Tenkar - isle of dread, other classic modules

Isle of Dread  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_onwGtVh_v4&t=206s

Comments are gold. 

Talking about needing to be higher lvl than stated. 

Clerics using purify water, create food… more than healbots in older days. 

NIGHTS DARK TERROR

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvvpBcOBniI

TOMB OF HORROS 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JIv0cadadMo

And https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYSAl-aJNc

B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl2v9zrgq4g

Tenkar analysis of White Plume Mtn, pkus list og modules

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_G_4hOhAE&pp=0gcJCRsMAYcqIYzv&ra=m

Commenter KDA Fan writes - 

BEST. MODULE. EVER. Hands down. IMO, anyway. . . . "Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan" and Dungeon Mag's "Mud Sorcerer's Tomb" come close, but not close enough. Lagging a bit behind them, for a tie at third, are "Dwellers of the Forbidden City", "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks", and D1-Q1 (an epic arc of adventures, but which require a lot of heavy lifting in additions by the DM: especially Erelhai-Cinlu in D3 and the worlds reached in Q1). Tomb of Horrors is Tomb of Horrors: more an endgame/test. Various other good games (Beyond the Crystal Caves, Dungeonland/Through the Magic Mirror, Phaoroh, Palace of the Silver Princess, Ghost Tower of Inverness, Isle of Dread, To Find a King, The Tree of Life, Castle Amber, various early Dragon Mag modules, etc) are great, but not quite top flight. . . . A cleric along w/light solves a LOT of logistics problems in WPM, especially as they can AUTOMATICALLY have CONTINUAL Light, so long as they select it (a commonly chosen spell, due to it having multiple uses) as the module is 5th-10th. I always felt Light and Continual Light should be higher level spells, due to ubiquitous usefulness including defensive and offensive potential (CL on eyes is blindness: NASTY!) Always felt the anti-turn amulets were a really cheap-out move, but evil clerics could theoretically make them, I suppose, tho no standard spell allowed it. Can't remember if the amulets were recoverable, but by GAWDS they should have been worth a fortune, if they were. Sir Bluto, the endgame threat of a trap/trick setup involving aquatic vehicles, always unfortunately made me think of Popeye. Did ANYONE EVER trust Quesnef? Theoretically, if the DM allowed the party to be 10ths across the board, a lot of this was pretty easy. BIG difference between a party averaging 7 or 8, and a line of straight 10s. Even Nix and Nox shouldn't be that big a deal (IIRC, didn't the module allow for adding 2 more Efreeti if the party made light work of things? I no longer have it, as nearly everything I had was stolen early this year, so can't check anymore).

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Osr common house rule

 A way to cast a few spells at level 1 for magic user. 

15:45 time on Old School Rules, Judges Guild Y https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

Acient Gauls - Cukt of the Severed head

 Time. 6:24  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

Osr trap escape, monster avoid ideas

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

Old school rules yt with azmountaineer. Time 22:55, pg. 36 of “the escaping of monsters & traps” from Judges Guild: Installment Y  

• Caltrops to outrun monsters 
• Dropped food, monsters non intelligent will be distracted 
• One or Two men jumping on (grabbing) a bad magic user to slow him down. 
• Hinged pit trap 
• Staggering short lines of players to get to the one fallen player
• Gaseous form to seep thru cracks
• Telekinesis spell to open it
• If only have a teleport self, other player use shrink potion then u can teleport two or three for one or something. 
• When can afford, hire dwarves to spot traps and elves to spot secret doors   … those two walk in front. Elf hireling also great in woods. 
• Shorter PCs in front lines, allows fighting from behind (??)
• Sombies and skeletons can be foiled by dispel magic spell. Or protection from evil spell. 
• Trick players or vice versa - 
• Cast continual light on a nonmagic ring
• Carve runes in a nonmagic oak staff
• Large gem in end of metal rod
• …
• Make classes dress like another class

