What is the Greatest Dungeon Crawl Ever Published?

[Stormonu]

Another vote for Ravenloft, if it counts.

Beyond that, my choice would be Labyrinth of Madness. It is as diabolical as S1, with a more encounters for the kick-ass inclined (which includes me).

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Caverns of Thracia. (snip)

This is my number one choice also.

Tied for second place are a couple of Bruce Cordell's from 2E: Gates of Firestorm Peak and The Shattered Circle.

 

[saskganesh]

Dark Tower for me. We ran an epic campaign in that one.

 

[Ell-Egypto]

As a DM: Crypt of the Devil Lich
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As Player: White-Plume Mountain

 

[Libramarian]

Best NPC interaction: Dwellers of the Forbidden City, and the Lower Caves of the Darkness Beneath from Fight On! magazine #6.

Best atmosphere: the Undercity of Khosura from Fight On #10.

Best traps and tricks: White Plume Mountain, with honorable mention to Blocks of Quox from Fight On #6.

 

[messy]

mordenkainen's fantastic adventure/maure castle/additional levels of maure castle released in future dungeon magazines.

 

[jonesy]

Definitely not Tomb of Horrors. The rooms only make sense in a self-contained way, and there are instances where the DM has to think for himself how different situations play out, because the whole thing is designed in a stream of consciousness kind of manner. It's a very challenging dungeon and that's as far as it gets.

I'd nominate The Temple of Elemental Evil. It's great design from beginning to end with many different ways for players to approach the tasks.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Definitely not Tomb of Horrors. The rooms only make sense in a self-contained way, and there are instances where the DM has to think for himself how different situations play out, because the whole thing is designed in a stream of consciousness kind of manner. It's a very challenging dungeon and that's as far as it gets.

Yeah, I think ToH is really its own category -- the "Killer Dungeon". It's certainly at the top of that one.

 

[grodog]

mordenkainen's fantastic adventure/maure castle/additional levels of maure castle released in future dungeon magazines.

Definitely, although S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth is also fabulous!