D&D 5E Goodman Games is Reincarnating Castle Amber

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The new installment in the Original Adventures Reincarnated line has been announced and it is X2 - Castle Amber.

They fled from the far-flung land of Averoigne: the Amber family, a bloodline of wizards and warriors persecuted for their dark sorcery and occult crimes. In their new world, they built a lavish manor for themselves, the fabulous Castle Amber. For a time, the Ambers flourished, their magical and military might having little equal. Then, however, jealousy and murder struck the heart of the family and the Curse of Stephen Amber descended upon the castle like a fell and heavy hand. Now, the Ambers dwell beyond space and time, imprisoned with their monstrously transformed servants and suffering under the family’s dead patriarch’s death-sent doom.

It is into this mad manor that the party awakens, plucked from their homeworld and imprisoned in the heart of Castle Amber. To escape, the heroes must negotiate a path through the insane Amber family home, overcoming the clan’s machinations, dangerous servants, cunning traps, and bizarre phenomena. Only by finding a way to break the Curse of Stephen Amber will the party be able to return home. Failure means a lifetime of imprisonment in Castle Amber, a place where lifetimes can be very short indeed…
 
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dave2008

Legend
It's always a bittersweet moment.

On the one hand, it's great that X2 (perhaps my all-time single favorite module) is getting the Goodman Games treatment!

On the other hand, it's sad that this means that WoTC had no plans to reboot/reuse/recycle X2.

On the third hand, I think I have a strange mutation that is trying to strangle me.
Sorry about the mutation, but what would you want from a WotC version that you will not get from the GG version?
 


dave2008

Legend
Something new and different- in other words, building from the original.

As much as I love the historical additions that GG puts in (including essays and context), I already have X2, and I can already run it for 5e without breaking a sweat. So the GG edition of X2 would be a collector's book for me- cool, but not required.

OTOH, if Wizards was going to do something interesting with it, that might be more fascinating. There's a lot of Averoigne to explore. :)
Doesn't GG also expand on the content of the original adventure? I get that is probably not what your looking for from your description, just wanted to verify that was correct. Actually, I know it is correct, I just don't know how much the add.
 

JeffB

Legend
Something new and different- in other words, building from the original.

OTOH, if Wizards was going to do something interesting with it, that might be more fascinating. There's a lot of Averoigne to explore. :)

Have you checked this out? Mark of Amber

I owned this back in the late 90s/Y2K, but honestly don't remember :poop: about it these days. Edit- The author lineup is quite good.
 


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