D&D 5E (2014) Classic or just plain brilliant adventures/modules

[sgtscott658]

Not D&D but perhaps the best set of adventure modules ever publish is the Enemy Within Campaign series for Warhammer Fantasy RPG from Games Workshop back in the late 80's. Lots of Role playing with equal amounts of combat. With a little work it can be converted to 5E and I bet the players will have a blast playing it.

Scott

 

[DM_Jeff]

Only because it hasn't been mentioned yet (surprisingly) is Vault of Larin Karr by Necromancer Games.

The Night Below Campaign, or it's spiritual successor King for a Day.

And another thumbs up for Madness at Gardmore Abbey. I never ran 4E but I sure loved this one and plan to use it in 5E.

 

[jamesmanhattan]

Sorry, here's my lists of best adventures, that I keep for myself.

Best 4E Adventures (any source)
	Title	Level	Source	Length
1	Tomb of Horrors DM Reward	9	DungeonMag	4
2	Halls of Undermountain Boxed Set	1	print	12
3	Face of the Moon	17	DungeonMag	5	Mind Flayers found a space station on moon, yes it's awesome
4	Blood Money	8	DungeonMag	1-2
5	Encounters Season #7 Beyond Crystal Cave	1	DungeonMag	3	The most fey fairy tale adventure ever
6	Entire "Dungeon Delve" book	all	print	1
7	Encounters Season #2 Dark Sun	1	DungeonMag	4
8	Bark at the Moon	6	DungeonMag	3	Werewolves!
9	Lord of the White Field	6	DungeonMag	3	Ghouls!
10	Steading of Hill Giant Chief	12	DungeonMag		Giants!
11	The Slaying Stone	1	print	3-4
12	Dead for a Spell	8	DungeonMag	4	Eberron
13	Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan	7	DungeonMag	6
14	Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl	16	DungeonMag	6
15	Madness at Gardmore Abbey	6	print	12
16	Five Deadly Shadows	8	DungeonMag	2
17	Red Box Adventure (Twisted Halls)	1	print	2
18	Some Assembly Required	1	DungeonMag	3
19	Keep on the Shadowfell	1	print	9
20	Starhaunt	16	DungeonMag	4-5
21	Winter of the Witch	22	DungeonMag	4-5	most epic dragon fight ever
22	Trollhaunt Warrens	11	print	9
Best 3.5 and Pathfinder Adventures (any source)
	Title	Level	Source	Length	Notes
1	Red Hand of Doom	6 to 12	Wotc	very long
2	City of the Spider Queen	10 to 18	Wotc	extremely long	PC game like
3	The Demon Within	11	Paizo		best demon adventure ever written
4	Hook Mountain Massacre		Paizo		Part of Rise of Runelords, stands alone
5	There is No Honor	1	Paizo		Part 1 of Savage Tide, no villain has ever been more hated
6	Burnt Offerings		Paizo		Part of Rise of Runelords
7	Carnival of Tears		Paizo	4 sessions
8	Skinsaw Murders		Paizo		Part of Rise of Runelords
9	Entombed with the Pharoahs		Paizo
10	Seven Days to the Grave		Paizo	4-5 sessions	Part of Curse of the Crimson Throne
11	The Lich Queen's Beloved		Dungeon Mag	4-5 sessions	Epic level
12	Kings of the Rift		Dungeon Mag		Part of Age of Worms
13	Kill Bargle	3	Dungeon Mag last ever		update of the original Red Box 1983 beginner adventure
14	The Weavers		Dungeon Mag
15	Chimes at Midnight		Dungeon Mag		Eberron, mystery, in the hardboiled style
16	The Styes		Dungeon Mag
17	Whispering Cairn		Dungeon Mag		Part of Age of Worms
18	The Harrowing	15	Dungeon Mag 84	rediculously long,	like tooo freakin long, but epic scope of Lolth's Lair in Abyss
19	Chains of Blackmaw		Dungeon Mag 84		break into prison, to break someone out.
Best D&D AD&D, older edition Adventures (any source)
	Title	Level	Source	Length
1	Ravenloft	3-5	TSR	3-5 sessions	check reddit for 5E Conversion
2	Tomb of Horrors	8?	TSR		Remade in 5E by Chris Perkins in Dungeon Magazine
3	Against the Cult of the Reptile God	3		3-5 sessions	classic classic classic, "do we hide the bodies of the villagers we just killed?" "why does everyone keep offering us wine?"
4	Expedition to the Barrier Peaks	8-12	TSR		The malfunctioning exercise android says "hey weakling, catch!" and throws a barbell
5	The Village of Hommlet	1	TSR	2 sessions	super fun dungeon, nice town
6	Blade of Vengeance	8	TSR		the quintessential Red Dragon slaying hobbit story but with elves.
7	The Ghost of Mistmoor	1-5	Dungeon Mag	1 shot	the best haunted house mystery D&D adventure ever written
8	The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh	1	TSR	3 sessions	Hey Scooby, Scooby Doo
9	Night's Dark Terror	1	TSR	8-10 sessions	a real adventure through an adventurous land
10	The Mother's Curse	3-5	Dungeon Mag	2-3 sessions	oh my gosh, Hags are evil, especially when they mess with pregant ladies
11	Jacob's Well				The movie "Alien" - in a D&D adventure with a Slaad.
12	The Mud Sorcerer's Tomb
13	Desert of Desolation Series
14	White Plume Mountain	6-8
15	The Silver Key	6	TSR		awesome premise, somewhat difficult to run. Polymorphed into Orcs!
16	Master of the Desert Nomads
17	Bogged Down	1	Dungeon Mag	1 shot	"Where's my big toe?" Classic story in D&D
18	Steading of Hill Giant Chief	6-12			it gets a reputation as hack n slash, but there are so many NPCs and ways to approach the place
19	Asflag's Unintentional Emporium		Dungeon Mag	1-shot	the classic haunted wizard tower in town, wizard went missing
20	Chadranthar's Bane	4-6	Dungeon Mag		Honey I shrunk the kids

