The Lost City Reincarnated
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- This week I open the covers on the Goodman Games redo of The Lost City! Lets take a look at what's new and fun!
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Even though this series of classic adventures are redone for 5e, I really liked the changes they made, and use them for OSR stuff
Absolutely! No reason you can't reverse back to an OSR!!
I love that you did a slideshow highlighting the old-school artwork with some great adventure music as well. Nicely done sir!
I agree...more of this please
Watching this show is the next-best thing to playing the game, and sometimes better.
I talked so much about this module this week. Nice to have an in depth review of a "reincarnated" modules from GoodmanGames.
Tom is such a legend I might grab this one. Hope they do master of the desert nomads
B4 The Lost City was the very first D&D module I bought so it holds a special place for me. So I jumped on this book as soon as it became available, and I was not disappointed.
The updated module is fine but something not too hard to do. The fleshed out and expanded areas, especially the titular City and its adjacent dungeons, along with all the expanded artwork is where this book really shines. Love the Dripping Nadir.
Goodman has done a great job again, and I am hyped for Temple of Elemental Evil.
yeah, me too! really looking forward to TOEE. Its divided up into TWO books.
I love White Box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. It has maybe my favorite version of the thief class. Excited to see what you think.
I love the extra information added to this one. But the maps strike me as strange, since they are a mix of hatching for walls (instead of solid black), and single line walls on other plans. The art style reminds me of Cracked magazine.
My only complaint about the reincarnated books, is that each one is printed slightly different from the others. Some volumes are taller than others, some have a flat binding While others have a curved binding. A very minor nitpick, but for someone used to uniformity on their shelf it's a little Annoying LOL
I have 3 of the books, I never noticed it. But I don't have them shelfed together either 😕
I talk a lot about Palace of the Silver Princess because it has such an interesting story behind it's making but my all time favorite of the B series is still The Lost City. Hope to pick this book up one day. Maybe by then the Mystara Players Handbook will be a thing.
The redos are definitely quite nice. I own the original, but may still grab this.
it's definitely worth grabbing it, I bought it when it came out.
Digging that montage. MacLeod's got a track for every setting, and this was a perfect fit. Hope it becomes a regular segment with other reviews if the art's compelling.
FYI, you can use Microsoft Lens or a similar app on a cell phone to take a picture of the handouts. The Lens program will filter and flatten the image automatically to a form that you can then easily print or forward to your players.
One of the things we've learned teaching from home.
Yes. I use a similar app to transfer trivia cards to my computer program for my bar trivia games. I was just being 'old school' about it, but good looking out!
I'm glad you featured this - I'm a huge Tom Moldvay fan. Castle Amber (Chateau D'Amberville) is my equal best ever and the Lost City is Top 10 as well. Best ever goes to Oasis of the White Palm which we played to death.
The original B4 is one of my favourites. So many good memories associated with it. I think I've run this module at 6 times over the years. I'll have to check out the "revisited" one.
The original is the only one of my childhood modules to come through intact.
I’ve had this on my Amazon wishlist for a long while, waiting for a price dip.
It’s gone up 7$ in a day.
You seem to have some market influence going strong.
This is the best B module.
I know B2 is the most played favorite, but this one’s ...
Creepy Hidden Underground Decaying Ancient Civilization!!!!
Elder Cosmic Horror Worshipped by Sacrifice!!!
Warrior Priests in Bronze Masks!!!!
The TARDIS wouldn’t be out of place in this masterpiece of pulp.
Cheers
Great clip! I’m glad one of your favorites got the royal treatment!
This is by far my favorite video you have done, thank you!
Psyched for this one
This was a great little reincarnation by Goodman games, I just wish they would have expanded further on how and why the cults were split, and what they had to offer.
I found it difficult to run without a homebase to return to. But still a good expansion on the original
It infers that the PCs might join a faction, in which case the city base of the faction can become their home base if you like. :)
@@captcorajus if *only* my players would have done so. Instead they focused to obtaining spells of making food and water making it so they wouldn't have to and then continually tried to sleep in hallways :( (and yes, I did make that very difficult to do)
Players can be so stubborn sometimes
I remember being killed in this adventure, in the final bat with Zargon. Over all a good time.
