D&D General We need a kill Bargle adventure path

[Shades of Eternity]

I think he would be a perfect villain to return to terrorize low level parties in an adventure path for the new edition.

How would you do it?

Bonus points, have you run the red box adventure path and how did it go? What were your changes you did as the scaffolding got knocked away?

 

[Hussar]

Love it.

I have to turn in my geek crew card though. I got into DnD with Moldvay Basic then moved into ADnD.

I had no idea who or what Bargle was until many years later.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't know that Bargle or anyone mostly known to fans in their 50s or older is a good centerpiece for a campaign necessarily. Using him in a cameo role, like the action figure characters were used in Witchlight, makes more sense to me.

That said, "court wizard turns on the local ruler and becomes a fugitive the players eventually have to hunt down" is a good framework. Dropping him into Heroes of the Borderlands in this role, turning on the (hopefully named this time) castellan would work well and be a reason for the newbie heroes to run all around the Borderlands, trying to hunt him down.

He can even have his infamous scene of killing off an adventurer by having a rival group of non-evil adventurers running around the Borderlands who make the mistake of catching up to Bargle before they're capable of handling him.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

well that's the thing

Bargle is practically the personification of what the worst in gaming is and it would be cathartically satisfying to curb stomp him.

edit:
because

 

[Azzy]

There was a filled-out version of that introductory adventure in the last (print) issue of Dungeon magazine that I once ran.

That said, I think a truly fleshed-out version would make a better starter set than a full-length AP. And I would buy it in a heartbeat to inflict on a new generation of gamers.

 

[sevenbastard]

Love it.

I have to turn in my geek crew card though. I got into DnD with Moldvay Basic then moved into ADnD.

I had no idea who or what Bargle was until many years later.

Same.

HOPEFULLY the 2024 DMG uses the sample dungeons from older editions in some capacity. AD&D, and all three basic books.

I will say that the PHB could have used some charachter death in it's example of play. Pretty tame stuff.l compared to what we had in the 80s.

 

[GuyBoy]

The chance to defeat Bargle would be great!
Of course, encountering Gutboy Barrelhouse in the same adventure, would be even better.

 

[Distracted DM]

Given how much they've been visiting the nostalgia pool, I wouldn't be surprised! I wouldn't be opposed either- I'm sickeningly susceptible to the nostalgia crap. Then again I already used Bargle in my games last year, and my players hated him in a glorious way...

Anyway, good idea

 

[GreyLord]

There was a filled-out version of that introductory adventure in the last (print) issue of Dungeon magazine that I once ran.

That said, I think a truly fleshed-out version would make a better starter set than a full-length AP. And I would buy it in a heartbeat to inflict on a new generation of gamers.

There was?

Which issue of Dungeon is that. Digital or in print?

 

[Hussar]

There was?

Which issue of Dungeon is that. Digital or in print?

That would be Dungeon 150. The last print Dungeon magazine.