Gary Gygax & Role Playing Mastery

[Klorox]

what module was that, or was it a home brewed scenario?

[thejeff]

Klorox wrote:

what module was that, or was it a home brewed scenario?

Palace of the vampire Queen, the very first published module.

[Terquem]

thanks,

theJeff

There are some quibbles about which module was actually first; a "sort of module" version of Temple of the Frog, in the Blackmoor supplement (1975), or Palace of the Vampire Queen, which came out in 1976

I first ran Palace of the Vampire Queen late in 1976 when a friend of mine gave me his copy because he wanted to play in the adventure rather than be the DM.

[thejeff]

Fine: The first standalone published adventure. :)

I came in a little later, soon after AD&D came out and had never heard of it until fairly recently.

[Terquem]

Seems like I'm always running a version of it, somewhere

I think I'm on my fifth and sixth iteration here on these boards with two games I am running.

But that's enough of that

[HolmesandWatson]

Not dead, but definitely have been absent. I am a government agency Fiscal Officer and had to cut about $10 million out of our budget request this year, on top of the rest of the job. I did it. Am now turning my attention back to actual outside life.

Earlier this year, I had a post over at BlackGate.com on Dungeon Delving tips. It contained a dozen, with another thirteen to follow. Six months later, Part Two will go online shortly. The 25 tips are very much old school pen and paper and contain a lot of Gygaxian principles.

Hopefully I'll get caught up on this thread shortly.

[HolmesandWatson]

I can't imagine anyone will see this. But this remains my favorite D&D-related discussion.

In 2014 (two years after I started this thread), I I began blogging weekly at the World Fantasy Award-winning website, BlackGate.com.

Today, I started a multi-post series, based on this thread. I'm not using anybody's comments (that would be inappropriate), but I have added in some of my responses to points folks made.

I think this is an absolutely terrific thread, and I appreciate everyone who contributed. Thanks.

Here's the link to Part I, which covered Steps 1 to 5.
https://www.blackgate.com/2024/11/25/gary-gygaxs-17-steps-to-role-playing-m astery-steps-1-to-5/

Along with the 17 steps, I'm gonna do a couple bonus posts from this thread, including his 5 Stage of Group Success, and his Outline of STudy for Mastery.

I've already re-read some pretty good discussion we had on metagaming/cheating, and options bloat. So, maybe I'll find a way to get some of that in as well.

This really was a great thread. Thank you all.

[HolmesandWatson]

We covered the first two of Gygax's eleven Tactical Mastery Tips, here near the end of this thread.

I decided to start a new Thread, looking at all 11.

Gygax's 11 Tips of Tactical Mastery

Hopefully some folks will jump on board, and we'll have some terrific discussion, like we did here.