Really enjoyed that Jeff! Loved a lot of B5 Horror on the Hill, remember various excursions into it - most not going well! An awful lot in common with Keep on the Borderlands in my opinion - or the spritual successor to it. Looking forward to more in this series. Really like your stuff and find it weird how you don't get more subs considering the service you provide, mate. All the best!
Nearly forty years after I played this module (with ten characters(!)), I learned that this was the first full module with read-aloud boxes. You are correct about their length. A few sentences is just right (unlike later modules with PAGES of such text). My party attempted a raid of the witches' hut, but the magic-user witch put us to sleep. There is a short pdf from about 2008 floating around that details Guido's Fort.
Always good to see reviews of the olde modules which don't get as much attention as those in everyone's top 3 or 5. Because they often didn't get these others.
I didn't mind when the players' base of operations or town wasn't filled out in the old modules limited to 32 pages of content. I tended to hand-wave a lot of the townie downtime stuff other than quest related NPCs or related events while there. Those are the first things you modify or add anyway. A few less pages of the unremarkable "Blabbo The Farrier" and his 20gp in a chest under his bed, the more actual adventure content we got. In big modern ones I still try to skip over roleplaying the usual shopping drudgery and don't really take note of anyone other than a potential mole or the aforementioned plot-related ones. A simple list of what shops are in a village or town is good enough. Anyway, thanks for a look at this oldie. I had it long ago but never got around to running it. Despite the extra adjustments needed, it was more interesting to me than Borderlands. Seemed like you'd want to start PCs off at higher than 1st level in this one. BTW.. I resolved to just pronounce the fort as, "GEE-doe" to avoid Mario references. 😊
There is a Thoul acting as an advisor to the Hobgoblin king. That Thoul could be an agent of a greater evil using the Hobgoblins as a cats paw in a grander scheme.
Elvis was "dead." Ha! More like living in Cuba with JFK and Batboy! Obviously. I did use the banner ads when I made a DriveThru order this past weekend. I actually almost picked this one up. I've picked up a bunch of these old modules to break down and re-work for DCC, or maybe for Dragonbane if I get into running that. I finally grabbed Isle of Dread, since I missed getting the Goodman Games version that I wanted.
B5 is a true classic. If you don't own it, you should. If you haven't played/run it, you should. A veritable kitchen sink of everything great about D&D. Wilderness, dungeon, humanoids, and yes, a dragon. Yep, it's all in there. IMHO, an better evolution of what B2 tried to accomplish. Great as well but this might even be better.
Really enjoyed that Jeff! Loved a lot of B5 Horror on the Hill, remember various excursions into it - most not going well! An awful lot in common with Keep on the Borderlands in my opinion - or the spritual successor to it. Looking forward to more in this series. Really like your stuff and find it weird how you don't get more subs considering the service you provide, mate. All the best!
Nearly forty years after I played this module (with ten characters(!)), I learned that this was the first full module with read-aloud boxes. You are correct about their length. A few sentences is just right (unlike later modules with PAGES of such text). My party attempted a raid of the witches' hut, but the magic-user witch put us to sleep. There is a short pdf from about 2008 floating around that details Guido's Fort.
I played with more then one character a bunch of times back in the earliest 80s
Always good to see reviews of the olde modules which don't get as much attention as those in everyone's top 3 or 5. Because they often didn't get these others.
I didn't mind when the players' base of operations or town wasn't filled out in the old modules limited to 32 pages of content. I tended to hand-wave a lot of the townie downtime stuff other than quest related NPCs or related events while there. Those are the first things you modify or add anyway. A few less pages of the unremarkable "Blabbo The Farrier" and his 20gp in a chest under his bed, the more actual adventure content we got. In big modern ones I still try to skip over roleplaying the usual shopping drudgery and don't really take note of anyone other than a potential mole or the aforementioned plot-related ones. A simple list of what shops are in a village or town is good enough.
Anyway, thanks for a look at this oldie. I had it long ago but never got around to running it. Despite the extra adjustments needed, it was more interesting to me than Borderlands. Seemed like you'd want to start PCs off at higher than 1st level in this one. BTW.. I resolved to just pronounce the fort as, "GEE-doe" to avoid Mario references. 😊
There is a Thoul acting as an advisor to the Hobgoblin king. That Thoul could be an agent of a greater evil using the Hobgoblins as a cats paw in a grander scheme.
Elvis was "dead." Ha! More like living in Cuba with JFK and Batboy! Obviously.
I did use the banner ads when I made a DriveThru order this past weekend. I actually almost picked this one up. I've picked up a bunch of these old modules to break down and re-work for DCC, or maybe for Dragonbane if I get into running that. I finally grabbed Isle of Dread, since I missed getting the Goodman Games version that I wanted.
There's an anti-dragon sword and fire resistant armor. My party got lucky and caught it asleep (10% chance). As the DM it was kind of a let down.
B5 is a true classic. If you don't own it, you should. If you haven't played/run it, you should. A veritable kitchen sink of everything great about D&D. Wilderness, dungeon, humanoids, and yes, a dragon. Yep, it's all in there. IMHO, an better evolution of what B2 tried to accomplish. Great as well but this might even be better.
That joke on chat about running from Karens was pretty funny
I thought it was either a (Rolling) Stones fan or a Bestles fan.
That might be the case in the UK but in the US it was always either Elvis or the Beatles.