Dwellers of the Forbidden City - your experiences?

[Rel]

Holy Thread Necromancy Batman!

But hey, since I never posted in it back in the day...

This was my all time favorite module for AD&D. It was so big that it simply wasn't possible to play it in a single sitting and became a mini-campaign at a time when I really had no good idea what a campaign was. The map was indeed awesome (later when I got to see it after playing).

I think the most impressive feature was that it managed to pierce my thick skull with the idea that there was politics between the various monster/NPC factions within the module. Since this idea is the cornerstone of almost all my campaigns now, I have a great deal of love for this module.

Plus that Tasloi treehouse village was just badass.

 

[megamania]

Sounds really neat.

Back a few years ago (03 maybe) Our DM had us enter this valley and we dealt with some of the events here before finding a portal that sent us to a new dimension. (17 players when everyone showed up- HAD to split up party for the sanity of the DM)

My last game DM'd by Eric Rutkin. Decent. I suspected we hadn't scratched the surface of the game based on long time player's reactions when they reliezed where we were.

 

[Monkey King]

The thing about this one is, it's one of the very few Lost City adventures out there, it introduced the Yuan Ti and many other classic monsters, and it's just a blast. It's the pure swords&sorcery goodness of Conan, with snakepeople and deadly plants and... You kind of have to play it to get it, I think.

I ran it one summer on vacation at the dunes. The party poked around, but didn't really want to explore everything; they went straight through to the biggest buildings they could find. Lots of fun combats with the wasp-riding tasloi, and the yuan ti were lots of fun to play as DM. As players, I seem to recall at least one PC death, maybe two...

This adventure, almost 20 years later, inspired me to write Crucible of Chaos.