Joe, I wish you could do a video where you would directly layout how all the pre-1986 A/D&D modules & other pre-1986 material ties into & interlocks into the World of Greyhawk & with "Castle Greyheim" & the "Greyheim" modules. I understand why you probably feel you can't, but one can dream...
I know it was 3.5 but they did add several more levels in 3 different Dungeon magazines for Maure Castle. Also in one of the last issues of dungeon you were fighting Dragoth in the rift canyon, his treasure hoard had i portal gem that was to used in Maure Castle.
The _Octychs!_ Triangular shards of colored metal imbued with strong conjuration magic, acting as _"plane shift"_ -like keys to the _"Eight-Pointed Star"_ extraplanar transportation device - leading to hidden demiplanes wherein rest the apprentices of Slerotin, the Last Mage of Power, and custodians to the lost secrets of Suel "Power Magic." The "crimson" _Octych_ was found within Dragotha's lair, the "orange" within Castle Greyhawk, the "deep blue" within the Ghost Tower of Inverness, and the "yellow-gold" with Castle Maure itself (fan adventure, via "Warlock's Walk" from "Oerth Journal #23"). That leaves four unaccounted for… however, one _may_ be in the possession of Iuz the Old (or one of his servants, via "As He Lay Dying"). (My favorite character is a noble-born, pure-blooded Suel sorceress… so I've copied a LOT of Suel-related lore over the years. XÞ)
One of my absolute FAVORITES! I especially enjoyed the stone golem and how he crossed the abilities of the golem and the cockatrice feather weapon. I also loved the mini plane where the City of the Ancients awaited...😁
It was a rough module, took us a bit to figure out the weapons. I was playing my human split class fighter / magic user and a low level magic user at that time so I used iron statue weapon to hit the golem. I had to fight as a MU as I couldn't use my 17th level fighter abilities!
Oh, cool coincidence: My PCs are currently on the Abyssal Ship, "Demonwing" cataloguing The Abyss (kinda 'Sandbox-in-the-Abyss') and they recently arrived on The 14th Layer (The Steaming Fen of Miska the Wolf Spider) and I needed a Dungeon-Crawl map and grabbed the map from Level One of Maure Castle / Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure. Of course, I've had to re-design all the rooms and traps -- I just wanted a ready-made Dungeon Map with a couple giant rooms, and the great halls of Room 7/8 and 17-19 fit perfectly! I mean, it was just last game session that we started in The Steaming Fen and I used the map.
I ran Maure castle. Players loved it back in 3e days. Arley the Weaver became a permanent fixture of my campaign world to this day. He sells “discount magic items” (aka flawed/cursed).
Just out of curiosity, how would you stat up Lord Felnorith? I know he is sort of a stand-by character that can possibly be used as a search & rescue hand and I've always been interested in using him in some way in a Greyhawk campaign, but I've never seen his attributes anywhere. I think he's a fighter of the same level as Yrag, and is Lawful neutral, but again, no attributes. Previous DM had him at Str 14, Int 13, and 17s in all his other stats. What do you think? He also has many swords. I know I could make it all up and I don't mind doing that, but I kinda like some basis in fact to work from.
Just out of curiosity, how would you stat up Lord Felnorith? I know he is sort of a stand-by character that can possibly be used as a search & rescue hand and I've always been interested in using him in some way in a Greyhawk campaign, but I've never seen his attributes anywhere. I think he's a fighter of the same level as Yrag, and is Lawful neutral, but again, no attributes. Previous DM had him at Str 14, Int 13, and 17s in all his other stats. What do you think? He also has many swords. I know I could make it all up and I don't mind doing that, but I kinda like some basis in fact to work from.
I've run this in 5e, incorporating some elements of dungeon magazine (although it is set some 20 years or so in the future) to complete it up. One thing is sure tho, 5e characters are much more powerful than 1e ones at first level. They can tank more and hit more consistently. Anyway, back to what happened. After exploring the first floor, they met Arley, who scammed them with the girdle of stone giant strength and changed a chromosome in a player (we laughed, player was ok with it). They beat Arley, avoid the golem, and go to the second floor, where they split up. One group of two enters the chambers of Tomorast and the fight is on. I never had so much fun while playing an evil character: evil, chaotic, with guts. Anyway, they manage to almost kill him, but a player fails two saves for xp and petrification; seeing the dire situation, the other player tries to grab him on her back and run, but rolls a nat 1. They fell on top of each other and were moved to the third floor for Kerzit. The others meanwhile, rushed down and got completely demolished by the killers and such. This resulted in a TPK, with their last moments being the sight of Kerzit munching down on them.
@@GreyhawkGrognard thanks ..ya i love this game setting when it came out i was hooked i even used it as a basis for a bigger world map to help tie othe systems together ..anyway love your work
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The Conan story you are thinking about is Shadows in the Moonlight.
Great review of a classic Greyhawk module. I never ran it, but I mined it for ideas. 🙂
I have always loved this era of Greyhawk covers as well.
Joe, I wish you could do a video where you would directly layout how all the pre-1986 A/D&D modules & other pre-1986 material ties into & interlocks into the World of Greyhawk & with "Castle Greyheim" & the "Greyheim" modules. I understand why you probably feel you can't, but one can dream...
I believe its Robert Howard's "Shadows in the Moonlight" you're trying to remember? Where Conan rows his way to the Isle of Iron Statues.
The Maure Castle adventure in dungeon didn't have a key, I was told there was no space for it :D
I got a copy of this adventure, along with WG4 Lost Shrine of Tharizdun, in my copy of the gold Greyhawk box set. I loved both adventures.
KEEP GREYHAWK ALIVE!
