lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009

Aventura descargable: La noche de los muertos andantes - Blog de Ravenloft

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domingo 18 de octubre de 2009

Aventura descargable: La noche de los muertos andantes.

Se acerca Halloween. Una excelente excusa para reencontrarnos con el terror gótico. Y si de paso nos topamos con los zombis, esos adorables seres putrefactos que tanto nos gusta ver en el cine, en los cómics y en los juegos, mucho mejor.



La aventura que enlazo hoy es la traducción al castellano de Night of Walking Dead, la quinta aventura publicada por TSR para el entorno de campaña Ravenloft allá por 1992. Mi idea era traducirla yo personalmente y adaptarla a Tercera Edición. Luego me acordé que parte del trabajo ya estaba hecho, pues los creadores de la página El Castillo Ravenloft ya la habían traducido. La aventura estuvo disponible en su web durante bastante tiempo, junto con las otras cinco que forman el ciclo de la Gran Conjunción. Con ese material disponible, he pensado, no merece la pena adaptarla al sistema d20, ya que el núcleo de la aventura se basa en la investigación y la inmensa mayoria de los monstruos de la aventura aparecen en el Manual de Monstruos básico de D&D. El resto están disponibles en Moradores de las Tinieblas. Incluso sin este libro, la conversión será fácil para cualquier Máster que desee pasar la aventura a Tercera Edición e incluso a Cuarta.

En cuanto a la aventura en sí, su título no deja mucho a la imaginación. No obstante tiene buenos momentos de terror y puede suponer un buen desafío a los grupos que se dediquen a matar monstruos sin intentar atar cabos ni pensar. La noche de los muertos vivientes está considerada como una aventura de Ravenloft de calidad media, ideal para que un grupo de jugadores de nivel bajo se inicien en el Semiplano del Pavor.
Algunos de vosotros ya tendréis la aventura, pero para los demás puede ser una excelente opción para un "one-shot" en Halloween. Espero que la disfrutéis.


Insistir sólo en que yo no he hecho el trabajo, sino los creadores de El Castillo Ravenloft. Si alguien está interesado en que suba el resto de aventuras traducidas que completan el ciclo de la Gran Conjunción, que me deje un mensaje.


P.D.: Gracias a Rotxo me he enterado que Wizards of the Coast editará un juego de mesa basado en Ravenloft en agosto del próximo año. Más información aquí. Gracias por el soplo. :)

7 comentarios:

Fatelux dijo...

It´s Alive It´s alive, como diría el doctor Frankenstein. Es un placer volverte a leer de nuevo. Coincido contigo en que "La noche de los muertos vivientes" es un módulo perfecto para iniciarse en Ravenloft, tiene más trama que combate y el ambiente que se puede conseguir en la sesión es espeluznante. Si no te quieres complicar con la gran conjunción, con quitar el significado de la profecía o no darle mucha importancia, es suficiente. Voy a empezar con un nuevo grupo de jugadores y creo que retomaré el Ravenloft con fuerza, adaptado a 4th edición y apostando más por el roleplaying que por los combates. A ver que tal sale.
Con respecto a las novedades de D&D, pues que quieres que te diga, demasiado para el cuerpo, mucho material para tan poco tiempo de lectura, habrá que concentrarse en lo que sea realmente útil y necesario para las partidas. Aunque por supesto que ese juego de tablero de Ravenloft caerá sí o sí.

Un abrazo amigo y no dejes de escribir, que el Ravenloft tiene mucha miga.

Tarus dijo...

¡Ey, estupendo! Precisamente mi grupo está dispuesto a sufrir una historia de terror la Noche de Difuntos, y "Night of the walking dead" siempre ha sido una de mis historias favoritas para Ravenloft, junto con "Howls in the night" (o algo así).

Gracias por el enlace y sigue adelante, que nosotros continuaremos apoyándote. ;)

Un abrazo.

Javier dijo...

Contemplador, yo particularmente estaria interesado en conseguir todas las aventuras de la gran conjuncion traducidas, si fueras tan amable...

Por cierto, magnifico blog!!!
Sigue escribiendo que tienes un monton de admiradores ya, que no se diga que Ravenloft esta muerto!!.

Lord Aion dijo...

A mi tambien me gustaria llegar a tener todas las aventuras, asi que te lo agradeceria mucho.
Por cierto, has visto el sistema de C&C para Ravenloft, despues de haberle echado un vistazo creo que quedaria genial.

EL Guardian dijo...

