Interview Gamer's Pulse interviews Timmy C on ToEE

[Calis]

Tags: Temple of Elemental Evil

Gamer's Pulse decided they didn't believe any of the available info on Greyhawk: ToEE, so they needed to bother Timmy C with a bunch of questions that they could've just looked up in IBNobody's <A HREF="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ibnobody/">UberFAQ</A>. Here's one that actually looked fairly decent to me:
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<blockquote>GP: What difficulties arise when converting an old D&D module to a new PC game and how have the difficulties been combated?
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We had to convert a lot of monsters and NPC’s to the new rules, as well as their magic items and other loot. Some 1st edition magic items and spells don’t exist in 3rd edition and conversely, there are a lot of new features as well, especially feats and skills, to give to all of the NPC’s. Currently, we are encountering some problems balancing the monsters in the module against the player character. The 3rd edition characters seem much more powerful than their 1st edition counterparts. But luckily 3rd edition rules cover how to increase the challenge rating of monsters, so we can improve the monsters and still stay in the scope of the rules.</blockquote>
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I give this interviewer a D+ for the effort, but would like to add a call to arms to all online gaming journalists: Please restore the good old hands-off first look to its former glory! There's nothing wrong with publicising a bit of known info about a game, but fer gahd's sake, turn it into a story or something!
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I guess you could read the rest <A HREF="http://www.gamerspulse.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Interviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=98">here</A>. Thanks go out to <B>ChrisBeddoes</B> for making me deviate from my pure-PHP no-news ways to bring you this news post.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

My favorite question is the one about the slides.. Asking if you can get them all in one game... Either the guy has no idea what the slides actually do, or he's a complete moron.

 

[EEVIAC]

I guess you could read the rest here.

As enticing as you made it sound, I did go over and read the interview. Its not all bad. It was quite short and the questions were pertininent to introducing the game to a new readership. The question about the slides was a little bonehead though - perhaps he was just trying to get Tim to point out the many consequences of actions and alignments in the game.

 

[Zetor]

Well, it's .... Gamer's Pulse.

The same GP that says Dungeon Siege is the best RPG evar while not having a clue about Avernum 3.

-- Z.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

When I ran Vault13.net for that one year before JC killed it, I slammed a review of Fallout Tactics they wrote because they claimed it used the Fallout engine and looked ugly because it was showing it's age. They got really mad about that, and there was a lovely little flamewar in the comments where they called me a "Fallout Tactics fanboy", even after claiming to have read my review of it. That review, BTW, was the second most critical review of the game on the internet, only because a Russian review refered to Fallout Tactics as "child rape".

 

[Volourn]

Ouch. Talk about extreme.