Tomb of Horrors

7/13/2018

The Basic Crawl
00:00:22 - Overview
00:05:18 - Things we liked about the module
00:12:41 - Questions we had about the module
00:17:00 - Chain Lightning Round

The Expert Delve
00:19:20 - Traps

Companion Adventures
00:39:42 - Films
00:42:32 - Games

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6/22/2019 10:05:58 am

Two comments spring-boarding off the Chain Lightning segment:

While DM'ing this a number of years ago, I accidentally discovered what a vast difference having the poem (riddle/puzzle) from the start entryway makes; it indeed includes every clue you need to navigate the place. My players initially missed it, but then used a D&D divination spell (commune), and I gave them the middle-third of the poem as a result. This worked like a light-switch, changing the experience from frustration to active and feasible puzzle-solving. When they depleted the part I'd given them, it switched back to frustrating. It's pretty interesting that the module has this built-in switch available: poem off (grind up hundreds of players in a tournament) or poem on (successful puzzle-solving possible).

My top recommendation for DMs running this module today: MAKE SURE TO GIVE THE POEM.

Second small comment: The one-line (all caps) denouement at the end was standard in all of Gygax's earliest modules. See also the end of modules: G1, G2, G3, D1, D2, D3, and Q1.

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