Favorite FRUA mods?

[manikus]

I was looking at converting another FRUA mod to DC. (Maybe even a couple of them.)

What are some of peoples favorite FRUA mods? I haven't decided what I want to do yet, so you could help me out by giving me some ideas.

[SilentThief]

I've only played 3 so far... but the remake of the 1st dragonlance module "DRAGONS OF DESPAIR" was a good one.

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[Uatu]

Hey, I never saw that latter one - sounds interesting, is it available somewhere? (Would like to see how they tried to implement Dragonlance with DC.)

[manikus]

I don't think you can play "Dragons of Despair" with DC, unless you converted it first.

I had a very weird experience last night. I was thinking about FRUA, so decided to look through the directories of games I had currently available (not counting my zipped archives) and saw a folder name that didn't look familiar from downloading at Rosedragon. I started playing it and was having a good time until a band of kobolds wiped out my first level party (they would have been fine if two of the fighters hadn't been mauled by a cave bear). I wanted to see who made it so I could find more of their stuff if the rest of the design was as fun to play. I opened up the readme and saw that the mod was started in 2001, which is a few years ago but did have some good art. Anyways, I looked at the mod author's name and it was... (any guesses here?)
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manikus. Boy was I surprised. Even after going back in and checking out the mod in the editor, I only have the vaguest of memories of creating this.

[Uatu]

Ha ha... Wow! You must have made that one while you were sleeping (maybe if you search some more, you may find a complete module just ready for playing... also made by manikus)

(Doh! Sorry - Dragons of Despair is a FRUA module... I must be tired today...)

[manikus]

I'm pretty sure the mod is done, as I went to all the trouble of writing a readme.txt file. Though some sections do look a little light on events - but this could be do to the fact that there are such a limited number in FRUA.
I guess I can remake this in DC, and I won't even be converting somebody elses mod.

[Uatu]

Er... guess I will look out for the cave bear for when I try it, then!

[SilentThief]

Originally Posted by manikus I don't think you can play "Dragons of Despair" with DC, unless you converted it first.

FRUA cannot do the correct abilities of the draconians (exploding, turn to stone and take weapon, turn to acid puddle, ect) even with the hacks. DC may need some work B4 doing them right also.

ST

[Uatu]

Ah - that is a shame. There are lots of "death effects" that need implementation... Even besides Dragonlance, there are lots of creatures that warrant such abilities:

1. Explosion - gas spores
2. Reviving and fighting for a few rounds more or until hp are -15 (or whatever) - wild boars (I remember fighting wild boars in some Gold Box game)

There are others, but I can't think of them right now...

[manikus]

I'm hoping to just get the effects/abilities that FRUA has, notably the dragon breath weapons, gaze effects, owlbear/umber hulk hugs, immunity to ___, etc.

There are so many designs that would be fun to covert or make, but, you know, you can't yet.