Gran Aporte, una alegria que la cosa siga por lo menos con estos pequeños detalles... el diabl oesta en ellos!

Ezequiel dijo...

Si pudieras pasar todos los módulos de la Gran Conjunción en 2a Edición te lo agradecería.
Mola el blog, siempre he sido fan y DM de Ravenloft desde hace muchos años.

Sergio Recio Gamo dijo...

Gracias por estar ahí. Por seguir ahí. Es un placer leerte. Te prometo que daré buen uso a tu aventura.

¡Un saludo y mucho ánimo desde Málaga!

GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)

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http://www.critical-hits.com/2009/08/17/gencon-2009-4e-extravaganza-with-photos/

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GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)

Submitted by The Game on Monday, 17 August 200928 Comments

Dungeons & Dragons

On Friday at GenCon, we attended the 4e Extravaganza, which was where the new setting was announced (which I’m sure everyone has heard by now is Dark Sun).

However, there were a number of other products showcased, some new, some already known, and a few big surprises. I used Twitter to report the announcements as they came, but I thought I’d post the pictures that Bartoneus took alongside the updates (cleaned up for readability).

I will add the caveat that we didn’t cover everything, especially the announcements about the novels at the beginning. There were video cameras set up at the back, so if you want to see the presentation in full, you probably will be able to later. Here’s the easily skimmable version for the stuff I found most interesting.

Dungeon Master’s Guide 2

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This was the year of the “2″ series. DMG2 has chapters on adding story to the game, more about skill challenges, the paragon tier, and a writeup of the city of Sigil, as well as an adventure. (We’ll have more on DMG2 when we post our interview with James Wyatt).

Dungeon Magazine Annual

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Didn’t really hear much about the Dungeon Annual, but presumably it will be similar to the Dragon Annual (review coming soon). Bill did talk about D&D Insider, and how it will debut additional content, including more races in addition to the Revenant.

Revenge of the Giants

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Revenge of the Giants is the mega-adventure coming soon, which is “inspired by” the classic Against the Giants, but not a remake.

Dungeon Tiles

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Sinister Woods dungeon tiles is released in October, which supplements the previous forest-themed set. Harrowing Halls releases in March, and will contain 3D elements. For instance, Bill specifically talked about a set of stairs you can build and put your minis on.

Dungeon Tiles Master Set

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The Master Set will contain tiles reprinted from previous sets and form a core set of dungeon tiles. The set will stay in print unlike other DT sets, and will be the “go-to” set for published adventures.

Primal Power

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Coming in October.

Draconomicon 2: Metallic Dragons

Coming in November. There was some talk about metallic dragons in roles as both antagonists and helpers.

Martial Power 2

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Coming in February. While not explicitly mentioned, it does open the door to regular “____ Power” updates.

Prince of Undeath

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The culmination of the first adventure path, leading up to a confrontation against Orcus. The statblock used in the adventure will not be the same as what appeared in the MM.

The Plane Below and Underdark

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Plane Below (Dec) is secrets of the Elemental Chaos, Underdark (Jan) is fairly self-explanatory, and Plane Above (April, not pictured) is about the Astral Sea. All of them will divide them up into regions and contain sample encounters, focusing on a “DM Toolbox” approach. Later in the Q&A, they mentioned that just because a book about a specific plane wasn’t on the schedule didn’t mean it wasn’t coming.

Three Dragon Ante: Emperor’s Gambit

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Releases in February, and serve as a standalone game in addition to an expansion for the original.

Heroscape: D&D

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The popular board/minis game Heroscape receives a D&D expansion that also serves as a master set to play by itself. This is interesting both for the Heroscape brand (also owned by Hasbro, of course), especially because there were plenty of fan conversions of D&D minis already for use in the game.

They had samples of the game in the booth behind glass: it looks as though they took the existing sculpts of D&D minis and attached Heroscape bases to them.

By the way, this does now mean that you can have D&D characters fight the Incredible Hulk.
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Player’s Handbook Races

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One for Dragonborn in January, the other for Tieflings in June (the two new races, you’ll note). Each one is 32 pages, softcover, for $10. They’ll draw on and expand from Dragon articles on those races but they’re not just reprints.

Player’s Handbook 3

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PHB3 will premiere next March, and will also have a game day to coincide. Roughly 1/3-1/2 of the content will be debuted to D&D Insider subscribers beforehand.

Monster Manual 3

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Monster Manual 3 will feature Lolth, it seems. (Guess they couldn’t save her for Monster Manual 8).

