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D&D 3.5 - Looking for good non-dungeoncrawling adventures

MjTot

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Hi! I recently returned to DMing D&D 3.5, and I'm running/partially using pre-made adventures for the first time. Thing is, I was never really fond of dungeon crawling, so I'm having a hard time finding good adventures that do not focus on that type of gameplay.

So, I thought I could ask you guys, what are your favorite, non-dungeoncrawling, official adventures? (either web-based, dungeon magazine or modules).

PC level is not an issue, nor setting.

Thanks in advance!
 

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There are lots of free adventures available in the WotC Third Edition Archive, some will be dungeon crawls, but I think that quite a few are not. They are all PDF files which can be freely downloaded.

If you can poke around the Wizards' Archive, there's a set of sites called Vicious Venues which are plug-and-play places of interest (some with enemies) to add to your adventures.

ENWorld's massive Campaign Saga War of the Burning Sky rarely has dungeon crawls in it: from memory, the first "dungeon" doesn't show up until about the fifth or sixth adventure. I've only managed to DM parts of the first adventure, but that's a doozie (escaping a besieged city surrounded by an enemy army and its contingent of mage-killing clerics).
 





I second the Vicious Venues recommendation. Good stuff there.

If you really want good urban adventures with only a smattering of dungeons, you might try buying some of the Ptolus PDF chapters. All of them have LOTS of adventure tidbits. Many do tie in to the dungeons below Ptolus, but they are easy to limit.
 

Vault of Larin Karr by Necromancer Games:

This is a mini-campaign... it has 1 small dungeon crawl, but the majority of it is wilderness and town adventures. It is very highly rated and one of the best adventures around. It may have been written for 3.0 instead of 3.5, though.
It has great NPCs... lots of plots.... lots of things for the party to get involved with.
 

Cage of Delirium by Goodman Games; the most non-dungeon dungeon crawl you'll ever go on.

Make sure to get the Midnight Syndicate CD that aligns with the module.
 


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