Are there any D&D modules created soley for the sake of comedy?

Tuzenbach · May 27, 2005

I know, strange question, but I'm curious.

Wystan · May 27, 2005

No, but Adventures in Wonderland and it's sequel were darn close.

billd91 · May 27, 2005

Yes there are. The Castle Greyhawk supermodule is a set of humor modules, levels in a dungeon actually. A lot of Greyhawk purists will claim that it's the worst module ever, but it did have a few instances of funny humor. Some GH purists just don't think anyone should joke with GH material.

TerraDave · May 27, 2005

The very bad WG7 "Castle Greyhawk", which I don't recomend...

EX1 and EX2 (the "Alice") modules are a little jokey....but I think that is true of more then a few older adventures

Wystan · May 27, 2005

I swear I have never heard of the castle Greyhawk ones. Why were/are they humor modules?

francisca · May 27, 2005

billd91 said:
Yes there are. The Castle Greyhawk supermodule is a set of humor modules, levels in a dungeon actually. A lot of Greyhawk purists will claim that it's the worst module ever, but it did have a few instances of funny humor. Some GH purists just don't think anyone should joke with GH material.

Uggh. I think it is a completely awful module, but not because I am a GH fanboy (which I am not). It just isn't funny, so it falls on it's face in it's intended purpose. If you ignore the comedy, it sucks as a dungeon crawl (IMO), so it's a two-time loser.

orsal · May 27, 2005

How about "The Return to the Orc and the Pastry", part of the D&D humour anthology "Portable Hole Full of Beer"?

T. Foster · May 27, 2005

WG7: Castle Greyhawk was a joke, and was terrible (bad adventure, insult to the Gygax and Greyhawk legacy, not even funny). EX1 & 2 are based on Alice in Wonderland and seem like they would be jokes but aren't really -- there are some very dangerous encounters in those modules! Likewise WG6: Isle of the Ape is based on King Kong, which would probably lead one to suspect it was a joke-module, but it's actually one of the biggest meat-grinders in the 1E canon. Not published by TSR (and not even technically a D&D module; it was published as part of the 'generic' Fantasy Master line) was The Abduction of Good King Despot which qualifies to an extent, in that the module's full of jokes and puns, but it's also full of very tough challenges and is, in fact, one of my very favorite 'old-school' modules (and also frequently mentioned by Gary Gygax as one of his favorites modules not written by him). Tegel Manor from Judges Guild is the same way -- full of jokes and puns, but not really a 'comedy' module as such. Rather just an artifact of an age when people didn't take the game as seriously as they came to later.

Darkness · May 27, 2005

This free adventure on the WotC site is rather light-hearted, at least, FWIW.

HellHound · May 27, 2005

orsal said:
How about "The Return to the Orc and the Pastry", part of the D&D humour anthology "Portable Hole Full of Beer"?

And don't forget "Revenge of the Orc and the Pastry", but it's not as fun as Return.

Both are available in the new and improved, bigger and better (because, you know, no matter what they keep telling you, bigger IS better...) Bride of Portable Hole