1993 - a bumper year for adventures!

[MerricB]

I've just been going through the database at RPG Geek making lists of adventures. (I could have gone through [MENTION=9849]Echohawk[/MENTION]'s database, but I sort of consider RPG Geek to be his database now anyway - he's put so much work into it!)

I came up with the following list of adventures for 1993:

*DLT1: New Tales: The Land Reborn
Book of Lairs
*DSM3: Marauders of Nibenay
*Lankhmar: City of Adventure
*RM1: Roots of Evil
*RM2: The Created
RM3: Web of Illusion
*RM4: House of Strahd
*Dark of the Moon
*FRQ3: Doom of Daggerdale
WGR6: City of Skulls
*The Ivory Triangle
*Castles Forlorn
*FRM1: The Jungles of Chult
*DSM2: Merchant House of Amketch
*Dragon Mountain
*DSE1: Dragon's Crown
*DSM1: Black Flames
*DLC2: Dragonlance Classics Volume II
WGM1: Border Watch
*HHQ3: Thief's Challenge
*HHQ4: Cleric's Challenge
*ALQ3: A Dozen and One Adventures
*GA1: The Murky Deep
*In the Phantom's Wake
GA2: Swamplight
*GA3: Tales of Enchantment

The ones with asterisks I don't own yet. Sigh. (My adventure collection is really good for the 1980s, but trails off in the 90s, before picking up in the 2000s).

My hope is that one day I'll get around to reviewing all of these. However, the list does not fill me with hope. Are any of them any good? (excluding the reprints of classics...)

Cheers!

 

[Stormonu]

Believe me, quantity does not make up for quality. This was the era of railroad adventures, where the modules punished you for not trying to be the good guys.

 

[Hussar]

Holy crap. 27 published adventures in one year? Umm, perhaps this is why people think adventure modules don't make money? How many modules do people really need. Yikes!!

 

[Warbringer]

1984 was a little nuts

AC2: Combat Shield and Mini-adventure: "Treasure of the Hideous One"
AC3: The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina
B6: The Veiled Society
B8: Journey to the Rock
BSOLO: Ghost of Lion Castle
C3: The Lost Island of Castanamir
CM1: Test of the Warlords
CM2: Death's Ride
CM3: Sabre River
DL1: Dragons of Despair
DL2: Dragons of Flame
DL3: Dragons of Hope
DL4: Dragons of Desolation
DL5: Dragons of Mystery
MV1: Midnight on Dagger Alley
N2: The Forest Oracle
O2: Blade of Vengeance
UK3: The Gauntlet
UK4: When a Star Falls
UK5: Eye of the Serpent
UK6: All That Glitters...
WG5: Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure
X6: Quagmire!
X7: War Rafts of Kron
X8: Drums on Fire Mountain
XL1: Quest for the Heartstone
XSOLO: Lathan's Gold

 

[Echohawk]

Great list -- it looks comprehensive for AD&D, although there are three D&D adventures from 1993 not on the list: The Jade Hade (which was written and has a 1992 copyright date, but which was only sent out to customers in early 1993), The Knight of Newts (February 1993) and Rage of the Rakasta (April 1993).

The Dragonlance Book of Lairs can't decide if it is an Accessory or an Adventure -- the cover says "Official Game Adventure" but the title page says "Official Game Accessory". It's not really a complete adventure, but rather a series of lair encounters.

A Dozen and One Adventures is also hybrid collection of adventures (thirteen of them, just like it says on the box) plus some campaign setting material. It is more adventure than accessory though.

Lankhmar: City of Adventure is a campaign setting product, rather than an adventure. This product was effectively the 2nd Edition reboot of the Lankhmar setting. Likewise, The Ivory Triangle isn't an adventure. It's a campaign setting expansion, containing information on a sub-region of Athas.

 

[pemerton]

I have a couple of 2nd ed AD&D Lankhmar products, which probably include "City of Adventure". I haven't read them cover-to-cover, and that's probably a sign that nothing grabbed me on an initial skim through . . .

 

[Echohawk]

1984 was a little nuts

I think C3: The Lost Island of Castanamir and O2: Blade of Vengeance were only released in 1985, but my notes for release dates during the mid-1980s aren't 100% so I could be wrong about that. Four more adventures that did come out in 1984 can be added to that list though:

UK2: The Sentinel (February 1994)
B7: Rahasia (July 1984)
CB1: Conan: Unchained! (July 1984)
CB2: Conan: Against Darkness! (November 1984)

 

[MerricB]

Great list -- it looks comprehensive for AD&D, although there are three D&D adventures from 1993 not on the list: The Jade Hade (which was written and has a 1992 copyright date, but which was only sent out to customers in early 1993), The Knight of Newts (February 1993) and Rage of the Rakasta (April 1993).

The Dragonlance Book of Lairs can't decide if it is an Accessory or an Adventure -- the cover says "Official Game Adventure" but the title page says "Official Game Accessory". It's not really a complete adventure, but rather a series of lair encounters.

A Dozen and One Adventures is also hybrid collection of adventures (thirteen of them, just like it says on the box) plus some campaign setting material. It is more adventure than accessory though.

Lankhmar: City of Adventure is a campaign setting product, rather than an adventure. This product was effectively the 2nd Edition reboot of the Lankhmar setting. Likewise, The Ivory Triangle isn't an adventure. It's a campaign setting expansion, containing information on a sub-region of Athas.

Thanks muchly, Ant! I've got a feeling my eyes were beginning to glaze over as I made my way through the list and thus omitted those three adventures. It's somewhat telling that even after you brought them to my attention, none of them were familiar to me - we're a long way past the list of classic adventures that everyone recognises.

My quest of reviewing every D&D adventure (in sort-of chronological order) is currently stuck in 1983, which had some of my favourite adventures.

Cheers!

 

[Warbringer]

I think C3: The Lost Island of Castanamir and O2: Blade of Vengeance were only released in 1985, but my notes for release dates during the mid-1980s aren't 100% so I could be wrong about that. Four more adventures that did come out in 1984 can be added to that list though:

UK2: The Sentinel (February 1994)
B7: Rahasia (July 1984)
CB1: Conan: Unchained! (July 1984)
CB2: Conan: Against Darkness! (November 1984)

How could I forget Conan!!!!

My copy of UK2 is 1983 in the copyright, but its a UK copy... Did they release earlier in the uK? .... I don't have a copy of b7, but it was originally published in 1979, republished in 1984

C3 was 1984 according to my copy, and I don't have O2, wiki says 1984, though that again is a UK release date

 

[the Jester]

*DLT1: New Tales: The Land Reborn
Book of Lairs
*DSM3: Marauders of Nibenay
*Lankhmar: City of Adventure
*RM1: Roots of Evil
*RM2: The Created
RM3: Web of Illusion
*RM4: House of Strahd
*Dark of the Moon
*FRQ3: Doom of Daggerdale
WGR6: City of Skulls
*The Ivory Triangle
*Castles Forlorn
*FRM1: The Jungles of Chult
*DSM2: Merchant House of Amketch
*Dragon Mountain
*DSE1: Dragon's Crown
*DSM1: Black Flames
*DLC2: Dragonlance Classics Volume II
WGM1: Border Watch
*HHQ3: Thief's Challenge
*HHQ4: Cleric's Challenge
*ALQ3: A Dozen and One Adventures
*GA1: The Murky Deep
*In the Phantom's Wake
GA2: Swamplight
*GA3: Tales of Enchantment

Speaking as an adventure junkie who was well into the hobby by then- never played any of these and I've only seen a couple of them.

Pretty much every adventure that I looked at from the late 1e period until a few excellent late 2e additions was total crap.