Or you can take a picture of the map or handouts then print it from your phone.
Just bought this. The fact it has the 1 E in addition to 5e. Great work on them and your videos
Very good review.
It's crazy, I just picked up all 5 of the current OAE Books this week. In fact, they arrived in the mail yesterday. So when I saw this pop up, it had to be Fate! Can't wait to run through this with my group of some younger gamers.
Keep up the great review Capn'!!!
That's awesome! Thanks for the story and keep bringing in the new players with the classic stuff and it will live on long after us.
Loving the reincarnated series from Goodman Games. Currently running Isle of Dread for my group using the Goodman Games version and we are having a blast. The Lost City is probably next (although Castle Amber could be fun too). Great review of this book Cap. Keep up the great work.
This is irrelevant to this video, but I thought I’d share because of the fun factor. Tomb of Horrors. A LOT. of D&D players HATE it. I’ve managed to find the PERFECT place for it. Simply make a few small alterations to it and just slot that puppy in as a mission the next time the Paranoia RPG hits your game table. The setup is fairly simple. Have an earthquake happen and somewhere, in the Alpha Complex, a wall falls down or there’s a landslide, and it opens a hole into the long, sealed off and forgotten TOh Sector. The sector was previously the domain of a single Ultra-Violet level, genius engineer who was accidentally sealed in there centuries ago. He went crazy, and paranoid, and re-designed the whole place to keep the Commies and mutants out. Just send those unsuspecting Troubleshooting PC’s into that first hallway with the goal of exploring and re-claiming the sector for the Alpha Complex and watch them blunder headfirst into trap after trap after-insta-kill trap. Then watch them fight. Force each other to go first, or order each other to touch stuff.. etc.. i Ran Tomb of Horrors in Paranoia and it was hilarious. The module provides so many opportunities for players to kind of.. manipulate other player’s characters into those MANY traps by “accident”. I just had to share this because we just played this adventure and it was a “Blast”!
I'm here on Professor Dungeon Master's recommendation, and I was not disappointed.
Great vid.
I've been running Dungeon Crawl Classics off & on for the last year and I'm so tempted by this and Isle of Dread.
Id like to see the deadly Grell!!!
Loved this Module. Back in the day, if it had a pyramid, I was obsessed with it. Still am!
one of my all time favorites. purchased it new in 1982 and still used it today.
One more good video. Cheers from Brazil.
Hi capt-c...at 6:00 you say you wish you could photo copy the pictures. but you know what? today all you'd have to do is take a picture of it on your phone and text it to the people! :D ...also, at 8:58 we need more cowbell.
I have into the borderlands by Goodman games and I love it. And I was hoping to buy the lost city by them as well, but they are no longer printing it, and scalpers have bought up the rest and are charging $300 - $400 for it online. Luckily I was able to get Noble knight games to print me a reprint of the old original module.
Cap, I put this one in the same box with Dwellers of the Forbidden City. It’s one of the few old school modules that I haven’t played, DMd or just read. I’ve been meaning to pick it fir some time and now that it’s available as a pdf I will. Love the artwork slide show.
Really good stuff here. Thanks for the review.
Good stuff as always.
they need to do pdfs of these.
Outstanding video Captain!! Just ordered on Amazon. I had the original module back in the day but unfortunately never played or ran it.
What happened to Mssr. Gygax's smiling mug in the bookends? The new style of closing it out is cool tho, love the menacing dungeon atmosphere!
Great review! Thanks for draining my bank account just that bit more!😀
Any time!
I love these books!!
The picture of Zargon attacking is absolutely spectacular
I’ve been really enjoying these reviews now that I’ve found your channel. I have recently gotten back into D&D with 5e and i’ve been looking through some of my old AD&D materials and thinking of ways to incorporate them into my current campaign. I would like to request a review of Uk6 - All That Glitters. I don’t see that on here and its one of the ones I liked when I was younger.
