D&D General The most played D&D Adventure of all time

[GuyBoy]

I’d go for either Keep on the Borderlands or Phandelver, maybe with Steading of the Hill Giant Chief in third place?

 

[Lidgar]

When you think of the explosion of VTT gaming during the pandemic, I wouldn't be surprised if LMoP overtook B2 at some point. I've played and DM'ed both (multiple times). Love them, warts and all.

EDIT: LMoP was also free for a long while on many VTT platforms during the pandemic.

 

[delericho]

I'd tend to agree LMoP is probably #1 by now, with B2 dropping to second. Third is an interesting one, though - there are quite a few that I could think of that might fit that bill.

Of course, there's no way of knowing anyway. But it's fun to speculate.

 

[ezo]

I doubt LMoP has over taken B2, or even come close, really.

You have to remember, B2 has been around since 1979, and been played by people gaming since then, who don't game any more and have never even heard of LMoP (which has not even been around 10 years yet).

45 years of fans playing B2 versus 10 years for LMoP? I know D&D is more "mainstream" and such now, but evenso I'd bet B2 is still at least double LMoP, if not more.

I have no doubt LMoP is up there, most definitely in the top 5 of all time; give it another 5-10 years and it probably will overtake B2, especially if they rehash it in further editions/versions of the game.

 

[Quickleaf]

I have no idea, but all of these sound like reasonable guesses.

For some hard numbers, Teos Abadía shared some data from BookScan, and from that found the top-selling 5e adventures were CoS, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Hoard of the Dragon Queen, Yawning Portal, and Saltmarsh. But there's a pretty significant gap between #2 Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and #1 Curse of Strahd.

At least from this part of the article, Lost Mines of Phandelver (Starter Set) was not included in the data.

 

[MGibster]

As much as I'd like it to be Ravenloft, I'm going to have to guess Keep on the Borderlands. It was even one of the first adventures I ran for 5th edition. I don't think I've ever played Lost Mines though.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Keep on the Borderlands, without a doubt.

Mainly because it has been around SO long, but also because people have run it in every edition, adapting it as necessary to the current edition. It is why Goodman Games made it the first 5E revival version.

I've run it in Basic, AD&D, 2E, 3E, and 5E. Just about every new game with new players get to go through it.

We've been playing 30+ years and never run, but we haven't run lost mins either!

 

[mamba]

Keep on the Borderlands, without a doubt.

Mainly because it has been around SO long, but also because people have run it in every edition, adapting it as necessary to the current edition.

not sure, 5e has more players than the other editions combined… I lean towards LMoP

 

[mamba]

For some hard numbers, Teos Abadía shared some data from BookScan, and from that found the top-selling 5e adventures were CoS, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Hoard of the Dragon Queen, Yawning Portal, and Saltmarsh. But there's a pretty significant gap between #2 Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and #1 Curse of Strahd.

At least from this part of the article, Lost Mines of Phandelver (Starter Set) was not included in the data.

another part of the series has it however, with PHB at 1.5M, Starter Set at 1M, DMG and MM at around 800k

For comparison, CoS was at 150k as the best selling adventure

 

[aco175]

I tend to think Lost Mines as well. Wondering if Sunless Citadel got played as much as Keep on the Borderlands for people starting with 3e.