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« Thread Started on Jun 17, 2008, 8:28am »
Hey all!

I've been lurking around here trying to get educated on OD&D (and it's a good site for that!). After reading the 3 little books, I'm having trouble finding any adventures for OD&D. Can anybody point me to some?
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« Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2008, 9:28am »
Howdy, and welcome!

There are an exponentially-growing bunch of ODD adventures, starting, perhaps with the wonderful Xylarthen's Tower, by our very own jreints:

http://jrients.tripod.com/xylarthen/uxt.pdf

You can also buy the print or pdf of FightOn!, issue #1, with issue #2 on the way:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2355416

I'm sure others will chime in here as well, but that's a good start.

And, above all, make yer own adventures and share them with us!
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #2 on Jun 17, 2008, 11:25am »
The Erroneous Grog has three:

1) a giant's castle
2) warring ant hills (in the giant's garden)
3) a goblin king's tomb (somewhat Lovecraftian)
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #3 on Jun 17, 2008, 1:39pm »

Jun 17, 2008, 8:28am, John Adams wrote:
I've been lurking around here trying to get educated on OD&D (and it's a good site for that!). After reading the 3 little books, I'm having trouble finding any adventures for OD&D. Can anybody point me to some?


In addition to homebrew materials (yay!), TSR and JG both published OD&D adventures, including:

TSR: S4 tourney version (Lost Caverns of Tsojconth), S1, G1-3, D1-3
JG: see http://www.acaeum.com/jg/IndexbySystem.html for the D&D adventures (D&D there means OD&D, not Basic/Expert D&D)

Various other early OD&D adventure publishers included Wee Warriors, Daystar West, and others, too. See www.afterglow2.com or www.tomeoftreasures.com for details on these.
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« Reply #4 on Jun 17, 2008, 4:21pm »
OD&D Adventures?

Son, making UP adventures is the fun part of refereeing!






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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #5 on Jun 17, 2008, 7:34pm »
Thanks guys! I'll look into all those suggestions.

And I do plan on making my own adventures! After reading the rules, I thought I should read a couple OD&D adventures too.
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« Reply #6 on Jun 17, 2008, 10:14pm »
What I did was to google for dungeon maps. I found one with something like 13 rooms, them put together a simple grid for (1) room #, (2) monster found there, and (3) treasure found there. Kind of like what you'd see in the old Monsters & Treasure Assortment product put out by TSR in the early days. Then I set up a general theme for the complex and stocked my dungeon.

My dungeon fits all on one side of a single sheet of paper. I figure that that little adventure will last me for 2-3 sessions at least. :-)
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« Reply #7 on Jun 19, 2008, 3:20pm »
I think that Finarvyn's method is a good one. I used to put myself under the tyranny of thinking it all had to be original and somewhat on par with published modules. Needless to say, I did not get much done. The sites mentioned above are great for OD&D materials in my experience.
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #8 on Jun 19, 2008, 4:00pm »

Jun 17, 2008, 10:14pm, Finarvyn wrote:
What I did was to google for dungeon maps. I found one with something like 13 rooms, them put together a simple grid for (1) room #, (2) monster found there, and (3) treasure found there. Kind of like what you'd see in the old Monsters & Treasure Assortment product put out by TSR in the early days. Then I set up a general theme for the complex and stocked my dungeon.


Okay, d**n that's a good idea!
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #9 on Jun 19, 2008, 4:58pm »
That IS a great idea Fin!

You need to write something up for Fight On! about techniques of dungeon construction; I still write up dungeons like I did when I was, like 14, and there are certainly more efficient ways to go about it!
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #10 on Jun 29, 2008, 7:09pm »

Jun 17, 2008, 10:14pm, Finarvyn wrote:
What I did was to google for dungeon maps. I found one with something like 13 rooms, them put together a simple grid for (1) room #, (2) monster found there, and (3) treasure found there. Kind of like what you'd see in the old Monsters & Treasure Assortment product put out by TSR in the early days. Then I set up a general theme for the complex and stocked my dungeon.

My dungeon fits all on one side of a single sheet of paper. I figure that that little adventure will last me for 2-3 sessions at least. :-)


For all the simplicity of your idea, Fin, I think it will help me out of a rut I've been in. I've been making my dungeon projects too much work! Amazing that a perfectionist might do that, eh?

Really, though, I need to stop sitting around writing big descriptions about the type of debris littering the floor and how damp the place is. I should just jot a note or two if it's important and improvise the rest in play.

I've been trying to turn my dungeons into dissertations. Which is really dumb, because I'm already working on a dissertation!

So, have an exalt. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
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« Reply #11 on Jul 4, 2008, 5:00pm »
Here's a link that you might find useful: http://www.aarg.net/~minam/dungeon.cgi

Great stuff!
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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #12 on Jul 7, 2008, 6:10am »

Jun 17, 2008, 8:28am, John Adams wrote:
Hey all!

I've been lurking around here trying to get educated on OD&D (and it's a good site for that!). After reading the 3 little books, I'm having trouble finding any adventures for OD&D. Can anybody point me to some?

While nominally for Castles&Crusades, this adventure of mine is, I'd like to think, very OD&D. It is almost entirely a challenge for player skill; it is a mixture of an overarching and several smaller challenges which are often contradictory; last but not least, it is about the very OD&D concept of "you have been transported into a strange and hostile land - now what do you do?"
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« Reply #14 on Jul 9, 2008, 5:00pm »
Good Laird, melan, that adventure is amazing! It's totally convertable as it stands, but you should retool it for FightOn! I think it has potential as the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks for ODD, right down to the illustration booklet. Man. It oozes creativity. It even reads like avante-garde fiction. I'm juiced! Thank you!

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