tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post7423400261136192044..comments2024-02-25T08:15:34.559-05:00Comments on The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope: Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It…Michael Curtishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13217338828086458862noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-84652888617655178712009-08-28T08:55:24.956-04:002009-08-28T08:55:24.956-04:00The first 'module' I wrote was a pirate...The first 'module' I wrote was a pirate's cave for my Fighting Fantasy homebrew, based strongly on The Goonies and a few SF books I'd read that year, back when I was 13-14. I recall putting a lot of work into the traps and clues. Though the game world, the pirate's cave, and the first set of house rules I ever wrote are now long gone, they are in some small way commemorated here:<br /><br />http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/travellers-of-the-wasteland/7506929<br /><br />Yes I wrote my own Fighting Fantasy/Basic D&D mashup nostalgia FRPG :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-6028545847810206622009-08-27T16:30:05.766-04:002009-08-27T16:30:05.766-04:00Hotel room = $10
Tattoo= $120
Cafe meal= $50
Origa...Hotel room = $10<br />Tattoo= $120<br />Cafe meal= $50<br />Origanal Picoso in pawnshop= $100,000<br />memories= pricelessbarratarianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-38101507933401408622009-08-27T15:19:27.053-04:002009-08-27T15:19:27.053-04:00I have only my memories, but they match pretty clo...I have only my memories, but they match pretty closely. The one TS adventure I remember writing had the agents going to Egypt (good start: exotic locale) to find a lost pyramid (uh...). They had to get through some traps and enemy agents inside (wait, how did the enemy...?) to find a fabulous jewel: the Eye of Osiris.<br /><br />"Espionage" is just another word for "dungeon crawl".Matthew Slepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056247825064943944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-36431846241444967522009-08-27T12:15:24.945-04:002009-08-27T12:15:24.945-04:00Oh man, what a great post! I think the majority o...Oh man, what a great post! I think the majority of my Top Secret adventures (our heyday was 1986-88, 5th-7th grade) were similar to what you describe: basically an action-movie shoot-em-up (aka "dungeon crawl"), with some Bond-inspired gadgets and the occasional super-villain thrown in for good measure. <br /><br />"Intrigue" for us went something like this:<br /><br />Admin: "You see some guys in dark coats get into a suspicious looking car."<br /><br />To which the players' response was usually a variation of:<br /><br />"OK, let's blast 'em!"<br /><br />It makes me cringe a bit to think back to this, but what an awesomely fun time it was...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-30359248481331666362009-08-27T11:49:37.300-04:002009-08-27T11:49:37.300-04:00This makes me think of the first adventure I recal...This makes me think of the first adventure I recall making. It was "written" on graph paper. Basically a map with notes about what baddies are where and a few room descriptions. These notes were mostly useless and near nonsensical things like "make a Poison Save or contract malaria if the PCs enter the tavern latrine".<br /><br />The next page was a cavern that was a goblin lair. Lots of notes about hay for beds. As the players went deeper into the cave there were a few twists and turns but was extremely linear with one "hall" and rooms that branched off of it. Ultimately it lead to a fight with the goblin king on his pet carrion crawler.<br /><br />No notes about how the PCs get from the tavern to the "dungeon" but lots of notes about the stuff inside and the monsters located there.mmarandahttp://adventuresites.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-56407738288086296412009-08-27T11:45:18.547-04:002009-08-27T11:45:18.547-04:00miami vice through top secret == a bad adventure? ...miami vice through top secret == a bad adventure? I find this hard to believe...Ragnorakkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03812860633134547618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-8121239859458594932009-08-27T10:17:53.476-04:002009-08-27T10:17:53.476-04:00I stayed in a $10 hotel room once.
It had "D...I stayed in a $10 hotel room once.<br /><br />It had "Day rates" and "Hourly rates" too.<br /><br />The mattresses were not for human use.<br /><br />Given the gritty nature of Top Secret, apparently your 12-year old self was more versed and worldly than you give yourself credit for!<br /><br />I try to save every character sheet anyone's played in my games, as well as any moronic adventure I ever wrote but I know many of them have been lost to the winds of time. Sometimes I look at them for humorous purposes, other times to mine an idea, and other times just because by nature I am a hoarder and don't want to risk dumping them.Vanadornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04342660129465098326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4727301007280965202.post-37337829609590493192009-08-27T10:00:36.229-04:002009-08-27T10:00:36.229-04:00No.
--I regularly purge my vaults of such like. ;...No.<br />--I regularly purge my vaults of such like. ;)<br /><br />Cool that you found it. :DTimeshadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09952601433965644275noreply@blogger.com