2e Boxed Sets (Forked Thread: When did I stop being WotC's target audience?)

[Scribble]

Ok first, thanks DaveMage for posting the ones you have... Now all I have to do is cut/paste then cut out the ones I don't have. Much easier for me.

Core
Deck of Wizard Spells
Deck of Psionic Powers (This was cool, but I only used it a few times as I got it at about the same time I ended up switching to 3e.)
Castles (3-D buildings) (Never got around to putting them together.)


Al-Qadim
Land of Fate
Assassin Mountain
Secrets of the Lamp
Ruined Kingdoms

I really liked all of these... but then again I really liked Al-Qadim... My group didn't though, so I never got to run it much.





Forgotten Realms
The Ruins of Undermountain (I didn't use undermountain that much... it was neat, but always seemed to require too much work for me.)
City of Splendors (I still pull this out occasionally.)
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
The Ruins of Myth Drannor (Was ok... Not sure it really needed a boxed set, rather than and big adventure...)



Planescape
Campaign Box Set
(This boxed set, and all my planescape stuff went away when the car it was in got stolen. Boo)

 

[Voadam]

Ok, here we go - I'll try to list all 2E box sets:

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Dragonlance
Tales of the Lance
Dwarven Kingdoms of Krynn

Time of the Dragon: The other continent of Taladas where the minotaurs rule.

 

[DaveMage]

Time of the Dragon: The other continent of Taladas where the minotaurs rule.

Yep - I just got out the box and saw that it was for 2E as well (for some reason I was thinking it was for 1E).

To complete the post above:

Mystara
Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure
Glantri: Kingdom of Magic
Mark of Amber
Night of the Vampire
Hail the Heroes

Red Steel
Campaign Setting
Savage Baronies

 

[DaveMage]

You also need to opine on which are cool.

They're all cool in their own way....

 

[Remathilis]

I enjoyed Requiem the Grim Harvest alot. I had some decent rules for undead PCs, at the time revolutionary. I also loved Masque of the Red Death, but never got to use it.

 

[justanobody]

I don't even want to try to count since some boxes have not survived and thing got put into folder and such.

One of the best thing was outside of the core books, they have a whole game in the box, with pretty much everything you needed down to visuals for tabletop play.

Of course not sitting around a table but in chairs and couches meant I was doing a lot of crawling around on the floor moving thngs and such on maps as the DM.

The maps were really great because you usually had no other way of showing what the world itself looked like of the region you were in.

Also the handouts included with boxed sets gave the players the feel they were doing more as the character than just rolling dice. They could see somethiing that they would expect to see in the setting.

Mystara boxed sets weren't that bad including audio CDs that had wonderful mood music or other sound bytes to help draw emotion to the game where a certain thought just didn't come out with only words.

Such as the music found in most horror movies such as Friday the 13th style, and replacing it with "Baby Elephant Waltz" drastically alters the mood and perception of what is going on in the game.

 

[der_kluge]

I was kind of underwhelmed by the Al-Qadim boxed sets. Lands of Fate was good, and the original core book was good. The rest were meh, IMHO. I sold most of them on eBay a few years ago.

 

[Arnwyn]

So, what boxed sets do you have in your collection? What's cool (or not) about them?

Gack! You want me to list all my boxed sets? Hmmm, lemme make an attempt...

3e:
- DCC #51 Castle Whiterock
- Rappan Athuk Reloaded
- City of Brass

2e:
- A Light in the Belfry
- Dragon Mountain
- Night Below
- Return to the Tomb of Horrors
- Rod of 7 Parts
- Ruins of Undermountain
- Ruins of Undermountain II
- Planescape CS
- Planes of Law
- Planes of Chaos
- Planes of Conflict
- Hellbound
- Players' Primer to the Outlands
- City of Greyhawk
- Castles
- Dwarven Kingdoms of Krynn
- Land of Fate (AQ CS)
- Huzuz, City of Delights
- all the AQ mini-boxes: (ALQ1 Golden Voyages, ALQ2 Assassin Mountain, ALQ3 A Dozen and One Adventures, ALQ4 Secrets of the Lamp, Ruined Kingdoms, Corsairs of the Great Sea, Caravans, Cities of Bone)
- Spelljammer CS
- SJ War Captain's Companion
- Legend of Spelljammer
- SJ Astromundi Cluster
- FR CS 1e
- FR CS 2e
- City of Splendors
- City System
- Elminster's Ecologies
- Empires of the Shining Sea
- Horde
- Lands of Intrigue
- Maztica
- Menzoberranzan
- Netheril
- The North
- Ruins of Myth Drannor
- Spellbound
- Ruins of Zhentil Keep

All of these are still in use today (and converted to 3e when needed... which is most of them).

Too many to comment on what's cool about them, other than that they're boxed sets. Probably the inclusion of poster maps is one of the best things about 'em. These are used heavily in all my campaigns to this very day. The multiple books is also a good thing, IMO, if they're done well, since they focus the information and makes them easier to use at the table. Cardsheets and other gew-gaws (cf. the SJ box set) are also awesome.

 

[DaveMage]

Gah!!!
I forgot all the Dark Sun adventures were also box sets!

Dark Sun Adventures
Freedom
Forest Maker
Black Spine
Dragon's Crown
Asticlian Gambit
Black Flames
Merchant House of Amketch
Arcane Shaows
Road to Urik
Marauders of Nibenay

 

[Keefe the Thief]

I love them all, especially Hellbound: The Blood War. Just one negative: When i look at them, look at all the stupp they contain, i can in no way imagine that anybody could make those and make money.