B4 Lost City expansions

[Divet]

Has anyone seen the Goodman Games expansion of B4? Is it worthwhile?

[playstationsux]

Which is that?

[Rolf]

Must be Goodman Games - OAR#4 - The Lost City (DD5 conversion of B4)

The conversion add details to the lower pyramids levels and the city, which were just outlined in the original B4. It fleshed out also adventures seeds on the city level.

[D.J.]

I've fixed up 3 of the Arcology maps today. About 4 or 6 three days ago. I'll continue to work on them.

[D.J.]

I'm too tired to go to a graphic hosting site tonight, but if you want to see some of the map updates:

1. I uploaded several new/updated maps to my new Crestofastar site, link in my .sig.

2. Or look at the last two pages in this Profantasy forum discussion.

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion ... gy-dungeon

fixed a typo.

[D.J.]

outside of the pyramid.



inside level 1



inside level 2

[D.J.]

I think I lost a pdf or something in my files... I did check what I have from this thread and on drivethru.

I was going to look over the Lost City map, and the Goblin Caves. All I can find is a side view. Wasn't there a detailed map of the areas below the pyramid ?

Thanks.

Edit: Other than the ones up thread.

[D.J.]

I must be much more tired than I realized. I found it. I'm still working on these maps. Mine are an alternate B4 map set.

[D.J.]

If you now go to my Crestofastar site, link in my .sig, and search for 'Arcology' or 'arcology', you should now be able to find all of the arcology maps I have posted there.

[playstationsux]

I wonder how many pyramid dungeons there are?

I'll note I recall Warrior's of the Eternal Sun's pyramid for the Azcans and the Shadow Elves (map design suggests pyramid-like).

[D.J.]

I have the TSR module one based on Aztec and Maya.

No idea how many of them there are. I did think of S1 as a truncated pyramid.

[SkinnyOrc]

Has anyone seen the Goodman Games expansion of B4? Is it worthwhile?

If you still haven't got your hands on it, Paleologos reviewed it and gave a pretty good run down. I had a chance to read it a few years back and I believe it's the only effort that really fills out everything that was hinted at in the original module. On the downside, from what I remember the expansion only has 5E stats so you have to convert those.

The best fan expansion of B4 I've seen is Geoff Gander's Dungeon Master's Guide to Cynidicea, which now has a PDF, but it's still mostly background rather than making the city and areas around it ready to run. There are a few well fleshed out locations though and some scenario ideas.

Personally, while the upper pyramid that's fully detailed in B4 was a nice dungeon, and I loved the Cynidiceans with their factions and drug fuelled delusions, I never liked the idea of humans living in a city in a giant cave under the desert. I also knew I was never going to write up the city the way I'd want to.

So I took the pyramid and Cynidiceans and added them to the tropical crater city of I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City. The Cynidiceans are the original inhabitants, controlled by a priest class who keep them supplied with drugs sourced from the surrounding jungle, and ruled by their noble class transformed into Yuan-Ti by demon worship. The mongrelmen are Cynidiceans in bestial masks acting weird under the influence. The B4 pyramid levels 1-4 is the tomb of a past king where the Cynidiean resistance groups meet. Level 5 is a temple to Zargon elsewhere in the city. The latest version of Dwellers of the Lost and Forbidden City is on my website.

There's also the thread I started here on new Cynidicean delusions. Just occurred to me I should add what I posted there to my PDF.

Edited to update link.

[D.J.]

I'm trying to figure out my maps for this... and they are a hodgepodge mess that is rather inconsistent. I'm currently looking them over and deciding which ones I need to take off my site, and which one to keep.

If you like particular ones, I suggest downloading them this week.

[SkinnyOrc]

There's also the thread I started here on new Cynidicean delusions. Just occurred to me I should add what I posted there to my PDF.

Updated my Dwellers of the Lost and Forbidden City to include the Cynidicean delusion table and example delusions from that thread.