[Any edition]Adventures or supplement that inspire "That Tingle"

[Eryndur]

A big one that still inspires me is the World of Greyhawk boxed set from 1e. When my 11 year old self unfolded those hex-maps of Oerth, my jaw dropped. I wanted to go everywhere.

 

[MortalPlague]

There's a picture in the Revised 2nd Edition PHB, in the spells section. It has an order of magi carrying a coffin in a funeral procession, with a huge domed temple fortress in the background, and the ghostly visage of their dead brother looking on in the sky. That picture always gave me 'that tingle'.

 

[Wik]

The book d20 Apocalypse. Pretty much any line of text in there makes me want to drop everything and run a post-apoc game.

Also, no matter how many times I play it, everytime I first leave the Vault in Fallout 3, I get a little shiver of excitement. So much possibility!

Finally, the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks always inspires that desire to explore and discover your environment. There's an image there where a bunch of adventurers in armour, carrying torches, are heading down a spaceship hallway while an Intellect Devourer stalks behind them...

 

[S'mon]

1. The 1e DMG, especially the Artifacts section and its many hints of lost cvivilisations and ancient magics.

2. The World section of the 4e DMG, in particular the spread picture at the start of it with the adventurers looking into the distance. The 4e 'setting' art in general is very evocative, and a real breath of fresh air after 3e's dreary art style. I like the Worlds & Monsters art a lot. I was so glad somebody at 4e finally 'got' the importance of landscape/setting art. Maybe Peter Jackson was an influence there? 4e's focus on style & atmosphere in general is a huge step up from anything I've seen from the D&D brand since about 1983-84.

 

[S'mon]

A big one that still inspires me is the World of Greyhawk boxed set from 1e. When my 11 year old self unfolded those hex-maps of Oerth, my jaw dropped. I wanted to go everywhere.

Yeah, I love my '83 WoG. Even my parents liked the cover, and they hate D&D! One of the best bits about the box is the 'fluff text' and picture on the back of the box, it's brilliant IMO.

I think that 4e landscape art has gone some way to doing for 4e what text often did for 1e.

 

[Lanefan]

1. The 1e DMG, especially the Artifacts section and its many hints of lost cvivilisations and ancient magics.

2. The World section of the 4e DMG, in particular the spread picture at the start of it with the adventurers looking into the distance. The 4e 'setting' art in general is very evocative, and a real breath of fresh air after 3e's dreary art style. I like the Worlds & Monsters art a lot. I was so glad somebody at 4e finally 'got' the importance of landscape/setting art. Maybe Peter Jackson was an influence there? 4e's focus on style & atmosphere in general is a huge step up from anything I've seen from the D&D brand since about 1983-84.

You beat me to it, so I'll merely stand by and second this; though it was the 4e Worlds and Monsters preview book that did it for me. Hell, in essence I got an entire 5-adventure arc out of two pictures in that book!

Also, I've recently started wading through the "City State of the World Emperor" bundle that I picked up last GenCon - ideas are a-buzzin'...

Lan

 

[Khairn]

I have 1 supplement and 2 adventures which even today bring a smile to my face and "that tingle" everywhere else.

Harn - The original Harn map (and setting for that matter) is a cartographic work of art and despite being what ... 25 years old ... its still the measuring stick I use when looking at any other fantasy map. N. Robin Crossby

Dead Gods - This Planescape adventure culminated in a battle for possession of the Wand of Orcus that takes place on the massive calcified corpse of Orcus himself, in the Astral Plane. My love for Planescape was cemented by that adventure. Monte Cook

Dark Space - This old Rolemaster adventure combined fantasy, bio-tech, space pirates, undead, and "Cthullu-esque" beings from before the birth of the universe in a rip-roaring setting that sucks me in every time I open the book. Monte Cook