paizo.com Favorited Posts by grodogpaizo.com Favorited Posts by grodog2024-02-26T05:25:07Z2024-02-26T05:25:07ZRe: Forums: Website Feedback: Website Loop Back Issuegrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2u8db?Website-Loop-Back-Issue#22017-03-12T16:08:37Z2017-03-12T16:08:08Z<p>I've noticed this too, with some older Maure Castle forums URLs @ http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/olderProducts/dungeon/ maureCastle and http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoInc/olderProducts/dungeon/maureCa stle both inconsistently redirecting to the main page.</p>
<p>Allan.</p>I've noticed this too, with some older Maure Castle forums URLs @ http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/olderProducts/dungeon/ maureCastle and http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoInc/olderProducts/dungeon/maureCa stle both inconsistently redirecting to the main page.
Allan.grodog2017-03-12T16:08:08ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: More Maure Mysteriesgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2h0bz&page=2?More-Maure-Mysteries#642017-03-04T18:04:52Z2017-03-03T23:29:08Z<p>http://hallsoftizunthane.blogspot.com/2012/12/afs-issue-2-is-released.html</p>
<p>Allan.</p>http://hallsoftizunthane.blogspot.com/2012/12/afs-issue-2-is-released.html
Allan.grodog2017-03-03T23:29:08ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Maure Castle/Ruins of Castle Greyhawk and Age of Wormsgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2jc45?Maure-Castle-Ruins-of-Castle-Greyhawk-and#362016-12-16T19:34:23Z2013-12-19T20:42:49Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">A'koss wrote:</div><blockquote><p>And sure enough the question of the location of the Octychs has come up. So as I gather, these are the locations of Octychs we know about:</p>
<p>•• spoiler omitted ••
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</blockquote><p>Now that's interesting: I wasn't aware that [Spoiler omitted]
<p>I just checked the original manuscript and it's not mentioned in there (nor is the word "triangle"), so I wonder if this was added to the </p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>So, it looks like the known locations are still just: </p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>Correct?</p>
<p>Allan.</p>A'koss wrote:And sure enough the question of the location of the Octychs has come up. So as I gather, these are the locations of Octychs we know about:
** spoiler omitted **
Now that's interesting: I wasn't aware that [Spoiler omitted] I just checked the original manuscript and it's not mentioned in there (nor is the word "triangle"), so I wonder if this was added to the
[Spoiler omitted]
So, it looks like the known locations are still just:
[Spoiler omitted]
Correct?
Allan.grodog2013-12-19T20:42:49ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Warlock's Walk?grodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2n9u4?Warlocks-Walk#22012-02-08T12:41:41Z2011-12-13T04:50:03Z<p>It appears 3.5e/d20 format in the Maure Castle issue #23 of the Oerth Journal @ <a href="http://oerthjournal.blogspot.com/p/oerth-journal-downloads.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://oerthjournal.blogspot.com/p/oerth-journal-downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Rob had the 1e version on the Pied Piper site and you can access that @ <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110220184513/http://site.pied-piper-publishing.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=44&Itemid=47" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20110220184513/http://site.pied-piper-publishing .com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog& amp;id=44&Itemid=47</a></p>
<p>Allan.</p>It appears 3.5e/d20 format in the Maure Castle issue #23 of the Oerth Journal @ http://oerthjournal.blogspot.com/p/oerth-journal-downloads.html
Rob had the 1e version on the Pied Piper site and you can access that @ http://web.archive.org/web/20110220184513/http://site.pied-piper-publishing .com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog& amp;id=44&Itemid=47
Allan.grodog2011-12-13T04:50:03ZForums: Maure Castle: Rob Kuntz Interview @ HillCantonsgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mppi?Rob-Kuntz-Interview-HillCantons#12016-09-07T16:31:28Z2011-08-16T01:36:41Z<p>FYI for the curious!: http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-borders-or-limits-conversation-w ith.html</p>
<p>Allan.</p>FYI for the curious!: http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-borders-or-limits-conversation-w ith.html