Goodman did a great update on a great mod. Buying it was a no-brainier, especially since I loved their first Reincarnated volumes.
This looks like something that would fit right in with my 5e Dark Sun campaign, I might pick it up!
I bought it off Amazon, was a little cheaper. I will be using their Bone Golem immediately, and hope to direct the players to the module at some point.. They are in the middle of the haunted house right now.. but they will be heading out to the Silt Sea soon, hopefully..
Hello Captain! I just wanted to point out that this video is in your "top ten modules" playlist. I think you likely meant to put the oroginal review in there instead of this one. Been loving the reviews! Let me know if you'd like to collab on something anytime. Im working on a lote deep-dive on Caverns of Tsojcanth at the moment.
Call me a fanboy, but I hit the thumbs up before the video even starts.
Let me just say I appreciate the thumbs up because there's always that one guy who can't wait to hit the thumbs down. lol
@@captcorajus that's why thumbscrews were invented... trust me 😜
TH-cam frowns on that.
I happened to have bought this a few weeks go as I have been looking for old desert-setting modules to stich together to form my own alternate to Al-Qadim for a homebrew 2e game. I generally like this adventure setting, though it does suffer from the overpopulated dungeon trope that a lot of the older modules feature. I have trouble justifying in my own head-canon the presence of so many large predators like giant scorpions, where are the bees collecting pollen, and why are the NPCs in the lower pyramid levels seemingly fine with having been walled off from the upper levels? I feel like the actual city's underdark area needs to be much bigger to explain food supply, and I'd want to establish the Zargonite Hobgoblin cultists in the setting before player characters stumble across this supposedly lost pyramid in the desert, possibly the other Cults as well. The Brotherhood of Gorm could serve as a secretive elite mercenary force akin to the Immortals in 300, or the Magi of Usamigaras as a secret society within the ranks of the local mage's guild. Alternatively, if one wants to keep it set in Mystara, I would suggest switching the setting from Ylaurum to the Sind desert, and use it in conjunction with the Master of the Desert Nomads and the Temple of Death modules to form a full campaign for characters native to the Sind, instead of Darokin Mercenaries
Purchased book 2, isle of dread, for my son awhile back.
While I have not been allowed to look since we left the store, the impression it left was quite good.
Now that school is ending I am looking forward to playing thru with my ftr, cl & mu. Tom, dick and harry.
The group is also looking forward to the adventure.
He is becoming a fine DM, quick witted and sneaky.
I've bought a couple of the classic modules in P.O.D but the writing is soo small. It's hard to work with something like that
9:35 If anyone's looking for a miniature to represent Zargon there, go check out the Antediluvian Miniatures web store under the Fantasy heading, they've got two different versions to choose from. Also some other very nice oddball monster figs like the decapus, athach and cave fisher. Might also recognize a few famous faces in their personality packs.
I'd provide a link but youtube would just delete the whole post.
Ohh! Good looking out!! Nice! Just looked it up. I'll provide the link.. thanks!
antediluvianminiatures.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/shop-fantasy-range/
@@captcorajus Always nice to find out there's a mini for that obscure old school monster you always wanted, isn't it? :)
If you want more temptations, check out Mortal Arrow Miniatures. A whole slew of myconids and other fungal monsters, those weirdo pseudo-spiders from Lolth's throne room in Demonweb pits, a hole bunch of modular troll tribesmen, and the best flail snail on the market.
The old days I'd have recommended a look at Pacesetter Games & Simulations too, but they've apparently stopped selling the old Center Stage Miniatures stuff that they inherited. Still making OSR and B/X modules, though.
@@richmcgee434 Awesome, thanks!!
