Any other Judges Guild fans here?

[Tav_Behemoth]

I got introduced to the awesomeness of JG with Necromancer's Wilderlands boxed set. I find the sci-fi backstory, with its multiple alien invasions, the War of the Pious and the Philosophers, etc. totally inspiring and true to a lot of the looks-like-fantasy-but-is-SF-under-the-surface nature of many of the books in the AD&D recommended reading list, like Saberhagen's Empire of the East and Norton's Witch World.

From there I got into the Village, Castle, Island, and Temple books, which have great smallish-scale hex maps of various locations, plus some random tables you can use to flesh them out. I think the Temple book I have is the weakest of these, but it still has lots of goodness.

Recently I've been buying up adventures and other JG stuff - Troll and Toad has lots of them for about $8. Two that I've really enjoyed have been the Ready Ref Sheets - a compilation of lots of random tables, good for city encounters where you might be spat on by a harlot or insulted by a leper - and the Dungeoneer Compendium, which has some great early Jaquays adventures, plus old-school weirdness like the tin-foil monster.

The OD&D 74 boards have a thread listing other folks' favorites that I used as a shopping list at Troll & Toad.

 

[der_kluge]

I'll have to search for Inferno. I don't have that one.

 

[crash_beedo]

I picked up the Necro JG supplements for 3.x (Wilderlands, Players Guide, City State) - great stuff, really brought back the Swords & Sorcery feel. Really makes me wish I knew about Judge's Guild in the early 80's when we played AD&D... though maybe I would've been too young to appreciate it... I look back on some of those guys as giants these days.

I've heard great things about the original Caverns of Thracia - is it true it's never been put into PDF? I've never seen it at the usual suspects (Drive Thru / RPGNow) and hard copies seem fairly rare or expensive.

And supposedly there have been rumors that Tegel Manor would get redone in 4E, though with no GSL and the passing of Bob Bledsaw early this year, who knows?

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I'm a JG fan, too. I like the Wilderlands and the City State, but my favorites are the adventures: Tegel Manor, Caverns of Thracia, Dark Tower, Realm of the Slime God/Night of the Walking Wet (in Dungeoneer), etc. The new AGP Wilderlands material is pretty cool, too.

 

[Treebore]

And supposedly there have been rumors that Tegel Manor would get redone in 4E, though with no GSL and the passing of Bob Bledsaw early this year, who knows?

I'm pretty sure it was said that the Bledsaw clan isn't going anywhere near the current GSL. Search Clark Peterson's posts over on the Necromancer boards.

So no, Tegal Manor is not being done for 4E. Unless there is some significant change in the newest version of the GSL, whenever Scott is able to get it out.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Judges Guild simply put out some of the coolest adventures for RPGs ever.

Besides the recent stuff, I have:

House on Hangman's Hill
Wilderlands of the Magic Realm
The Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde
Portals of Twilight
Portals of Irontooth
City State of the Invincible Overlord
Temple of Set (currently AWOL)

As well as the Gamescience release of Tegel Manor.

The maps were basic sepiatone, but vast. Encounters were not designed to be survivable by anyone who stumbled upon them- JG products were definitely formative to my GMing/playing style because you had to know if/when you were beaten in order to surrender or retreat, or choosing otherwise, to die.

 

[Geoff Dale]

Find Inferno

Its still out there lurking about, even the second half. Sadly, I don't see a way forward for the return of Inferno with the fractured publishing market, and I keep looking through the murky crystal ball. A couple of the more old-style companies that once might have had an interest are currently in limbo. I'm not against doing it in non-D/D brand systems, such as C&C, but darn it, I"m not going to learn another system to do the translation myself; I already know that when I try to translate into a system (3E) that I don't play, it doesn't get done well.

Geoff

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

I love the old JG stuff, and now that most of it is on RPGNow I have been able to fill in the gaps with pdfs. There's nothing more 'old-school' than stuff like Tegal Manor.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Judge's Guild. Wow. I had totally forgotten - I grew up in a small town near their store in Decatur, IL. That's where I bought my 1st edition Player's Handbook, first set of dice and first character mini. Then tons of JG products which I don't even remember the names of, but do remember having a good time using them in our games.

 

[Silver Moon]

I've had a lot of success over the years with the Judge's Guild town adventure Verbosh.