ShadeMoon64
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While this was a fun read, as a play experience I hated it. Just too silly for my taste.
Rate WG7 - Castle Greyhawk
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Vyvyan Basterd
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I gave it a ten keeping in mind that it stands alone in its play type. Think of it as more like a D&D version of Paranoia than a serious Greyhawk campaign.
And for those who think this is spitting in the face of the "Great Gygax", all I need say is: Dungeonland!
And for those who think this is spitting in the face of the "Great Gygax", all I need say is: Dungeonland!
Quasqueton
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Caveat: I've never played, DMed, or even read this module.
From all I've heard and read *about* this module, it seems pretty right along in line with how Gygax himself describes how he sometimes ran his game. Read some of EGG's articles in modern Dragon mag.
Robilar once hired a sage (or something) to find a way to get to the moon. The sage spent tons of Robilar's money and took lots time to construct his apparatus. When revealed to Robilar, it was a giant slingshot. (I can hear the rimshot.)
In the "real" Castle Greyhawk of EGG's campaign, there was a hole to "China". There was Dungeonland and Land Beyond the Magic Mirror (Alice in Wonderland adventures).
Etc.
Quasqueton
From all I've heard and read *about* this module, it seems pretty right along in line with how Gygax himself describes how he sometimes ran his game. Read some of EGG's articles in modern Dragon mag.
Robilar once hired a sage (or something) to find a way to get to the moon. The sage spent tons of Robilar's money and took lots time to construct his apparatus. When revealed to Robilar, it was a giant slingshot. (I can hear the rimshot.)
In the "real" Castle Greyhawk of EGG's campaign, there was a hole to "China". There was Dungeonland and Land Beyond the Magic Mirror (Alice in Wonderland adventures).
Etc.
Quasqueton
StupidSmurf
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Evilhalfling said:
Pffft.
Don't worry about it. Shooting from the hip is preferable to butt-kissing ANY day. And besides, that's your opinion. Anything a writer comes up with is going to have some people saying "This is the greatest thing since sliced bread" and others saying "This material is solid proof that God hates us all." Some folks I know thought Name of the Game was the best of a bad lot. Others thought it stunk to high heaven. What can you do? And while obviously I like getting compliments on my material, I'm a lot more gratified when the compliments refer to my later stuff (like Four From Cormyr, Stealth & Style, or my sections of Coruscant and the Core Worlds), than my earlier writings, done when admittedly I was less experienced of a writer.I honestly have no idea what the rationale behind Castle Greyhawk was, or why it was. Was it supposed to be some mean-spirited swipe at Gary Gygax? Damn, I hope not. I'd hate to think that I joined in on a group-insult to the man. Fact is, I got the assignment, had a few whiskey sours, looked around my study and saw the plethora of RPGs stare back at me, and thought "I know what to write about now..."
Maybe if TSR had released it on April 1st and gone out of their way to brand it as a parody, perhaps it would've gotten more love. Ah well. It's all plasma under the bridge now!
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Erik Mona said:
Whizbang Dustyboots
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I voted 1, BUT ...
It's a "1" as the culmination of YEARS for us old farts waiting to see Gary's legendary dungeon. There was no World Wide Web in those days (and no Internet for nearly everyone) so when it showed up in stores, I bought it without even reading the cover -- of COURSE I wanted it! I got it home and I was aghast. This was ... just stupid. I was wanting the Great Stone Face a demon lord was once trapped within, I wanted levels full of warring humanoids, I wanted the EGG version.
Having said that, had it been called "Castle Finklestein" or whatever, I would give it a 5. There were quite a few silly Dragon modules at this time, and while they were much shorter than WG7, I did enjoy them for what they were. (There was a linked series of them dealing with gems of different colors, as I recall, that was especially fun. Of course, I was in middle school, so who knows how they'd read today.)
It's a "1" as the culmination of YEARS for us old farts waiting to see Gary's legendary dungeon. There was no World Wide Web in those days (and no Internet for nearly everyone) so when it showed up in stores, I bought it without even reading the cover -- of COURSE I wanted it! I got it home and I was aghast. This was ... just stupid. I was wanting the Great Stone Face a demon lord was once trapped within, I wanted levels full of warring humanoids, I wanted the EGG version.
Having said that, had it been called "Castle Finklestein" or whatever, I would give it a 5. There were quite a few silly Dragon modules at this time, and while they were much shorter than WG7, I did enjoy them for what they were. (There was a linked series of them dealing with gems of different colors, as I recall, that was especially fun. Of course, I was in middle school, so who knows how they'd read today.)
StupidSmurf
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Erik Mona said:
No doubt that finger would have been a "thumbs up," right?
OK, Ok, so the thumb's technically not a finger. In that case, you obviously are referring to an upraised index finger, signifying "A-number One!" Right? Right?
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