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Post by havard on Jun 7, 2008 11:57:12 GMT -6
I have a vague memory of someone describing Dave's Blackmoor campaign as a place where you could even run into a mechanized tank or a wooly mamoth. Does anyone remember a description like that?
I am also curious: Were those just examples to illustrate Dave's DMing style, or was this a reference to specific incidents in the game. Is there a story behind the Mechanized Tank and the Wooly Mamoth?
Havard
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Post by gsvenson on Jun 14, 2008 16:55:10 GMT -6
I don't recall any adventures with wooly mamoths, but I do remember one adventure where the party went through a dimensional door and we found ourselves in a modern city during a war, complete with tanks and street fighting. I am afraid that I don't remember many other details about the adventure, though.
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Post by havard on Jun 15, 2008 4:31:17 GMT -6
I don't recall any adventures with wooly mamoths, but I do remember one adventure where the party went through a dimensional door and we found ourselves in a modern city during a war, complete with tanks and street fighting. I am afraid that I don't remember many other details about the adventure, though. Greg, you are a gold mine! Little tidbits like this is enough to kickstart my imagination: Using the information from the DA-series*, what you experienced might have been the Future Blackmoor, 1000 years into the future at a state of war? It would be even more awesome if this was the City of Blackmoor itself having grown into a bustling metropolis over the next 1000 years. One of the semi-legendary DM's around here did pretty much the opposite in a classic campaign back in the 80s: A platoon of modern soldiers were transported into our Fantasy campaign. While some of the soldiers were killed, the commanding lieutenant is still alive locked away somewhere in a Dungeon. The transportation into a fantasy setting was a little rough on the mental state of those guys  *Ok... moving away from OD&D-land here. Hope that is okay. |
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Post by havard on Jun 17, 2008 5:51:00 GMT -6
I don't recall any adventures with wooly mamoths, but I do remember one adventure where the party went through a dimensional door and we found ourselves in a modern city during a war, complete with tanks and street fighting. I am afraid that I don't remember many other details about the adventure, though. Could this dimensional door have been connected to the Comeback Inn? Havard |
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Post by gsvenson on Jun 17, 2008 6:00:10 GMT -6
Could this dimensional door have been connected to the Comeback Inn? It could have been, but I honestly don't remember anymore, sorry. It is kind of funny, I can remember a couple of our adventures very clearly, but most of the others are just kind of blured together... |
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Post by darneson on Sept 30, 2008 20:25:43 GMT -6
No, never any mamoths and dinosaurs. One tank. I carefully kept track of ammo consumption and gasoline usage. Amazing how quickly they were used up. The tanker truck gas quickly evaporated. And they forgot cleaning supplies for the guns. After all they were mostly arcane types, and the 'modern guys' forgot about. Ahh too bad.
Then there were the German commands on the airplane. By then the guys had caught on by then.
Still have all those Japanese on the submarine somewhere. I must clean up that loose end someday. They knew about sword fighting and hand-t-hand combat. Not to mention that ninja stuff.
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Post by Fandomaniac on Dec 11, 2008 7:57:26 GMT -6
I don't recall any adventures with wooly mamoths, but I do remember one adventure where the party went through a dimensional door and we found ourselves in a modern city during a war, complete with tanks and street fighting. I am afraid that I don't remember many other details about the adventure, though. I found an article about this in Strategic Review (Issue #3 1975). It's in the "Mapping the Dungeons" section (page 6). It talks about a game Dave ran where the party battle Nazis. The article mentions The Great Svenny, Marty the Elf and Richard the Hairy. Here an excerpt:"It was The Great Svenny, Marty the Elf, Richard the Hairy, and 5 berserkers against 26 soldiers with 2 cars, 2 trucks, 4 light mg’s, 2 motars (60 mm), and the usual bevy of small arms. Marty the Elf and 2 berserkers were killed, while the troops lost 7 KIA and 1 wounded before fleeing — good thing too, for shortly thereafter the remainder of the heroes’ force arrived, 3 magical types and another 12 berserkers!" |
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Post by gsvenson on Dec 11, 2008 19:26:40 GMT -6
I had no idea that some of our adventures were written up in a magazine! Thanks for sharing. BTW, Marty was Marty Noetzel and Richard was Richard Snider.
