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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9411489" data-attributes="member: 7045072">Hommlet always feels to me like Gygax being his most excessive and actuarial.  Keying the town like it's a dungeon rather then making its social connection clearly structured, and then the dungeon is a bit much at times - Those 6 concealed 2 HD frogs in the moat for starters.It's not bad for what it is, as an intro to something bigger written in a very particular authorial style, but it's certainly not an introductory challenge for people new to older style games.  Back to the frogs for example, it's a pure "combat as war" encounter - though it's a manageable one for players who are thinking about hunting dangerous animals and not about fighting monsters in D&D.  Scouting, running like hell, and coming back with hooks baited with meat or simply a plan to snipe at the frogs from trees and at longer range can work just fine.Of the older adventures I think there are some decent options, if less decent then contemporary offerings, ones in the B series, (B4 comes to mind).  Usability and accessibility for modern  players is the thing, and while I quite like a lot of Gygax's referee advice in places like B2, he's talking to players from the 70's and 80's - without exposure to another 30 or 40 years of D&D fantasy that has built up expectations rather at odds with they systems involved.</blockquote>