They will be lucky to live through what may be multiple combat encounters (and maybe being betrayed by someone they brought from town) and encounter a few empty rooms--which are that way for a reason.
There are plenty of TSR modules--in 2e it was entire boxed sets--with surprisingly little in...
I would certainly include Tomb, FT of Tharizdun, and Tsojcanth, maybe Barrier Peaks. Probably at the expense of the non EGG ones.
As for your top one, it always seemed like it would be a challenge to run, but I assume you have done so?
So themes of sex AND violence. Plus some techno-alienation-sc fi-dystopia.
Back in the day. Way back in the day, my few copies of heavy metal magazine were treasured items. Not like my D&D stuff, but up there.
The origins stuff was good. It meandered a bit, just a bit, but very good overall.
Mearls continues to proclaim we are the very verge of some great indie RPG revival. I guess we will see.
The story as I know it is that the Blume brothers almost bankrupted the company—at its peak—and Gygax came back to Lake Geneva to save it, releasing Unearthed Arcana and other products with his name on them.
This and firing a bunch of people, some of whom would found other game companies.
The...
Some I interesting speculation up thread.
As for the results. If releasing 3 big deluxe corebooks for the most popular edition in the game’s history did not lead to a spike in revenue it would be a disaster. So they have avoided disaster.
In play we actually had the “wait, how does the grappler end the grapple?” come up. The grappler wanted to throw a pc off a ravine, which might still be an edge case, but at least it’s confirmed that the grappler can just end the grapple. So at least that is fixed.