D+D adventure ranking list

[glee]

I've been enjoying Dungeons and Dragons for decades. :cool:

One of my first adventures was 'The Temple of Elemental Evil', which I consider a classic. (I have used it to introduce many people to the game.)

I have just found out ( according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_Elemental_Evil) ) that this module was ranked 4th in the all-time list in Dragon magazine.

Does anyone know the top 3? Is the list still around anywhere?

Thanks (and may you always make your saving throw :) )

[CandidGamera]

I've been enjoying Dungeons and Dragons for decades. :cool:

One of my first adventures was 'The Temple of Elemental Evil', which I consider a classic. (I have used it to introduce many people to the game.)

I have just found out ( according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_Elemental_Evil) ) that this module was ranked 4th in the all-time list in Dragon magazine.

Does anyone know the top 3? Is the list still around anywhere?

Thanks (and may you always make your saving throw :) )

I've got every issue of Dragon, ever.. (thanks to the digital versions on the archive CDs, for the early ones).. so if you found an issue number, I could help.

[glee]

I've got every issue of Dragon, ever.. (thanks to the digital versions on the archive CDs, for the early ones).. so if you found an issue number, I could help.

You lucky chap!

Apparently it was a 2004 issue to celebrate their 30th anniversary...

[Quartz]

#1 was GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, #2 was I6 Ravenloft, and #3 was S1 Tomb of Horrors.

The complete article is in Dungeon #116, pages 72-81. See the References at the bottom ofthe Wiki page.

[glee]

#1 was GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, #2 was I6 Ravenloft, and #3 was S1 Tomb of Horrors.

The complete article is in Dungeon #116, pages 72-81. See the References at the bottom ofthe Wiki page.

Thanks for that. :D

Actually I can't believe Tomb of Horrors was rated as anything. It was full of random traps and the suggested party given in the module couldn't even beat the final monster. :eek: :smack:

[Montgomery0]

For a more complete listing, consult the Wikipage on D&D Modules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_&_Dragons_modules).

[CandidGamera]

Thanks for that. :D

Actually I can't believe Tomb of Horrors was rated as anything. It was full of random traps and the suggested party given in the module couldn't even beat the final monster. :eek: :smack:

I love the Tomb! I adapted it for my own custom-built campaign world.

[OneCentStamp]

Dude, you haven't been bored on a Saturday until you've been bored enough to run back through Keep on the Borderlands with a party of 13th-15th level characters.

[Colibri]

Since this is about entertainment, I am moving it to Cafe Society.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

[Szlater]

Do most ADnD players play purchased campaigns and units?

Is my old group unusual in that we only ever played self-created campaigns and campaign worlds?

[OneCentStamp]

Do most ADnD players play purchased campaigns and units?

Is my old group unusual in that we only ever played self-created campaigns and campaign worlds?
No, I've always done self-created. The most we've ever done is steal certain ideas, story starters or scenarios from published modules, then plugged them into our own campaign setting.

[Scuba_Ben]

Dude, you haven't been bored on a Saturday until you've been bored enough to run back through Keep on the Borderlands with a party of 13th-15th level characters.
Aaaaand? What did you all do that would entertain such characters in that beginner-level setting?

That somewhat reminds me of the time our 4th level characters had to hold off the kobold army's attack on someone's village. Did you know that if you play a 4th level fighter (2-weapon specialization) with +3 damage modifiers against half-HD monsters, you can skewer 7 or 8 of them per combat round without bothering to roll damage?

[OneCentStamp]

Aaaaand? What did you all do that would entertain such characters in that beginner-level setting?
I was the DM. The party was in transit from one campaign location to another, several months away. I slipped in the beginning to KotB as a "randomly rolled encounter," but I had actually planned on doing it to them since finding the old module a few days before. Eventually, the players realized what was going on (since we had all played the module years before), but everyone played it relatively straight. I think they were half-expecting me to drop the hammer on them at any moment with an encounter actually suited to their level, so even though there were a few snickers, there were no smart remarks. It had its own odd kind of tension.

And I still remember that "BREE-YARK!" does not mean "we surrender" in Goblinish.

[Scuba_Ben]

OneCentStamp, that was cruel. Well done. :)

[CandidGamera]

I loved Keep.

I played it as a PC three times. (Making sure to inform the GM that I had played it before.)

I did abuse OOC knowledge once, though..

I made sure to lead the third group I played it with to the Mimic-Tower, on purpose.

:D

[CandidGamera]

Do most ADnD players play purchased campaigns and units?

Is my old group unusual in that we only ever played self-created campaigns and campaign worlds?

I've done both. As a matter of fact, I was at one point running a Forgotten Realms campaign one night a week, and my homebrew world on another. Featuring mostly the same player base.

