D&D 5E Next OAR might be Giants? Goodman Games Original Adventures Revisited #7 might have a codename!

Nikosandros · Mar 20, 2022

Weiley31 said:
is the "Giants" series of modules the Drow one? Or the next one after that?

It's the other way around. D1-3 (the "drow" series) comes after the giant series (G1-G3)

Nikosandros · Mar 20, 2022

naturaltwenty said:
I just wish they'd have worked PDFs of their content into the contract so I could more easily run via VTT.

I don't know if they had much of a choice. I believe that WotC was quite unwilling to grant a PDF license.

naturaltwenty · Mar 20, 2022

Oh I get that and I'm extremely glad they produced them (own them all).

Just an FYI if anyone, if you want to run any of them using VTT, be prepared to spend extra time converting/making maps, encounters, and any fluff text.

Parmandur · Mar 20, 2022

Interesting: alternatively, did Giants feature in any other classic modules?

Ibrandul · Mar 20, 2022

I'm somewhat skeptical that OAR7 could be Against the Giants. If it's true, that would be the first time that Goodman Games has been granted permission to work their magic on an adventure for which WotC has already published their own 5e update (in Tales from the Yawning Portal).

Of course, OAR6, Temple of Elemental Evil, has also sort of been updated by WotC in the form of Princes of the Apocalypse—but Princes is really just a thematic spiritual successor, and apart from the basic theme it is very different from Temple, whereas the version of Against the Giants in Tales from the Yawning Portal is a more straightforward mechanical conversion of its original module, more or less along the lines of what Goodman Games does in the OAR volumes (though with a rather different approach to the conversion, WotC being a rather different kind of design studio from Goodman Games). I had always assumed, and (perhaps mistakenly) thought that I had read somewhere, that WotC didn't want Goodman turning any module into an OAR book if WotC had already published their own 5e update of it or had plans to do so in the future.

At any rate, if indeed OAR7 is Against the Giants, I would welcome that news, in large part because presumably it would indicate that the other adventures updated in Yawning Portal are also fair game for future OAR volumes, including my own favorite classic adventure, White Plume Mountain.

haakon1 · Mar 20, 2022

Giants would be good, but probably 3 volume as TOEE was 2 volumes.

I’m currently on a Lendore Isle kick, so L1-2 plus Len Lakofka’s free work on Dragonsfoot would be interesting, but possibly too complicated from a rights POV. Plus it’s super Greyhawk specific, which may or may not be an issue for Goodman.

DND_Reborn · Mar 20, 2022

Against the Giants is my favorite module series from back in the day, so that would be AWESOME!

haakon1 · Mar 20, 2022

Weiley31 said:
is the "Giants" series of modules the Drow one? Or the next one after that?

I say “yes”. G123 - Hill Giant Chief, Ice Giant Jarl, and Fire Giant King - led to the discovery of the existence of Drow in AD&D game/Greyhawk world.

D123 cameos chasing that lead into the Underdark (created in D1), The Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (D2), and finally the Drow city in The Vault of the Drow (D3).

From D3, it was into the Demonweb Pits (Q1) to kill Lolth.

Weiley31 · Mar 20, 2022

Nikosandros said:
I don't know if they had much of a choice. I believe that WotC was quite unwilling to grant a PDF license.

haakon1 said:
I say “yes”. G123 - Hill Giant Chief, Ice Giant Jarl, and Fire Giant King - led to the discovery of the existence of Drow in AD&D game/Greyhawk world.

D123 cameos chasing that lead into the Underdark (created in D1), The Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (D2), and finally the Drow city in The Vault of the Drow (D3).

From D3, it was into the Demonweb Pits (Q1) to kill Lolth.

Goodness then I hope that if it is the Giants modules, we'll get the D-Drow series of modules afterwards.