Monday, October 10, 2022

Planning a Holiday Soon?

Does anyone remember the Dungeon Planner Sets from Games Workshop? I remember seeing advertisements for them in White Dwarf but I never encountered them in the wild. I was very intrigued by the ads and likely would have purchased one of them had I ever seen them for sale in a store. Unfortunately, the ads were the closest I ever got to them, so I'd be curious to hear from anyone who did own one (or even just saw one).

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  1. Just saw one of those sold on an auction site I am on. So got to see some pics of the contents (sold for $100). Very interesting indeed, it is essentially a mini campaign pack with a real nice map for the main dungeon.

    Only two sets were made, the other one focused on a village in Central Koss, that and following maps would combine to form a complete campaign setting. But they did not sell well enough, I guess.

    There's a really good history on Wikipedia.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Planner_Set_1:_Caverns_of_the_Dead

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  2. I have both "Caverns of the Dead" and "Nightmare in Blackmarsh". What would you like to know?

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    1. Mostly, I was curious about the quality of the maps. Are they thin, like paper, or heavier, like cardstock?

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  3. I have #2, Nightmare in Blackmarsh. I bought it for the cover, which is great. the adventure itself is kinda bland. I have played a lot of rpgs, and I like a good hook to pull the players in

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  4. I have both sets, but so far, have only reviewed Caverns of the Dead.

    http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2018/12/retrospective-dungeon-planner-set-1.html

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  5. Mantic, a miniatures and games company started by a former Games Workshop employee that seems to delight in trolling GW by releasing things very similar to out of print GW products, has just announced a similar product to this -- adventures and maps in a box -- for D&D5. The trolling continues.

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