I don't think "hoax" is too strong a word for describing Encounter Critical.  Not given that it was originally presented as a "little known RPG" published in 1981 or something like that, and utterly seriously presented as though it was a rare find of truly garage-publishing old-school, and only LATER did the authors reveal that the whole thing had been fabricated as a clever trick.

I'd say that's the very technical definition of "hoax".

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OK I got out my old orange folder and went through it.

There is a complete module I wrote, I think from 1982 or 1983.  It's hand written, and then most of it is also typed.  I have the full hand written version, and then 11 of the 13 rooms are typed as well.  Not sure if the last couple pages are lost, or if they never got typed up.  The map is hand drawn on graph paper.

I also have several other hand drawn maps, some out doors and some dungeons, and four character write-ups.  I don't have any recollection at all of the character write-ups.  It's theoretically possible those are someone else's work from a convention or something, though the paper looks identical to the module paper which I know was my work.  So, could be my work as well.

I'll see if I can get them scanned soon.  Looks at least worth posting to that website.  Sadly, no cool monster drawings, though there is one new hand written monster write-up.

Quote from: km10ftp;509509Also, I'm thinking that hoax is a little strong for Encounter Critical.

It helps if you keep in mind that part of the RPGPundit persona is an extreme paranoia that somebody, somewhere is trying to pull one over on him.

Quote from: km10ftp;509325Hi,

Someone just linked this over on Mythmere's Swords & Wizardry boards. I just thought that I would post it here too in case someone else hasn't already.

There is a link here to a shared pdf of the module (uploaded with author's permission as I understand it).

Hi! I'm the guy hosting the PDF. Could the original poster please revise the link so it posts to my blog post rather than directly to the file?  Here's the blog post where the file is posted:

http://rendedpress.blogspot.com/2012/01/plagmada-hosts-fan-module-from-1981.html

Quote from: Vlark;509938Hi! I'm the guy hosting the PDF. Could the original poster please revise the link so it posts to my blog post rather than directly to the file?  Here's the blog post where the file is posted:

Done and done and happy to. Thanks for making this available by the way. I was planning to leave you an 'awesome' over on the S&W boards, in fact, I will go and do it now.

Best of luck with the blog, I've added it to my bookmarks list. Sorry, it was a little thoughtless of me to link directly to the file. Credit where credit is due after all.

Quote from: Mistwell;509820OK I got out my old orange folder and went through it.
I'll see if I can get them scanned soon.  Looks at least worth posting to that website.  Sadly, no cool monster drawings, though there is one new hand written monster write-up.

If you do scan it and submit it to PlaGMaDA, I'd be happy to host a PDF version at my blog along with the other scans.

Quote from: km10ftp;510002Done and done and happy to. Thanks for making this available by the way. I was planning to leave you an 'awesome' over on the S&W boards, in fact, I will go and do it now.

Best of luck with the blog, I've added it to my bookmarks list. Sorry, it was a little thoughtless of me to link directly to the file. Credit where credit is due after all.

Much obliged!

This is very cool. Someone had placed an ad for Plagmada soliciting old dungeons on the board at the flgs. I wondered what that was all about, and how things would be archived.

It's a cool idea. I have mountains of old PeeChee folders full of all kinds of wierd stuff from the 70s and 80s. I don't know how you'd go about recovering them, but I bet I have a bunch of five and a quarter floppies from the eighties with a mighty awesome Black Phraint incursion campaign. I wonder if I could find a working Commodore 64.

Maybe I'll have time this summer to go through that stuff for something worth archiving.

I'd love to see your old stuff, Stu.

Quote from: Justin Alexander;509834It helps if you keep in mind that part of the RPGPundit persona is an extreme paranoia that somebody, somewhere is trying to pull one over on him.

No, actually, I didn't mean it to be in a disparaging sense. I thought it was really an extremely clever trick on their part.  I had a bit of suspicion when it was first "discovered" in that it seemed just a little too perfect, touching just a little bit on all of the tropes one would want in that kind of a game, though I can't honestly go so far as to say that I "knew" it was a trick or something.  So I give EC kudos for its genius.  But I don't understand how one could say it wasn't a hoax?

It was a great sort of hoax really, one where the architect of the hoax admitted it.

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I finally got around to scanning the module I mention above.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7DNjAmimrzuZTIxYzRkMjgtYmYzMi00MzYyLTg5NmEtYzZlYjViODExZWFm

It's an AD&D module I wrote in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Half typed, and half hand-written (apparently I never finished typing it up, though I have the full hand-written version).  It includes a hand-drawn map at the end. It appears incomplete, as a few of the last rooms are missing descriptions. But for the most part, it looks playable (though is probably awful, as I'd have been age 10 to 13).

There are several more maps in the folder I found them in, along with at least one new monster write-up, and I think some Marvel superheros stuff.  I'll probably scan some of those in another time.

Quote from: Mistwell;516058I finally got around to scanning the module I mention above.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7DNjAmimrzuZTIxYzRkMjgtYmYzMi00MzYyLTg5NmEtYzZlYjViODExZWFm

It's an AD&D module I wrote in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Half typed, and half hand-written (apparently I never finished typing it up, though I have the full hand-written version).  It includes a hand-drawn map at the end. It appears incomplete, as a few of the last rooms are missing descriptions. But for the most part, it looks playable (though is probably awful, as I'd have been age 10 to 13).

There are several more maps in the folder I found them in, along with at least one new monster write-up, and I think some Marvel superheros stuff.  I'll probably scan some of those in another time.

This is awesome! Can I add it to my archive on Dropbox? I'll post a link to your Google Docs version, too, and link back to this forum in a post on the blog.

Quote from: Vlark;516067This is awesome! Can I add it to my archive on Dropbox? I'll post a link to your Google Docs version, too, and link back to this forum in a post on the blog.

Sure, and thanks!

Quote from: The Butcher;509612And that would be a problem because...?

I mean, how would that curtail your enjoyment of the end product?



My thoughts exactly.

I agree as well. This thing is awesome

Quote from: Mistwell;516058I finally got around to scanning the module I mention above.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7DNjAmimrzuZTIxYzRkMjgtYmYzMi00MzYyLTg5NmEtYzZlYjViODExZWFm

It's an AD&D module I wrote in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Half typed, and half hand-written (apparently I never finished typing it up, though I have the full hand-written version).  It includes a hand-drawn map at the end. It appears incomplete, as a few of the last rooms are missing descriptions. But for the most part, it looks playable (though is probably awful, as I'd have been age 10 to 13).

There are several more maps in the folder I found them in, along with at least one new monster write-up, and I think some Marvel superheros stuff.  I'll probably scan some of those in another time.

Very nice Mark, thanks for sharing it Love the old stuff.