Seth Skorkowsky
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Early Access to The Isle of Dread
🕑 Added 2022-03-03 10:53:49 +0000 UTCHello Patrons!
My newest RPG review is finished up (save for the Subtitles I still need to add). For this one I'm going over the Basic D&D classic The Isle of Dread, an adventure that was very influential for me. I'll be posting it to the general public Friday afternoon.
In other news, next month I'll be attending ChaosiumCon in Michigan, which will be my first convention since the pandemic began. I'll also be attending SoonerCon in Oklahoma this June, and then GenCon in August. So if any of you are heading to those, please swing by and say hello.
Anyway, that is it for now. I've now been up for about 22 hours because I was working on this video and lost track of time (it also took way longer than I expected).
Have a great day!
-Seth
Comments
Fair to say I’ve been waiting for this one since I discovered your channel, and you did not disappoint!
The real embarrassing thing was that it wasn't until the last couple years (like5) that I even discovered it wasn't AD&D. All the Basic D&D used a different cover font and layout. They looked distinctly different at a glance. Isle of Dread used the same cover layout, and the Advanced/Expert distinction never occurred to me. One day I was reading a blog or watching a video or something and someone mentioned that Isle of Dread was a Basic D&D adventure. I thought, "Oh, they must have made a Basic one, too." Then they showed the cover and mentioned the Expert Basic Rules and I had to go dig my copy out of the closet to convince myself that mine wasn't AD&D.
Can relate to the Basic/Adv confusion, went through that in the early 80's when we were first starting out. Love all of the very clever ideas you share to fix the logic errors in this module, excellent video!
Oh, man! I'm so happy to see this one. I've had this one for years, all the way back to when I played Basic, but I never got around to running it. Always was intrigued by it.
Bryan Stephens
Have fun at the con!