Dungeon Master’s Guide 3

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Not the actual cover. Will discuss epic-level play.

Hammerfast and Vor Rukoth

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Both are location books, 32 pages, and will contain a poster map each, and filled with quests for PCs. Hammerfast is a Dwarven city, and Vor Rukoth is the ruins of a Tiefling city left from Bael Turath.

Player’s Strategy Guide

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With cover by Gabe of Penny Arcade. A book of advice for players. Almost sounded like a guide to min-maxing.

Demonomicon

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A book of demons, of similar form to Open Grave.

Tomb of Horrors

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A mega-adventure. Ari Marmell clarifies that the 10th to 22nd level listed on it doesn’t mean an adventure that spans all those levels in the traditional sense, but instead has a storyline that uses the Tomb in and out throughout those levels.

Castle Ravenloft Board Game

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A stand-alone cooperative board game based on the classic module. 1-5 players, “filled with dice and plastic.”

Dark Sun Campaign Guide

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Bill said, based on who now works at WotC, that Dark Sun was “obvious.” (The announcement elicited a cheer from the room). Heavy preview roll-out begins immediately. They did not answer the question of whether it would follow the same setting model of only using three books. Brom is very busy but wants to contribute to Dark Sun. The timeline goes back to the original boxed set. They’re going to try and have some dungeon tile support for it. “We are going to try very hard not to shoehorn 4e conceits into Dark Sun” said Bill, to which Andy added that they’re going to examine how things have evolved on other D&D worlds, then seeing how that same thing would evolve on Dark Sun.

Complete Schedule

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Q&A

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Not covered already:

  • They’re working on bringing PDFs back, but no announcements yet.
  • Minis sets will alternate Large/Huge during the year.
  • The online game table has been pushed back, and they’re planning on releasing some unannounced tools first.
  • All of the books focusing on other planes won’t just solely focus on the Paragon tier and will have opportunities for Heroic and Epic play as well.
  • D&D video game announcement from Atari coming within a year, but nothing yet.
  • There was a lot of discussion about making adventures for children and contributing to DDI.

And that was that. Start working on your Dark Sun theories now.

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28 Comments »

  • Bartoneus says:

    Awesome, I’m very glad the pictures turned out because my hands were a bit shakey and ruined a few of them. Also the batteries died and I had to change them when Plane Above was up, so I’m working on getting a picture of that. :)

  • Aaron says:

    You know, I’ve always been able to avoid the supplements, only owning the three core books (the fact that I barely ever get to game help with that but still).

    But now, starting with DMG2, seeing them all lined up like that……… I really, really want a lot of those.

    Particularly, though – DMG2, the two location books, the Tiles Master set (and I’ve NEVER been interested in tiles), and the DMG3.
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  • Triptych says:

    Awesome more books to “waste” my cash on. :)

    I was kinda hoping for another Forgotten Realms supplement as the campaign guide was a little short in my opinion.

    Looks like I got into 4th ed at a good point in the products life cycle, but I’m already dreading converting to 5th ed in 2012. :(
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  • praios says:

    I wonder what happened to the HS1 adventure “Reavers of Harkenwold”.
    Does anybody know if it´s still coming or has it been canceled?

  • Peraion Graufalke says:

    HS1 is in the WotC Spring Catalogue, so it’s not canceled. HS2 is titled “Raiders of the Stonemarch”.
    http://www.ps-games.nl/images/downloads/Wotc%20Catalogus%202010%20Spring.pdf

    Btw, the Hammerfast cover looks like a placeholder.

    @Triptych: There are still 3 power sources to go (that we know of) at a rate of one per year, so we’ll have 4E until 2012 at the very least. :)

  • Bob says:

    Even though I don’t play 4e, a handful of times does not count as playing in my book, I’ll still be getting my grubby mits on the Dark Sun when it comes out to see what they’ve done to it.
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  • [...] it. As more details become available I’ll be sure to update this post. The guys over at Critical Hits share the photos they took during the 4e Extravaganza seminar where Wizards revealed all of this [...]

  • Thasmodious says:

    I like spending my hard earned cash on my hobbies, but I don’t like spending a lot of my hard earned cash on my hobbies. I love all the choices though. DMG2, PHB3, the Tiles Master set are the must haves from that. I’m happy getting access to the Powers books through DDI and the Compendium. The location books are interesting and not too expensive, so I’ll probably grab those as well. Thanks for the detailed presentation, guys.

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  • Cedric says:

    Dang it! I can feel my wallet emptying as I read this.

