The Dancing Hut.. 1984 or 1995?

[SirUrza]

I've been thinking about running The Dancing Hut and I'm at a toss up between the original Dragon #83 version or the reprinted and expanded version printed as a full adventure in 1995 for AD&D.

Which do people like better? If I run the 1984 version, is there anything I should borrow from the 1995 version?

Your thoughts please.

[Alzrius]

I never read the 1984 version, but I very much enjoyed the 1995 version, so I'd go with that.

From what I understand, the 1984 version is light on plot, whereas the 1995 version has a reason regarding why the PCs would want to invade the Hut, and what Baba Yaga's goals are.

[Joshua Goudreau]

I really liked the 2013 version. :D

[SirUrza]

Joshua Goudreau wrote:

I really liked the 2013 version. :D

What 2013 version?

[Orthos]

SirUrza wrote:

Joshua Goudreau wrote:

I really liked the 2013 version. :D

What 2013 version?

The entire Reign of Winter adventure path.

[Kirth Gersen]

The 1984 version was groundbreaking in its use of a tesseract layout; other than that, it's pretty much a hackfest, with some of the monster stats (e.g., for diakka) not having been updated to 3.0, much less PF.

The 1995 verson has a rudimentary storyline, but the encounters themselves are, like, totally lame. I would take one or two things from it and jettison the rest.

The hut parts of the Reign of Winter AP are very nicely done, and I would definitely recommend those parts of it (some of the other stuff -- the "Dragonlance on a frozen planet" module, the "lady winter wolves as love interests" bits for the Furry lovers, and so on, I'd ignore).

Also, I'm led to understand there's a third party version (MonkeyGod/Highmoon Media) which got good reviews, but I haven't seen it personally.

[SirUrza]

Ah, hmm one more source to look at. I'm surprised there isn't more feedback so far. I thought there were a ton of Baba Yaga fans here.

[Manuelexar]

Probably we're all playing Reign of Winter right now, you should do it too! (Check out the RoW AP, is pretty awesome IMHO).

[SirUrza]

Manuelexar wrote:

Probably we're all playing Reign of Winter right now, you should do it too! (Check out the RoW AP, is pretty awesome IMHO).

Oh I've got it, I'm just not looking to make the encounter a multimonth long affair.

[SirUrza]

Kirth Gersen wrote:

the "lady winter wolves as love interests" bits for the Furry lovers

Ummm...what?

[The Golux]

It's in volume 2 and is optional, but there's a winter wolf lady who becomes interested in a party member if they're using the rimepelt's power.

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

To expand a bit: in certain places in Irrisen, winter wolves are empowered to take on human form, and there's also a magic item that lets humans take on winter wolf form...

[Kirth Gersen]

Yiff! Yiff!

[SirUrza]

I'm sorry I asked.

[Doctor Necrotic]

3rd Party Dancing Hut for PF, eh? I must find this.

Also, I remember Wizards did a conversion of the Dancing Hut for 4e a while back (for Dungeon Magazine 196.) I can't remember their take, but I think it involves ol' Babba Yaga trying to assemble forces of the fae-plane in 4e to invade or something.

Yeah, not too big on the Winter Wolf shenanigans either, but Paizo makes something for everybody.

[MarkusTay]

What, not into 'puppy love'? :P

I wonder if Baba Yaga's Hut is somehow based on Tardis technology? Maybe she's a long-lost (and corrupted) time Lord.

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

The Hut can't travel in time, though.

[Doctor Necrotic]

MarkusTay wrote:

What, not into 'puppy love'? :P

I wonder if Baba Yaga's Hut is somehow based on Tardis technology? Maybe she's a long-lost (and corrupted) time Lord.

Baba Yaga, a rogue Time Lady? You might not wanna say that too loud, Steven Moffat might be listening ;)

[SirUrza]

MarkusTay wrote:

What, not into 'puppy love'? :P

Sure.. if it involves nylon and leather... a certain red head and raven haired beauty. Lol.. I'm sure no one will get that reference. :)

[SirUrza]

Doctor Necrotic wrote:

Also, I remember Wizards did a conversion of the Dancing Hut for 4e a while back (for Dungeon Magazine 196.) I can't remember their take, but I think it involves ol' Babba Yaga trying to assemble forces of the fae-plane in 4e to invade or something.

I know about this one, I pretty much ruled it out.

[Joshua Goudreau]

MarkusTay wrote:

I wonder if Baba Yaga's Hut is somehow based on Tardis technology? Maybe she's a long-lost (and corrupted) time Lord.

Doctor Necrotic wrote:

Baba Yaga, a rogue Time Lady? You might not wanna say that too loud, Steven Moffat might be listening ;)

I sold my group on this campaign by saying "okay, imagine you steal the TARDIS to go on an adventure to rescue the Doctor, only the Doctor is an evil, old hag."