Module Linkages

[Webstral]

Nicely done!

[Raellus]

Flowchart magic! Thanks!

On a sidenote, IMHO, Black Madonna is sort of the odd man out of the original Polish modules. It was published after EfK, FCoK, PotV, and RoW, yet it would involve some geographical backtracking for the PCs to get to the module AO after liberating Warsaw. Just in terms of point A to point B travel, it works better to run BM either shortly after EfK and/or after FCoK, and then nudge the PCs north up the Vistula to Warsaw.

[Legbreaker]

The key is to look at it as a web of options. There's no way one single group of PCs can possibly run through every last module in geographic or temporal order without serious twisting the fabric of space/time.

[Tegyrius]

Originally Posted by Raellus

On a sidenote, IMHO, Black Madonna is sort of the odd man out of the original Polish modules. It was published after EfK, FCoK, PotV, and RoW, yet it would involve some geographical backtracking for the PCs to get to the module AO after liberating Warsaw. Just in terms of point A to point B travel, it works better to run BM either shortly after EfK and/or after FCoK, and then nudge the PCs north up the Vistula to Warsaw.

Hmm. Yeah, I went back into Madonna and couldn't actually find a direct link from Ruins. However, Madonna's introduction does indicate it takes place about a month after the demise of 5ID, which I had missed in favor of thinking of it as "Module 4." When I'm back at a machine with Visio, I'll adjust that section of the chart to put both Krakow and Madonna downstream of Kalisz.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

The key is to look at it as a web of options. There's no way one single group of PCs can possibly run through every last module in geographic or temporal order without serious twisting the fabric of space/time.

Oh, totally. But it does help with plotting the campaign for which I'll never find players.

- C.

[leonpoi]

Great work. Thanks. I can see that it would be very difficult to have one set of PCs do all of those modules - or indeed find the time to even scratch the surface

[Legbreaker]

Although the timings for the early modules are a bit difficult to screw about with, those set in the US shouldn't be too hard to change to fit. As long as some lip service is given to events in other modules, there shouldn't be too much of an issue.
The capture/elimination of Carl Hughes for example in Kidnapped is going to have some serious impact on modules such as Urban Guerrilla. Probably not much on a number of other modules, not least being Satellite Down which really could be delayed by a year or so if needed (just have the satellite fall later). Red Star, Lone Star could be problematic given the Soviets precarious position and need for fuel and a way home sooner rather than later.
Note both Gateway and Going home can both feed into Kings Ransom, and almost anything can feed Last Sub (Going home, Armies of the night, Kidnapped, Gateway, even Satellite Down given the data is important enough to warrant an aircraft).
Red Star is the logical feed to Angels given that they are in the same general area, but Satellite may be a good option too. Angels could well be a good feed for Satellite.

And then you've got the various Challenge articles, not to mention scenarios presented in Nightmares, Encounters, etc all which have suggested locales.

[Tegyrius]

Revised with dates of each module's events. When specific months weren't available, I've attempted to infer approximate dates from mentions of seasons or other evidence; these are denoted with tildes (~). Yes, GDW's dates do result in a few temporal improbabilities.

Also updated the relationships of the first few Poland modules per Raellus' suggestions, and fixed the Return to Europe relationships after taking a closer look at those modules' chronologies.



(Yeah, Escape from Kalisz should be July, not June, and the rest of the approximate dates in the original Poland modules should be pushed back a month. I just caught that. Durrr.)

- C.

[kcdusk]

Fantastic work. The amount of times i've thought to do this myself but never had the initiative/work ethic/time/tools.

Too hard to comment on the accuracy, but great work none the less. Well done.