RPG Retro Review | Night of the Vampire | Audio CD | 20K Subs!
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This week I celebrate hitting 20K subs with a very special 1 hour review of an old TSR Audio CD Adventure Module, 'Night of the Vampire'! Quirky 1990s TSR Goodness, check it out!!
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What I like about your reviews is your ideas to enhance the adventure for protentional DMs. Always well done.
Loved this.
Please more AD&D cd box set reviews. :)
(Lord knows I can never muster players to play em’, at least your vids make them come alive!)
They are a lot of fun to review, even with the bit of work editing all the tracks. Glad you enjoyed it!
It's hilarious that the voiceover starts and I can tell right away it's the same hammy DM guy from the Dragon Strike VHS trying to channel Lugosi.
ha ha ha, I thought it sounded like him too. Yeah, that cracked me up.
I was telling me exactly the same thing and was about to check if I was alone like he ask in the film...🤣
I had so much fun doing a solo play of this.
I also do solo. just curious what are your technics and methods when playing a pre written adventure solo? thanx.
Hello Shadowz. I like that question. I guess for me it starts with being particularly mindful of a characters' personality during character creation. Alignments, quirks, and personality traits become key in determining what decisions they are going to make during the story.
When using random tables, I want to work my way through the possibilities, so I mark the possibilities as I roll them. I may change dices or move up or down the table if I get previously rolled result.
Hmmm... I another little thing I do at times is mix and match games. Soon I'm going to be mixing Teenagers from Outer Space With Toon, and Ninja Highschool using Savage Worlds game mechanics. 😁
@@BryanLeeDavidson eeey thanx for your cool n honest answere. I definetely learned a trick which I was doing differently. YES mix n match is so cool.its like a game into itelf;))) i am trying to mix n match the paradox system in Timewatch(gumeshoe rpg) . Long live us Soloists ;)
That sounds like a blast Shadowz. Long line the Soloists! 😉
We used to play one of these during our AD&D games in the background, particularly the combat parts where it has spell sounds and swords clashing. Was great ambiance. Also, I just scored the "Dungeons & Dragons Official Roleplaying Soundtrack: Midnight Syndicate" from my local thrift shop. :)
Yeah, that is a great soundtrack. I've been using it since it came out in... 2003.. holy heck, I just realized that thing is 20 years old. Wow! Its got quite a few great tracks on it. Game on!
Sounds like the Red steel Setting CD was playing, it has exactly the track your thinking about.
@@HighmageDerin That sounds familiar. Was that the Mystara setting?
@@captcorajus 🥳
@@WarhavenSC yp. The savage coast. Where everyone gets a magic power and a horrible curse at the same time :) and guns lots of guns...
This is an amazing discovery (for me)
Great review, as always and congrats on hitting 20K Subs!!
Glad you enjoyed. I think this is also my longest review! lol
Yes!!...I have been waiting for this one...thinking of running it at GaryCon!
When you pick your time to run it, I would advise scheduling it late, and ask to be assigned one of the remote rooms. That way you don't have a loud bunch of people around you.
Hey there friends. Here's a late addition to the video, but an important one. On the Vaults of Pandius website, there is a complete transcript of the Audio CD!!! Very helpful when running this module if you don't want to use the CD (Which I highly recommend). Here's the link:
www.pandius.com/notvtrns.html?fbclid=IwAR0eb-jVRZGQcAZetHWOrANFDcZL46BoV3uxuZOEr7TuR17UCrSK8ockpCs
I think this could be a good campaign. Run this for first lvl characters but have the vampire and his new mistress survive, the players escape to fight another day, leading a local resistance to the vampire's tyranny. hey have to build up enough lvl to really challenge him etc. IDK just spit balling here.
I have a copy of this still in it's shrink wrap...
oh nice, this is like a super hard to find CD in my understanding
First off, congrats on the 20K subs! And secondly, I'd love to see a how-to video on audacity to watch your creative process for RPG music.
Thanks! ... and I'll get to work!
Congrats on 20k subs!
Still better acting and vampires than Twilight.
"Where's my tambourine?"
44... well, maybe A Light in the Belfry will score higher.
Drives me CRAZY when they have the voice actors speak for the player characters. It seems OBVIOUS to me that you should never do that. Having NPCs talk is GREAt, and the background and all that. If that was the case, this would have scored higher to be sure.
I think this is the only Mystara module Mr Welch hasn't reviewed, get the Welch signal quick
Where it mentions track 49 in the module, it even states that the PCs are unarmed unless they mention that they run back to the guest room to get their weapons. Level one, no weapons initially, assassins, thugs and a vampire? Yea. That's pretty steep. Plus a good portion of the people in the manor get massacred overnight? Can you imagine this as your first adventure?
Probably not as a 'first adventure' for a group of newbies. But for experienced players this module is phenomenal. Its a bit of a challenge for the DM. The DM NEEDS to be experienced to bring this off. But I ran this for my players and they LOVED it.
The key here, if you can manage it, is to HIDE the vampire angle of the adventure for as long as possible. Play around with the trope of a vampire, where they are like, "oh, that's just a distraction" .. because you have the plot of Lady Constantina/ Lord Stroloca and Lore Orousco, plotting the assasination of Lord Vandevic, There's a LOT going on.
Its a slow burn, but when I ran it, the players thought it was amazing.
I'm so glad I have this adventure WITHOUT the audio!
I see one dnd is trying to copy this with ai dms?
Why does one of the voices sound like Matt Mercer to me? Great videos as I had this and Hail the Heroes cd as well.
Lol, yeah, I can hear that. I actually loved Hall of Heroes and so did my group. I also had a lot of fun mimicking the NPCs Voices on the CD.
With that D&D Logo, I thought there was new Audio CDs for 5e, but not, it was for AD&2e (that had different logo)
Is there any way to get my hands on the audio from this adventure? It seems like the drivethrurpg site excluded it???
Can you say castle, Raven loft vives? I know you can.
For someone who hated Vecna lives I was surprised to see you enjoy this module. It is absurd to think that low level players can deal with a vampire.
Did you make it to 55:54? My summation of the module completely agrees with that assessment. I listed the many reasons I like this module, but suggested that is be presented to a higher level group, and with that in mind its hardly absurd... but ass written it has issues.. thus my 11 rating.
@@captcorajus unfortunately nope LMAO, I usually check out right before you do your ratings
I have one audio CD module - I forget which - but remember it being painful to use.
These werent horrible concepts but IMHO this was all not suitable for D&D. Especially not 1E.
Even if the adventure is engaging and the players are getting pulled in, essentially pausing the table so that you can play a track just kills momentum.
I like music at the table, and it could have been cool if they did things like spell effects and themed music for encounters... they definitely missed the boat.
I really think you were too kind to this module. The audio CD which is its *reason d'arte* is a hindrance rather than a help, and the central mystery is insultingly obvious (even if a DM follows all your suggestions with regards to keeping the players from knowing there's a vampire ahead of time, they're still going to know there's a vampire ahead of time because they're hanging out with nobles in Fantasy Eastern Europe so *what else* could *possibly happen*?)
There are just far, far too many better-put-together modules out there for $5 or less nowadays.
Not in the Karamekos setting. It’s Eastern European. Also, the number of subplots are interesting. I rate a module on how much fun I think it will be to run.