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Publisher: Wizards of the CoastPrincess Arelina rushes from the tent as total disorder breaks out across the camp. She descends on your party as you struggle to secure your weapons . . .
Wonderfully descriptive, isn't it? Well, now you can see it for yourself with the 3-D Dragon Tiles. Use the Dragon Tiles to bring your D and amp;D adventures to life.
This package includes 3-D figures featuring tents, trees, carts, a waterfall, and characters. A sheet of 2-sided tiles include trails, streams, creatures and other wilderness features. A wilderness mapping grid is included to help you lay out wilderness encounters quickly.
The 3-D Dragon Tiles also comes with a special D and amp;D adventure, and quot;The Revenge of Rusak. and quot;
Product History
AC8: and quot;3-D Dragon Tiles featuring The Revenge of Rusak and quot; (1985), by David and quot;Zeb and quot; Cook, is the eighth and quot;AC and quot; Accessory for Basic D and amp;D. It was published in July 1985
About the Module Code. The printed cover of and quot;3-D Dragon Tiles featuring The Revenge of Rusak and quot; (1985) clearly says that it's and quot;AC3 and quot;. But it's not; that would be AC3: and quot;3-D Dragon Tiles featuring The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and quot; (1984), printed a year earlier. Fortunately, TSR caught their error and printed a sticker for the module that said and quot;AC5 and quot;. Except it's not that either; that would be AC5: and quot;Dungeons and amp; Dragons Player Character Record Sheets and quot; (1984).
and quot;The Revenge of Rusak and quot; actually fits into the and quot;AC and quot; series as and quot;AC8 and quot;. Though TSR never used that identification on the printed module, they did use it in the extensive listing of products found in the Magic Encyclopedia, Volume One (1992). (It's also the obvious gap in the sequence.)
Origins (I): (AC)cessorizing. The middle of the and quot;AC and quot; line had a decreased amount of content with and quot;AC5 and quot; and and quot;AC5 and quot;, where were both packs of character sheets (1985), but now the and quot;AC and quot; series was returning to more familiar grounds: accessories with short adventures. AC8: and quot;3-D Dragon Tiles featuring The Revenge of Rusak and quot; (1985) thus followed AC7: and quot;Master Player Screen featuring The Spindle and quot; (1985).
Origins (II): A Sequel. and quot;The Revenge of Rusak and quot; is in all ways a successor to AC3: and quot;3-D Dragon Tiles featuring The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and quot; (1984). Just like its predecessor, it focuses on color cardstock figures. However, the short adventure is also a sequel, set some years after and quot;The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and quot;. The pre-generated characters are all leveled up, the princess is grown up, and the previous villain has been resurrected.
About the Components. Just like and quot;The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and quot;, and quot;The Revenge of Rusak and quot; makes ground-breaking use of battle mats and fold-up figures. The only difference is this time they're all for the outdoors, with the battle map depicting the wilderness, the feature tiles showing a number of rocks and plants, and the stand-ups including rock formations and tents.
The use of the tiles looks even more like the use of Dragon Tiles (2006-2012) in D and amp;D 4e (2008-2012) than its predecessor, because some of the encounters in the adventure book even depict a fully laid out map for the encounter.
Adventure Styles: Wilderness Exploration. Though theoretically a wilderness adventure, and quot;The Revenge of Rusak and quot; doesn't follow any of the tropes common to the D and amp;D Expert Set (1981, 1983). Instead it's a set of episodic encounters, leading the players from one to the next until they arrive at the end.
Exploring Mystara. and quot;The Revenge of Rusak and quot; confirms that it's a generic adventure, saying and quot;It has no particular background setting so it can be used any time the PCs are traveling to another place. and quot; This confirms that and quot;The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and quot; wasn't set in the Known World either. This was a real rarity for Basic D and amp;D adventures; even more notably, none of the major fan organizations has tried to place these adventures in that setting.
About the Creators. Cook was one of the major authors of the Basic D and amp;D line, going back to the D and amp;D Expert Set and X1: and quot;The Isle of Dread and quot; (1981). This is one of his less-known offerings for the line.