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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8303974" data-attributes="member: 71699">I will try to keep this short in the first instance as I may not be clear on what you are asking.It seems to me the question you are asking is whether it would be possible to run Tomb of Horrors in HeroQuest dramatic-mode? (Not just, could I make the mechanics of HQ work for ToH in Gygaxian-mode, to which I believe the answer is yes.) On surface, there may well be some sort of House of Horrors story that could be told using the Tomb map+key. Perhaps by assuming Acererak had already attained his latterly developed role of plane-hopping usher of adventurers to their doom. Playing up the cheesiness.What I believe will happen there, however, is that I will turn out to be not running ToH as ToH. From the above I already have a sense of the Tomb bending out of shape. Once I speculate that running Gygaxian-mode Tomb to the standards of Gygaxian-mode Tomb, cannot be done whilst playing in dramatic-mode, then the underlying question perhaps turns out to be - can we even assess dramatic-mode from the perspective of Gygaxian-mode? As you know, I believe that attempts to do so are likely to run into problems.EDIT Just in case it isn't clear - I agree with your intuition here, and am attempting to suggest what it might be grounded in.</blockquote>