I know it was 3.5 but they did add several more levels in 3 different Dungeon magazines for Maure Castle. Also in one of the last issues of dungeon you were fighting Dragoth in the rift canyon, his treasure hoard had i portal gem that was to used in Maure Castle.
The _Octychs!_ Triangular shards of colored metal imbued with strong conjuration magic, acting as _"plane shift"_ -like keys to the _"Eight-Pointed Star"_ extraplanar transportation device - leading to hidden demiplanes wherein rest the apprentices of Slerotin, the Last Mage of Power, and custodians to the lost secrets of Suel "Power Magic."
The "crimson" _Octych_ was found within Dragotha's lair, the "orange" within Castle Greyhawk, the "deep blue" within the Ghost Tower of Inverness, and the "yellow-gold" with Castle Maure itself (fan adventure, via "Warlock's Walk" from "Oerth Journal #23"). That leaves four unaccounted for… however, one _may_ be in the possession of Iuz the Old (or one of his servants, via "As He Lay Dying").
(My favorite character is a noble-born, pure-blooded Suel sorceress… so I've copied a LOT of Suel-related lore over the years. XÞ)
Yes!!@@Amesang
My Pal 18/Clr 19 was from 1984.
B1
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He had to earn his levels.
Was that a character with two classes or multi-classed, and did you just ignore racial restrictions?
@@danddjacko Two classes.
One of my absolute FAVORITES! I especially enjoyed the stone golem and how he crossed the abilities of the golem and the cockatrice feather weapon. I also loved the mini plane where the City of the Ancients awaited...😁
It was a rough module, took us a bit to figure out the weapons. I was playing my human split class fighter / magic user and a low level magic user at that time so I used iron statue weapon to hit the golem. I had to fight as a MU as I couldn't use my 17th level fighter abilities!
Oh, cool coincidence: My PCs are currently on the Abyssal Ship, "Demonwing" cataloguing The Abyss (kinda 'Sandbox-in-the-Abyss') and they recently arrived on The 14th Layer (The Steaming Fen of Miska the Wolf Spider) and I needed a Dungeon-Crawl map and grabbed the map from Level One of Maure Castle / Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure. Of course, I've had to re-design all the rooms and traps -- I just wanted a ready-made Dungeon Map with a couple giant rooms, and the great halls of Room 7/8 and 17-19 fit perfectly! I mean, it was just last game session that we started in The Steaming Fen and I used the map.
I ran Maure castle. Players loved it back in 3e days. Arley the Weaver became a permanent fixture of my campaign world to this day. He sells “discount magic items” (aka flawed/cursed).
Bought this a few months ago as a POD, good module.
Just out of curiosity, how would you stat up Lord Felnorith? I know he is sort of a stand-by character that can possibly be used as a search & rescue hand and I've always been interested in using him in some way in a Greyhawk campaign, but I've never seen his attributes anywhere. I think he's a fighter of the same level as Yrag, and is Lawful neutral, but again, no attributes. Previous DM had him at Str 14, Int 13, and 17s in all his other stats. What do you think? He also has many swords. I know I could make it all up and I don't mind doing that, but I kinda like some basis in fact to work from.
Just out of curiosity, how would you stat up Lord Felnorith? I know he is sort of a stand-by character that can possibly be used as a search & rescue hand and I've always been interested in using him in some way in a Greyhawk campaign, but I've never seen his attributes anywhere. I think he's a fighter of the same level as Yrag, and is Lawful neutral, but again, no attributes. Previous DM had him at Str 14, Int 13, and 17s in all his other stats. What do you think? He also has many swords. I know I could make it all up and I don't mind doing that, but I kinda like some basis in fact to work from.
I've run this in 5e, incorporating some elements of dungeon magazine (although it is set some 20 years or so in the future) to complete it up. One thing is sure tho, 5e characters are much more powerful than 1e ones at first level. They can tank more and hit more consistently.
Anyway, back to what happened. After exploring the first floor, they met Arley, who scammed them with the girdle of stone giant strength and changed a chromosome in a player (we laughed, player was ok with it). They beat Arley, avoid the golem, and go to the second floor, where they split up. One group of two enters the chambers of Tomorast and the fight is on. I never had so much fun while playing an evil character: evil, chaotic, with guts. Anyway, they manage to almost kill him, but a player fails two saves for xp and petrification; seeing the dire situation, the other player tries to grab him on her back and run, but rolls a nat 1. They fell on top of each other and were moved to the third floor for Kerzit. The others meanwhile, rushed down and got completely demolished by the killers and such. This resulted in a TPK, with their last moments being the sight of Kerzit munching down on them.
Great review! We never played this one, usually making our own homebrew, but it sounds like one we would have loved. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Thanks Grognard for keeping Greyhawk alive . Love all of your content very much. The setting is so rich easy to set a campaign in almost any where.
An atmospheric module. My players found it a bit of a drag with the number of rooms to explore in the lower levels.
picked this up last year, looking forward to running it. Thank you for the insight.
When I ran it back in the 80’s the characters never made it past the Iron Golem of Death.
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a comment for the numbers brother
A comment for the numbers brother
What Ed dnd do u run
AD&D with Adventures Dark and Deep supplements.
I've been wanting to see you do a video review of this module for the longest time. You did not disappoint. Good job good sir.👏👏👏
any thoughts on how to find a on line gaming group
There are a few groups on Facebook for gamers looking for games. You could also try Meetup or your local FLGS.
@@GreyhawkGrognard thanks ..ya i love this game setting when it came out i was hooked i even used it as a basis for a bigger world map to help tie othe systems together ..anyway love your work
also trying to find ,,roll,, of hex paper as wide as the grayhawk maps any thoughts?
ya the game stores seem tobe mostly focoused on magic card game
Tomorast is one of my favorite villains. He has a great "I just want to see the world burn" vibe to him.
Fantastic