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« Reply #15 on Jul 10, 2008, 1:36am »

Jul 9, 2008, 5:00pm, kesher wrote:

Good Laird, melan, that adventure is amazing!

I agree. Check out his Garden of al-Astorion, too.

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« Reply #16 on Jul 10, 2008, 2:24am »

Jul 9, 2008, 5:00pm, kesher wrote:

Good Laird, melan, that adventure is amazing!

Thanks. It's certainly the best gaming material I have ever written.

As for conversion, it is way, way too big to fit in Fight On!, and it is already so stat-light that OD&D conversion is a non-issue. When we played it, there was very little dice-rolling at all, although some people got lasered, including Second Wandsman Feluxis.

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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #17 on Jul 10, 2008, 2:42pm »

Jun 17, 2008, 1:39pm, grodog wrote:

TSR: S4 tourney version (Lost Caverns of Tsojconth), S1, G1-3, D1-3

I have a follow up question. Are there OD&D versions of S1, G1-3, D1-3 in circulation? I know it wouldn't be all that hard to convert the AD&D1 modules, even to LBB, but I'm still curious. I've seen the s4 tournament version, and I'd be interested in seeing these others if they're available out there in some form.

Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated

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Re: OD&D Adventures?
« Reply #18 on Jul 10, 2008, 10:17pm »

Jul 10, 2008, 2:42pm, R Forest wrote:

Are there OD&D versions of S1, G1-3, D1-3 in circulation?

The G and D trilogies were originally written for AD&D. I strongly doubt that there are any OD&D versions.

S1 was originally an OD&D module. Possibly Gary's pre-AD&D version of it is still in existence. The thing about S1, though, is that it is already the most OD&D of all the AD&D modules. Very, very few AD&Disms in there.

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« Reply #19 on Jul 11, 2008, 1:28pm »

If you look at the monster and pregen PC stats (in particular the number of spells per level and the levels of the spells) in the G/D modules, you'll see that they're definitely OD&D based. They were also published in 1978 prior to the release of the PHB.

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« Reply #20 on Jul 11, 2008, 2:02pm »

I've run Dark Tower with OD&D. I once thought of going through and noting where AD&D-isms are really important; offhand, I don't think there's much of that. Jaquays had a thing for using the enlarge spell (actually, its reduce form) offensively in a way the (then unpublished) DMG prohibited, but I don't think that's essential.

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