Higher LEVEL TRICKS

• Wish spell - in the wvent of a death, whole party transported out of the dungeon alive and well! 
• Coat items in mithril to protect from fire n acid
• Hire a Sage, who specializes in monsters 
• Hire ppl and make armories to protect loot from thugs and jealous adventurers 
• 
  

Conan Red Nails = tsr The Lost City

1. Conanin Red Nails  

 Really?! I don’t recall the multiple factions living underground in the Conan book… gotta reread. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqL0xYYwYx0

Lichhouse says Moldvay (of B/X fame) wrote The tsr “The Lost City”… you know the one w the golden mask priest-mage(?) and purple cover. 

2. Conan story of “The slithering Shadow” aka “Xuthal of the Dusk”. Also ties into the module “the lost city”. 

Ray H stop motion - art of monster faces

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgUk5QIB-ug

The Thumbnail I want. 

And to practice drawing. 

Notice the attention to the nose and mouth regarding the attitude and vibe. 

Medusa the sneer. 

The cyclops has a large nose, distinctive. 

The Kraken, a small nose but that big almost beaklike upper lip… sort of lije a kappa maybe. 

Griffe = Claw, Griffin must get its name from that

If griffe means claw in French, then it sure seems like griffin comes from that. 

 From Wordsmith:

griffonage

PRONUNCIATION:

(grif-uh-NAHZH)

 

MEANING:

noun: Careless or illegible handwriting; scrawl.

 

ETYMOLOGY:

From French griffonner (to scribble or scrawl), from griffe (claw). Earliest documented use: 1832.

 

NOTES:

English calls an indecipherable scrawl chicken scratch, and French clearly agrees: griffonage comes from griffe (claw). Medical schools probably require doctors to take a solemn oath to maintain a prescribed level of griffonage on every prescription.

Game book covers

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsFKJjA70o&t=238s

At time 3:50

Lotsa Lone Wolf covers. Looks fun. Some blaxk and white art too inside. 

The Pixies - Some top songs, some trivia

 Great concert, great song set,  from recent - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THD_uxZOpoM&t=3283s&pp=2AHTGZACAQ%3D%3D&ra=m

Dave Grohl of foo fighters and nirvana talking real good about The Pixies… Surfer Rosa a perfect album  and he is serious- https://m.youtube.com/shorts/1eqTITSYCSA

Trivia - Frank Black’s real name is Charles?!?!??

The Pixies are super flipping good. Love 'em. Love the weird merging of surf rock and whatever the heck it is that is their music. Some say punk... I guess yeah a little bit, but so much more. So very 1990's alt rock. Was the Brit snobbery around music, but friendly to US Alt rock, was that all part of it or just my personal bias view? Those Brits, they hated "heavy metal" or whatever they were calling all hard music... UNLESS it had a bunch of weird alt-rockness to it, then they loved it. Like The Pixies, The Breeders, Nirvana, etc. Hey you kids know about the hidden track on the Nevermind Album, right? The Brits didn't know till I showed 'em. :) So I say. 

I like this trivia about Cactus, via Rolling Stone Mag: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-pixies-songs-10588/9-cactus-228419/

• ‘Cactus’
• Black Francis tackled topics that few songwriters dared to go anywhere near, including incst, mutilation, Hebrew numerology, STDs, alien abduction and sxual perversion. "Cactus" is about a guy in prison asking his girlfriend to "bloody your hand on a cactus tree/ Wipe it on a dress and send it to me." Oddly enough, it's one of the sweeter tunes on Surfer Rosa and the closest thing they really had to a love song. David Bowie covered the song on his 2002 LP Heathen. 

• ‘Gouge Away’
• Is about Samson and Delilah. The hair being cut and all that. 

• 'Here comes your Man"
• Written when Francis was 15 they say. Redone later. Awesome song. 

