Building a better Hommlet

[jester47]

I was looking at Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and noticed that part 1 was 32 pages, the same length as Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury.

I thought about it and realised that you could have a really good time with just that part.

But the map of Hommlet in 3e really blows.

So what do you do?

Use the Original Hommlet map. The Dragon is making things difficult for Lareth who has gathered the hobgoblins for work but needs the materials in the moathouse to make his plan come to fruition. He does not want to alert the dragon to the powerful artifact that is hidden there and risk loosing it. I would probably also exchange Lareth's rod for somthing else. As a result, Lareth is hiding in the remains of Nulb.

Though one might be able to use the Old Nulb to provide more roleplay opportunities.

IMO this part of the module is the best.

 

[tetsujin28]

The original Hommlet kicks the ToEE version's behind.

 

[Zander]

But the map of Hommlet in 3e really blows.

So what do you do?

Try to imagine what Col Pladoh's map would look like.

After all, you can't make a Hommlet without faking EGG's.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

After all, you can't make a Hommlet without faking EGG's.

GROAN!!!!!!!!

 

[diaglo]

After all, you can't make a Hommlet without faking EGG's.

ouch.



you can also insert other 3rd party material like Ed Cha's Oester stuff for Nulb.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Try to imagine what Col Pladoh's map would look like.

After all, you can't make a Hommlet without faking EGG's.

I think Zander just won the internet.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I would start by renaming both Hommlet and Nulb. I've never been fond of either name.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The original Hommlet kicks the ToEE version's behind.

When T1 was all we had, we played it and played it and played it, and it was almost always lots of fun.

The giant frogs in the moat are still one of the encounters I remember most from D&D, as are the zombies later on in the dungeon.

 

[Gez]

To build a better Hommlet, you're gonna need a bigger EGG... Dang, I've been beaten to the EGG joke.


In an Eberron adventure, I needed a dark, despressing, seedy village that had been destroyed by some evil force, all its inhabitants slaughtering each others in a fit of supernatural madness. I called it, "Blun", after Nulb of course. And then I thought that it was very possible that Nulb was in fact named after a real town called Blun (there's one in Georgia it seems), since Xagyg Yragern and his bunch were very fond of this kind of things.


Does that mean that Hommlet is nammed after San Telmo (Telmmoh)?

 

[diaglo]

Does that mean that Hommlet is nammed after San Telmo (Telmmoh)?

Sant Elmo.

Saint Elmo

patron saint of laughing and tickling.

edit: and Spugnoir... is Black Adder in disguise.