Good adventure or adventure series featuring slavers as the villain

[Quickleaf]

Oh, and if slavers are too rare, anything with a group of human, demihuman or humanoid bad guys.

What about Red Hand of Doom for 3e? I hear that was a brilliant adventure with a heavy leaning toward orcish enemies.

 

[NewJeffCT]

What about Red Hand of Doom for 3e? I hear that was a brilliant adventure with a heavy leaning toward orcish enemies.

Hobgoblins, I believe, which might work.

 

[Grogg of the North]

The first chapter of the Shackled City Adventure Path, Life's Bazaar, deals heavily with slavers. I would highly recommend that.

 

[NewJeffCT]

The first chapter of the Shackled City Adventure Path, Life's Bazaar, deals heavily with slavers. I would highly recommend that.

Thanks - I'll have to look into it.

 

[Grogg of the North]

Thanks - I'll have to look into it.

If you decide to run that adventure, I'd also recommend you change the ending a bit. There's no sense in introducing certain NPCs if you're not going to run the entire adventure path. I don't want to go into too many details less I give away spoilers....

 

[NewJeffCT]

And of course there's the 2E revisit, Slavers.

That looks interesting as well - it says it's a sequel to A1-A4, though.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Kicking this back up for some more ideas now that the holidays are past

 

[grodog]

That looks interesting as well - it says it's a sequel to A1-A4, though.

It is and it isn't: if you have Slavers, you have what amounts to an updating and expansion of the materials and environs in which the original A1-A4 modules were set (in the Wild Coast and Pomarj regions of the World of Greyhawk). The A1-4 supermodule added some additional background and such, but it also upped the levels of the original modules (which were all 4-7) to be played after T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil (levels 1-8) and to lead-into the GDQ1-7 supermodule (levels 8-14). So, A1-A4 got rewritten and tweaked to fit the T1-4/A1-4/GDQ1-7 storyline, which didn't help them out much, IMO. There are some interesting bits added to combine the supermodules into an Adventure Path, but the materials in the original A1-4 modules and in Slavers are definitely truer to the spirit of the original Greyhawk campaign.

IIRC, there were also some other good adventures from Dungeon set in the Pomarj and Wild Coast, if you're considering expanding the scope of the original modules too?

 

[billd91]

Bite your tongue! My God! We had a BLAST back in the day, playing through those things. Sure, they're old school AD&D "modules", but we loved them. And, when you get done, you go right into Against the Giants. Both series of adventures are officially set in the Greyhawk world, but they're easily transplanted anywhere.

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They were definitely good modules in the way they built up a good, thorough story. And they translate well into 3e/PF too. I've run them under 3.5 rules and some elements of the rules work particularly brilliantly - A4 works really well if the casters have some casting-stat damage (easily caused by drugs used to keep them subdued) to hamper their access to spells.

My single caveat is to watch how fast PCs advance. It was my experience that 3.5 PCs level up faster than 1e ones do which has implications for leveling out of a module's intended range too quickly.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

And of course there's the 2E revisit, Slavers.

I preferred that to the original series.

What about Night Below?