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Played in Ravenloft (sort of, we never made it to the Castle; I don't think we even got out of the first village), ran R1 and R2, which make up half of I12. None of the others (though I'd like to run I1 someday -- I appreciate its quality much more now than I did as a kid).

I'm honestly surprised that apparently lots of folks have been running campaigns that aren't based on the points-of-light model. Even in campaign-settings where there are large settled regions of benign civilization, I've always assumed that actual game-activity would be occuring almost entirely...

I always hated B3 -- it's probably the first module I bought that I didn't like and never had any desire to run -- but I just, after having it stored on my hard-drive for ages, decided to pay attention to the original (banned gold-cover) version, and like it much better. It's got a much darker...

I didn't buy X10 back in the day because I was turned off by several factors: 1) I didn't like the blatantly misplaced/recycled cover art (guys fighting draconians), 2) I didn't like the apparent emphasis on mass-combat Battlesystem/War Machine (this is the same reason I never bought H1 for...

The reference in the PH to monks attacking as thieves was errata'd (and, IIRC, corrected in later printings). In the DMG (and the corrected PH) monks attack as clerics.

Inspired by this thread I pulled out X4 and X5 over the weekend and started re-reading them. There's some railroady bits I'd probably modify if I were to run these nowadays and I think the scale of the maps is probably too large (at 24 miles/hex both modules cover areas as big as the entire...

When reading a module I keep a mental (and sometimes physical) list of things I'd want to change if I were going to run it, and if the list gets too long I won't run the module. Ideally I'd like to run modules 100% as-written, but I often end up changing a few minor things.

Presumably most people started out with the Basic Set and played a few of its modules, played X1 because it came with the Expert Set, and then moved on to AD&D. That a lot of the X series modules are of pretty dubious quality compared to both the B series and the AD&D modules of the same level...

Played a few of the CM series and owned a couple more (CM1 is a minor classic, CM5 is total garbage (a "magic viewer" solo module), don't remember much about CM3, except that we played it...). Owned a couple of the M series but never played any of them. Neither played nor owned any of the IM...

Because those are the 2 B-series modules with hot chicks on their covers? ;) More seriously, Rahasia presumably drew extra readers/players because it was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman (who also brought us the popular Desert of Desolation series, Ravenloft, and the bulk (and best parts) of...

While I own and have read most of them, the only ones I ever actually played or ran were B1, B2, B5 (all of which are good), and B8 (which sucks).

Yeah, the C-1 map is the M-1 map (The Continental Map, Scale: 1 Hex = 24 Miles)

Yup. M1: Blizzard Pass and M2: Maze of the Riddling Minotaur were the two "invisible ink" solo modules released in 1983. When the Master Set was released in 1985 TSR re-used those codes for new modules intended for use with the Master set. The Acaeum has redesignated the two invisible ink...

Well yeah, of course that's always the answer ("do what you think is best for your game"), but since 1) he was asking, 2) 3 of the 4 versions actually have an answer in the rules, and 3) that answer is different for each of those versions, I thought it worth mentioning...

In the original Keep on the Borderlands the map of the keep and the wilderness map were on a perforated-for-easy-removal sheet in the middle of the module (along with a sheet of collected charts & tables from the Basic Rulebook). Sounds like your copy is probably missing those sheets...

Depends on what version you're talking about. In actual OD&D (1974) it's unspecified but my tendency is to give the magic-user access to all the spells in the book. In Holmes (1977-78) the magic-user roll "chance to know" based on his Int score to determine which spells he knows (this also...

I never played in or ran either "Dungeonland/Magic Mirror" or "Dwellers in the Forbidden City" back in the day (I had both of them, but in the former case I was turned off by the "comedy" aspect; not sure what turned me off the latter but something must have) but upon re-reading both fairly...

The original Tegel Manor (released in 1977 for OD&D) is all about the map. The mansion has somewhere around 200 rooms and the map is really fantastic -- tons of secret passages and teleporters, and tons of symbols and notes right on the map indicating statues (magical and mundane), traps...

Started playing in 1984 with the Mentzer red box. Bought (and played) a stand-alone copy of Keep on the Borderlands.

The D&D Expert Set (1983 version) spends, what, 3 pages (including map) describing the town of Threshold? I can't imagine anyone finding that objectionable, and I imagine a lot of people (not just rank newbies) would find it useful -- if nothing more than as a concrete illustration of the...