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On Sunday February 26th We (Bad Wrong Fun & B-Strat) will be holding a NYC RPG all-day gaming event in remembrance of Jean Wells who passed away a month ago on Jan 25th. The event will be at the Brooklyn Strategist located at 333 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231.
The event will be broken into 2 sessions:
Day Session 12:00pm – 5:00pm & an Evening Session from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
There will be several different “Silver Princess” games being hosted simultaneously at a number of tables to allow for maximum attendance and participation. (More info on game systems below)
The door fee for the charity event will be $25.00 - beyond the donation made to Doctors without Borders in Mrs Wells name, attendees will receive the following:
1 month worth of free weekly membership to the Brooklyn Strat - (4 free play sessions, this does not include tournaments / premium events.)
Entry into the raffle for prizes held at the event for either the morning or evening session. (Prizes will include Gift Certificates redeemable at the Brooklyn Strategist).
Jean Wells was a D&D pioneer, and the original sage of Sage Advice, she is also the author of B3 Palace of the Silver Princess. During our event this is the module we will be playing however we will be using several game systems:
· OD&D / 1st ed Dungeons and Dragons
· 4E D&D
· D&D Next/5th edition
· Labyrinth Lord
· RuneQuest / Legend.
A strong argument can be made that Wells' version of B3 was the last “old school module” to be produced at TSR; and that when it was pulled and replaced with the Moldvay version of B3, that's the end of the "old school".
For those unfamiliar with it:
The original B3 had a well-developed wilderness region, didn't have a strongly-integrated plot, and was designed explicitly to be the top two levels of a mega-dungeon complex (with exits from those levels to lower levels that were supposed to be added by the DM). In short, it was the closest TSR ever got to publishing a module that matched the campaign set-up described in OD&D.
The module has a lovely fairy tale quality to its mythology, providing a strong contrast to the Tolkien-Vance-Howard triumvirate more typical of D&D.
The revised B3 got rid of the wilderness, added a plot, and sharply curtailed the extent of the dungeon complex. It was, in short, a complete repudiation of the original "old school" method of adventure design.
Apart from being for a good cause, participants will be getting a good deal, (The 4 free sessions at the B-Strat alone are worth $40) and It should be a lot of fun. It will be interesting to see how well the module works with different treatments of settings, systems & various GMs!
If you have and questions, comments or merely want to say something mean to me I would love to hear from you!
The event will be broken into 2 sessions:
Day Session 12:00pm – 5:00pm & an Evening Session from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
There will be several different “Silver Princess” games being hosted simultaneously at a number of tables to allow for maximum attendance and participation. (More info on game systems below)
The door fee for the charity event will be $25.00 - beyond the donation made to Doctors without Borders in Mrs Wells name, attendees will receive the following:
1 month worth of free weekly membership to the Brooklyn Strat - (4 free play sessions, this does not include tournaments / premium events.)
Entry into the raffle for prizes held at the event for either the morning or evening session. (Prizes will include Gift Certificates redeemable at the Brooklyn Strategist).
Jean Wells was a D&D pioneer, and the original sage of Sage Advice, she is also the author of B3 Palace of the Silver Princess. During our event this is the module we will be playing however we will be using several game systems:
· OD&D / 1st ed Dungeons and Dragons
· 4E D&D
· D&D Next/5th edition
· Labyrinth Lord
· RuneQuest / Legend.
A strong argument can be made that Wells' version of B3 was the last “old school module” to be produced at TSR; and that when it was pulled and replaced with the Moldvay version of B3, that's the end of the "old school".
For those unfamiliar with it:
The original B3 had a well-developed wilderness region, didn't have a strongly-integrated plot, and was designed explicitly to be the top two levels of a mega-dungeon complex (with exits from those levels to lower levels that were supposed to be added by the DM). In short, it was the closest TSR ever got to publishing a module that matched the campaign set-up described in OD&D.
The module has a lovely fairy tale quality to its mythology, providing a strong contrast to the Tolkien-Vance-Howard triumvirate more typical of D&D.
The revised B3 got rid of the wilderness, added a plot, and sharply curtailed the extent of the dungeon complex. It was, in short, a complete repudiation of the original "old school" method of adventure design.
Apart from being for a good cause, participants will be getting a good deal, (The 4 free sessions at the B-Strat alone are worth $40) and It should be a lot of fun. It will be interesting to see how well the module works with different treatments of settings, systems & various GMs!
If you have and questions, comments or merely want to say something mean to me I would love to hear from you!