Nice review...Goodman Games is knocking it out of the park. BTW what level and what classes do you recommend get thru this adventure? I'm gonna buy this but haven't played this before (new to the OSR)...and it looks like a meat-grinder! 😲
As with most of D&D a good mix of classes is recommended. This module is potentially a meat grinder, and it could be played that way, but the real charm of the module is when the players interact with the citizens of Cynedicea. They could even join a faction, and help restore the city to its former glory, and that sounds like an epic story. Obviously the fight with the evil entity Zargon who is the progenitor of the evil that has befallen the place is certainly going to be the highlight.
Interesting
If you did this with BX starting as level 2 maybe, what level do you think you’d be by the end if you did all the extra bits they’ve added on? I mean, it’s a pretty major campaign by the looks of it. I’m just thinking because I’d like to follow it up with Night’s Dark Terror, which bridges basic and expert, and which I’ve heard is really outstanding. (Have you ever reviewed it?)
Night's Dark Terror is sitting on my 'to do' review pile. But, yeah, you could probably bridge the two. Though, when I ran this back in the 90s, the campaign ended when the group literally joined the citizenry and became legit members of Cynedicea.
Have you done anything on the old Judge's Guild products yet or the remake by Sword Sorcery for the D20 system?
Not really, no
Why not use your phone to take pictures of the handouts and just group text them a Jpeg when the module calls for it?
That totally works!
As per your request, I want an image of you in armor fighting a troll like the image in this video at timestamp 11:00
Um... no. lol
Captain, does your back ever get tired from carrying the entire OSR community?
I feel like Questing Beast deserves some credit for that too. :)
Questing Beast is alright, I guess. But Captain Corajus, Bandit Keep, and that one kid that reads and walks through old-school dungeon modules are where it's at.
Why didn't this product get rated on your usual scale? I would have liked to see how the numbers of this product stacked up against the original!
I've already rated the Lost City. I didn't see the need to rate it again.
@@captcorajus Apparently there's a big difference between the content in the original and this expanded version.
6:04 - This _is_ available in PDF format. I know because I have it.
Maybe they discontinued it, but I swear it exists. The first thing I do when I see one of your reviews it check to make sure I have the module.
OH, there's a PDF of it... lol... but not a legal one produced and sold by Goodman Games. Its part of their contract with WOTC. ;)
It's clean, complete, and in my possession. That's legal in my book, and I dare any blue-haired, nipple-ringed pansy from WotC to come to Texas and take it from me. =P
@@fleetcenturion Lol
Official PDFs....lol. The irony is that the scans that are "official" on Drive Thru RPG are the same pirated scans we all shared on PB back in the very early 2000's. WotC is literally selling you the files that were scanned and distributed illegally...they didn't even bother to make their own!
I'm sorry my friend, but that's simply not the case. I've been purchasing PDFs off Drivethrurpg for the entire time they've been around and in the beginning that may very well have been the case, it hasn't been that way for years. They are constantly updating their scans, and you can check for updates and redownload them.
A few examples of this off the top of my head are the 'Veiled Society' scan didn't initially have a scan of the card stock buildings that were included in that set.
Quite a few of the PDFs I have are now high quality editable PDFs where is the pirated ones are not.
Quite a few of the original scans had poster maps 'chopped up' are now full, complete poster scans. Many of the scans are a combination of PDFs AND JPEG images of full complete maps.
One of the things I do with all my reviews is use my affiliate commissions to download the pdfs off their website and check the quality of them before I recommend them.
While certainly, there are poor scans there, to be sure, drivethru rpg is actively seeking quality books to scan and replace those poor ones when possible.
Yeah captcorajus is right on this one, I have yet to see a scan from dtrpg that was identical with a pirated one or as poor quality as most of those lmao tho feel free to link an example of what you're talking about if you're convinced you've found one as I'd be curious to see which one you mean.
I never liked the original module. "You want to to play in a lost city? Psych. Here's a bog-standard dungeon with some factions superimposed on it in a way that makes absolutely no sense. You actually wanted the lost city part? LOL. Make it yourself. You could have done that anyway, but still give us your money."
I don't know. I didn't get that from 100 detailed rooms in the module, but yea, the city itself was left for the DM to detail. Once again, as I said in the video, the ambition of the module exceeded its allotted page count.