Best 1st level Adventures

[grodog]

Lost City is B4, but still a great scenario, and one of Tom Moldvay's best!

 

[meomwt]

Off the top of my head:
- written by Erik Mona and well-set in Greyhawk
- excellent dungeon design, with a variety of twists/surprises
- expandable scenario if you include the "continuation" of the level into "A Gathering of Winds" by Wolfgang Baur

I remember liking the design of the cairn itself quite a bit as well.

I agree with all of that. It was just well written and had a certain mood about it. Not to mention Diamond Lake was well thought out. All in all it really was just a well thought out and well written adventure.

As well as all that, the adventure is more than a simple Dungeon Crawl. There's a spot of investigation, the chance for some RP in Diamond Lake, a repulsive villain at the end (who doesn't need to be killed, btw)...

Gosh, this is all getting me stoked up to run this adventure...

 

[Olli]

Lost City is B4, but still a great scenario, and one of Tom Moldvay's best!

Oops!!

Well, I haven´t run it in years, so I´m sorry for the wrong number...

 

[LostSoul]

I think Under Illefarn and Keep on the Borderlands are my favorites.

 

[catsclaw227]

I'd like to throw in a vote for "Lost City of Barakus" from Necromancer. It's a great sandbox to play in, has some interesting encounters, non-linear, with a city, a wilderness of encounters and a dungeon with local history.

It really is a great campaign kick-off!

 

[olshanski]

Old Edition:
B4 The Lost City
U1-U3 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Trilogy
N1? Against the cult of the reptile god
Under Illefarn was also good, but I recall it took a little work and development. It was fairly huge.

*I thought Castle Caldwell was one of the all-time worst adventures ever written until I read some of the "Marco Volo" crap in 2E D&D.

3.x Edition:
NeMoren's Vault by Fiery Dragon. (top notch, I started 3 campaigns with this adventure).
Lost City of Barakus by Necromancer Games. (This is a good mini-campaign, but there is so much to it you may have to scale back XP.)
Honorable mention:
Crucible of Freya by Necromancer games... the core adventure is OK, but what makes it great is the free supplemental stuff, including a blind crone, a bipolar etin, and other awesome stuff.

 

[frankthedm]

Another vote for B4 the lost city.

i happen to have some advanced monsters for 3.5 that should fit well for that module, and I am working on copy and pasting together some sprite based counter sheets that should have nearly all the monsters for that module.