Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Check this out, the first two intro adventures for old time D&D updated to 5E:
Sunless Citadel in Tales from the Yawning Portal was the intro for 3E.
Lost Mines of Phandelver, however, is the best starting module ever.
D&D General Starter set campaigns from older editions?
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Check this out, the first two intro adventures for old time D&D updated to 5E:
Sunless Citadel in Tales from the Yawning Portal was the intro for 3E.
Lost Mines of Phandelver, however, is the best starting module ever.
JeffB
Legend
Advenures from starter sets-
4E- Reavers of Harkenwold in the DM Kit is fantastic and will give you a lot of bang for the buck. The other starter set from 2008 or so- not worth your time.
3E-I've got the 3.0 and 3.5 (lack dragon)sets. Neither are all that great if you have experienced players,but are very good for newbie players.
2E- The Intro to AD&D (also the Big black box, the first quest and the big yellow box have the same thing) has 3 decent adventures. The Silver Anniversary starter set is not bad either.
1E, no such thing, but T1 (by itself), L1, U1 N1 are great low level starters (And L1 is a real sandbox)
For 3E- I'd look at D20 products outside WOTC-
The Coin Trilogy (Kingdoms of Kalamar) is a great starter campaign and it's official!
Of Sound Mind, by our very own PirateCat.
The Crucible of Freya by Necromancer.
I know The Sunless Citadel gets a lot of love, but it always plays out the same IME, which IMO, makes for a boring/mediocre adventure.
Goodman Games best D20 stuff were 4E modules- Mists of Madness, Isle of the Sea Drake, The Forgotten Portal, etc.
Of course B1-6 are classics for a reason. As are X1-X5.
4E- Reavers of Harkenwold in the DM Kit is fantastic and will give you a lot of bang for the buck. The other starter set from 2008 or so- not worth your time.
3E-I've got the 3.0 and 3.5 (lack dragon)sets. Neither are all that great if you have experienced players,but are very good for newbie players.
2E- The Intro to AD&D (also the Big black box, the first quest and the big yellow box have the same thing) has 3 decent adventures. The Silver Anniversary starter set is not bad either.
1E, no such thing, but T1 (by itself), L1, U1 N1 are great low level starters (And L1 is a real sandbox)
For 3E- I'd look at D20 products outside WOTC-
The Coin Trilogy (Kingdoms of Kalamar) is a great starter campaign and it's official!
Of Sound Mind, by our very own PirateCat.
The Crucible of Freya by Necromancer.
I know The Sunless Citadel gets a lot of love, but it always plays out the same IME, which IMO, makes for a boring/mediocre adventure.
Goodman Games best D20 stuff were 4E modules- Mists of Madness, Isle of the Sea Drake, The Forgotten Portal, etc.
Of course B1-6 are classics for a reason. As are X1-X5.
JeffB
Legend
Totally forgot. Well worth your $-I would dive into Troll Lord Games' - Aufstrag campaign- The A series modules. A0-A5 is like LMoP on steroids. I've run them in C&C, but they have 5E versions now too.
Edit- Actually A0 & A1 are probably more adventure material than LmOP is. But it's worth picking up the first 3 or-5 anyway. A big sandbox area, that also has a central campaign plot/theme if you want to run it that way,
Edit- Actually A0 & A1 are probably more adventure material than LmOP is. But it's worth picking up the first 3 or-5 anyway. A big sandbox area, that also has a central campaign plot/theme if you want to run it that way,
NineLizards
Explorer
Actually, I own pretty much every starter set since 2e, en I have to say the (regular) 5e starter set just might be the best... (Though I like the box of the 4e starter set.)
Anyone remember what the 3.5 box set was? It was a dungeon crawl - and only a one-shot. Ended with slaying a blue dragon. The adventure was printed in a little paperback book and came with a PHB, one set of dice, and some figurines.
It wasn't Sunless Citadel, honestly it might not even have a name. That was the first DnD thing I ever bought. My buddy and I got it our first year of high school.
It wasn't Sunless Citadel, honestly it might not even have a name. That was the first DnD thing I ever bought. My buddy and I got it our first year of high school.
NineLizards
Explorer
I didn't even ever see a 3.5 starter set in real life, our here in the boondocks... But a quick Google shows that there were actually two versions, one with and one without character creation rules.
Still, can't help it: IMHO the 5e starter set had been the best of all. Only took 20+ years to finally get it right
@darj, what paperback?
Still, can't help it: IMHO the 5e starter set had been the best of all. Only took 20+ years to finally get it right
@darj, what paperback?
The B-series adventures in B/X & BECMI were designed for novice GMs. The ones actually packed with the Basic rules were B1 In Search of the Unknown and B2 Keep on the Borderlands.
I think 5e has done vastly better on Starter Sets than previous editions, Moldvay Basic excepted. The 3e (and 4e?) stuff was pretty throwaway & unsatisfying.
I think 5e has done vastly better on Starter Sets than previous editions, Moldvay Basic excepted. The 3e (and 4e?) stuff was pretty throwaway & unsatisfying.
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