Day of Al'Akbar - your experiences?

Forty-seventh thread of a series on the old classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure modules. It is interesting to see how everyone's experiences compared and differed.

Day of Al'Akbar


Did you Play or DM this adventure (or both, as some did)? What were your experiences? Did you complete it? What were the highlights for you?

Quasqueton

Never heard of it! When did it come out...

...though the cover doesn't look half bad...

Never heard of it! When did it come out...

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1986.

...though the cover doesn't look half bad...

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Yeah. This module cover is probably the only way I can get scantily-clad girly pics on this board I might have to post a pic of Eldritch Wizardry next.

Quasqueton

i bought it. and used parts. but never refereed nor played the whole thing. i don't even think i converted the whole thing.

I used the "sewers" section of the module for another adventure. There was a chessboard room with a riddle on the wall. The riddle was an abstract description of which squares to step on, each line in the riddle was a metaphor for a color, either white or black. My players skipped the first line and then proceeded to get everything backwards. As a result they only set-off one of the lightning bolts (which you got for stepping on the wrong square).

Other than that - the desert city map was pretty cool looking, but the sultan's palace wasn't very interesting, and the "pseudo-terrorist" was silly. I used the town encounters for a town in my campaign world - they were ok but some were a bit wacky. Not even set in Greyhawk from what I can tell, which is disappointing since I assumed that each of the DMG artifacts would be based there.