Blast form the past - TSR's Homlet
pkfrye
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One of my favorite "introductory" modules. Here's my take on The Village of Homlet. I also have floor plans for St Cuthberts, the Welcome Wench, and the Traders Establishment if anyone is interested in seeing them.
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Yes, please!
Ahh, Hommlet! One of the rare early scenario packs I bought at the time that WASN'T by Judges Guild! TSR didn't seem to quite grasp the need for low-level introductory adventures at the time, aside from having been really slow out of the blocks to publish any supporting materials for D&D beyond the original four supplements. And we then waited decades for Part Two of the scenario (Temple of Elemental Evil - which didn't really turn out how many of us had hoped anyway!).
Those interested in more might like to see this page on the Wizards of the Coast website for the ruined Moathouse and its underground level especially (which is some way off the Village map, but is a key part of the scenario); recommended especially for Jason Thompson's cartoon take on the whole setting!
Good looking maps. The village one isn't nearly blue enough, of course ? (with apologies to anyone who hasn't seen the original blue line art version...).
The shadows on your tower hill look a bit odd though, as if the hill's not really there, or drawn by Escher. Or becoming Glass Mountain...
I have Jason's maps. Got them from links at dragon's foot.
Your hill shadows need to go - it's as if they are walls casting shadows into the inside of the hill. IMO
Yes, I have to admit, I never really liked the hill on this map either. By the time I finished it I got lazy and I just never revisited it. I will have to fix that one dsy. ?
Well done!
Hi Pkfrye,
These look excellent far better than mine, as I too have been working on maps for Homlet. I really like your village map with the castle, as I am really struggling to reproduce this in the map style I chose. Well done.
This weekend I just finished the welcome wench, although looking at your map of the tavern I'm going to have to change the scale of the pillars in my tavern as yours look so much better.
This was the first RPG adventure I ever played way back in 1983, so it will always have a special place in my RPG life. BTW we had a TPK against Lareth and his boys, didn't even make level 2.
Dak
Thanks Dak, I appreciate your comments. My first RPG experience was in Judges Guild's The First Fantasy Campaign and City State of the Invincible Overlord WAY back in the day, 1978 or so.
You rank me sir!
I just love these old adventures and seem to spend most of time reproducing maps from my RPG past. It's just wonderful to see these old blue and white/black and white maps reproduced with such fantastic symbols, backgrounds and effects.
Recently I've been working on the iconic battlemaps from the 'D' series of modules, all those tunnels and caves, which I will upload here when I've finished them.
Although I really need to start D.M.ing again, with all these great resources I'm running out of excuses as to why I haven't done so recently.
Yes, I know what you mean. Most of the stuff in my gallery is "remakes" of the old stuff.
Just checked your gallery, and immediately recognised the secret of bone hill map. That was the first adventure I bought and read when I became a D.M. I haven't done a map of it yet, but it's on the list. All your map looks really fantastic.
Thanks Dak, that's a module I bought about the time I got married so it never saw the light of day on my game table. I can't complain though, I still have the wife AND the module so life is good!