Adventure long forgotten

[anorath]

Greetins all,

I'm new here with hopes that I can find a bit of help from everyone.

For nostalgic reasons I'm attempting to track down a module from the early to mid-90's of ADnD 2nd Edition which I cannot for the life of me remember the name to.

It was a low-level mod, 1st-level, and was given away for free in bookstores. I remember it being exceptionally short, perhaps 3 or 4 rooms in an abandoned stone outpost or fort. Pre-generated characters were provided of the four archetypical classes, and I seem to recall there being tips of some sort for each encounter to give a new player ideas of how to use the different classes.

Some form of living creature (goblins or some kind of animal perhaps?) was the first encounter (I remember using a sleep spell to bypass them), and some form of undead was near the end (skeletons?).

I hope this is able to job someone's memory of the module, I know it sounds off but this was the module that introduced me to the game and letely I've been having the urge to run through it again for nostaligia sake.

Thank you all,

 

[diaglo]

sounds like you played one of the challenge series.

during the 90's they have "Class Challenge" where class was filled in with Fighter, Priest, Mage, etc...

they had a Challenge II as well for classes.

 

[Kwalish Kid]

Perhaps you are thinking of The Goblin's Lair adventure pack. It was, I believe a boxed set with an introductory material. That had way more than three rooms, though.

 

[juboke]

Not 2nd edition but perhaps you are thinking of this.

 

[The_Gneech]

Could it be Wrath of the Minotaur and/or Eye of the Wyvern?

These were both great-but-tiny "fast play rules" mini-adventures put out near the end of the 2e era.

-The Gneech

 

[anorath]

Well, Gneech almost got it, seeing the cover for Wrath of the Minotaur sparked something in my head and after doing some more research (same author) I came across the "Start Playing Now" booklet that predated WotM by a few months which I can say I'm 90% positive was the adventure I was looking for.

Mind you I still can't believe it came out only 11 years ago, I could have sworn I started playing DnD earlier than that. Ahh well, guess I'm not quite the veteran I thought I was, lol.

Anyway, thanks all for the help, now I have to track it down and give my players a taste of the good ol' days of DnD.

 

[Witty Comeback]

Well, Gneech almost got it, seeing the cover for Wrath of the Minotaur sparked something in my head and after doing some more research (same author) I came across the "Start Playing Now" booklet that predated WotM by a few months which I can say I'm 90% positive was the adventure I was looking for.

Mind you I still can't believe it came out only 11 years ago, I could have sworn I started playing DnD earlier than that. Ahh well, guess I'm not quite the veteran I thought I was, lol.

Anyway, thanks all for the help, now I have to track it down and give my players a taste of the good ol' days of DnD.

The adventure that you are referring to is included in the beginning of both Wrath of the Minotaur and Eye of the Wyvern. It is a short and neat little adventure to get a first impression of DnD.