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Great, amusing and interesting role play in this one. You do as the DM have to (or you get to?) flesh out the end of this module. Yes a nine out of ten.

Wow! A 9 put of 10! Very Oinky!!! = @ )

Does that rating include a point for the sexy centaur?

An excellent analysis of this classic module.

Whoa, nine of ten, must be good.

awesome yogi

Loved running it, it just needs some work and I made it a bit harder with some more fiend folio monsters. 8/10 Used the original and Jean Wells wider region as well.

The original B3 written by Jean Wells was a much better adventure giving you a setting in which to place the palace. The reworked version, the one that got released, was a decent introductory module for DM’s and Players who had very little or no experience. Once you learned and played the game for a while, the campy plot and “monster-condo” layout become tired tropes.

Oh that rating was a bit harsh! Come on, that Module had serious life lessons for a 14 yr old boy in the 80s. Like if you meet two hot girls in the bad part of town, don’t be fooled! They will rob you too! 😂😂😂😂

I've Dmed this one twice and played it twice, second time as a mute. This is a very good mystery module that provided a lot of fun game play. We only had the one TPK. The module though does need work by the DM. Despite the level 1-3 recommended level I always have this as a groups second adventure where they are already second or third level. I try to limit the influence of certain high level NPC's to keep them from taking over or at least becoming the hero of the adventure. The one guy I usually make blind and crippled, super slow and only able to see through his ferret familiar's eyes. He can intercede decisively if needed but will tend to be a subsidiary character. Huge spoiler title true.

Great review of a great introductory module.

I am so glad I hung onto so much of my early edition material.

Enjoyed these modules. We got slaughtered in Danger at Dunwater. No diplomacy. Now our party had two (secret)assassins , a 6 Int fighter, someone was an MU, we had a CN thief, and a LG cleric and a paladin, again rather low int. We rolled in like a mafia hit squad, with some oblivious healers aboard. It did not go well. It was perhaps the most deserved TPK in dungeons and dragons history.

0:25 to 0:26 😂

There were several copies many people owned in our gaming group in the early 1980's and that book had a distinct pungent smell to it's paper. I wasn't foul or repulsive, just definitely noticable.

Talking about a dungeons and dragons module as if someone Talking about wines.

The green covered version was pretty good. I liked the pictured Hexapod. One of our players ran it as his first module and did quite well. I especially liked the pit trap with oil on the bottom where a torch is dropped in after the players fall. I finally saw the version that all the fuss was about a decade or so ago and it was pretty shoddy. A lot of the material though was similar to some of what was being produced around that time by Judges Guild and others. The three headed (3 sexed?) monster made it in to one of the monster manuals, either the Fiend Folio or monster manual two, but we never used or encountered them. I reskinned the green module as Princess of the Silver Palace leaning harder into fairy tale while eliminating the silver dragon riding warriors. The module itself we enjoyed.

It does get major ponts for the cover art - Erol Otus all the way!

I loved the Green Covered Module! It is one of my most favourite dungeon crawls. I honestly thought this should have replaced B2 in the Basic Box set as it was an easier adventure to get into for novice players

It could be a combination of all three. the module was problematic and the poor production just made it too much of a furball to keep in release.

God this is a terrible adventure.

Lovely stuff ty

I always got killed by the Balrog. Never completed it

Thanks!

Hi John, I want you to know that I watched all 4 of your A series videos and this was my favorite and for good reasons. However another blogger (The Dungeon Delver) commented once that these modules were released in reverse order, you hinted as much in this video. The party started out captured. (A2 module is awesome for amazing content / ideas👏) Thank you for video. #memories

I had a lot of fun running this with my kids. I made the High Druid a high Druid.

After reading the new Dungeons and Dragons player handbook, Dungeon master guide and monster manual, whatever the new edition will be called, writing equality and game, mechanical wise, is on par with N2 the forest Oracle. Even ignoring all the stupid pandering and political correctness like succubus being asexual, genderless and now caring about consent with mortals.

Gandalf cast time stop in the goblin lair. Their is a cheribum analogy, sauron is satan, the fallen ange

Great show gentlemen!

Hi YOG, I saw your other video about B3 and I was wondering what are your thoughts on the new OSR modules especially OSE ones compared to the TSR era modules?

Nicely read!

This was a fun little video.

Excellent work! If you ever feel like you need a brief distraction, there is a game on Steam, sort of like a find the hidden objects thing, called Dagon and based on the story.

Quality Adventure. Great review

Why isn't there a longer form review for S1? Or am i just not finding it?

I feel your pain. The only RPG stuff I have left from the '80s is my MERP stuff - the rulebook and about 8 modules. I reacquired a lot of stuff in pdf form this century though.

This was a recent (well recent for me, only a decade old) addition to the Slaver Series. If I wanted to play the Slayer Series I would work this one up but mostly I don't like the Against the Salve Lords series. It is a huge gap L 1-3 to L-4-7 for Slave Pits of the UnderCity though I might run a group through this and then perhaps Bone Hill or Against the Cult of the Reptile God and then back to Slave Pits of the UnderCity. I did like that one.

A module series about fighting slavers is probably John Brown's favourite series, so that should go in the pros of all of them.

Interesting. I don't even know of this one. Never heard of it or saw it. Oink! = @ )

13:45 You can't review the D & Q modules because you haven't run them? Well fix that! *Cracks whip*

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Top notch!

Disagree on the 7/10 rating. But I love your channel. Keep up the good work!

Why does Lovecraft and Suess go so well together?😊

Finished watching the stream. What are we going to donate so John can stream and stay warm? Can we get his attic insulated properly? Install a pot belly stove he will constantly have to add wood to? Build him a sauna with podcast capabilities? Or my favorite idea, install a hot tub so he can soak in the heat and sip margaritas? 😉😂

Would have loved these as a kid!

51:16 Agreed, MERP is fun for its criticals. We had a session where almost every critical was to the knee. It became comical as each new wound was the same location.

Oh, I played this so much, this was my first DM for my group! Not only that it was my first play as well. I remember my human fighter found a +1 spear from the Minotaur that I don’t think was in the original. So many memories.

Not right into White Dwarf, liked it being around, a bit '60's Hippy.' Hawkwind fans thing. Memories of being 16, fantasy model kits, lead cast figures, comic book and record shops, New Wave music, the gate way to the future, yeah, there use to be a future to hope for, look forward to, etc and so on,

Thank you. Brilliant!