Best of Dungeon - Dungeon Crawls?

[Stormborn]

What are, in the humble collective opinion, the best adventures in Dungeon magazine that are basically Dungeon Crawls?

And to be fair lets have two catagories: 3rd Ed and pre 3rd ed.

Let the debates begin.

(I plan on asking this question again about other types of adventures, but lets see where this takes us first.)

 

[Richards]

The first one to leap to mind is "The Mud Sorcerer's Tomb," by Mike Shel, which appeared in Dungeon #37. Obviously, that falls into the "pre-3E" category.

Johnathan

 

[haiiro]

Pre-3e

I'll throw in a vote for my favorite pre-3e dungeon crawl: "The Crypt of Istaris," which came in the form of a Dungeon insert in Dragon #155.

I love this adventure, and I've run it for several different groups over the years. It's got everything: a cohesive backstory, cool monsters (like coffer corpses!), cool traps, great dungeon dressing (even the relatively empty rooms are interesting), well-scaled challenges, a believable dungeon ecology... It rocks.

I think it was originally an RPGA tournament adventure, because if memory serves it includes a point scale for failing/succeeding at certain challenges. In any case, a great module, even 14-15 years later!

Man, just writing about it makes me want to run it again...