Best old-school dungeon crawl for 5e?

Guest 6801328 · May 22, 2019

Thanks for all the answers. I was leaning toward Forge of Fury from Yawning Portal. Keep on the Borderland conversion is intriguing...I'll have to research that.

MNblockhead · May 22, 2019

Rappan Athuk. For any level.

I'm running a campaign using the newly released 5e version. Massive book.

Just start them at the Mouth of Doom.

Paul Farquhar · May 22, 2019

TftYP is a good bet. However, Sunless Citadel, Forge of Fury and Dead in Thay aren't really old old school.

And Against the Giants is as boring today as it always was.

Matrix Sorcica · May 22, 2019

Toledo said:
I've been told by the veterans at my table that Rapanathik is an extremely old school dungeon.

You mean Rappan Athuk?

Guest 6801328 · May 22, 2019

Paul Farquhar said:
However, Sunless Citadel, Forge of Fury and Dead in Thay aren't really old old school.

Yeah, I'll agree with that part. But...closer.

And Against the Giants is as boring today as it always was.

Spoken like a true grognard who can't remember what it's like to be new to the game. I'd have to put my first foray into the Steading as one of my top 5 all-time most exciting D&D games.

Then again, I was in junior high.

As are the players this is going to be for.

I'm thinking of using Against the Giants largely because some large, high-resolution maps are available and it would be fun to spread that across the table in full color.

Raunalyn · May 22, 2019

I can say that my group went through Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury as the first part of Storm King's Thunder (I was underwhelmed at the opening chapter in the book) and had a fantastic time. Got them up to 5th level quite nicely.

Toledo · May 22, 2019

Yes - I don't have the book and was just going phonetically without looking it up.

DND_Reborn · May 23, 2019

Another vote for KotBL! We played it and it was pretty good (I played it in 1E/2E a long time ago, but no one else in our group knew it).

I've also been a fan of the Against the Giants modules, and Tales from the Yawning Portal is a good write-up of it.

DND_Reborn · May 23, 2019

Elfcrusher said:
Thanks for all the answers. I was leaning toward Forge of Fury from Yawning Portal. Keep on the Borderland conversion is intriguing...I'll have to research that.

If you are interested in KotBL, I can sell you our copy now that we're done with it. I'll give you a good price!

77IM · May 23, 2019

Brotton Goodfellow said:
Keep on the Borderland 5e conversion from Goodman Games. Quintessential D&D door kicking action.

What? Am I remembering something wrong? I've visited the Caves of Chaos a few times, and the impression that I got was that if you simply kicked the door down, you would aggro the entire place (well, one humanoid tribe, at least) and get cut to ribbons.

Remember, "Bree-yark" is goblin for "TPK."