Home brew.

Does home brew make it good or bad?  

IF I started my own company, printed 250 copies of an adventure, sold 37 of them and then went out of business...that makes my publication a rare treasure.

IF I made my own dungeon and sold or gave away 37 semi-professional copies....is that bad?

Mark  

Interesting thought...at least to me.....

    I wonder how many amateur publications are out there in file drawers, boxes and car trunks.

    I wonder the total number of worlds and dungeons hiding about.  Millions?

Mark  

I have Rescue the Princess as well so there are at least 2 copies around.  I can't remember if it ever came with a cover though - I'd have to dig it out and check (but that could take a while).

Did Gamer's Liberation Front produce anything else?

So, what's it about?

Got this today....not much on writing reviews but here it goes.

The cover art is very primitive as is the interior are. The are was done by Tom F. Cardin who is one of the authors. Luckily there is not much interior art.

The module is 16 pages long including the covers. It is supposed to be generic and "can be used with AD&D" but it seems to have been written using AD&D statistics.

The background is that a beautiful elvish princess (are there ever any other kinds....do elves kill their ugly children?) was traveling to a neighboring kingdom to meet with a prince to explore the option of marriage and improved relations. When she gets to her destination she vanishes in the night before there can be a meeting. The guard sent in search of her have not returned in days and the prince is looking for help....



SPOILER



The module is sort of different in that there are three different scenarios as to what happened. Due to the size of the module each of these is very limited in scope. There are two smaller ones and one that is a little more detailed. There is a specific set of rumors for each option that will lead the players to the needed encounter as well as random monster tables for each.

The first option is that she was kidnapped by a party of drow that were camped in nearby woods. One assumes they have kidnapped her because she is an elvish princess.

The second and largest option is a Haunted Keep with dungeon. In this there is a new monster type and it craves the flesh of beautiful women.

In the third the party is lead to a small abandoned temple that has been taken over by evil priests. They have kidnapped the princess to sacrifice her to their god/demon...there is a possibility of encounter a demon in this scenario.


END SPOILER

All in all it is not too bad for a private offering. It could have been polished and some additional content added but this can still be done. I would think that I would mesh the three option together and make it a larger affair if I were running it. It was printed in 1985 and cost $2.49...so it was less than half what the mass produced modules were selling for at the time IIRC. It is not going to make top 50 modules of all time but I do not feel bad having it in my collection and it showed some difference in allowing for the three options.

stratochamp wrote:i have one too (came with  stuff from an isoldit auction about a year ago that included a dwarven glory) so there were at least 3 made

It has a cover price, so I'd imagine there was a print run in the same order as that of the fanzines of the time. But it's the sort of thing people will have binned or damaged, so I'd guess there are very few left.