Modules

[Gabe The Gun]

I would like to flow my campaign escape from kalisz into a module that i have eventually. I was wondering if anyone could give me a suggestion on which one is best suitable to do this with. The modules I currently have are Pirates of the Vistula, Red star lone star,Urban Guerilla,The last submarine,and Mediterranean Cruise. If none of these will work please let me know of the best one i should have to flow into from escape from kalisz and I will obtain it. Thank you.

[kato13]

Unless you make up the return home your only real option is Pirates of the Vistula as that is the only one in Poland.


It might be worth it for you to pick up Free City of Krakow at either Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Free-City-Krak.../dp/094358051X

or DrivethruRPG
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/produc...ts_id=435&it=1

That module is really the centerpiece for the Polish Modules.

[Webstral]

I'm with Kato. Acquire The Free City of Krakow by any means possible. Aside from being a great starting point for adventuring in Poland, The Free City of Krakow gives a good look at the mindset of the writers in the very early Twilight: 2000 universe. The Free City of Krakow also has the advantage of being a crossroads for the players. The players can stay in Krakow as long as they have money or usefulness to someone, or they can strike out in several directions. They could easily stay in Krakow until Going Home. Krakow also is a good place to reorganize a party. Some characters can stay behind, while others already in Krakkow or arriving after the players may find reasons for wanting to join a group leaving the free city.

Other Poland-based modules are The Ruins of Warsaw, The Black Madonna, and Going Home. There is also a series set in 2001, but the names escape me.

I've long thought that if the modules of Twilight: 2000 were to be novelized, one could start with a fairly large party in Escape from Kalisz that would go to Krakow and then fragment. Some could go down the Vistula, while others might pursue the Black Madonna, and so forth. New characters could be added, old ones abandoned or eliminated, and so forth.

Webstral

[Adm.Lee]

I'm a big fan of the Polish modules, these are what got me hooked into Polish history when I first read them. I've run the set (more or less) twice.

Black Madonna and Free City of Krakow could go together very nicely, they cover adjacent or overlapping areas, and both can set up a fair number of actions that PCs might pursue. That could turn into long-term games just sitting in that area. Madonna came out later than the rest, but it could easily be the first one. I'd pick one or the other of these two, if you could only have one.

Pirates of Vistula can start from either of those, it begins with an NPC hiring the PCs to accompany him on his river voyage. That flows directly into Ruins of Warsaw, which sets up a big fight with a warlord.

Going Home could take place after any of these. Like Pirates, its centerpiece is a journey, but with a lot more options.

The second round of Europe modules include White Eagle, which is a sequel to Krakow and Black Madonna, covering what those groups of NPCs did between the summers of 2000 and '01. Return to Warsaw is the same thing, for the citizens of that area. Bear's Den is supposed to be in southeast Poland/northeastern Ukraine, and could flow as a job from either a Warsaw or Krakow start point. It's my least favorite European module.

Both Krakow and Black Madonna start with the PCs finding a valuable item, and then describe the NPC players and their organizations in the area. There is not set course for the PCs to follow, which is a model I rather liked.

That's my $0.02.
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As for the ones you have, I would gently shepherd your group from Kalisz to Krakow, have them get hired by the NPC captain who will take them to Warsaw. Break up the game, and restart a new group to play Last Sub. That flows right into Med. Cruise, but you could alter the locations of that one, and play it as Baltic cruise instead. Then, you can pick up your old party and take them back to the States. Pick Red star, lone star or Urban guerrilla next-- have the sub drop off either party and have fun. That's 3-4 campaigns right there, IMO.

I liked Lone star the most, I think it's the only US module I finished.

[Grimace]

If you want to string together the various modules that you have, the order you'd probably want to do them in would be:

Escape from Kalisz (of course)
some thrown together encounters of your own
Pirates of the Vistula
then if you really wanted to stretch reality, you could run some adventures to get them around in the Med so you can run
Mediterannean Cruise
then you could string together some encounters and get them over to the U.S. in the Texas region and you could run
Red Star, Lone Star
And then you can use the last two modules by stringing together some encounters to get them into an area where either one can come into play.

As others have suggested, though, there are other modules out there that make this whole thing a whole lot easier to string together.

Free City of Krakow and Black Madonna are both quite good. Sadly I never got the Going Home module, so I can't comment on that one.

Then, if the group gets back to America, you have a whole new set of adventures that you could run them through. Or if the group sticks it out in Europe, you can use a lot of others available, including the White Eagle, Bear's Den...stuff like that.

With what you have, though, you could eventually get into a couple of the modules, but you're going to have to be creative and come up with your own filler to get them from the location of one module to the location of the next.

[Targan]

I say save all your pennies and buy all the modules at once on CD. Then you will never run out of adventure ideas and you and your gaming group will have literally years of fun gaming at your fingertips.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Targan

I say save all your pennies and buy all the modules at once on CD.

http://www.farfuture.net/cdroms.html

35 dollars per CD. 1 Cd for V1 and 1 Cd for V2

Contents
v1
http://www.farfuture.net/Contents%20...rsion%2010.pdf

v2
http://www.farfuture.net/Contents%20...rsion%2022.pdf

[Dogger]

I agree with the others, get hold of a copy of Free City of Krakow we campaigned off of this module for probably 5 - 7 games before we moved on to Pirates of the Vistula for another handful of games and then on to Ruins of Warsaw for 2 or 3 games.

Free City of Krakow was pretty important for setting the atmosphere and tempo of later games.