Old Judges Guild products available at DTRPG

JeffB · Jul 27, 2004

THIS is the best link I've found to descriptions of the old JG materials. Kind of like "The Acaeum" of JG products.

Based on what Clark said last week or so on the Necro boards, it should be a few more days before they are up.

Melan · Jul 27, 2004

I would recommend Dark Tower if it is available: it is probably the best AD&D adventure I have ever seen - sort of like what Temple of Elemental Evil could/should have been. It has all sorts of cool traps, weird and dangerous adversaries (such as Haffrung Helleyes, a wizard who lives in the bodies of others) and plenty of action even for the most jaded dungeoneer.

There is also the Book of Treasure Maps series: three books with a collection of small adventures you can assign to treasure maps found in an enemy's hoard. The first one is the best, but you can find plenty of ideas from the others as well.

From the others, Citadel of Fire and Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor (cool title!) are the best I know of. They are both early JG titles, and they need some amount of rewriting for today's gamers, but the ideas inside are still solid gold (Badabaskor is the better one, Citadel of Fire is more developed though).

Last but not least, Ready Ref Sheets is indeed a useful play aid: I still use the random ruins table therein, as well as the taxation, mining and quest assignment guidelines. You can also use it to pretty much play the one true game (that is, OD&D) with it, as the booklet contains all attack and save charts, plus even a collection of all official OD&D monsters from the white box and its supplements!

Funksaw · Jul 28, 2004

Standard Rant #37!

Glyfair · Jul 28, 2004

Arnix said:
The Tegel and Tower books are a must buy. They are insane to aquire otherwise.

Tegel Manor was up? I thought the rights to that were hopelessly tangled. That's one of my favorite maps in a module (the module doesn't quite hold up to time, but is easily usuable with some major adjustments).

A shame it's drive through. My Windows 98 computer leaves me out of any purchases for these.

Old Fezziwig · Jul 28, 2004

Funksaw said:
Standard Rant #37!

Okay, that made me laugh, Funksaw.

On topic, this is cool news. Unfortunately, my gaming budget is nil right now.

Nick

Derulbaskul · Jul 28, 2004

I hope Caverns of Thracia is up there soon.

johnsemlak · Jul 28, 2004

Derulbaskul said:
I hope Caverns of Thracia is up there soon.

Well, Necromancer games is coming out with a 3rd Edition verison of Caverns of Thracia; I don't know if that means the old version will or won't be made available.

johnsemlak · Jul 28, 2004

Glyfair said:
A shame it's drive through. My Windows 98 computer leaves me out of any purchases for these.

Well, I don't completely understand the Windows 98 issues (I believe there are different versions of Win 98) but my home computer has Win 98 currently. I run Adobe Reader 6, and download DRM files, fine.

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 28, 2004

Dark Tower; The Portals modules; City State of the Invincible Overlord...

*Inhales deeply*AHHHH, the memories!

All classics!

Derulbaskul · Jul 28, 2004

johnsemlak said:
Well, Necromancer games is coming out with a 3rd Edition verison of Caverns of Thracia; I don't know if that means the old version will or won't be made available.

That's what I'm afraid of. I've been waiting so long for the updated version of CoT that I would just like the old one now to tide me over until it finally arrives in Oz....