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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droogie" data-source="post: 5066037" data-attributes="member: 1298">This is extremely weird that this thread is here, because i literally just came home from a one-shot of B2., Unfortunately, Not many people showed up; I guess the DM underestimated player interest for walking down memory lane, but I digress.I will say this: If you try to run the module as-is, the players may get frustrated. you might think maintaining the fidelity of the original module is "staying true", but that doesn't always translate to "fun". Even in the old days we used to tweak the modules, so why can't you do it now?If you run B1, kick the treasure up a bit. If you run B2, go ahead and hand-wave the encounters at the keep. In our game this afternoon, All we did was meet a couple people, rolled for a few rumors, and we were off. The DM wanted to get us into the adventure quickly, and we had no problem with this. Even with this abridged quickstart, we still got a good feel for "old school" once we were in the caves, so you don't have to worry about that.Character generation was fast, although our ability scores were so awful (3d6, roll  x  6) that the DM gave us a few extra points to spread around. HP were rolled fairly for the most part. My dwarf had 4 hp. Our Thief had...2. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Rules-wise, I'd say rose-colored glasses is an understatement. Beer goggles, more like it.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> To be fair, we do realize it's a very old system, and that there is a fanatic community of retro gamers who eat this stuff up. Still, some of us couldn't help scratching our heads over some of the design: AC goes down? I role d6 to search, but percentiles to look for traps? What's with these goofy saving throws- save v. wands? Dragon breath? Turning to stone? Elf, Dwarf, and halfling are classes? Wha? After being spoiled by modern rules-lite systems, It was hard to get used to again, but we soldiered on.Play experience? In spite of the strangeness, gameplay chugged along at a nice clip once we got into the groove. Combat was quick and deadly. Corpses piled up, friend and foe alike. I will say though, if you want your players to have the satisfaction of leveling up during you session, you have no choice but to dump more treasure on them, fiddle with the xp system, or hand out mission/ story awards. Even though B2 has more treasure than B1, the amount of coins and baubles we found during our one session was a pathetic tiny fraction of what we needed to level and the amount of XP you receive from monsters is laughable. This, even after we managed to kill the ogre on the lower levels. I might sound overly critical, but we did manage to have fun for what it's worth. Would we play it again? Nope, but it wasn't a wasted afternoon, at any rate.</blockquote>

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