    Thanks for the report.

    I’m strangely excited at the upcoming Dark Sun content, though I probably won’t be playing in that setting. It seems logical to make Dragon-Kings and Avangions epic destinies, but I want to see how they’re gonna treat Templars and arcane magic.
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  • Razz says:

    *sigh* Why didn’t they do ALL of this with 3rd Edition? Why didn’t they put all this work and resource into the best edition D&D has ever made? No, they waste it on this crap 4E.

    Instead they brainwash these morons into playing 4E and then convince them to mind-numbingly purchase “expansion sets” year after year. I can’t wait till 5E is announced and all the 4E people start to throw a fit, and maybe cut themselves for being so stupid to fall for WotC’s lies once again.

    One reason I can’t go to GenCon—I’d knock out the first WotC employee that was a major contribution to 4E that I bump into.

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  • bugleyman says:

    I wondered where you’d ended up after abandoning Paizo, Razz. It’s good to see you haven’t changed. :P

  • drow says:

    it’ll be awesome to see dark sun for 4e. it was one of my favorite settings in 2e, and i often drew from it for my 3e campaigns.

    not so excited about the soft-cover race splats, but we’ll see.
    i’ll end up buying them anyway, just to fill the collection.

  • N0Man says:

    Right Razz, I was brainwashed into liking 4E. It didn’t have anything to do with the fact that after my interest in D&D diminished greatly during the 3E and 3.5 era, I found the game increasingly more frustrating and broken, fewer of my friends were playing D&D anymore for similar reasons as myself. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that I have found 4E to be the most fun version of D&D I’ve ever played, and the first version that actually inspires me to DM.

    You are entitled to your opinion and preferences, but when you claim people are brainwashed into liking something that you don’t like, you aren’t being objective or open-minded at all. It makes you sound like an anti-fanboy.

  • The Game says:

    Razz has regularly threatened violence against people because they worked on a game he doesn’t like, and certainly doesn’t listen to any kind of reason. I’ve tolerated it in the past, but any further threatening comments will be deleted, and depending on how extreme they are, sent to the authorities.

  • Triptych says:

    Sounds like Razz is the one who is brain washed. (Mind Flayer perhaps?)

    Ranting about D&D editions to me is a bad as ranting about what console is the best or what band/music is better.

    Everyone has an opinion and we all don’t like the same thing, I never quiet get why people have to go out of their way to try and discredit something another person likes because they don’t like it them self.

    Also @The Game. Do you check for comments on older posts much? I made a comment on a post from last year and would love a response when you get a chance. :)
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  • DirkAnger says:

    Let see,

    Dark Sun

    New Races: Muls and Thri-Kreen

    New Classes: Templar

    Feats: Empower spells by flipping off the EPA.

    Epic Destinies: Dragons and Avangions

    These are my guesses anyhow. I can’t wait. Now if they only release Spelljammer and Birthright I’d be thrilled.

  • Tarrl says:

    Thanks for sharing. Great pics and some really awesome info.
    Like some of you, I was ready to find another game as the group I was playing in was very frustrated with 3.5. At first I was really pissed off as I had just spent money on two 3.5 books for bdays. But once I started looking into I became very excited and thus far(other than the VTT) I have not been disappointed.

  • Thank you for all the pics :)

    I love most of the covers (even the missing one, but it’s on the spring catalogue: Plane Above)

    already ordered most of them
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  • Jack Smith IV says:

    Am VERY curious as to what was said about contributing to D&Di. I’m assuming they talked about submissions a bit.

  • Nicholas says:

    It seems like they are moving away from just crunch books for players and into more guides and fluff. Possibly because the crunch goes up on the Character Builder anyway, less incentive to buy the books. Doesn’t matter to me though, I enjoy reading through physical books much more.
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  • pjstoneson says:

    Had seen bits and pieces of this during GenCon coverage, thanks for this great expansion/summary of the information.
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  • Miniature Freak says:

    I see in the complete years schedule that Players Handbook Heroes series 2 minis are being released in Sept of 2009. I thought that series 2 was already released back in July? Am I missing something? Or is this a Wotc typo?

  • Grandore The Giant Killer says:

    What the… Is that a Minotaur I see on Player Handbook 3?! Are they seriously letting us play as minotaurs?! Man I can’t wait for that book!

  • Graham says:

    @Grandore -

    Yes it is. But there have been minotaur player stats since launch (Monster Manual), and there was an article on playing minotaurs (with updated stats) on Dragon not too long ago.
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