Lone Wolf: Is anyone running it or planning to?

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I was wanting to know if any one is running a campaign right now based on the Joe Dever game books or are you waiting for the d20 book from Mongoose to come out later this year?

If you are running a campaign, how is it going and do you have any advice (or anything else) to share?

Thank ye!

 

[JoeGKushner]

Don't know.

Played in the setting back in high school, about 15-11 years ago and we used the old guide to the setting and made up all the stats.

It was fun.

If it's 100% compatible with standard d20, I'm probably going to get the core book and look it over closely but if it's like Everquest or Slaine, I'll probably be skipping it.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I'm running a campaign right now in the world of Magnamund. You can read about it in my story hour (although sadly, not that much of the Magnamund flavor comes through in the story hour).

If you're going to run a D&D campaign in Magnamund, you need as much source material as you can get. In case you didn't already know, you can read the text of the gamebooks at Project Aon. (Of course if you still own your gamebooks you can read those instead. ) You will also want to check out two of the original Lone Wolf fan sites, Julian Egelstaff's Kai Monastery and Desert Lynx's Oasis.

If you have (or can somehow acquire) a copy of The Magnamund Companion, it is an excellent sourcebook for your campaign.

I also think that having themaps from all the gamebooks would be nice for your players.

As for Mongoose's d20 Lone Wolf game, I'll probably buy it. I must've spent hundreds of dollars over the years on LW stuff, so what's another thirty bucks, right?

 

[Sirius_Black]

Joshua Randall stated:

As for Mongoose's d20 Lone Wolf game, I'll probably buy it. I must've spent hundreds of dollars over the years on LW stuff, so what's another thirty bucks, right?

My feelings exactly. I showed one of the old Lone Wolf books to my wife that had survived and she became enthralled by the series. Suffice to say after that happened, we spent a good enough dollar amount on finding the books I had read as a child. Thus, even if Mongoose's product is just for nostalgia, I'm still there.

Still, I'm excited to see what they do and what information the book has. I've already run ideas in my head on how the Kai Lords could fit into my campaign.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Joshua Randall stated:

I showed one of the old Lone Wolf books to my wife that had survived and she became enthralled by the series.

What happened to your other wives?

Seriously, I would love to take a look at the D20 book. I have a lot of fond memories of Lone Wolf, as I didn't have many D&D-playing friends back in the late 80's. I wonder if they'll work in the magic material from Grey Star (was that the name?).

I've never run Magnamund games per se, but I've unabashedly stolen several ideas from those books. There was a city in those books that was built in the middle of a chasm that I thought was a really neat visual, so I've horked that once or twice. There's been a renamed Daziarn plane in more than one of my homebrew games.

 

[Eternalknight]

I'll be buying it. Price isn't an issue; alot of the gamebooks are more expensive than what this is going to be!