Agreeing with @andyaction here: I discovered your channel only in recent months. And while I was excited at first to hear two like-minded fellas my age discussing classic modules, my excitement quickly waned to boredom just to hear the 'crossover' observations so often. 🫤 You two may be interested in being surprised at hearing one another's same opinions on 3 of 5 encounters on average, but you lose me when you talk about the same encounter for 5+ minutes each, basically repeating one another's observations. While the rooms/encounters you mentioned here were indeed interesting and exciting (to a degree), there were several other chambers and encounters I found much more interesting, compelling, and challenging. I would have much preferred to hear some insight on those. **Spoiler Alert** For example, when I ran 'some of' the module a couple of years ago as a Castles & Crusades scenario for my players searching for the Rod of Seven Parts, I completely did away with the puzzle/trap for the Couatl while keeping the creature itself as a guardian of the 5th piece of the Rod. In order for the party to gain the Rod, they had to prove their worth by defeating the Gibbering Mouther - who I had beefed up and made into something akin to John Carpenter's 'The THING' to represent an aspect of the Queen of Chaos (BBEG). The party had a tough time though since earlier in the session the Half-Orc ranger decided to take the cursed Axe from the vampire's crypt despite the ominous shadow it cast up on the wall. 😨 The module is pronounced Tam-Oh-ah-KHAN, btw, not tamoCHAN. 😉

Name pronunciations were also stated in the classic module. So I'm not sure why they were having such a rough time - especially having run it for groups more than a few times. *shrug*

OAR 7 confirmed! Judges Guild's "The Dark Tower." Holy! 3 book slipcover; that's enormous.