Allan.grodog2011-08-16T01:36:41ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Unofficial material for Mauregrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mnn4?Unofficial-material-for-Maure#32016-09-07T16:31:56Z2011-08-10T04:54:44Z<p>The PPP site is now down (and likely permanently), but you can still access the Maure Materials via archive.org:</p>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090214121152/http://www.pied-piper-publishing.com/index.php/RobsWork/maure_casle" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20090214121152/http://www.pied-piper-publishing. com/index.php/RobsWork/maure_casle</a></p>
<p>leads to </p>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201325/http://site.pied-piper-publishing.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=40" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201325/http://site.pied-piper-publishing .com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Ite mid=40</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201045/http://site.pied-piper-publishing.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=38" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201045/http://site.pied-piper-publishing .com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Ite mid=38</a></p>
<p>IIRC both of these were also published in OJ23.</p>
<p>Allan.</p>The PPP site is now down (and likely permanently), but you can still access the Maure Materials via archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090214121152/http://www.pied-piper-publishing. com/index.php/RobsWork/maure_casle
leads to
http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201325/http://site.pied-piper-publishing .com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Ite mid=40
and
http://web.archive.org/web/20090914201045/http://site.pied-piper-publishing...grodog2011-08-10T04:54:44ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Kuntz to release Castle El Raja Key levels in 2010grodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2k9sp?Kuntz-to-release-Castle-El-Raja-Key-levels-in#102016-09-13T02:30:23Z2010-03-02T22:18:08Z<p>From my POV they are in fact different, but closely-related, dungeons: ERK was Rob's original campaign dungeon for the Kalibruhn campaign setting (like Castles Blackmoore and Greyhawk were the campaign dungeons for those settings). Maure Castle was the "equivalent" to ERK in Greyhawk, but as outlined in Dungeon 112, the original levels of MC don't align (to my understanding) of the original levels in ERK. So, I think there is definitely cross-pollination going on, I'm just not sure how much the two are "the same": if it's only 30% that's potentially a big difference vs. say 70-80% similarity.</p>
<p>I'll see if Rob can stop by and chime in here with some more-authoritative input....</p>
<p>Allan.</p>From my POV they are in fact different, but closely-related, dungeons: ERK was Rob's original campaign dungeon for the Kalibruhn campaign setting (like Castles Blackmoore and Greyhawk were the campaign dungeons for those settings). Maure Castle was the "equivalent" to ERK in Greyhawk, but as outlined in Dungeon 112, the original levels of MC don't align (to my understanding) of the original levels in ERK. So, I think there is definitely cross-pollination going on, I'm just not sure how much...grodog2010-03-02T22:18:08ZForums: Maure Castle: Kuntz to release Castle El Raja Key levels in 2010grodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2k9sp?Kuntz-to-release-Castle-El-Raja-Key-levels-in#12016-09-07T16:43:48Z2009-12-17T01:39:59Z<p>I thought folks might not have noticed some recent posts on Rob's blog about his plans to release levels from Castle El Raja Key in 2010: see
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<a href="http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/</a> in general, and <a href="http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-horizon-castle-el-raja-key.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-horizon-castle-el-raja -key.html</a> in particular.</p>
<p>Allan.</p>I thought folks might not have noticed some recent posts on Rob's blog about his plans to release levels from Castle El Raja Key in 2010: see
http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/ in general, and http://lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-horizon-castle-el-raja -key.html in particular.
Allan.grodog2009-12-17T01:39:59ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Maure Castle/Ruins of Castle Greyhawk and Age of Wormsgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2jc45?Maure-Castle-Ruins-of-Castle-Greyhawk-and#112016-12-16T19:27:07Z2009-03-03T04:43:46Z<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>If its problematic, you could always remove the second octych: there's nothing in that adventure of the following ones that require it to be present.</p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</blockquote><p>I can't help you there, as I don't own that book.
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>Allan.</p>[Spoiler omitted]
If its problematic, you could always remove the second octych: there's nothing in that adventure of the following ones that require it to be present.
