polarboy wrote on Jun 16^th, 2011 at 12:09am:


[shouts]

"I want my mummy!!!"   

Any of you guys had the opportunity to run this one yet? If so, I'd like to hear how it went for your group.

I'm still wondering what to call this when I run it (since we already had an excellent, time-traveling adventure into the ancient Middle East called "Sands of Time").

TINY SPOILER AHEAD

Anybody got any ideas (especially that have perused the adventure itself)?  Perhaps "Curse of the Pharaoh" or "Riddle of the Sphinx"?  If I went with that last one, I'd want to hold off on announcing it to my players as not to tip them off, I suppose.

Also, there's reference by Scott Bizar that there's another "lost" manuscript that we should see soon from Steven and Stewart Wieck.  Anybody able to speculate or tease?  AK? 

I thought about that (also "The Times of Sand" or other variations).

I might go with that, AK, though it sounds like a sequel to the original (the old one was quite different, with aliens taking over entire cultures in the Middle East).

Just picked this up, as it was discounted thanks to the wish list sale RPGNow/Drivethru is having. I only skimmed it, but it looks really good.

As I have a villain in the vein of Rama Tut/Kang/Scarlet Centurion, seeing Hourglass and his powers was a treat. All his powers over time are similar to what my villain can do, except my villain uses devices. So having something to base their powers on without having to write them up from scratch is excellent.

Now I just wish FGU would seriously consider making these available individually through Drivethu's PoD service. I get why FGU makes the Giants, but most of them include products I'm not interested in, and I wish there was an option to buy the ones I want in print without having to get other releases I have no interest in.

I've finally started running this one (this thread was tough to find, for some reason it wouldn't show up on Google, so I had to go page by page to find it).  Did the first part two weeks ago, and will likely finish it off tomorrow night.

The module is definitely fun.  Not quite as epic as I'd expected, perhaps, but then when you travel back in time you can't really travel all over and change history.  I actually kind of like that it's more localized (once the PCs go back to ancient Egypt).

Alabaster Knight's counters are awesome, as always.  Here's some supplementary ones (I figure I made them for my game, it's pretty easy to then make them available to anyone else who might want them) to finish things out, for anyone who would like them.

I made some Sand Creatures, as (spoiler!) Pharaoh makes them for the heroes to fight (it says he prefers many smaller ones, to a few large ones).

And Scorpion's only 3' tall, so I sized him per the typical V&V scale (the original does make him look shorter).

I thought the Egyptian Treasures were kind of fun; it was easy to do by finding pictures online and converting them to comic book images (many free programs do this); the final fight is supposed to have "at least four times" that which was found with King Tut, so even these are only representative of the massive amount that should be present.

And I thought it would be fun to make the statues of the various Egyptian deities, being as they pop up numerous times in the final pyramid (and the PCs have to figure something out about them).  A bit of a nod to Jeff Dee's outstanding work 'back in the day' on Deities & Demigods (an excuse to use that art, actually), and a few of them are not the actual gods that he did, but are close enough to suffice.  My originals are a little clearer/sharper than these, as I just printed them in b&w and printed it on gray cardstock (the version here is a photo of the originals).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28952597/V%26V/River%20of%20Time%20Counters....

Anyone who saw the latest Guardians Issues summary will realize I ended up going with "River of Time" as the overall title.

I ended up boosting Phoenix and Scorpion (not the most original of names) a bit, and will likely do the same for the main villains tomorrow, to make them more of a challenge for my group.

The reason Scorpion's counter is normal size is because although he's short, his body mass is substantially proportionate to a normal sized person.

I have never had a problem with the search function.  Make you click the option that says  to search ALL posts.

I use the search tab, and it gives you choices.

Thanks for the info, Paul and John.  I tried using the Search function (upper left), but couldn't initially find it with that or Google.

@AK: I often do the same thing, and that makes perfect sense.  In his case, he was short enough I decided to go with a slightly smaller counter (3/4"), but either is cool.