B1-12 - In Search of Adventure

Installed this but it wouldn't run due to a missing hakpak:- ctp_bio_fix.hak (it's not at the Community Tileset Pack link and googling it leads to dead ends). :(

Any ideas (please)?

Has many classics.

Princess Sylvia doesn't respond after you defeat the mage and his owlbear.

I hope George fixes this.

I did not know when I loaded this module I would enter into an alternate one called "In Search of an UnBugged Adventure". I experience horrible bugs, being fused to a horse and unable to get off, sticking to walls and furniture, becoming invincible only to meet a doppleganger and realize I can not get rid of it and we can not hit each other because, I had somehow become invincible and nothing could hit me, including myself. I know not everyone will experience this level of horror, but I can't really recommend this module. The module designer is very knowledgeable with the toolset, and I do not think he did anything to cause the plague of bugs I was unfortunately tormented by playing this. I then took the character I used in this module to go on to even greater proportions of insane bugged play: Module A1 and A2 by JarAre. Now that was a truly horrific experience of bugged game play, and a module you could not complete, and in general, I lost two hours of my life I can never get back.

Not the best of thegoeorge.
- bland
- "beserker"(caldwell castle)
- 103% evicted - how is this even possible
- respawning animals
- doppelganger had all my items(does it work like this?) and still was worth a mere 4 XPS
- too difficult and not enough loot for my 5th level warrior to survive

Maybe one day I will replay it.

It is a beginner module, and for people who don't play D&D or understand what feats are and such. I still don't know what most feats and things are, it didn't matter in this module.

I hope other people will be able to play it without being stuck to walls. My only advice is that you create a new character when you play it, and do not ride the horses. Also, do not export the character and play anything else with it.

To be fair, the original modules they are based on were published in the 80s. They were not very good to begin with. They used the basic set rules, which came in boxes. If you had played these modules, you most likely played with a group of beginners, and an inexperienced DM. So, if you are under 30 years old, you will probably scratch your head wondering why this module sucks so much. Well, remember, at the time people played these modules, the internet was still a top-secret of the nuclear research, and it was the cold war. For people who just want to revisit these funny games, it was very well, even with the plague of bugs, it was quite appropriate, reminding them of a time when an IBM PC was actually called an IBM PC, had 256k of memory and a screen with 4 colors and cost $4000. Younger people could play it to laugh at how terrible the days were in the ancient times, to have to endure this, but it is fitting, to remind them they are all doomed by Nintendo.

Love old school conversions.  Will give it a try.

OK, so I made it thru all the Main Module Quests, except for the final B6.  Working on the bonus mod  B9 The Abduction of Princess Sylvia...I have been thru the main floor in its entirety, and found a lever, but cant seem to move on to finish...Any help would be appreciated !!

thanks !!

Awesome Epic adventure !!  Loved revisiting the " B series" in this conversion.  Especially liked Caldwells castle and of course B3, one of my favorites all time from way back.  Cool music too !!  

thanks !!!!!!!!!!!

Good but not great multi-adaptation, I couldn't bring myself to finish it after about 7-8 hours total. The journal updates were sparse and sometimes triggered by area transitions, not achivements (I remember accidentally instructing my character to go through an area transition while I was in a castle, and upon spawning in the castles yard, I got credited for finishing a questline I practically just started. I played that part early summer, I'm not sure which B story it was) so I went with the good ol'writing everything down as I would while playing D&D (I don't mind that part at all, I agree with thegeorge that half the fun is finding the adventure).
The areas were relatively bland, and really small, there was no path to explore, just *Objective* ''go to the cave'' -> one transition -> you are outside the cave. For how much work was put into making this mod, the scripts and maps, that very direct approach to everything kinda ruined it for me. I can get behind the idea of not wasting time with huge empty maps, but this felt like the other side of the spectrum.
There were some slight balance issues here and there, overwhelming enemies and poor loot, or weak enemies and above level gear drops, but worked out in the end due to the 'sandbox' style overlay.

I hope I was not unfair about it but I honestly didn't like it. It was a good module, but I can't get behind lots of design choices, I got no 'feeling' from it unfortunately. REF3 for instance made me feel much more involved

I loved the module!

some of the adventure where bad originally and they are not better by the translation but that is 80's D&D.

Some of them felt as great as playing the originals pnp, I particularly liked the Palace of the Silver Princess, Journey to the Rock and Rahasia, even if I had to read the walkthrough and the original adventure at some moment to find some of the solutions, ("pour watter", really? wouldn't it be better to have some special item or action available at the bridge? not a big deal though).

All in all I'm enjoging the module a lot.

But, I get stuck while trying to play the Veiled Society, after going down to the caverns/cellar in the old woman house everything is fine until I try to get back, the character get stuck in the trap door and it can't move in any direction nor return to the caverns... is there a way to fix that or can I use some cheat or GM power to move the character and keep playing? I have no idea how to GM in NWN or do anything like that.

Really want to finish that and play the bonus adventures.

I am looking for the two required HAK files "ctp_bio_fix" and "ctpr_dungeon" mentioned in the readme as requirements to make this module work.  I am assuming these are both ".hak" files.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to find these files?  I checked the Community Tileset Project (CTP) link and did not find anything that matched exactly.  

I guess I never played or reviewed this module from thegeorge but I intend to do so here. I have come to respect and really enjoy the tight and cohesive as well as imaginative work from this author and I have to say that this one is a bit off that level. It seems to be vague as far as quest assignment and even finding some of the quests like the Silver Princess and Ruins were beyond me. I did complete about 6 of the adventures, even with the hints doc, and some were well done while others were just a lucky stab (the Rock). All in all I think that it was too difficult to find one's way and finish the long list of quests. There was no central quest giver and this made it tough to move ahead, I feel. Still, better than most efforts like this! 

I did notice the statue of St George and the Dragon that was outside the Manor, I believe. Is that where your name came from or was it possibly the 1975 novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson? I'm dyin' to know...