's pretty easy to actually scale for different numbers of adventurers. If, for instance, a module was written for 4 4th level characters, then by using the Encounter Level tables in the DMG you could scale this quite easily. In the example module, it would be appropriate for a single 8th level character. |
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Yaztromo
United Kingdom
18 Posts
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Posted - 07 May 2003 : 15:32:14
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One easy way could be to change the contest to account for groups rather than single adventurers. They have to split the prize, and of course there will be NPC parties knocking about in the Dungeon.
Witty phrase pending. |
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arena96
Germany
1 Posts
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Posted - 07 May 2003 : 21:39:11
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I absolutely love "House of Hell". That would be a great choice and would make a nice change to the usual setting.
As to fantasy, "Citadel of Chaos" would be my favourite. |
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Dragón de Piedra
Spain
2 Posts
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Posted - 08 May 2003 : 12:48:41
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Hi, everyone
This is a very difficult question, since F&F is a gamebook series so full of good works and classics. However, if I had to choose, I would say Sorcery! (I´m glad Myriador is planning to adapt it to d20 soon). It is true that Deathtrap Dungeon, City of Thieves, Forest of Doom, Nightdragon, Midnight Rogue, Beneath Nightmare Castle... are all excellent titles, but no gamebook has thrilled me, inspired me and connected with my imagination as the Sorcery! tetralogy, with its original puzzles, interesting story-line and fabulous ending -and cool illustrations by Blanche.
But, really, I hope that choosing will not be necessary and we will be able to enjoy ALL our favourite gamebooks adapted by Myriador, and of course, the Titan sourcebooks.
Keep up gaming! |
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metaldredd
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 May 2003 : 23:37:11
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 house of hell would fit in any ravenloft/horror campaign and its the one of the best books i ever did. |
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Allansian Wanderer
United Kingdom
4 Posts
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Posted - 25 May 2003 : 21:06:31
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City of Thieves would make an excellent party adventure, but could probably wait until after a Port Blacksand or Allansia sourcebook has been written (hint!).
Deathtrap Dungeon would make an intersting party adventure, if difficult to write and of course, no need to explain some of the weak linking between parts that can occur in FF books (the dreaded "how do the dwarves in this room get food when the only room leading in has a minotaur in it?" questions you get from players). It would of course make an excellent solo campaign.
Forest of Doom would make a great multi-player adventure.
Regards,
Jim |
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jamie
United Kingdom
180 Posts
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Posted - 06 Jun 2003 : 16:29:41
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quote:
Originally posted by Eternalknight
If you could choose just one book to be done, what book would that be?
My choice:
Night Dragon
Tony Hough who did the artwork for Night Dragon is doing some of the internal Illustrations for our d20 conversion of DEATHTRAP DUNGEON.
Have a look at some of Tony's artwork at: http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/tonyhough2000
Jamie Wallis
Author
Myriador LTD
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Edited by - jamie on 06 Jun 2003 16:34:28
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