Running Part Three of a Module Trilogy

My Tuesday Illinois Living Greyhawk group asked me to run the third part of an adapted module trilogy tomorrow. I agreed, and will spend the next month or so running it every other Tuesday until it is done. The mod is called Fortress of the Yuan-ti it is the finale to adapted adventures that started with the Barrow of the Forgotten King and rolled into The Sinister Spire. It is amazing how devoted this group is to Greyhawk and what I call its evil Living Greyhawk RPGA spawn.  I told the group that I prefer not to run Living Greyhawk modules unless they are adapted mods, so they filled my email box with adapted modules and hand delivered the physical published mods to my door. Guess I can not get out of DMing that easily.

I prefer to play the older 3.X rpga games and have issues with running the modules for the setting. I told the group as politely as possible that the 3.x RPGA modules give me ulcers when I run them. I should clarify that I totally respect the effort of the authors, because I have never published game modules myself, and only run my own games off scribbled notes and chicken scratched dungeon drawings, in many cases they are created as the players discuss topics around the tables. Nearly every module I ever ran, I ended up deviating from it, or just taking this piece or that and using a compilation for my home game. Even in the new 4e rpga you still have to run the game from start to stop without deviating, the only cool part is that I can tweak the “feel and flow” to suit the party and increase their enjoyment; something I can live with. It is the strictness of 3.x RPGA mods that give me ulcers. Anyway, tomorrow the group begins the last part of a series they all have played and have had fun with.

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