The Secret of Bone Hill - your experiences?

[Barendd Nobeard]

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.

I thought you could post them, but WotC made some guidelines about conversions which must be followed. Basically, you just post converted stat blocks, with a link showing where someone can buy the original. No IP or "fluff" content can be included--just the converted numbers to run the game. Thus, you can't run it with only the conversion; you still have to have the original mod.

 

[Steve Jung]

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

They used to be on the old site. A couple years ago, Wizards changed the conversion guidelines. Many old conversions were not in accordance with the new rules, and so were removed.

 

[the Jester]

They used to be on the old site. A couple years ago, Wizards changed the conversion guidelines. Many old conversions were not in accordance with the new rules, and so were removed.

Ahh, a sad day...

 

[Doc_Klueless]

I thought you could post them, but WotC made some guidelines about conversions which must be followed. Basically, you just post converted stat blocks, with a link showing where someone can buy the original. No IP or "fluff" content can be included--just the converted numbers to run the game. Thus, you can't run it with only the conversion; you still have to have the original mod.

Ah. Oh. Ok. Well, I think I have the old one that was removed from this site (after reading the post below yours), so I'd have to do some work cleaning it up. As I work 60+ hours a week, have family, and an IRC game going, the time to do that may be sorely lacking. Heh.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Secret of Bone Hill is among my favorite AD&D memories. It, along with Assassins Knot and Village of Homlett, convinced me that the lowest levels are the most enjoyable both to play and to run adventures for. I played in it once, and ran it and L2 twice having a blast all three times.

The Auld Grump

 

[Doctor Futurity]

Ah, the module in which I killed my sister's favorite character (ghouls, I think)....then was immediately remorseful (she really, really liked that character) and so her minotaur priest henchman took her thief-mage's body back to the temple for resurrection. She then returned, and proceeded to clean clock on the Hill. Great old gamig days! There's a little spot for that module in my venerable campaign to this day.

I didn't ever get Assassin's Knot (alas).....

I recently got an opportunity to visit Bone Hill via Neverwinter Nights; someone has a decent module of the original scenario there at the Neverwinter Vault, fun to play and see old names and places again. Not quite the same as the PNP edition....but fun nonetheless.

 

[Eridanis]

I love these modules. I f I ever have time to run a campaign, I will be using them as the basis for it. I played L1 back in the day, and I remember it was a fun adventure, and reading it years later showed how much more there is - as TB and Eri mention, it's pretty free-form.

 

[Iron Sheep]

I never played L1 & L2 back in the 1st Edition days, but I always wanted to. A lot of my current campaign has been loosely based on L1 and L2. The characters and towns of Restenford and Garotten have become rather central to the campaign.

I have modified a lot of L1, so much that you might not recognise it. The characters started the adventure at 3rd-4th level, and the faster rate of advancement in 3rd Edition means that I ended up having to do a lot of scaling. So I ended up replacing the gnolls by feral gnolls with a preference for vile magic, for example.

On the other hand, I played L2 almost exactly as-is, and it went rather well, although the half-orc barbarian didn't have much to do until the big show-down at the end.

The big bad guys from L2 escaped, and I'm planning to have them come back for the finale of the campaign, starting tonight: it's midsummer, and the daughter of the Baroness of Restenford is having a rushed wedding with the third son of the Duke of the Blackrock Baronies. And there's something naggingly familiar about the groom's manservant and advisor...

Corran

 

[Wraith Form]

wraith spawn

My kids? Cool.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I didn't ever get Assassin's Knot (alas).....

Shazaam!

Wizards very kindly reprinted several adventures on their website, including Assassin's Knot and of course Bone Hill

Hope you find them handy, they seem pretty easy to convert to 3.x.

The Auld Grump