 

[Eric V]

Also a big fan of Madness at Gardmore Abbey. It finished off Heroic tier nicely for my 4e group (hobgoblin slavers kidnapped the flower elf from Keep on the Shadowfell, and they tracked them to Thunderspire Labyrinth. Came back to reclaim the Abbey, and now it's their version of the JLA Watchtower).

Maybe it's just the project I gave myself, but I am loving the Steve Kurtz modules from Al-Qadim (Dozen and One Adventures, Ruined Kingdoms and Cities of Bone). Along with Assassin Mountain (Wolfgang Baur), they will be the backbone of a new campaign. A bit railroad-y but I think they're so flavourful and great.

 

[Lanefan]

A few that haven't been mentioned yet:

TSR: L1 Secret of Bone Hill (I'm shocked this hasn't come up yet, great adventure design here!)
Judges' Guild: Maltese Clue (it's an odd one, but excellent)
TSR: B7(?) Rahasia
(unsure): Rappan Athuk (megadungeon, there's a 2e version and a d20-system version; both are deadly)

And a word of caution about B10 Night's Dark Terror: while it's getting a lot of love in this thread it probably works best if you use its main map as the basis for your game's setting, as I believe [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] did. I've twice tried to run it in pre-established settings and both times had a hard time making it fit in.

Lan-"B10 probably also works better if run as lots of little adventures instead of one great big one"-efan

 

[Nebulous]

I'm currently running Ravenloft (3.5) for the 3rd time in my gaming career and I've got to mention the Desert of Desolation series of modules. The flavor and production quality of that adventure series has left good memories in my mind and I would love to see a 5E conversion!

I was going to run 1e Ravenloft with the 5e conversion notes, but is there a reason to run 3.5 instead? I'm sure it is longer and more involved, but better?

Edit: note that i do find a certain satisfaction in playing a classic module from the early 1980s. But i'm open to suggestions.

 

[Meliath1742]

Actually running the Expedition to Ravenloft...which has far more content but allows you to trim it back to what you need. I'm running it much closer to the original I6.
My group has been together along time but we've gotten far enough apart that we are forced to use Roll20 as our gaming platform. I'm gearing up for a 5E version of the Desert of Desolation series. The maps and conversion info can be found with a couple of google searches.

 

[pemerton]

And a word of caution about B10 Night's Dark Terror: while it's getting a lot of love in this thread it probably works best if you use its main map as the basis for your game's setting, as I believe pemerton did.

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B10 probably also works better if run as lots of little adventures instead of one great big one

I did both these things. In 28 levels of my 4e campaign I haven't needed any world map beyond the main map for B10.

And I used it as a series of scenarios, interspersed with other stuff. I also combined all the tomb mounds into one big undercrypt (expanded by taking bits and pieces from Sceptre Tower of Spellgard). Xithaqa was a combination of some of what's in the module with the Chamber of Eyes from Thundersprire Labyrinth. And the final valley was the home of a lost civilsation of minotaurs (built up from level 1), not whatever is in the module, and I combined it with Heathen from Dungeon magazine. Plus for the city of Threshold I rolled in the city of Adakmi from Heathen and *can't remember its original name* from Speaker in Dreams.

By the time the PCs made their way into the valley and uncovered the secret of the minotaurs, they were 15th level.

 

[Nebulous]

Actually running the Expedition to Ravenloft...which has far more content but allows you to trim it back to what you need. I'm running it much closer to the original I6.
My group has been together along time but we've gotten far enough apart that we are forced to use Roll20 as our gaming platform. I'm gearing up for a 5E version of the Desert of Desolation series. The maps and conversion info can be found with a couple of google searches.

I have Desert of Desolation, i had not considered looking for a 5e conversion, but that might be fun as well. I'm trying to get some classic D&D adventures under my belt, i typically homebrewed most of my early gaming days and missed out on most of the published stuff. 5th edition appears to be a great way to bring those old modules back.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

My favorite published adventure is Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan. The poison gas effects seem like a natural fit with 5Es fatigue track.