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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

OSR Christmas - Day Two - WG5: Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (1e)

Its Day Two of OSR Christmas. Before we get to today's festivities, let's find out who is the recipient of yesterday's awesome gift.

I would do a drum roll but that doesn't work so well on a blog post. Oh well.

+Wayne Humfleet - congrats. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern and we'll get you hooked up.

Now for today's gift. WG5: Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (1e), written by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, its part of OBS recent TSR Era POD offerings.
Four great and powerful heroes travel in search of adventure. Led by Mordenkainen, wizard without peer, they have come to mysterious Maure Castle, a forlorn and foreboding place, source of wonderment and awesome adventure, following a strange and terrible story. 
For, somewhere deep beneath Maure Castle, from whence no person has returned alive, there stand two massive iron doors -- doors without latch, lock, or handle -- the Unopenable Doors. 
And if the doors are opened, what then? Such potent evil, such terror lies beyond, that even the bravest adventurers may quail before the ultimate test! 
Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventureis a challenging adventure for high-level play. Four original characters from Gary Gygax's famous Greyhawk campaign are included for your use. 
Can you meet the challenge? Can you survive what lies beyond ... the Unopenable Doors? 
An adventure for characters level 9-12.

Comment on this post before 8 AM Eastern Time, December 15th, 2016 to be in the running for $11.99 in an RPGNow Gift Card. Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, Print plus PDF is exactly $11.99 (plus shipping which is on the winner) or use it for other purchases at RPGNow. The choice will be yours - if Santa picks you :)

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100 comments:

  1. What a module! What a prize! What a tavern!

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  2. Looks awesome! Next year in Greyhawk.

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  3. I've never played or read that module.

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  4. Maure Castle actually had more pull on me than anything else in Greyhawk...

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  5. Ah, one of the TSR items I haven't gotten my hands on yet. OK, there are a lot of them, but still...

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  6. Dalt god of doorways was my favorite

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  7. Cool, I'm aware of the adventure but I've never actually read it.

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  8. Gotta love the old 1st edition modules ;)

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  9. My local Half Price Bookstore wants $50 for this, I believe. Awesome loot!

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  10. I cast Mordenkainen's Faithful Post Comment.

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  11. Kerzit says:
    Grrrrawr! This nonsense of "adventurers" thinking they can defeat me must come to an end! The middle must be mine, that I may destroy their chances!! After all, that useless Tomorast is a complete failure...

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  12. Greyhawk is my jam. I'm painting some of those old Ral Partha Anti-paladins into Warduke right now.

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    1. I also love Oerth and Greyhawk. I would like to see a picture of your minis when you when you are finished painting them.

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  13. That's a fun one! I'm definitely curious to see the quality on these reprints in person.

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  14. Maure-velous! ;)

    This is one of my favorite modules.

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  15. Fantastic? How can I pass up a module that says "Fantastic" in the name?

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  16. OMG, so much fun, unless the insane Druid you just met starts yelling "Kerzit, Kerzit, Kerzit!" a mere five minutes after meeting the rest of the party lol.

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  17. Time for the old Classics to become new again!

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  18. Kerzit kerzit kerzit kerzit!!!! Loving this.

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  19. Got to love a guy who starches his collar that much.

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  20. On the second day of osr-mas a cool guy got for me...

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  21. Count me in for this one please !! .. Hopefully we see some Judges Guild stuff pop up on days 3-12 !! I hear Bad Mike ships fast !!

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  22. Sorry teachers I could not think of a sentence with the word "kerzit" in it.
    Thank you

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  23. Great pick! I too would love to see how the POD looks with the oldies but goodies!

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  24. Have heard great things about this module, but never read or played it yet.

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  25. Your mom had a fantastic adventure!

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  26. My collection demands I win this one :D

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  27. Mmmmmm... OSR POD Goodness. I'm IN!

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  28. It is said Mordenkainen's stocking is a portal to a hobby shop in the 90s by the role playing nook. Some of the nerds then would often find beloved treasures there whIle their moms bought knick-knacks.

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  29. I'm in. Great adventure. I wonder if the PDF fixed the upside-down map?

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  30. I always read that as "mauve" castle, for some reason.

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  31. Nice! I never had this one back in the day.

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  32. I'm in! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

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  33. Congrats Wayne! And yeah, I'd love to get a copy of this :)

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  34. Everyone's favorite wizard chants merry merry!

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  36. I remember I owned this back in the day, but aside from the "Gary's Campaign PCs" stat blocks, I don't think I ever read it. Might just have to do that at some point...

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  37. A blast from the past! Happy holidays!

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  38. Just in time for my birthday, which is the 15th!
    =]

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  39. Nice! And congrats to the winner for yesterday's gift!

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  40. Survived this one years ago, would love to be on the DM side of the screen!

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  41. Love this one! Congrats to Wayne Humfleet! I hope Shrouded Fen gives you some joy.

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  42. Any old school content is good content. :)

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  43. A most excellent module. High level Greyhawk for the win!

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  44. I need to get my Players back to Greyhawk.

    They've always wanted to be buried, along those pleasant hills.
    This appears to be exactly how I can accomplish this.

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  45. One of the main reasons this module is a nice one to have is the fact it applies a very Vanceian approach to the wizard in questions mindset. Besides who can deny wanting to play an adventure that from the intro gave the great gamemaster himself difficulty.

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  46. Raises hand (and stalks around nervously eyeing the other people commenting)

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  47. Love me some Greyhawk! Never read this module. :)

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  48. I played in this ~30 years ago. I remember having a good time with it.

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  49. I got lightning shooting from my fingertips!

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  50. I love that they are offering these again. Keeping my fingers crossed for more basic rule books and modules in particular! Thanks for the contest, Erik!

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