1975: Fantasy Adventure for Fifth Edition
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The adventure begins as the characters leave the [tavern, town, etc.] and start down the road towards a valley. The valley itself is horseshoe-shaped, and the road the characters are on is near the top. The treasure map indicates that the "treasure" is in the bottom of the valley along a swampy river course and is located on an
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1975 - Frog God Games
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Forward for 5th Edition
MCMLXXV
By Bill Webb
Converting 1975 for Fifth Edition
As you read through the first few pages of this module, you’ll notice there are references to Swords and Wizardry . This is intentional. I wanted to make sure that the inspiration for this module was untouched through conversion and that the primer on old school play was left intact. The content that follows that section is converted for Fifth Edition. Any creatures, hazards, or new magic items encountered are either in the Fifth Edition SRD or in the Appendix in this module.
When Bill wrote this module, he wanted to share with everyone something that was special to him, and that was a part of his experience with RPGs. I too want to share that with you all. While my experience in old school roleplaying is no where near as extensive as Bill’s — I started playing in 1985 and have many fond memories of that old school feel — , knowingI learned that I had to be smart with how I played my character, or I would be rolling up a new one while the rest of the group continued play.
Given the spirit of this module, you’ll notice that many of the encounters are not winnable by a group of 4-6 characters of 1st to 3rd level. There are also traps that will outright kill a low-level character (depending on death rules you utilize in your game, that is). That is the way it was with old school games. There was wisdom in running away and figuring out how to avoid combat, or to use the environment against a challenging encounter, and in also realizing that the players should have a good time but also be challenged. The players in my weekly Fifth Edition home game have learned these lessons, often the hard way. I hope this conversion presents an opportunity for you and your players to experience some of the nostalgia of old school gaming.
Patrick Pilgrim
July 2018
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Old-School Primer
An Old School Gaming Primer
This module is intended to show how old school roleplaying provides enhanced descriptions and provides not only storyline and encounters but creates a feeling of being there.
I have borrowed from work I did supporting Matt Finch at North Texas RPG Con in 2011, as well as sessions I ran at PaizoCon in 2011 and 2012. Kudos to Tabletop Adventures (http://www.tabletopadventures.com/) for the great work they have put in over the years in providing table ready description text. Back in the old days, this was the way it was done—on the fly, by the old timers (and this author counts himself an old timer
).
Rules were few, people did not really understand roleplaying games as they do today, and we had to make them smell, hear and feel the stench of the dead body, the weird drumming sounds in the deep, and the cold, clammy touch of a ghoul's claw.
When the game was new, none of the players had read 100+ RPG books. They did not know if a dwarf was a 6-inch tall faerie or one of Tolkien’s hardened miners with an axe and a love of gold. We had to tell them. As the game has evolved, we deal with a much more educated and cunning set of players. In order to stay a step ahead, the game master must create and describe many situations both hazardous and benign with equal enthusiasm. Players can be kept on their toes and edges of their seats by harmless blue flowers as well as deadly poisonous yellow flowers if they don’t know which flower is which. The art of storytelling in our favorite game is not dead—heavens no—but to really get back to the roots of the game, it helps to provide mystery and fear.
Some players have joked with me over the years that they never know when to let up—and instead assume combat mode as soon as flavor text
gets heavy. Having personally never been a fan of the spot check
or a blind roll to disarm the trap
without having it fully described, I use flavor text to allow players to creatively solve problems by asking questions and better understanding what it is
that their characters see and do. Secret doors are not automatically opened…they must be examined, loose bricks and levers must be searched for, and so on. An orc is not just an orc. It could be a hairy humanoid, with jutting tusks and whitish green skin, barking in an obscene, unintelligible language while it charges at you with its rusted poleaxe! The troll does not simply regenerate
, but its wounds close over the arrows in its chest almost faster than the blood drips from them.
This is the stuff of 1975.
I have tried in this module to provide a judgeyou with enough information to improvise