Real tale of Old School feel?

[Grazzt]

And considering the title of this thread here, I guess a lot of the negative feedback stem from the fact that the adventure presented in the link might be "old school" indeed, but the whole tone of how the game session is described is so far off from how playing it felt if you liked it, that it sounds like Quasqueton was out to mock those who really enjoyed playing modules like Castle Amber by calling this a "real tale of old school feel", while it comes over as the description of somebody who didn't understand what he saw, didn't bother to get behind it, and decided to trash it where possible with a certain "old stuff is nonsense" mindset.

Yep. Pretty much the same thing I got from reading that thread/post.

 

[Grazzt]

If the author had just written the story of what his players did and dropped all of the cynical negative side comments, it would have been a much better story, 100% better.

But without the negative comments/undertone, the point that "old school" is bad and the one true game is 3E/3.5 couldn't be properly conveyed.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Sadly, I havn't read the Castle Amber module, and I'm not going to make a decision one way or the other about its quality without first seeing it. But, at this point, I probably will never see it.

I agree that it seemed like a bunch of LotR haters getting together to watch the extended versions back to back. Actually, I have to wonder how the payers felt about the mood of the game (I didn't read very much of the thread).