The Secret of Bone Hill - your experiences?

[the Jester]

L1 gets the prize for 'first module I ever bought', the same day I bought the ol' Basic Set (so I guess KotB ties with it, but still...)

I loved running it and playing in it; likewise, L2, was fabulous!

Never checked out L3- what was it called?

 

[Tortoise]

I have Bone Hill, Assassin's Knot, and L3, though I have not runthem. I have however run a scenario from Dungeon Magazine set in the town they all take place in. I can't remember the name of the Dungeon scenario, but my players loved it and I had a ball DMing and converting it to 3E.

I've always liked the micro-setting for those adventures.

 

[SmokeDoctorlove]

You have made me feel so old. As I remember it wasn't very balanced, or structured. Then again almost none of them were back then. We were all very "Gee whiz" about any new D&D thing that came out, and were not very critical. (Hell Balance and structure hadn't been invented yet). I didn't get L2 or 3 back then because stuff showing up in Vermont was hit or miss. I have then all now, but I am old and collect old things

 

[Teflon Billy]

It's one of my favorite moduls of all time in that it was largely metaplot-fee, and more of a "mini-campiagn setting" than an "Adventure modul".

Restenford saw a lot of use in our early campaign.

There was some crazy stuff in there to destroy careless PC's

 

[Steve Jung]

It's one of my favorite modules along with L2, and Cult of the Reptile God (which I lost years ago). I used to have 3.0 conversions of L1 and L2, but they weren't acceptable. Now I have most of a 3.5 conversion of both.

 

[Turanil]

Now I have most of a 3.5 conversion of both.

Hey, can you make this conversion available to others here on this thread?

Thanks

 

[diaglo]

Never checked out L3- what was it called?

L3 Deep Dwarven Delve by Len Lakofka was only available in the silver boxed 25th anniversary set.

copies of it tho are available on the internet at auction sites/collector hobby stores...

 

[VirgilCaine]

It's one of my favorite modules along with L2, and Cult of the Reptile God (which I lost years ago). I used to have 3.0 conversions of L1 and L2, but they weren't acceptable. Now I have most of a 3.5 conversion of both.

What in the Nine Hells do you mean it wasn't acceptable?

 

[Doc_Klueless]

GM/Played this module something like 15+ years ago. I remember it being really fun. Two specifics I remember:

1) There was a wraith (?) hiding under a bed that jumps out and tries to kill ya. Nothing spells fear like level drain!

2) For some reason, the mayor/baron/whathaveyou wouldn't pay me the money he'd promised for clearing up some trouble (can I get any vaguer?), so I left to go adventuring elsewhere. About six to eight months later (real time), when we'd reached "name level" and the DM had forgotten all about that module, the group hired up every screwball fighter/orc/scumbag we could pay for, started an army, went back and razed the town as best we could. Then we ran as fast as possible for a far corner of the continent (where noone knew us) to retire. We (the players) had been planning this since we got screwed over by the powers-that-be in Restenford. It was a satisfactory end to our campaign.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

3e conversion of Secret of Bonehill

I have a 3e conversion of Bonehill on my hard drive right now, but I'd need the ok from the moderators before I'd make it available. I seem to recall that we can't post those conversions anymore.