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Post by dwayanu on Dec 11, 2008 21:14:52 GMT -6
I remember a Panzer in a Dragon Magazine scenario of Baba Yaga's Hut. My fuzzy impression of Blackmoor (having never played in Dave's campaign) was that it would not have been too terribly incongruous.
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Post by Fandomaniac on Dec 12, 2008 13:01:24 GMT -6
I had no idea that some of our adventures were written up in a magazine! Thanks for sharing. BTW, Marty was Marty Noetzel and Richard was Richard Snider. No problem Greg. I was going to scan the article and send it to you but I found the issue online at Scribd.com. The link is below. The article is part of the "Mapping the Dungeons" section on page 6. www.scribd.com/doc/3672858/The-Strategic-Review-Vol1-3This site (Scribd) also includes all the issues of Strategic Review (published by TSR) which was the predecessor to Dragon Magazine. Most issues are between 5-8 pages long. They're an interesting read. |
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Post by havard on Dec 14, 2008 11:20:16 GMT -6
I had no idea that some of our adventures were written up in a magazine! Thanks for sharing. BTW, Marty was Marty Noetzel and Richard was Richard Snider. No problem Greg. I was going to scan the article and send it to you but I found the issue online at Scribd.com. The link is below. The article is part of the "Mapping the Dungeons" section on page 6. www.scribd.com/doc/3672858/The-Strategic-Review-Vol1-3This site (Scribd) also includes all the issues of Strategic Review (published by TSR) which was the predecessor to Dragon Magazine. Most issues are between 5-8 pages long. They're an interesting read. Wow, this is awesome! The Great Svenny fighting nazis. I guess this is yet another example of how early day gaming knew no limits! This reminds me of an early game I played myself where the DM set us up against a group of soldiers clearly inspired by the movie Platoon who for some reason had been transported into the D&D game world... Havard |
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Post by blackmoor on Dec 22, 2008 20:34:13 GMT -6
Oh we brought Martin back after the dust settled. (Can't keep a good character down after all.).
There was also one where German commando/paratroopers came through the rift. As I recall they ran out of bullets after several encounters that they handled in an unfriendly manner. I forget what happened to the survivors.
Then the raid on the French Island held by the Japanese. That's where Greg got his tank that rests in front of his castle, (Long out of fuel and ammo, but impressive!) Than there was the axis undead submarine, and a counter raid to knock out their transporter hmm we never finished that one, hmmm. Awwhh those were the days.
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I'll have to share that "D&D The Movie" story sometime.
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Post by gsvenson on Dec 23, 2008 15:38:55 GMT -6
I didn't remember bringing a tank back to Newgate. I will have to update my description of the town on my website with that little tidbit. I wonder how I can describe it? Thanks for remembering Dave! That's real synergy at this point...
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Post by blackmoor on Dec 23, 2008 16:31:30 GMT -6
I don't think that you were the one who brought it back. Something about it being more trouble that it was worth. I think it was Snider's gang or Jim's.
BTW I don't recall any games with Mamoths. T-Rex's yes but nothin big and wooly.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2008 17:22:46 GMT -6
I'll have to share that D&D The Movie story sometime. Please do! I'd love to hear this one.* It was a real treat seeing you in that film. *Actually, I'd love to hear any of the stories you have to tell. |
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Post by gsvenson on Dec 23, 2008 17:38:30 GMT -6
I don't think that you were the one who brought it back. Something about it being more trouble that it was worth. I think it was Snider's gang or Jim's. BTW I don't recall any games with Mamoths. T-Rex's yes but nothin big and wooly. That makes more sense. Richard would have been likely to do something like that. I didn't recall any mamoths, either, but I vividly remember a T-Rex... |
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Post by Fandomaniac on Dec 23, 2008 18:06:08 GMT -6
I sure love hearing old Blackmoor stories. You should all get together and record some of these as a podcast. That would be awesome!
"BLACKMOOR THE PODCAST!"
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Post by coffee on Dec 23, 2008 22:43:11 GMT -6
I'll go along with that...
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