The Tower of the Elephant for 1st edition D&D

[thulsa]

The good folks at Dragonsfoot.org, the biggest first edition fansite on the web, have published a conversion of my The Tower of the Elephant adventure (which was written for 3E rules, before the Mongoose Conan RPG was published) in issue #13 of their fanzine, Footprints. In addition to first edition stats, this version also has new retro-style art and maps.

Footprints #13:

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php4/archive.php?sectioninit=FT&fileid=247

The 3E version:

http://hyboria.xoth.net/adventures/tower_of_the_elephant.htm

Enjoy!

- thulsa

 

[rabindranath72]

Cool! Thanks for the work! Though I wonder why did you give Yara all those "flashy" spells (magic missile and lightning bolt, for example)?
Also, I would have removed almost completely the magic items (e.g. the guards getting +3 leather seems somewhat excessive).
I like the lotus poison being "modelled" as dust of sneezing and choking. Nice touch!

 

[The King]

It's ridiculously fun to compare how the later D&D version became complicated.

 

[rabindranath72]

It's ridiculously fun to compare how the later D&D version became complicated.

My thought exactly
I recently played Tower of the Elephant with Mentzer Basic D&D. Same end result, one hundredth of the complexity.

 

[thulsa]

Cool! Thanks for the work! Though I wonder why did you give Yara all those "flashy" spells (magic missile and lightning bolt, for example)?
Also, I would have removed almost completely the magic items (e.g. the guards getting +3 leather seems somewhat excessive).
I like the lotus poison being "modelled" as dust of sneezing and choking. Nice touch!

Although I am listed as the author of the module (text), the editors at Dragonsfoot converted the stats from 3E to 1E. There are certainly no +3 magic leather armors in my 3E version (the +3 is simply the armor bonus itself to the AC value; probably misunderstood by the Dragonsfoot editors).

- thulsa