[Spoiler omitted]
[Spoiler omitted]I can't help you there, as I don't own that book. [Spoiler omitted]
[Spoiler omitted]
Allan.grodog2009-03-03T04:43:46ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Maure Castle/Ruins of Castle Greyhawk and Age of Wormsgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2jc45?Maure-Castle-Ruins-of-Castle-Greyhawk-and#72016-12-16T19:24:24Z2009-03-01T02:36:57Z<p>Rob's response over on the PPP boards:</p>
<p>===
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The original version of this now-differently-named phenomena will be treated in an upcoming rleases from the Original Campaign; and I was thinking about those tie-ins just recently when organizing the "CATALOG". This will account for its beginning history, at least, not-with-standing variants of such as now exist.</p>
<p>From the original design intent, yes these were designed to be "jumping of pads" for future adventures, but it goes without saying that I included some more interesting alternatives since then, and as detailed in the unpublished notes for a related article I began crafting back in 2005: I. The Eight-Pointed Star [10m words]; which derives from over 25 listings of proposed articles and adventures seeded with GH lore I was combining in my Red Book file. Others in this vein I paste hereafter. Whether all of these can be done in context with all the name changes needed is a matter for future thought.</p>
<p>— VI. Greyhawk's Spell Archetypes Based on the Suloise Ancient Texts [10m words]; XVI. The Suel Magi, Including the Ritual for the Invoked Devastation [12m words]; XII. The Yeomanry's Expeditions into the Sea of Dust [10m words]; XVII. Baklunish Ancient Magic, Formulas and the Colorless Fire [12m words]; XXI. The Lost Passage (adventure) [20m words]. ... —RJK
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===</p>
<p>Threads @ <a href="http://piedpiperpublishing.yuku.com/topic/2636" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://piedpiperpublishing.yuku.com/topic/2636</a> for reference.</p>
<p>Allan.</p>Rob's response over on the PPP boards:
===
The original version of this now-differently-named phenomena will be treated in an upcoming rleases from the Original Campaign; and I was thinking about those tie-ins just recently when organizing the "CATALOG". This will account for its beginning history, at least, not-with-standing variants of such as now exist.
From the original design intent, yes these were designed to be "jumping of pads" for future adventures, but it goes without saying that...grodog2009-03-01T02:36:57ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Maure Castle/Ruins of Castle Greyhawk and Age of Wormsgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2jc45?Maure-Castle-Ruins-of-Castle-Greyhawk-and#52016-11-01T02:51:54Z2009-02-27T20:37:57Z<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>Rob Kuntz has also commented on the octychs to a limited degree in threads here at Paizo as well as on the Pied Piper boards but he hasn't revealed further mysteries that I recall. </p>
<p>Allan.</p>[Spoiler omitted]
Rob Kuntz has also commented on the octychs to a limited degree in threads here at Paizo as well as on the Pied Piper boards but he hasn't revealed further mysteries that I recall.
Allan.grodog2009-02-27T20:37:57ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Malcanthet's connection?grodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2hb26?Malcanthets-connection#162012-02-03T17:07:37Z2008-10-25T04:06:01Z<p>Happy to help, baron! :D Unfortunately, I haven't had any time to update my other Wyre-related bookmarks for non-Rogues Gallery rules discussions that Sep started, and I don't think they work after EnW changed their URLs schema.</p>
<p>Just in case, though, here they are:</p>
<p>http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61536
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76295
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50568
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51212
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52570
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58301
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http://dungeondamage.keenspace.com/d/20030827.html
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81434
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70323&page=2&pp=25
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http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=126874
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http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=129739
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http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=115672
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http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=173225</p>
<p>The first two are conversions for daemons and such that Sep liked. The last two are for his old non-Wyre SH.</p>Happy to help, baron! :D Unfortunately, I haven't had any time to update my other Wyre-related bookmarks for non-Rogues Gallery rules discussions that Sep started, and I don't think they work after EnW changed their URLs schema.
