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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3217507" data-attributes="member: 36597">I've enjoyed purchasing from the pdf library of old TSR modules, having missed out on them when I quit playing D&D in the early 1980s.  Several campaign settings like Planescape get mention on these boards when people discuss newer books like the Fiendish Codex and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft.While some of the items, like Planescape, are quality material, other items often held in high esteem like ToEE (c) 1987, leave me scratching my head.  ToEE is one big slog of a dungeon crawl, and if I tried to run it, half way through my players would probably give up because they had forgotten what their motivation was to enter the temple in the first place!I was also underwhelmed by the Forgotten Realms Campaign box set (c) 1993.  Maybe it's because I've never understood the attraction of FR, but the box set doesn't bring a clear, cohesiveness that someone trying it for the first time would say "aha!  this is just where I want to play!"  Instead it reads like a jumble of ideas and very little themes or plots (except perhaps for the Zhentarim.)  Give me Greyhawk for a generic western setting instead!That's not to say I haven't enjoyed other campaign settings from this time period.  It my on-again/off-again OA campaign, I've used the Kara-Tur box set and continue to use it for power groups, places and important people.  And the Horde set (which is free on the WoTC site) I believe to be one of the best ever written for that style of campaign.I'm also reading through the Planescape box sets, having now picked up the big box, the neutral and lawful planes.  Not only is it fun to read, I love the art.  I think it's great that these "treasure troves" of material are available, and I'm already thinking about dipping into the Dark Sun setting to read what that's all about!</blockquote>

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