[mlees]

I was the DM. The party was in transit from one campaign location to another, several months away. I slipped in the beginning to KotB as a "randomly rolled encounter," but I had actually planned on doing it to them since finding the old module a few days before. Eventually, the players realized what was going on (since we had all played the module years before), but everyone played it relatively straight. I think they were half-expecting me to drop the hammer on them at any moment with an encounter actually suited to their level, so even though there were a few snickers, there were no smart remarks. It had its own odd kind of tension.

And I still remember that "BREE-YARK!" does not mean "we surrender" in Goblinish.

Hmm. I would have been expecting a level 15 Kobold Anti-Paladin to show up, if I was one of the players...

One of the other things that I found that scares the be-jeebus out of melee types is the rust monster. "Ok. Your +5 sword of God Slaying needs a 16 or better to save. Roll 'em!"

[glee]

Do most ADnD players play purchased campaigns and units?

Is my old group unusual in that we only ever played self-created campaigns and campaign worlds?

My group uses both, although we usually have to tailor existing modules, both for balance and to fit in with our storylines.

We might be unusual in that we all take turns to DM...

[OneCentStamp]

Hmm. I would have been expecting a level 15 Kobold Anti-Paladin to show up, if I was one of the players...
That's basically what they were worried about. They'd kick in the door to the guardhouse, massacre the four 1HD orcs (well, 1st level Warrior orcs; I converted it to 3rd Edition), then kind of look around at each other nervously (the players as well as the PCs).

[Szlater]

We might be unusual in that we all take turns to DM...

We used to take turns, but never in the same world. Each DM had his own gameworld, and the players just had characters for each. And we also used to have multisession one-offs usually with different systems (Star Wars and Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. were popular as was Paranoia). The one-offs allowed players who didn't DM regularly to try out their skills and also for us to trial new games. We were lucky in as much as the school allowed us to use a classroom at lunch and after school in the week, so we had lots of sessions available. The saturday sessions were the big campaign sessions. It was an awesome group of players, one that when I went to university and joined the RPG Soc I felt lucky to have played with.

My RPG Soc career lasted three sessions, all three games (2 ADnD, 1 Shadowrun) I played had DM's reading from pre-bought modules... and they sucked. The Shadowrun session was the worst, the DM read word for word from the module, and the players squabbled OOC over a gun that one of them had invented, and no one was interested in helping me make a character or even explaining the basics of the game (I'd never played Shadowrun before). With the exception of maybe a 5 or 6 sessions in the past 13 years, that was the end of RPG as a hobby for me... and I miss it dreadfully.

[Malacandra]

Would anyone here be up for playing some messageboard D+D? Not on the Dope obviously. We tried it briefly a while back but the DM ran out of ideas about when the first actual encounter started.

[Millit the Frail]

We alternate and do hybrids. Like, we can start with a module and go off in a different direction, or sometimes there's module-blending, et cetera. And everyone DMs except me. They're all experienced, and I'm not so much. So I never DM.

Hey, I'm starting a FR campaign tonight with some friends. What should I play? I'm stumped. I'm always playing human rogues, for some reason. Do I need to change it up?

[OneCentStamp]

Would anyone here be up for playing some messageboard D+D? Not on the Dope obviously. We tried it briefly a while back but the DM ran out of ideas about when the first actual encounter started.
I've never done it before but I have played a lot of D&D as a player as well as a DM and would be happy to give it a try.

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

Check out www.enworld.org for online games; there are several going on simultaneously there, in a forum set up specifically for that purpose; there's even a separate forum for out-of-character discussions.

My personal favorite adventure to run is Of Sound Mind, a psionics adventure written by Kevin Kulp (Piratecat over on EN World). It's just a tremendously fun adventure, full of exciting sequences.

Daniel

[Bryan Ekers]

What, no love for Under Illefarn?

[Pazu]

I've never done it before but I have played a lot of D&D as a player as well as a DM and would be happy to give it a try.

Me too! Our tabletop gaming group recently dissolved :( and I've been jonesing for a new game. (I think everyone else in the group was tired of 3.5 except for me and my wife, since neither of us had had much of a chance to play it.)

[Pazu]

Check out www.enworld.org for online games; there are several going on simultaneously there, in a forum set up specifically for that purpose; there's even a separate forum for out-of-character discussions.


I was very tempted to join one of the ENworld games, except that I don't think the house rules would permit the character I want to play.

[Quartz]

That somewhat reminds me of the time our 4th level characters had to hold off the kobold army's attack on someone's village. Did you know that if you play a 4th level fighter (2-weapon specialization) with +3 damage modifiers against half-HD monsters, you can skewer 7 or 8 of them per combat round without bothering to roll damage?
Only if you've got Great Cleavage. :D

[Der Trihs]

Thanks for that. :D

Actually I can't believe Tomb of Horrors was rated as anything. It was full of random traps and the suggested party given in the module couldn't even beat the final monster. :eek: :smack:Heh. The first time I DMd a party in the Tomb, they all crawled into the sphere of annihilation trap in the first corridor assuming it was a portal; dead, every last one.

