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<blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2152295" data-attributes="member: 27012">I'm currently running a set of adventures &quot;inspired by&quot; or modelled on the A1-A4 series of modules (collectively, &quot;Source of the Slave Lords&quot;).&nbsp; I haven't played the originals but I've read most of them, including the Hackmaster treatment.&nbsp; My main warning is that it can be a little railroaded in a couple of places (the Hackmaster module's advice for player complaints about this is pretty funny), in part because it started out as a series of Tournament modules and in part because it's got a particular ending it's trying to get to.The original design criteria for each segment (there are actually seven, which is why several of the adventures have two distinct parts, often one above ground and one below ground) was to have two traps, a trick to fool the players, a problem to solve, an ambush, an encounter with an unintelligent monster, an encounter with a new monster, two encounters with the basic monster (one with a friend), and a grand finale.&nbsp; The original tournament adventures where also expanded out a bit for the modules, to make them less linear and more complicated.&nbsp; So there is a pretty good mix of stuff in there.&nbsp; It shouldn't be a bad choice, though you might have to adjust some of the encounters to run higher level characters through it.You should also be able to find 3E conversions of the module on the web (on this site, in fact).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Morrow, post: 2152295, member: 27012"] I'm currently running a set of adventures "inspired by" or modelled on the A1-A4 series of modules (collectively, "Source of the Slave Lords"). I haven't played the originals but I've read most of them, including the Hackmaster treatment. My main warning is that it can be a little railroaded in a couple of places (the Hackmaster module's advice for player complaints about this is pretty funny), in part because it started out as a series of Tournament modules and in part because it's got a particular ending it's trying to get to. The original design criteria for each segment (there are actually seven, which is why several of the adventures have two distinct parts, often one above ground and one below ground) was to have two traps, a trick to fool the players, a problem to solve, an ambush, an encounter with an unintelligent monster, an encounter with a new monster, two encounters with the basic monster (one with a friend), and a grand finale. The original tournament adventures where also expanded out a bit for the modules, to make them less linear and more complicated. So there is a pretty good mix of stuff in there. It shouldn't be a bad choice, though you might have to adjust some of the encounters to run higher level characters through it. You should also be able to find 3E conversions of the module on the web (on this site, in fact). [/QUOTE]

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