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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5270965" data-attributes="member: 80487">D&D had been around, in one form or another, for almost 8 years -- about as long as WotC published 3e -- before the first of the TSR  dungeon modules appeared. About half that period was prior to the publication of the first boxed set of rules-books. So, the first widely published appearances of some aspects of play were in various magazines.TSR packed a lot into Volumes 1-3 and the Supplements (perhaps especially I-II, in terms of hallmark 'tropes'). Supplement II included The Temple of the Frog, which I think was the first published D&D scenario.Then there were The Strategic Review (later The Dragon); Alarums & Excursions, The Dungeoneer, and less prominent 'zines; Wee Warriors, Metro Detroit Gamers, and other small publishers of scenarios; and the Judges Guild, with the City State and Tegel Manor and the Wilderlands.One of TSR's early modules, B1 In Search of the Unknown (which replaced Dungeon Geomorphs and Monster & Treasure Assortments in later Holmes Basic boxed sets), included a lot of then-classic 'bits'.</blockquote>