D&D General Best Naga, Yuan-Ti, Serpent People modules?

[overgeeked]

I’m on a Sword & Sorcery, Conan, and Set kick lately and hoping the hivemind can help me find the best modules from any edition of D&D, OSR, Pathfinder, whatever, that features Naga, Yuan-Ti, and/or other kinds of serpent people.

I need snakes, people.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

There is a Pathfinder adventure path that heavily features them, but I haven't heard great things about them.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

The original Freeport Trilogy is a classic snakemen adventure, and highly regarded.

I've heard good things about Fortress of the Yuan-Ti (3.5).

I enjoyed The Tyrant's Oath from Dungeon 178 (4e).

 

[DEFCON 1]

Dwellers of the Forbidden City is like the original yuan-ti adventure from 1E. It also got kind of updated for the Lost City of Omu section of 5E's Tomb of Annihilation (which is also filled with snake people.)

 

[aco175]

There is a series on DMsGuild about Phandalin post LMoP that has yuan-ti as a threat for lower level PCs. You could mine that for some locations and stats.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I have not played these myself, but check out Petersen Games' Yig Snake Grandaddy. They look really fun, and very professionally made.

In Yig Snake Granddaddy, the new Cthulhu Mythos for 5e campaign, evil serpent folk seek to bring back prehistoric times, complete with pterodactyls, dinosaurs, and other monstrous beings.

Yig Snake Granddaddy Acts 1-4 | Petersen Games

petersengames.com

 

[steeldragons]

Dwellers of the Forbidden City is the only Yuan-Ti module I know about (1e AD&D).

For Naga, Against the Cult of the Reptile God (also 1e) is the best fo'shizzle. Trog's will serve as the bulk of your opposition (easily enough replaced with Yuan-ti or other ophidian-humanoid species, if you want) and one Naga as the root of the problem/situation. Plus, the bonus of it being a total "beginners" module, levels 1-3. I've begun many a campaign using 'Cult.'

If you are just looking for campaign/adventure ideas...the whole Saltmarsh series could be revamped with Yuan-ti or naga to replace the Lizardmen...or the Sahuagin threat. Make the Lizardmen "Good" following/led/honoring a good naga "goddess"... Make the Lung dragon in the lizardmen's swamp an evil naga? Anywho, lots of reptilean stuff in that series that could be reworked into "snakey-men-stuff" instead of "lizard."

 

[el-remmen]

I second Against the Cult of the Reptile God, which I am running currently and introduced a drug cult aspect with people being made more susceptible to the naga's charm by eating psychedelic mushrooms grown in troglodyte dung.

 

[Weiley31]

I have not played these myself, but check out Petersen Games' Yig Snake Grandaddy. They look really fun, and very professionally made.

In Yig Snake Granddaddy, the new Cthulhu Mythos for 5e campaign, evil serpent folk seek to bring back prehistoric times, complete with pterodactyls, dinosaurs, and other monstrous beings.

Yig Snake Granddaddy Acts 1-4 | Petersen Games

petersengames.com

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[el-remmen]

If you are just looking for campaign/adventure ideas...the whole Saltmarsh series could be revamped with Yuan-ti or naga to replace the Lizardmen...or the Sahuagin threat. Make the Lizardmen "Good" following/led/honoring a good naga "goddess"... Make the Lung dragon in the lizardmen's swamp an evil naga? Anywho, lots of reptilean stuff in that series that could be reworked into "snakey-men-stuff" instead of "lizard."

I am running N1 (mentioned above) as part of Ghosts of Saltmarsh - I stuck it where Salvage Operation and Isle of Abbey go. . .giving the PCs a choice. They did Salvage Operation, but then refused the offer to handle the isle to go check on the news of a friend in "Orlane" (I use a different name for the town), thus getting embroiled in the reptile cult (who are also trying to recruit the lizardfolk from U2 which the PCs are now friends of).