• ‘Wave of Mutilation’

• The ... 1980s, ... stories about Japanese salarymen su-c-ding themselves and their families ...driving off piers "into the OooOcean" b/c "failed" in business. Francis wrote "Wave of Mutilation" about it they say. Freaky. 
• The slower version "UK" version, is supposedly played in concerts along with the original. Hmmph, wouldn'ta thought. 

• 'Debaser' - was about that nearly 100 year old French movie Un Chien Andalou where the opening scene is slicing someone's eye open (I think really a cow eye). Gross. And Francis wrote a song about it... it "debased the movie lalala standards stuff". And they played video clips during tours 2009-2011, so I guess it's true. Yikes. 

• 'Where is my mind' is about Francis going scuba diving in the Carrib' b4 forming the band. Fish "chased him around" and freaked him out they say. Kinda funny. But yeah, hearing this on the Fight Club helped bring it back... I remember hearing it on college radio a little before along with a few of their other songs here and there. 

• 'Hey' - was some popular 2005 era youtube vid made by some random young chicks. It's about bible stuff and whores. Weird. Can't even find it on youtube. 
• But I did find this acoustic where, shock I had forgotten, the twin chick Kim Deal rejoined for a bit b4 hers and Francis's egos musta clashed too much and she left again (or something): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQXU8bHFVo&pp=ygUPcGl4aWVzIGhleSAyMDA1
• HOLD UP, Wikiped saves me on the info, Deal stayed with 'em for a good while. Says: 
•  leading to a 2004 reunion and sold-out world tours. Deal left in 2012, and was replaced with Kim Shattuck for their 2013 tour. She was later replaced with Paz Lenchantin, who became a full member in 2016
• I coulda swore Francis and Deal were too at odds to stick together that long, but hey, they did it, cool. 

========================Some from random folks=====

kingclover

1. Alec Eiffel
2. Spin off groups
1. Tipp City – The Amps
2. Dedicated- The Amps
   I Am Decided – The Amps
   Pacer – Amps

Others

1. Broken Face
2. Catfish Kate
3. Crackity Jones 
4. Mr. Jeeves.
5. 
   

========================Let's try the blogsphere for more info, ah ha=============

This one https://albumreviews.blog/10-best-pixies-songs/

Allow me to quote: 

The Pixies reunited in 2004, but didn’t record a new album until Deal’s departure from the band in 2013. I’ve omitted the band’s newer material from this list. Re-listening to these songs, it’s noticeable that Deal is involved in most of their best moments. Her bass playing and backing vocals often provide the group’s pop sensibilities, and it doesn’t feel like the Pixies without her as a foil. All the same, Black Francis is a fascinating front-man. His lyrics are often eccentric, about subjects like science fiction and abstract movies, but his impassioned vocals still express inner turmoil.

Now that is interesting. So Deal did not help make a new album when they reunited, ... very interesting. There have been some good songs since Deal, so I can't fully agree here, but certainly they had a TON of good old songs. 

Songs:

• U-Mass, related to the university of Massachusetts, where some of them dropped out. 
• Planet of Sound.
• River Euphrates, OK, not familiar at all. Gonna try it out. 
• And the usuals:
• Debaser
• Monkey gone to heaven
• where is my mind
• gigantic
• bone machine 
• dig for fire
• i bleed

Influences: Yeah I've heard this, the fellow says:

"Cool – thanks for listening! There are a few different elements in there. Black Francis didn’t discover punk until he was in his late teens, and there’s unlikely stuff in there like surf guitar and early CCM [Christian Rock...] musician Larry Norman [he released over 100 albums, what]."

Artist - Noriyoshi Ohrai

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rinuKjbFX1Q&pp=0gcJCRoMAYcqIYzv

Some specifically inspiring great stuff about 75% thru. But it’s all great/excellent.

Peter Cullen voice samples

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10G_GPIqb88&t=313s

The Crow - Soundtrack info

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OM716yfDtuw&t=331s

Pretty great info. 

• I didn't know the NIN song was a cover of a Joy Division song. 
• Comments say The Cure started doing "Burn" live since 2016ish. 
• Way more tidbits