Saturday, April 23, 2022

B3: Derivative Works

There have been far fewer derivative works for module B3 "Palace of the Silver Princess" than for module B1 "In Search of the Unknown" or module B2 "The Keep on the Borderlands", although a couple of examples do exist: 


Vault of Catharandamus

The dungeon on pages 276-281 in the "Tome of Magic: Pact, shadow, and truename magic supplement" (2006) by Matthew Sernett et al. for 3.5e is the "Vault of Catharandamus".


The "Vault of Catharandamus".  Cartography by Mike Schley.


The location is described as a truename magic adventure site:

A few crumbling walls, eroded statues and columns, and the remnants of a few roads are all that remain of the Palace of Princess Argent. Years ago, a foul and alien sorcerer named Arik imprisoned the lady and her beloved champion beyond time and space, and cursed the place. Serving the dark spellcaster was a despicable man named Catharandamus who worked to bring his master into the Material Plane. Though a group of bold adventurers thwarted the curse, freed the princess and her knight, and put an end to the spellcaster’s evil, the palace never recovered, nor did the lands around it.  Over the decades since, earthquakes, rains, and time took their toll, leaving little but a pile of rubble and a passage into a hill on which the palace once stood as evidence that anything ever stood here.

from the "Tome of Magic" (2006)


DIY Remix


DIY version of "Palace of the Silver Princess" (2017).  Illustration by Kiel Chenier.

The DIY remix of "Palace of the Silver Princess" (2017) represents a third, recent version of Wells' original module.  The collective effort was overseen by Zak Sabbath and Kiel Chenier.

Contributors included Tom FitzgeraldDavid McGroganZzarchov Kowolski, Barry Blatt, Natalie Bennett, James Raggi, Trent B, Humza K., Ramanan Sivaranjan, Reynaldo Madriñan, Kelvin Green, Daniel Dean, James Maliszewski, Jensen Toperzer, Anthony Picaro, Logan Knight, Stacy Dellorfano, Patrick Stuart, Scrap Princess, and Ken Baumann

As one of the contributors put it:

I worked on this, along with @allandaros and @dungeonsdonuts and many, many others whose Tumblrs I don’t know. Basically, a whole bunch of people over in the G+ indie tabletop gaming community were given one page of the old TSR adventure Palace of the Silver Princess to re-write. None of us communicated with each other about what we were writing, we just had the original dungeon and that was it. The end result is surprisingly coherent and showcases some of the best Weird Indie D&D Talent out there these days.

Jensen Toperzer (Apr 6th, 2016) 


There are several great ideas in this version, which is well worth a perusal for anyone thinking about running "Palace of the Silver Princess" for themselves.

4 comments:

  1. I'm not having any luck finding the Remix you mention. Do you have a link?

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    1. It was a free download at the time, but most of the links are now dead.

      I don't have permission to host a link to the pdf, but am happy to send you a copy.

      Just email me a request (my email address is in my profile).

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    2. Forgive me, I am unable to access your Email through that profile (it keeps kicking me to Google). Is there another way to nab the PDF?

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    3. Seems like it's presently downloadable here:
      https://docero.net/doc/palace-of-the-silver-princess-diy-ver-fixed-14mqwzdp83

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