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IIRC, this article did just that: "Who Gets the First Swing?" by Ronald Hall in Dragon 71. Allan.

Indeed—she’s a keeper :) I’ve read aloud to Heather The Hobbit, LOTR, Harry Potter, Dan Brown’s _Angels & Demons_ and _Da Vinci Code_, _Kite Runner_, _Life of Pi_, and Shannon Chakraborty’s _City of Brass_. With the boys I’ve read TH/LOTR, HP, Amber, Elric, Dune, Wirld of Tiers, HPL, ERB, Fritz...

I’m glad I asked!—and I will definitely check out Masterplan, because I'm very curious about this mapping/dungeon penetration map generator (in particular to compare it to Melan’s mapping analysis approach). Allan.

If you have an old link for the tool, do please share it—it may still be available via the Internet Archive. The tool reminds me a little of Gabor’s map flow analysis post from EnWorld these 20-ish years ago...

LOL. No, I’m reading Pale Lights aloud to her: https://palelights.com/ Allan.

I recently had cause to explain the nuance of bastion to my wife while reading aloud a novel to her: And while I agree with the sentiment that losing some of the specific meaning of bastion isn’t completely borked, I do appreciate the nuance of the term ;) Allan

Slagging T3-4 seems the best solution to me, but I suppose it depends on how you fold-spindle-mutilate ToEE at the table, and what your players really latch onto. Some other resources to consider for your lists: - timrod blog posts on the relationships between T1, B2, and the DMG sample...

Etol Otus did some stupidly-rare ones before joining TSR, that I’ve built a level using: Some info about Erol’s at https://www.afterglow2.com/Product/FAE.htm Our TTS#3 geos have stairs, trapdoors, chimneys, and other inter-level transit points on them, so that you can modularly stack them...

Definitely fun! I’m glad you enjoyed them. I’ve also run N1 as a Lovecraftian scenario, in case that might be useful food for thought: - replace trogs with deep ones - replace townie cultists with CE monks (at the time I was using Dragon #53 monks, but I still tweaked their powers further to...

In all fairness, my impression of liking CSIO comes from playing at the table of a JG super-nerd (as I am to Greyhawk, my business partner is to the Wilderlands and JG in general), and we didn’t meet any balrog bartenders during our sessions ;) I’ve not read CSIO since well-before we began...

Newest ones off the top of my head that I’m aware of are: - Khosura, from Gabor - Palace of the Silver Prince, from Huso - Gunderholfen bundle, from G. Hawkins Ha!: we’ve been publishing new geos (including 3D ones!) in The Twisting Stair, and I continue to play with them from time to time...

One of my favorites!: https://grodog.blogspot.com/2018/10/module-challenge-day-6-dmg-monastery-dungeon.html and https://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?p=266815#p266815 and https://grodog.blogspot.com/2020/02/renovating-the-monastery-in-greyhawk-part-1.html and...

I wasn’t impressed at all by Tegel Manor either, and that’s still the case :) Until 2005 when I moved to Wichita, my general opinion of JG was that it was all crap—the quality of the content matching the paper it was printed on. The thing is, my exposure to JG as a kid was to all of the...

I played both over the past 20 years, and definitely found Thracia more memorable and fun. DT was a slog and outside of a few interesting encounter locations, little stands out in my memories from our sessions. Allan.

So, any other thoughts about the book? I’ve not bought a copy yet, due to unemployment finances, but am curious to hear folks’ impressions about it—both the contents, and the quality of the book itself. Allan.

I’m really not too sure they’ll have a lot useful in them, but I’ll dig in and see. Allan.

So mini-maps like at http://tenfootpole.org/forum/index.php?threads/best-mini-dungeons.362/#post-10913 seem like ideal fodder for the contest. I can definitely submit some—it’ll give me an excuse to key a few I’ve particularly liked :) Allan.

Pretty loose/fast, overall, with little use of/reference to rules. Like Jim was going to kill us all, no matter what we did or how well we played ;) Allan.

2 pages in total, including map, or 2 pages text in addition to the map? allan.

I taught an after-school program in the early/mid 80s for kids, to teach them how to play D&D, and semi-recently ran across my notes and handouts from that. I’ll pull them out again to see if they hold up or not. I also combined two of TSR’s “what is D&D?” handouts from the early 80s into a...