Stats in the Cradle
Chapter: Season Three
Characters: Sam
For a while now you have indulged my need to try a few new things and tell different stories than what you may be accustomed to here at d20monkey. For that, I offer sincere thanks for your patience and understanding. To the few folks who complained: Don’t let the door hit you.
This comic leads into the group getting back to the table and playing some D&D next week. It’s been too long and I am missing their in-game antics.
As far as Sam’s mystery module goes? Wait and see, kids. Wait and see.
Brian
COMMENTERS: Did you have a module or accessory that you loved as a kid but did not fully understand until you got a little older?
An Avoid the Noid shirt? Brilliant! Also epic story telling Sir.
missed that – too funny.
Yeah! Love that shirt!!!
My bet is on it being either [ToEE] or [Tomb of Horrors]. I lean towards ToH.
Agreed, it is either Temple of Elemental Evil o Tomb of Horrors. War of the Spider Queen it’s also a possibility.
ToH still gives me the shivers…so many lost characters…
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks perhaps? That one was crazy!
That module always wiped out half the party and the other half spent all their time running away. I loved it.
Despite running it several them several times as a teen, I never really appreciated the 1st Ed. S-series (Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth) until I got older. When I first ran them, they were like a hammer, smashing the PCs. Now I can appreciate the subtleties involved in some of them, and provide a better experience for my players (and myself).
Also, I have no idea what those haters might have been on about; I’ve loved the stories you’ve told here. Please keep it up!
I feel the same way about so many of the classic modules. When my friends and I played 1st Edition as teens, there was no subtlety and only enough story to get us to the dungeon. Now I read those adventures again and think about all of the story possibilities.
OH SNAP! Is this a return to Sam as a Killer DM?
The Planescapes stuff. When I first found them I ran them Monty hall (you can fight anything!). Ten years later, I fished them out of my closet at my folk’s house and realized that I had missed the main point of the setting, the way it handles ideals.
B2 – Keep on the Borderlands. I got it when I was 12… which was in 1986 🙂
I have to concur with Chuck- Keep on the Borderlands is the module that keeps on giving. It was the first module I played, the first I ran and the first I re-ran. Every time I returned to it I found another layer I had missed before. One campaign the party never made it out of the keep after 5 or 6 sessions! They decided to get involved in politics, trade and running an inn. That one kept me on my toes.
For us it was making an attempt at the original Shadowrun system. The setting was so amazing and we desperately wanted to play. But the system was far too beyond our fragile little minds. It felt like you needed an Engineering degree to properly cast a spell (ah the irony) and don’t even get me started on the Quantum Physics background you needed to be a Decker…
Ghost Tower if Inverness
I’m putting forth it’s a Monkeyverse only module. He seems to be good at suprises, ToEE and ToH are too obvious. He is currently changing the story for every single comment just to prove all of us wrong. XD
Nope. Someone called it.
🙂
For me it was White Plume Mountain as a DM, and Castle Amber as a PC
Hey, I like that I don’t know where your comic is going to go. I think it gets better all the time.
I was going to guess Earthshaker with the giant robot you have to fight inside of to defeat.
Not modules, but there were a few books I didn’t get at age <20 that made a lot more sense at 30+. Some Shakespear, some Drake, some Cook, but mostly Heinlein. I reread Glory Road every year or so, and I keep on finding new things…
…of course, I didn't realize how badly certain things SUCKED until I got a few decades' experience, too.
Pool of Radiance.
I recently wrote an adventure that takes place in Phlan. I like it. I’m going to run it soon.
Nice arc, Brian.
Damn you! Cats in the cradle is now stuck in my head >_>