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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8638442" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It definitely didn't at the time, and only looks worse now.</p><p></p><p>Even back then, as you point out, it was basically "30-something dude's most nostalgic adventures from when he was a teenager and before he got bald and overweight", with a couple of random concessions to slightly more modern stuff like Dead Gods. I remember sneering at it pretty violently, as a mere 26-y/o stripling.</p><p></p><p>I mean, it's easy to say:</p><p></p><p>1) It totally unnecessarily favours TSR (not even WotC!) over 3PPs - this made a little more sense back in 2004 to be fair.</p><p></p><p>2) It largely (entirely?) ignores Dungeon magazine.</p><p></p><p>3) It's a gigantic nostalgia-fest with tons of deeply mediocre or even actively-bad adventures included solely because they're from when whoever wrote it actually used to play D&D.</p><p></p><p>Also I'd say even trying to list 30 is just begging to trouble. It's hard to properly curate a list that long, because for starters, it's unlikely anyone has played all of them (unlike a list of say, 30 classic movies or albums), let alone run all of them, so there's going to be limited peer-review. If you made a list of 10 or so, and and explained what they exemplified, and why they were included in some detail, that would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value. It would also less prone to include stuff which is pretty much just there for nostalgia's sake, because you'd have to actually justify it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8638442, member: 18"] It definitely didn't at the time, and only looks worse now. Even back then, as you point out, it was basically "30-something dude's most nostalgic adventures from when he was a teenager and before he got bald and overweight", with a couple of random concessions to slightly more modern stuff like Dead Gods. I remember sneering at it pretty violently, as a mere 26-y/o stripling. I mean, it's easy to say: 1) It totally unnecessarily favours TSR (not even WotC!) over 3PPs - this made a little more sense back in 2004 to be fair. 2) It largely (entirely?) ignores Dungeon magazine. 3) It's a gigantic nostalgia-fest with tons of deeply mediocre or even actively-bad adventures included solely because they're from when whoever wrote it actually used to play D&D. Also I'd say even trying to list 30 is just begging to trouble. It's hard to properly curate a list that long, because for starters, it's unlikely anyone has played all of them (unlike a list of say, 30 classic movies or albums), let alone run all of them, so there's going to be limited peer-review. If you made a list of 10 or so, and and explained what they exemplified, and why they were included in some detail, that would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value. It would also less prone to include stuff which is pretty much just there for nostalgia's sake, because you'd have to actually justify it. [/QUOTE]
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