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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4887776" data-attributes="member: 31216">I'm just relating what I heard some other people back in the day say about it. Though I never played either of them, I did read them (I own both from way back), and I thought Barrier Peaks and Demonweb were both cool modules.But I heard a few complaints about both of them for their elements outside sword and sorcery in D&D way back before D&D3 was even announced as coming soon. At the time, I got the feeling the complainers would not consider those two modules as true "old school".For myself, of the modules in the poll, I voted for all as "old school" except Dragons of Despair.BullgritEdit: For what it's worth:"...I have received far too many comments panning the Q1 module ..."-- E. Gary Gygax<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-4.html#post3023213" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-4.html#post3023213</a>"...The Demonweb Pits were indeed envisioned as mze like, but there were to be no machines therein...."-- E. Gary Gygax<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-4.html#post3024765" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-4.html#post3024765</a>"the maze was fine, but all the rest, expecially the mechanical stuff, was not at all what I planned...."-- E. Gary Gygax<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-6.html#post3029180" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-6.html#post3029180</a>Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it seems that EGG also disliked the steam punk aspect of Q1.Edit more:"The final portal is significantly different; this is the one that leads to the Spider Ship of Lolth. Yes, you read that right, a Spider Ship. If the idea of science fiction intervening into your fantasy universe puts you on edge, you're not going to be happy at all. I didn't like it, but some people from all accounts completely hate this."<a href="http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13662.phtml" target="_blank">http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13662.phtml</a>"So, for example, Lolth's having a giant, steam-powered, mechanical spider ship never bothered me the way it bothered many people."<a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/retrospective-queen-of-demonweb-pits.html" target="_blank">http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/retrospective-queen-of-demonweb-pits.html</a>"A giant mechanical spider is the best they can come up with for this cosmic place? Sounds more like a modern Hollywood take on things.Maybe having had it been a gigantic living spider I would be "now you are talking!" But what, the Godly realms have all this damn steam punk stuff, then? Or Lolth is the only being blessed with robotic technology? Jeez..."<a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/retrospective-queen-of-demonweb-pits.html" target="_blank">http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/retrospective-queen-of-demonweb-pits.html</a></blockquote>

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