06-13-2010, 04:14 PM
Dave L Wrote:Big Mac Wrote:I generally prefer sourcebooks to adventures. Do you think that this adventure is better (as a sourcebook) than the proper 3e Blackmoor sourcebooks?Personally? No.
There's a lot of material that could be used in the Blackmoor setting, but it doesn't give you enough of an overview of the setting, from my admittedly quick glance through it.
There is some history of the setting I'm not sure is available anywhere else, but there isn't enough present day info to make it a replacement for the proper sourcebook.
Well, given the name, I was more thinking of its merit only as a sourcebook of Castle Blackmoor's dungeons. I took it as a given that I would also need the core 3e Blackmoor Campaign Setting book (which I already have - in paperback). Maybe I wasn't clear.
Rafael seemed to really like the book, and I've heard the mega-dungeons of both Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax were iconic elements of their home campaigns.
What I would be looking for, from this product, would be something as close to 100 percent of Dave Arneson's dungeon as possible. I could accept maybe 80-90 percent of the dungeon, but if it was only 10-20 percent I would feel that it wasn't living up to it's name.
Dave L Wrote:However, I haven't read it all yet, because when it became apparent Rafe might actually be sending us into the blasted thing, I stopped reading! 8)
Hmm. So you haven't done any maps yet, then?
