Round Five: Here I go again... 10 more old school modules!

Forked from: Round Four: Back to the old school modules!

Round Five!

Same as my Round One, Two, and Four threads...

"What I'm looking for is to find out which of the 10 modules listed in the poll would be easiest to incorporate into a homebrewed world.

What are these modules' strengths and what are their weaknesses? How hard would they be to convert to v.3.5, based on your personal experiences?"

The ones I own: B4 The Lost City (worn out), B6 The Veiled Society, C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, C2 The Ghost Tower of Inverness, CB2 Conan: Against Darkness! (I forgot I had this one), I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City, I2 Tomb of the Lizard King, I7 Baltron's Beacon, N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God, N3 Destiny of Kings, T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil, WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins, UK6 All That Glitters..., X1 The Isle of Dread (two copies), and XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone.

The modules from the all my threads that I'm seriously considering getting based on the advice I received: B1-9 In Search of Adventure (likely), B10 Night's Dark Terror, CM1 Test of the Warlords, CM3 Sabre River (likely), G1-2-3 Against the Giants (unsure), H2 Mines of Bloodstone (likely), I3-5 Desert of Desolation, N2 The Forest Oracle (unsure), WG6 Isle of the Ape, and X8 Drums on Fire Mountain.

N2 Forest Oracle all the way.

That adventure is comedy gold and everyone should have it. You should look for the very long thread about that one.

ExploderWizard said:

N2 Forest Oracle all the way.

That adventure is comedy gold and everyone should have it. You should look for the very long thread about that one.

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Well, I don't have access to the search function. Perhaps someone could provide me a link to it.

I'd recomment B10 - Nights dark terror. It's more than a module its a very well plotted, open ended mini campaign made up of many components easily ported into their very own adventure if you felt so inclined. While the adenture has a flow to it in no way is it a railroad / dungeon crawl. Favourite moments include the siege on a farmstead by a number of bickering goblin tribes as well as the lost valley complete with lurking cthulhu beast. It is in my opinion the best module produced. B10 will cost you though. If you can get a set with the tokens for the goblin siege and the fold out map you are golden!

B10 and the UK series are well worth owning. The brits were great at producing solid beleivable fantasy plots.

This may sound like blantant grognardism, but DA2 isn't as good as the original Temple of the Frog in the original Blackmoor Supplement.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...st-tsr-adventure-module-s-ever-published.html

That is why you get Forest Oracle. It is an amazingly bad module, so spend five bucks and get it.

I'd get the Bloodstone module as they are cool. It will be tough though to aquire all 4 in the series as they are for some reason really expensive especially H1 and H4.

That is blatant! cudos to you.

I have also heard about this B10 (not on the list)...and am curious about the whole DA line, and is XL-1 the one with the cartoon/action figures?..but some of those others I am pretty sure you don't want. Except maybe to laugh at, cry over.

Crothian said:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...st-tsr-adventure-module-s-ever-published.html

That is why you get Forest Oracle. It is an amazingly bad module, so spend five bucks and get it.

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Thanks for the link... and yikes... that's bad!

Crothian said:

I'd get the Bloodstone module as they are cool. It will be tough though to aquire all 4 in the series as they are for some reason really expensive especially H1 and H4.

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I'm aware of how rare they are. I'm mainly interested in the one in the poll, however.

TerraDave said:

That is blatant! cudos to you.

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Thanks.

I wasn't trying to be blatant, however. I don't know very much about the old school modules other than the ones I've read about that are infamous or classic. That's why I have created four seperate polls regarding this subject. (The third one was about the GG DCCs.)

Some of the classic ones are obvious must have's, even to me.. Isle of Dread, The Lost City, Tomb of Horrors, etc. However, I've never delved into collecting some of the other classic modules before now.

Now... now I'm itching to read some of the best of them for the first time ever. I've already started to collect some of them, which are listed in my original post.

TerraDave said:

I have also heard about this B10 (not on the list)...and am curious about the whole DA line, and is XL-1 the one with the cartoon/action figures?..but some of those others I am pretty sure you don't want. Except maybe to laugh at, cry over.

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B10 was in my last poll. It's one of the modules I'm definitely going to look for. The DA modules interest me from a completionist point-of-view. After all, WotC did a revised v.3.5/d20 modern version of Temple of the Frog and posted it on their web site. I put XL-1 on the list because of its connection to the the D&D cartoon. Someone pointed out it had stats for Warduke.

More votes and opinions, please and thank you!