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D&D adventure with a pyramid?

Started by RPGPundit, June 14, 2015, 05:20:29 AM

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Omega

#15
June 15, 2015, 04:29:32 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;836605If I'm not mistaken, Necropolis has a pyramid in it. (the Gary Gygax one)

Necropolis sprawls all over. Its a huge setting/adventure and extensive overall for its variety of locales.

I am pretty darn sure there are at least two pyramid themed modules in Dungeon and/or Polyhedron?

Pat

#16
June 15, 2015, 04:36:04 PM
Gamelord's farcical The Phantastical Phantasmagorical Montie Haul Dungeon (1982) is set in a pyramid.

Though in comparison, Castle Greyhawk is a work of sublime and surpassing humor.

jeff37923

#17
June 15, 2015, 04:39:59 PM
Quote from: Bren;836413There was a pyramid exploration in Traveller. I first saw it in The Traveller Book.

But it may have been the same one as contained in the here.

Quote from: Matt;836418It was in Starter Traveller as well as The Traveller Book and Double Adventure #1. "Shadows" is the name of the adventure. Sure got around.

"Shadows" got around in Classic Traveller because it was believed back then that everyone got into RPGs through D&D, so the obvious choice for an intro adventure was a dungeon crawl.

If Pundit is just looking for a useful map, the map from "Shadows" is OK.
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#18
June 15, 2015, 06:00:18 PM
Quote from: Omega;836437Oh. And Mummies and a few other weirdos in Spelljammer like to tool around space in pyramids. Flying. Armed. Pyramids.

The Necrons have those too...

If they ever teamed up with The Borg, their combined ships would look like little houses....

Natty Bodak

#19
June 15, 2015, 06:08:14 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;836604Tamoachan was more of a ziggurat than a pyramid but a great pressure cooker.

Is the distinction in shape or purpose? They definitely used "pyramid" in the module, but i wouldn't give them any credit for authority.
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#20
June 15, 2015, 06:09:30 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;836625The Necrons have those too...

If they ever teamed up with The Borg, their combined ships would look like little houses....

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#21
June 15, 2015, 06:50:40 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;836622"Shadows" got around in Classic Traveller because it was believed back then that everyone got into RPGs through D&D, so the obvious choice for an intro adventure was a dungeon crawl.

If Pundit is just looking for a useful map, the map from "Shadows" is OK.

I'd imagine most people did get into RPGs through D&D back then. I did and so did everyone else I knew. Back when D&D used to be available in Toys R Us and such places.

Bren

#22
June 15, 2015, 07:09:56 PM
Quote from: Matt;836637I'd imagine most people did get into RPGs through D&D back then. I did and so did everyone else I knew. Back when D&D used to be available in Toys R Us and such places.
We started playing D&D three years before Traveller was published so for the people I gamed with back then, everyone who played or even looked at Traveller had already played D&D. Personally I thought Traveller already had a great hook to get people interested.
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#23
June 15, 2015, 10:53:42 PM
Quote from: Bren;836645We started playing D&D three years before Traveller was published so for the people I gamed with back then, everyone who played or even looked at Traveller had already played D&D. Personally I thought Traveller already had a great hook to get people interested.

Well, yeah, the box cover was incredibly intriguing as well as stylish and I, for one, much prefer sci fi to fantasy, so had Traveller come along first or simultaneously I would rather have started with that and probably would have eschewed D&D. I'd still rather play Traveller than D&D any day of the week.

Bren

#24
June 16, 2015, 12:37:27 AM
Quote from: Matt;836703Well, yeah, the box cover was incredibly intriguing as well as stylish and I, for one, much prefer sci fi to fantasy, so had Traveller come along first or simultaneously I would rather have started with that and probably would have eschewed D&D. I'd still rather play Traveller than D&D any day of the week.
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#25
June 16, 2015, 02:57:51 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;836359Was there an adventure for D&D, or maybe the OSR, that had the PCs going into a pyramid?  If so, which was it?
As a true pyramid there was I3: Pharaoh (level 5-7), the first module in the Desert of Desolation series. I4 and I5 are about tombs (dungeons) in the desert.

There is also White Dwarf magazine #48, with the scenario The Lone and Level Sands (level 4-5). Technically, it is not a true Egyptian pyramid in a desert, but a tomb vaguely pyramid-shaped. It also makes use of the Demonist character class described in WD #47.
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June 16, 2015, 08:32:28 AM
Ruins of Adventure (the AD&D 1e adventure compilation for Pool of Radiance) had the pyramid on Sorcerer's Island as one of its many adventures.
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#27
June 16, 2015, 08:49:13 AM
I have deliberately visited a lot of Pyramids from Chichén Itzá to Cheops, to Bagan. There isn't a lot to them. Mostly Rock :)
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#28
June 16, 2015, 10:41:57 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;836768I have deliberately visited a lot of Pyramids from Chichén Itzá to Cheops, to Bagan. There isn't a lot to them. Mostly Rock :)

Should have had an elf in your party so you wouldn't have missed all those secret doors!
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#29
June 16, 2015, 01:05:12 PM
Quote from: Natty Bodak;836780Should have had an elf in your party so you wouldn't have missed all those secret doors!

But on the other hand he managed to avoid encounters with the undead.
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