Just in case, though, here they are:
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61536
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76295
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http://www.enworld.org/forumdisplay.php?f=305
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50568...grodog2008-10-25T04:06:01ZForums: Maure Castle: Maure family tree?grodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2hx1r?Maure-family-tree#12012-02-03T17:11:51Z2008-03-03T02:24:50Z<p>Has anyone attempted to create a Maure family tree, by chance? I haven't yet, but was toying with the idea earlier today, and figured if someone else had already done so, it would save me a little research effort :D</p>
<p>Jason Zavoda's last index update predates the Maure Castle issue of Dungeon, so there's not a lot out there on the Maures otherwise:</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Zavoda wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
<br />
Altenmaure [PRV]
<br />
LGJ#5 - 31</p>
<p>Maure (House of)[CLN]
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LGG - 125,126</p>
<p>Maure Castle {Mauve}[CTL]
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COG:GOTF - 18
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DRG#191 - 66
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FTAA - 73
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FTAC - 30
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FTAR#3
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LGG - 125,126
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LGJ#0 - 5,9
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SOOC - 7,289,290,292
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TAB - 3,8,101,IBC
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TAB:AM - 1
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TSC - IC
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WG5 - 3,4,13,16,26
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WG11 - IC
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WGA4 - 49
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WGM1 - IBC
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WOGG - IBC</p>
<p>Maure Lands [PLC]
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LGG - 125,126
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LGJ#5 - 31</p>
<p>Mauritian Declenn (General)[F9][NPC]
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WGR4 - 26,36,41
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</blockquote><p>I included a few like the last entry in case they were potentially related or named after the Maures.
<p>Allan.</p>Has anyone attempted to create a Maure family tree, by chance? I haven't yet, but was toying with the idea earlier today, and figured if someone else had already done so, it would save me a little research effort :D
Jason Zavoda's last index update predates the Maure Castle issue of Dungeon, so there's not a lot out there on the Maures otherwise:
Zavoda wrote:Altenmaure [PRV]
LGJ#5 - 31Maure (House of)[CLN]
LGG - 125,126
Maure Castle {Mauve}[CTL]
COG:GOTF - 18
DRG#191 - 66
FTAA - 73
FTAC -...grodog2008-03-03T02:24:50ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: More Maure Mysteriesgrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2h0bz?More-Maure-Mysteries#382016-09-13T04:03:58Z2006-12-31T22:32:07Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Valmoth Galvador wrote:</div><blockquote> Just a quick question, but does everybody remember the 8 pointed star at the Unopenable Doors? I was reading through my collection of Dungeon magazines recently and I remember reading about some treasure that included a triangular metal plate that was keyed to a plane. These two seem to be connected and I was wondering whether anybody had any hard facts on these mysterious plates? </blockquote><p>There's not a lot of info on them, Valmoth Galvador. Your best sources for lore are:
<div class="messageboard-quotee">WG5's 'Entering the Level' on pages 4-5 wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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Characters who examine the floor here will note that there is an eight-pointed star chiseled into the stone. The points of the star are entirely cleaned out, as if something is supposed to be set into them. The “something” which is meant to be inset is a set of eight metal triangles, each about the size of a halfling’s hand and each of a Merent hue. In the Greyhawk Campaign, each plate was enchanted to a different plane typically a special demi-plane or similar place. Thus, a double adventure was set up for each of the eight triangles. First came the search for the metal plaque, and then came the adventure of traveling to the destination encoded on the plaque, exploring, and finding a way back. When the whole WORLD OF GREYHAWK Campaign series is eventually completed, the eight triangles will be placed therein, as will the destinations encoded upon them. Until such time, you may either leave the eight-pointed star as an enigma, or else decide for yourself the locations of the plates and their mysterious destinations. Then, either in this dungeon complete (or in another), your adventurers may find a special treasure—an explanation of the power of the eight-pointed start and its metal pieces, and a clue as to where one of them might be found. Thereafter, you have a whole new set of adventures for your campaign!—EGG</blockquote><p>In addition to what is revealed in Dungeons 112, 124, and 139, you'll find a few other tidbits out there:
<p><ul>
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<li>The Age of Worms AP includes one of the pieces of the eight-pointed star as part of Dragotha's treasure hoard in Dungeon 134's "Into the Wormcrawl Fissure"
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<li>Erik Mona wrote two RPGA adventures for Living Greyhawk back in Year 1. They were part of an intended series of seven modules titled "Absolute Power" that has not yet been completed (I'm eternally hopeful); the two adventures are entitled "River of Blood" (an allusion to S2 White Plume Mountain), and "As I Lay Dying" and contain some clues and hints about the eight-pointed stars.
