Best and Worst Module Adventures

[aNenuphar]

Personal favourite(s): X4 and X5 of the OD&D set. Something about the flavour of the modules (and the marvellous villain at the end).

Least favourite: Dragonlance. At least I have a good reason for this: I DM'd the saga three times, for three different sets of quite decent players. Each time it proved impossible to keep them to the storyline without coercion or blatant DM...alterations of reality.

I think Dragonlance makes a wonderful example of what a long-term, high-romance campaign should look like. But it requires far too much railroading of the characters to make it work.

Just my two francs.

 

[pogre]

Favorite: X2 Castle De'Amberville
Close Second: UK2 & UK3

Least Favorite: Probably the Volo journey series.

 

[johnsemlak]

Best Adventures: GDQ1-7, though G1-2-3 Against the Giants is the best of that series; B2-The Keep on the Borderlands; X4-5: Desert Nomads series; T1-4: Temple of Elemental Evil; WG4: Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun

I do love the layout the the Rappan Athuk series, but I'm not sure I can put it with the classics mentioned above.

Worst: WG7: Castle Greyhawk. Otherwise, I can't put my finger on a particular one, but a few of the ones in the Basic. Expert (X-series), Companion, and Masters weren't great. Earthshaker, X-3 Curse of Xanothon.

 

[chillrb]

My favorites are definitely the Against the giants series and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. There was also a black colored cover module with robots and technology...can't remember its title.

Least favorite Tomb of Horrors. Just as Donatello said there really wasn't any roleplaying to do. And talk about a party being frustrated!!

 

[Morpheus]

My favorites are definitely the Against the giants series and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. There was also a black colored cover module with robots and technology...can't remember its title.

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks


My favorites are: RttoEE, The Longest Night, The Slaver's series, The Secret of Saltmarsh, Ravenloft and Where Dark Roses Bloom.

My least favorites: Dungeonland and the Tantras series from 2e.

 

[chillrb]

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

That would be it! I remember the little pull out book with various illustrations. The first time our DM showed us a pic of a laser gun we were like

 

[Darius101]

The one with the black cover was S3 - Expedition to the Barrier Peaks


some of my favorites are:
All time favorite is B1 for some reason it is just a great dungeon and the first that i ever changed to suit my players and my campaign.
C1 and C2 ...man those were fun
X2 was a blast and had a number of interesting things happen
GDQ series was also very very fun
S1 - S4 with S4 being special for reasons my players know....
Slavers series A1-A4 was also a blast
Best story for our group was the Falcon Series with Vecna played after talk about an ominous begining..Loved it.
Also enjoyed WG5 Mordinkanin's Fantastic Adventure

New modules:
Sunless Citidel was great
Return to the Temple of Elelmental Evil is awesome
Queen of Lies is also fun

Darius

 

[the Jester]

Two of my favorites are the Gates of Firestorm Peak and Return to the Tomb of Horrors.

 

[darkbard]

i loved the original "village of homlett" adventure when it first came out way back when. for 3e--and i know i'm going to take a lot of flak for this based on some previous threads--is probably "speaker in dreams". i had so much fun running this adventure and it was probably the first "pure" city adventure that i've run so smoothly. also, "sunless citadel" was a blast--i've run it twice!

 

[Ranes]

Old Favourites: GDQ - although by Q1 it had all gone a little pear-shaped - WG4, UK1 - all big nostalgia trips for me.

New favourite: RttToEE - after reading all the reviews on EN World and elsewhere, I took the plunge and bought it (my players are just having it seeded into the background of the homebrew adventure they're currently on). So, okay, I haven't run it yet but it's so well organised, coherent and dynamic that the challenge of running it has got me excited like no other module has for a long time. It will be as great a challenge to me as a DM as it will be to the players. Prior to buying it, I reread my copy of ToEE (recently returned to me after 16 years AWOL). Good cure for insomnia.

Also, I'm glad someone mentioned A Night At The Three Feathers. That was a a good one.

Okay, worst: er... DLs turned me off from the outset. Somebody mentioned too much railroading and I agree. Also just way too many cataclysms for my liking. I'm sure I came across worse but my brain has wiped the horror of them from my mind (at least, that's what I thought, until people started mentioning The Book of Lairs and Dungeonland and it all came swimming back).