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Best D&D Adventures

What are your top 5 published D&D adventures? By D&D I mean any edition - OD&D, BECMI, 1e->4e - and I would also include Castles & Crusades, HackMaster and Pathfinder.

EDIT: Added HackMaster.

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Return to the Tomb of Horrors
The Gates of Firestorm Peak
The Red Hand of Doom
Ravenloft (I6)
The Secret of Bone Hill


...in no partidular order. I might revise that list later; we'll see.

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Ravenloft I6 (I'm sorry, but this got robbed when TSR/WOTC did its top 25 adventures of all time)
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Temple of Elemental Evil
Lost City
Night's Dark Terror
Ghost Tower of Inverness
Blade of Vengeance
Tomb of Horrors
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Four really stick out in my mind
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  • The Champion's Belt - Age of Worms
  • Dark Sun Box Set (there is a module in it, but the whole setting is just gold)
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Of Sound Mind: Piratecat wrote this and I'm still waiting for the sequal!! I've ran two D&D campaigns since the module was written and I have used it in both campaigns, the only module written for 3ed that I've done that with. It is creative and fun and a little bit off which realyl helps it.

Tomb of Horrors: I know it is a meat grinder and has huge problems with the new school way of gaming. But it is one of the few modules I try to run for each new group because I think it is important for people to know what gaming used to be like.

Sinister Secret of Salt Marsh: This is a very good little mystery and investigation. It doesn't feel like a typical dungeon crawl and it isn't.

White Plume Mountain: I like the odd rooms and the wierdness of the module. The weapons are classic and I run this one a lot.

The Dragonfiend Pact: Of all the DCC's this is my favorite. It has a lot of neat encounters and creative uses of a dungeon for a first level party.
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Wow, I have a hard time coming up with 5 adventures I REALLY liked. I dislike most of the 'classic' D&D adventures and I mostly dislike the traditional dungeon-crawl adventures.

I guess, Red Hand of Doom is among the top five.
Forge of Fury was pretty good despite being just an extended dungeon crawl.
Standing Stone was mostly good but required lots of customization.

I vaguely remember several pretty good mystery-type adventures from DSA and at least one from Midgard: 'Smaskrifter' comes to my mind.

All of the really outstanding adventures I remember have been written by one of my friends or myself. I guess, I shouldn't be surprised about this, but I never really thought about this before...
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The Banewarrens (Malhavoc)
The Night of Dissolution (Malhavoc)
The Whispering Cairn (Paizo-Dungeon mag)
The Styes (Paizo-Dungeon mag)
Burnt Offerings (Paizo-Pathfinder 1).

I surprise myself by not listing anything by WotC in my top 5. Speaker in Dreams was quite a fun adventure, but not quite as good as any of the above.
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