[Odesio]

No love for Expedition to the Barrier Peaks? A crashed space ship, robots, lasers, and power armor! Yeah, it's a D&D adventure.

Marc

[burundi]

I was very tempted to join one of the ENworld games, except that I don't think the house rules would permit the character I want to play.
Heh. I'm a moderator over there, and we once had a HUGE stink because someone joined a game with an inappropriate character (IIRC, it was a military-heavy game based closely on a unit in imperial Rome, and someone brought in a comic, flamboyantly gay bard character). When the GM kicked the guy from the group, all hell broke loose as the player tried to sabotage the game every which way he could.

Thanks for not doing that! :D

Daniel

[asterion]

Only if you've got Great Cleavage. :DI thought Great Cleavage was an armor modifier.

[Der Trihs]

No love for Expedition to the Barrier Peaks? A crashed space ship, robots, lasers, and power armor! Yeah, it's a D&D adventure.

MarcOh, yeah, loved that one.

[Malacandra]

Heh. The first time I DMd a party in the Tomb, they all crawled into the sphere of annihilation trap in the first corridor assuming it was a portal; dead, every last one.

I never ran it, but I read through it once. If I'd spent money on that, it would have ended up on the fire. :rolleyes:

[asterion]

I've played a NWN version of Tomb of Horrors (there's a couple different ones, I believe this one was made by an author named Ghool.) It's still meant for a party, but I went in there and soloed (and thus somewhat cheated) with my massively cross-played 24/16 cleric/sorcerer, along with all her gear picked up from several modules along the way, dating all the way back to the NWN OC, plus a little cheating from the help of Zorco's Keeps. Let me tell you, that module was a bitch to solo, even with all the advantages I had (I think the total AC of my character was close to 70 with immunities to basically everything), mostly because it's very very difficult to take out the damn lich solo. I basically had to hit him with a heal spell to knock him down to 1d4 and then still make a hit to actually destroy him before my character's soul got sucked in by the lich, at which point there is no way out and no way to win if you are playing solo. Took me several tries to pull it off.

[The Mad Hermit]

Heh. The first time I DMd a party in the Tomb, they all crawled into the sphere of annihilation trap in the first corridor assuming it was a portal; dead, every last one.

The same thing happened to my group.

They couldn't believe it. I was even trying to give them a clue, as they stepped in one after the other, I described a whiff of ozone and a crackling sound; not enough to scare them.

Years later, we had a better time in Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Just in case someone wants to play it;Blackfire is the nastiest spell I've ever seen. Jaded adventurers were scrambling away in fear, and when one of them lit up it was comical watching them try to put it out.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

I can't even find a local group.

[Quartz]

Heh. The first time I DMd a party in the Tomb, they all crawled into the sphere of annihilation trap in the first corridor assuming it was a portal; dead, every last one.

It's a pity the SOA is right in the mouth. Better to have it down the gullet (which is coated with Oil of Slipperiness) a bit. :)

[Wakinyan]

I played about ten or fifteen adventures back in the day, but the first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Secret_of_Saltmarsh) ones will always be remembered with a certain awe.

[Pazu]

Heh. I'm a moderator over there, and we once had a HUGE stink because someone joined a game with an inappropriate character (IIRC, it was a military-heavy game based closely on a unit in imperial Rome, and someone brought in a comic, flamboyantly gay bard character). When the GM kicked the guy from the group, all hell broke loose as the player tried to sabotage the game every which way he could.

Thanks for not doing that! :D


Well, that just sounds obnoxious.

In my case, I would have really liked to use my character from our defunct tabletop game, and would have gladly retrofitted the background to go with the campaign setting...but as far as I can tell, the house rules don't permit archivists. :(

[Hal Briston]

Figures...I just now find this thread, a thread that I could post in for hours, when I leave work in four minutes, not to return until Wednesday.

Damnit.

[Johnny Angel]

I once heard of a guy who made it through the Tomb of Horrors by sending in wave after wave of his own orc minions in ahead of him.

[asterion]

I once heard of a guy who made it through the Tomb of Horrors by sending in wave after wave of his own orc minions in ahead of him.Okay, I am so naming my next character Zapp Brannigan.

[Chronos]

Only if you've got Great Cleavage.Quartz has boobies! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0102.html)

[capybara]

We had a wonderful campaign on the boards here a couple of years back. . .

Malacandra-- I'd be up for it.

[Malacandra]

How about if people who want in all PM me, and we take it from there? I have a board we can use.