Howdy!grodog said:Hi Gary---
Unrelated to the Yggsburgh and CZ focus of late (I'm glad to hear that you and Rob are continuing forward with the project!), I have a couple logistical questions about Tsojcanth for you. In particular, I've been trying to piece together how best to show the relationships between the Greater and Lesser Caverns, as well as all of the little nook-and-cranny-style extra entrances, exits, chimneys, and what-not that you crammed into Iggwilv's mountain
I have some maps online at:
- http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/temp/S4-maps_Fanged-Entrance-Cavern-lowres.jpg
- http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/temp/S4-maps_Lesser-and-Greater-Caverns-lowres.jpg
- http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/temp/S4-maps_Levels-in-Profile-and-Umber-Hulk-Caves-lowres.jpg
Do the maps roughly capture how you imagined the levels looking in relation to one another? If not, do you have any pointers on how to revise the maps to better reflect the environment?
Also, did you even design an underwater level for this module in your home games? You hint at it several times in the adventure that it seems like you'd already designed such a level, but perhaps cut it out of the published version due to time- or size-of-book considerations or somesuch.
Thanks!
thufur said:
Col_Pladoh said:Of course most of the long-time DMs will have much experience in winging it even with modules, as that was assumed to be the normal way to run adventures for the first 10 or even 15 years of RPG play.
I suspect that newer GMs are more used to the hand-holding modules, prepare like material for their own campaigns.
That isn't all bad...as is the current notion amongst players that every encounter they meet is defeatable, that their PCs won't meet an untimely end unless they are ready to think carefully...or have their team flee in haste
You will go on ad nauseum. I can't swallow any more puns, even if done for a larkfrancisca said:Not so, my comment was meant ingest.
(unless you have shrink wrapped copies of the original boxed set laying about, then I might be reaching for a pitchfork....)
If you add self-confident and well-grounded in fantasy and history, I can not disagreeOrius said:
Col_Pladoh said:I looked at the rough maps, and they look all right, pretty well along the lines I had envisaged
Well, Iggwilv could be anywhere it seemed a good place for her to have living or other sort of quartersgrodog said:Thanks
That makes perfect sense. Was the underground sea an area that Iggwilv used, or more of a hidden sub-level? If the latter, surely Iggwilv must have had some other lairs then, since there's no living quarters, guard posts, conjuring rooms, laboratories, etc. in the Greater or Lesser Caverns.
How's the underground sea differ from the Black Reservoir beneath Castle Greyhawk?
If the party were sufficiently strong, they could indeed have an encounter with that lovely lady... 
