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Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. This one has a fair amount of meat, and a lot of feelings attached, so I'm asking people to be extra sensitive and try hard not to be argumentative to no purpose.
Here's a list of the adventures for 5th Edition D&D to date. I'm going by Wizards' classification, which has some things as sourcebooks and some as adventures. If you disagree, take it up with them!
You all know the rules by now, but I'll post them here anyway just in case.
HOW TO PLAY
Three important points that you must read before voting--
Ultimately, the whole point of this thread is to have fun. Some people really want this to be a "Best In Show" contest, and they get really worked up when (not 'if') their favorites get eliminated (I am sometimes one of those people). But hopefully we have all figured out how this works by now. For the newly-initiated, remember that this is not an election, nor is it a survey or a job evaluation. Frankly, this is a celebration of the hard work @CleverNickName put into these threads.
LIST OF ADVENTURES FOR 5E D&D
(as of August 22, 2023)
Against the Cult of Chaos (D&D Encounters Season 12)
Storm over Neverwinter (D&D Encounters Season 13)
Search for the Diamond Staff (D&D Encounters Season 14)
Murder in Baldur's Gate (D&D Encounters Season 15)
Legacy of the Crystal Shard (D&D Encounters Season 16)
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (D&D Encounters Season 19)
The Rise of Tiamat
Princes of the Apocalypse (D&D Encounters Season 20)
Out of the Abyss
Curse of Strahd
Storm King's Thunder
Tomb of Annihilation
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Candlekeep Mysteries
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Keys From the Golden Vault
Light of Xaryxis (from Spelljammer: Adventures in Space)
Here's a list of the adventures for 5th Edition D&D to date. I'm going by Wizards' classification, which has some things as sourcebooks and some as adventures. If you disagree, take it up with them!
You all know the rules by now, but I'll post them here anyway just in case.
HOW TO PLAY
- Only the adventures that have been published in print by Wizards of the Coast are included. Third-party publishers, or materials that were only released electronically, are not included.
- Each entry starts with 20 points.
- Every day, you vote for one book that you like, which gains 1 point. And then you vote for a different book, which loses 2 points. It is intentional that a negative vote is worth more than a positive vote, because math.
- Mark your upvotes in green, and downvotes in red. Or just show them in bold text and use "+1" and "-2" to mark them, if colored text is too difficult on your browsing device.
- It's easier if you just copy and paste the previous poster’s vote and change the numbers; the Quote function isn't the best for this.
- You may vote only once per day. This is an honor system, and we are all honorable gamers; please do not abuse it. If this means you vote once at night one day, and once the next morning - that's fine, but don't vote again until the following day. Rule of thumb: if your most recent vote post says "yesterday" in the time stamp, you can vote again.
- This is just another Internet popularity contest and you do not have to explain an upvote or downvote, but feel free to do so...those explanations are where the fun is! And the more outlandish, petty, or nitpicky your reasons for voting, the better!
- When downvotes reach 0 the sourcebook is removed from the list.
- Finally, if an entry has one point left, then you have to make the choice to use all of your downvotes to eliminate it; there is no vote splitting. In addition, you can't upvote and downvote the same entry (no "see" votes). And you have to use BOTH YOUR UPVOTE AND DOWNVOTE if you vote.
Three important points that you must read before voting--
- This is just a popularity contest, and it's supposed to be fun. You can cast your votes for whatever reason you want; a book that you used a lot, a book you wanted to love but hated, a book that contains Elminster, whatever. But this is for enjoyment only. If you experience anger, hostility, or other evidence of Not Having Fun, you're doing it wrong.
- As always, the list is the list. If you have a complaint about the list, please direct it to //dev/null.
Because I get to do my own lists, frankly. D&D Encounters was a 4th edition program but the last 9 "seasons" were dual-statted for the D&D 5th edition playtest, and are essentially 5th edition modules. And they frequently get ignored, which is a shame because two of them are among the best 5E adventures, in my opinion. And print versions were supplied to the hobby shops for all except two (Scourge of the Sword Coast and Dead in Thay; in any case, Dead in Thay was reprinted in Tales from the Yawning Portal, so it's still sneaks in there), so they fulfill the first bullet point under HOW TO PLAY above. If you really don't like it, complain in the Companion thread.
Ultimately, the whole point of this thread is to have fun. Some people really want this to be a "Best In Show" contest, and they get really worked up when (not 'if') their favorites get eliminated (I am sometimes one of those people). But hopefully we have all figured out how this works by now. For the newly-initiated, remember that this is not an election, nor is it a survey or a job evaluation. Frankly, this is a celebration of the hard work @CleverNickName put into these threads.
LIST OF ADVENTURES FOR 5E D&D
(as of August 22, 2023)
Against the Cult of Chaos (D&D Encounters Season 12)
Storm over Neverwinter (D&D Encounters Season 13)
Search for the Diamond Staff (D&D Encounters Season 14)
Murder in Baldur's Gate (D&D Encounters Season 15)
Legacy of the Crystal Shard (D&D Encounters Season 16)
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (D&D Encounters Season 19)
The Rise of Tiamat
Princes of the Apocalypse (D&D Encounters Season 20)
Out of the Abyss
Curse of Strahd
Storm King's Thunder
Tomb of Annihilation
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Candlekeep Mysteries
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Keys From the Golden Vault
Light of Xaryxis (from Spelljammer: Adventures in Space)
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