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<li>The Living Greyhawk logo itself features the eight stars in it; you can see it in the LGJ #4 issue on Paizo.com @ http://paizo.com/image/product/magazine_issue/Other/LivingGreyhawkJournal/4 /cover_500.jpg
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</ul></p>
<p>I can't think of any other sources about the eight-pointed star, offhand.</p>
<p>Allan.</p>Valmoth Galvador wrote:Just a quick question, but does everybody remember the 8 pointed star at the Unopenable Doors? I was reading through my collection of Dungeon magazines recently and I remember reading about some treasure that included a triangular metal plate that was keyed to a plane. These two seem to be connected and I was wondering whether anybody had any hard facts on these mysterious plates?
There's not a lot of info on them, Valmoth Galvador. Your best sources for lore are:...grodog2006-12-31T22:32:07ZRe: Forums: Maure Castle: Best way to Maure Castlegrodoghttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2h2rl?Best-way-to-Maure-Castle#82016-11-01T03:27:37Z2006-11-07T04:16:02Z<p>I'm not a huge fan of ToEE myself (or RttToEE either): the dungeons just aren't all that interesting. (T1 Village of Hommlet rocks, btw, I'm just not keen on its sequels). </p>
<p>If you're that worried about too much dungeon crawling in T1-4, shorten it: chop out some of the levels completely, or collapse some; ignore the elemental nodes; simplify the competing factions (perhaps only the Fire Temple still remains, or somesuch). </p>
<p>Another way to broaden the T1-4 adventure is to follow-up on some of the hints and leads mentioned in T1 that are ignored in T1-4: trace the cult back to Dyvers (or the Wild Coast, or somewhere else you prefer); play with the undetailed geography (for example, what if the village of Ostverk was infiltrated by evil doers even moreso than Hommlet was/is?). Etc. Or, replace T2-4 entirely by making Maure Castle the forces behind the ToEE, or by making it the real movers and shakers behind the Temple (instead of Iuz, Tzuggtmoy, etc.). </p>
<p>If you want to bridge into Maure Castle more clearly, then make some connections between the PCs and the Maures: hints about the Suel migrations, maps to lost Suel lore (perhaps tied to the migrations, perhaps to the lost city in the Suss forest [also expanded upon by Gygax in his Artifact of Evil novel]), links to the Lost City of the Elders (or the various cults detailed in Dungeon 112 [these didn't appear in the original WG5]), references to Kerzit or the Purple [Stone] Oracle, etc., etc. Tomorast found the Tome of the Black Heart in a curio shop in Greyhawk City: how did it get there, and do other copies of this fell tome exist (or, what about other, similar tomes: Tome of the Red Heart, or Tome of the Black Hand, or whatever)? </p>
<p>This is just stuff off the top of my head, but my point is that there's plenty of material in both T1 and MC that you can shape into whatever your needs are for your game. </p>
<p>Allan.</p>I'm not a huge fan of ToEE myself (or RttToEE either): the dungeons just aren't all that interesting. (T1 Village of Hommlet rocks, btw, I'm just not keen on its sequels).
If you're that worried about too much dungeon crawling in T1-4, shorten it: chop out some of the levels completely, or collapse some; ignore the elemental nodes; simplify the competing factions (perhaps only the Fire Temple still remains, or somesuch).
Another way to broaden the T1-4 adventure is to follow-up on some of...grodog2006-11-07T04:16:02Z