grodog wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:Pics sent this morning, Joe!

Allan.

Thanks Allan, really appreciated. I'd never have expected The Appleland Groves to be a Beatles themed adventure, complete with Yellow Submarine, Blue Meanies, Lovely Rita - Meter Maid, and a horde of screaming fans...

I put up the first post for 1979 on Friday explorebeneathandbeyond.blogspot.com/20 ... rly-d.html so I'm nearing the end. Out of 200 items I now only have two that I'm missing:

The Apprentice #6 - The Volcanic Vaults of Vahrnok
Kandroc Keep by Brian Asbury

I did find two people who had Kandroc Keep, but one has mislaid it, the other gave it to a museum!

I'm late to the party but I think I can assist with Apprentice #6.  Is that and Kandroc Keep (no help there) all you need?

AZMountaineer wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:I'm late to the party but I think I can assist with Apprentice #6.  Is that and Kandroc Keep (no help there) all you need?

I've now got Kandroc Keep (and the author and I are to republish it!) but I've still got nothing for the adventure in The Apprentice #6 - that would be absolutely fantastic! A scan/photo of the map and a page of the key is what I need.

Mars wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:What do you need?  Just a few photos?  I have both Kandroc Keep and Apprentice 6

And then this kind offer as well. Thanks Mars. I guess I only need something from one of you!

I thought those were the only two I had nothing for, but then it turns out two of the Wilmark Dynasty items were 1970s tournaments - The Burgundy Pit was used at Penn Con in 1978, Journey to the Center of the Circle for D-Con I in 1978. Unfortunately they're mostly in shrink so people can't send me photos, and I only found out about them the day after they jumped up tenfold in price!

While I'm about it there are a couple of rare adventures which I've got the map but only a fragment or nothing at all of the key:
- The original Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
- Notnaidag Robber Headquarters
- The Tomb of the Waning Moon (I've included unpublished tournament adventures since some were very influential and there aren't many still existing that people have shared)

I hope the series has proved useful to people, putting all these adventures into context with each other, and perhaps giving some people ideas of more items to collect. Also as a bonus I've ended up talking to some of the authors and been able to get their modules back available again as downloadable pdfs.

Mars wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:I posted a couple of the 1st print Wilmark items on ebay - they aren't in shrink so there are some photos of the interior pages as well if you want to take a look/read.

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Thanks Mars - they must have gone up since I last looked. That gives the required info for The Burgandy Pit - great photos - so of the Wilmark Dynasty items I'm only now looking for Journey to the Center of the Circle

You've got Chivalry Lives up for sale but with no interior photos. Are there any mentions of tournaments in it? (to confirm it's out of scope)

The others are all out of scope. Lake of Parity says it is late '79 and was run at "some east coast tournaments", but no details to pin it down - but I don't think it counts if the tournament wasn't big enough to be named. Allan says he has the other two and confirms they're out of scope:

grodog wrote:Escape from Shadowland ("designed for play at the 1981 Gen Con East"), and The Vampyre's Mirror (no mentions of convention play at all).

(It's interesting to see the out-of-scope items anyway, especially as sometimes they add context)

Excellent - thanks!

I'm very pleased to be able to present the next in my series republishing original early D&D scenarios - Original Scenarios Resurrected IX: Kandroc Keep II (1980, Brian Asbury). This is the previously unpublished sequel to Kandroc Keep (which was #7 in my series) and the only known copy - a photocopy of the original manuscript prepared for publication before the publisher went bust - has languished in a drawer for the last 40 odd years. Kandroc Keep is a solitaire adventure, originally published as a stand alone scenario for a party. This is the second level, the entrance to which was included in the original Kandroc Keep. This was great fun to play through, and I'm very excited to be able to share it with you all.

<humour>I am considering a limited print run of the adventure, which will include grading. The module will be delivered to you already graded and entombed in plastic. This will ensure it is an instant collectible and will save you from ever having to read it.</humour>

JoeNuttall wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:I'm very pleased to be able to present the next in my series republishing original early D&D scenarios - Original Scenarios Resurrected IX: Kandroc Keep II (1980, Brian Asbury). This is the previously unpublished sequel to Kandroc Keep (which was #7 in my series) and the only known copy - a photocopy of the original manuscript prepared for publication before the publisher went bust - has languished in a drawer for the last 40 odd years. Kandroc Keep is a solitaire adventure, originally published as a stand alone scenario for a party. This is the second level, the entrance to which was included in the original Kandroc Keep. This was great fun to play through, and I'm very excited to be able to share it with you all.

<humour>I am considering a limited print run of the adventure, which will include grading. The module will be delivered to you already graded and entombed in plastic. This will ensure it is an instant collectible and will save you from ever having to read it.</humour>

Wow, excellent work - amazing!

Count me in for the limited print run!  I would like a 9.8 or higher, though.

JoeNuttall wrote in Compiling a list of 1970s scenarios:
Hi Ben. It's great that you've been enjoying it. I've thought carefully about this, and it would be great, but for now at least I think the answer has unfortunately to be no. I believe that the reason that I've managed to get authors so far to agree for their work to be republished has to a certain degree been because there is no money involved. It's always a possibility in the future when the series has run its course and I've run out of scenarios to publish (but note that all rights to the scenarios are retained by the authors).

As an aside I forgot to put at the bottom of my last post that of the 1970s scenarios I am still looking for scans of a map and part of the key for Journey to the Center of the Circle and the scenario in The Apprentice #6.

While i understand the profitless nature of your activity (and really appreciate it!!), i miss why you do not consider to set up a printed version of these modules via drivethrurpg or similar POD providers. You can set 0 as a mark-up and make available a printed version at cost.
My 2 cents, ciaooo

Some of you may appreciate my latest post - I've done a comparison of Quest for the Fazzlewood with its revised version, O1: The Gem and the Staff.
I play tested it as a mini-tournament for my 4 players, and I've given a set of changes to make to the easily available O1 version to turn it into Quest for the Fazzlewood. This was possible because the modules are actually very similar, it's just that all the interesting bits of flavour were removed, so in the main I say what they were and where to add them back in.
The verdict? The original is a classic adventure, far better than the later revised version.

I'd like to do a similar comparison for all the 1970s modules that were republished, which would be possible for ToH, Tsoj and Tamoachan, but I haven't seen the original versions of Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Rahasia (there was a pdf on the Dragonlance site but it was taken down), or Ghost Tower of Inverness (though I believe that had an unofficial reprint a few years back).