DM Rewards: Hommlet and Ship Tiles (Soilers)

[MerricB]

My "bare bones" review is now up:
Return to the Village of Hommlet... again! | The Village of Hommlet | RPG Geekdō

Cheers!

 

[Mark]

Has it changed from a setting with many status quo encounters into a linear adventure with tailored encounters?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

So, a(n encounter) design philosophy issue, as it were?

That would be my guess.

 

[Jools]

Just got Hommlet and the tiles in the post here in Japan. So, are these worth eight million dollars on ebay?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Just got Hommlet and the tiles in the post here in Japan. So, are these worth eight million dollars on ebay?

I don't know, might be - the $ has been weak in the past few years...

 

[thalmin]

Please try to watch the spoilers. I just put up a warning. Maybe use the spoiler tag?
Urm, where IS the spoiler tag?

 

[Windjammer]

My "bare bones" review is now up:
Return to the Village of Hommlet... again! | The Village of Hommlet | RPG Geekdō

Cheers!

Thanks for your review, Merric. It's quite solid, though I think you could have mentioned the somewhat odd design choice to rescale the moathouse in the 4E version so it's only 2 thirds of its original size (check the battle map).

A key thing I agree with your review on is that it's a pity the (however brief) write up of 4E Hommlet doesn't mention a key element - the subtle conflict (in and around the village) between the old druidic faith and the "new" faith in St Cuthbert. That's even more surprising given that Mike Mearls said that this element in the original T1 module was a key player for 4E designers coming up for a rationale in the divide between the primal and divine power source. (It's somewhere in the DDI design articles on PH2.) So, on the one hand this element of the original T1 had a hugely formative influence on 4E, on the other they don't care to mention it when they re-release T1 for 4E.

It's a pity, I think. I also think that Andy Collins' version, while more polished in the mechanical details, is vastly inferior as regards raw flavour to Mike Mearls' version of T1 for 4E. Just compare the two versions of Lareth, and you'll see.

 

[Glyfair]

My "bare bones" review is now up:
Return to the Village of Hommlet... again! | The Village of Hommlet | RPG Geekdō

From the review:

This 2009 release of The Village of Hommlet comes 30 years after the original with the module adapted for the 4e rules set. It makes, by my count, the fourth release of this town. The first is the original, of course. The second was included as part of the release of T1-4: The Temple Of Elemental Evil (basically a straight reprint with a few formatting changes). The third was for Monte Cook's redesign in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, which looked at the village some 20 years after the original.

You are correct by your count as a release of the town. However, the moathouse also appears in the early 4E RPGA one-off adventure, Return to the Moathouse by Mike Mearls.

 

[tuxgeo]

Please try to watch the spoilers. I just put up a warning. Maybe use the spoiler tag?
Urm, where IS the spoiler tag?

You have to put spoiler tags in by hand.
Open a Spoiler with the letters "sblock" enclosed in square brackets ([ and ]) but without the quotation marks; close a Spoiler with the letters "/sblock" enclosed in square brackets but without the quotation marks.

 

[Mark]

Folks, if you haven't received your ship tiles or Village of Hommlet yet, just wait a few weeks before contacting customer service. They just started shipping right before Gen Con Indy, so they might take a little while to get to you.

Still nothing. It's been a few weeks. Anyone else still Rewardless?