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I think it's a good idea to wait until the posts on each adventure's thread die down. Seems like we might get more interesting responses that way. Quasqueton seems to have put a whole bunch of them out there at once, and some never got noticed.

Pardon my density and overall laziness, but it says the Shadowdale adventure is part two in a trilogy. What was part one? City of the Spider Queen was the only 3/3.5e big adventure for FR that I can recall.

This issue was from just before I started subscribing (at #34), but I was able to acquire most of the issues between #20 and #33 from a friend. I don't recall using any of this particular issue, but I did like reading Steve Kurtz and Willie Walsh joints. Kurtz always had very intricate and...

The top-thirty list from Dungeon #116 is a good guide- included amongst the old chestnuts are products like City of Skulls (1993, Greyhawk), Dead Gods (1997, Planescape), and The Gates of Firestorm Peak (1996, generic) in addition to the updated Tomb of Horrors and Temple of Elemental Evil...

I figured it was some sort of inside joke by Diaglo. Either that or his real name is Carl Smith. But, yeah, AC1 had over a hundred pregen characters, thumbnail backgrounds, sketches, etc. Plus the foldout inn map was nice for the time. It was a clear improvement on similar products that...

'Tis a spot where I should have used the unimpeachable "many". The novels may not have held up terribly well over time, but I liked 'em just fine when I was in junior high. They were, at least, original. I am guessing that the dog's breakfast of authors used to write them may have disrupted...

Can you link the discussions you attempted? Perhaps they might yet live.

I wonder what sparked that, after there being very little fitting that description between 1988 and 1996 or so?

Surely you jest! I had AC1, and it was actually pretty useful. Compared to something like this, at least, which was just a bunch of lists of numbers and was in like two colors.

Whoa. I think this one was after my time, given the telltale black border in the cover shot. But it sounds interesting, especially given the highly variable quality of what was likely sitting next to it on the shelf at the time. Interesting that it was released as setting-neutral, rather than...

For me, I always felt like I was someone who was far better at interpreting someone else's material rather than create my own. I know that sounds sort of ridiculous given the choice of hobby, but I guess I felt like I trusted these professional writers to come up with more creative stuff than I...

The TSR Archive should provide a good bout of memory-jogging. All I've ever heard about the Avatar Trilogy adventures is criticism. Like most FR players, I loved the novels and never bought or played the modules. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who thought they were good. I also...

I could also talk a little about Undermountain as well. I spent twenty bucks on that boxed set, and therefore my players were gonna use it. Shortly after its acquisition the Dalelands party felt suddenly compelled to head for Waterdeep and the big city. And they were gonna like it. :)

I had always wanted to run the module versions of SSI's Gold Box adventures- Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds- back in the day because I was running a Forgotten Realms Dalelands campaign and most of my players owned the software versions. But after flipping through PDF files of the...

The other thing that jumped out at me when I was learning 3.5 fairly recently after being away from D&D and tabletop RPGs (for almost a decade) since the 2e times was how much more focused on combat everything is. For me, the actual mechanics of combat are probably one of the least interesting...

Perhaps it was just my players in the primary multi-year campaign I DMed (I'm just a player at the moment, although I'm hoping that might change here eventually when my current group wraps up its existing campaign), but they were not exactly the most skilled players of all time. I usually had...

Well, rock music that's almost twenty years old (such as Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction) is considered "classic rock", is it not? 1989 is almost twenty years ago. It isn't that much of a stretch. I'm not exactly a kid anymore (turning thirty shortly), and my D&D experience began at a...

Well, right. But I'm thinking of the 1985-1995 period (or even the 1996-2000 period)- there had to be some good ones then, too? Even ones in the "Dragonlance style"? I quoted the Goodman Games tagline because it seems to be the ethos that rules what the conventional wisdom is on this board...

I understand that the term "railroad" is considered a criticism these days, but surely a railroad module can be well-written enough to be enjoyable. That's not necessarily a defense of anything in particular. Bad/boring is bad/boring no matter the style. I had just learned that term upon...

I wonder if "Michael Malone" and "Harry Nuckols" (author of B9) were pseudonyms, much like "Richard Awlinson" as the author of some of the Forgotten Realms Avatar novels. I don't recall ever seeing either name again on a TSR product, and I can't help but wonder if some of these later...