D&D adventures with sets of location illustrations
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Kinak
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I've always been fond of the intro adventure in the original Dark Sun boxed set. It came in two parts, a DM guide and a book of illustrations. Both were ringbound, so you could just flip open the illustration book to show the players.
I'm not sure I'd call it a full-fledged adventure, it's only like twenty pages and they're quite small, but it's a shame the idea wasn't expanded on.
Cheers!
Kinak
I'm not sure I'd call it a full-fledged adventure, it's only like twenty pages and they're quite small, but it's a shame the idea wasn't expanded on.
Cheers!
Kinak
Joshua Randall
Legend
Several of the 4e adventures have illustrations, including Thunderspire Labyrinth (H2) and Madness At Gardmore Abbey.
How could I have forgotten the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks?
I knew TSR dabbled with keyed illustrations in a three, early adventures. But apparently, the expanse of devoting so many pages to illustrations drove them to abandon them. As far as I know, only Return to the Tomb of Horrors, and the fourth edition, hardcover Tomb of Horrors continue the tradition.
In the third edition era, both Goodman Games and Kenzer & Company championed keyed illustrations. Kenzer even coined a marketing term for them. Almost all their adventures tout this feature: "ImageQUEST Adventure Illustrator: 'Because a picture is worth 1,000 words.' ImageQUEST is the picture book that gamers love. Now DMs can not only read the boxed text, they can actually show it to the players."
Just about all of the Dungeon Crawl Classics feature keyed illustrations.
Clearly, I'm not alone in loving them.
I seem to remember that at least one Dungeon magazine adventure made a bid to nostalgia with keyed illustrations. Can anyone confirm my recollection?
I knew TSR dabbled with keyed illustrations in a three, early adventures. But apparently, the expanse of devoting so many pages to illustrations drove them to abandon them. As far as I know, only Return to the Tomb of Horrors, and the fourth edition, hardcover Tomb of Horrors continue the tradition.
In the third edition era, both Goodman Games and Kenzer & Company championed keyed illustrations. Kenzer even coined a marketing term for them. Almost all their adventures tout this feature: "ImageQUEST Adventure Illustrator: 'Because a picture is worth 1,000 words.' ImageQUEST is the picture book that gamers love. Now DMs can not only read the boxed text, they can actually show it to the players."
Just about all of the Dungeon Crawl Classics feature keyed illustrations.
Clearly, I'm not alone in loving them.
I seem to remember that at least one Dungeon magazine adventure made a bid to nostalgia with keyed illustrations. Can anyone confirm my recollection?
How could I have forgotten the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks?
I knew TSR dabbled with keyed illustrations in a three, early adventures. But apparently, the expanse of devoting so many pages to illustrations drove them to abandon them. As far as I know, only Return to the Tomb of Horrors, and the fourth edition, hardcover Tomb of Horrors continue the tradition.
In the third edition era, both Goodman Games and Kenzer & Company championed keyed illustrations. Kenzer even coined a marketing term for them. Almost all their adventures tout this feature: "ImageQUEST Adventure Illustrator: 'Because a picture is worth 1,000 words.' ImageQUEST is the picture book that gamers love. Now DMs can not only read the boxed text, they can actually show it to the players."
Just about all of the Dungeon Crawl Classics feature keyed illustrations.
Clearly, I'm not alone in loving them.
I seem to remember that at least one Dungeon magazine adventure made a bid to nostalgia with keyed illustrations. Can anyone confirm my recollection?
I knew TSR dabbled with keyed illustrations in a three, early adventures. But apparently, the expanse of devoting so many pages to illustrations drove them to abandon them. As far as I know, only Return to the Tomb of Horrors, and the fourth edition, hardcover Tomb of Horrors continue the tradition.
In the third edition era, both Goodman Games and Kenzer & Company championed keyed illustrations. Kenzer even coined a marketing term for them. Almost all their adventures tout this feature: "ImageQUEST Adventure Illustrator: 'Because a picture is worth 1,000 words.' ImageQUEST is the picture book that gamers love. Now DMs can not only read the boxed text, they can actually show it to the players."
Just about all of the Dungeon Crawl Classics feature keyed illustrations.
Clearly, I'm not alone in loving them.
I seem to remember that at least one Dungeon magazine adventure made a bid to nostalgia with keyed illustrations. Can anyone confirm my recollection?
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
Ex Keraptis cum Amore?
It was a companion adventure to Return to White Plume Mountain. IIRC it had keyed illustrations... plus a wonderful cover by Stephen Daniele.
Edit: Yes, this is the one. It's from Dungeon 77.
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone. D&D Expert adventure. The only reason I know about this one is because I picked it up at a local hobby shop a couple of weeks ago. Never had it back in the day. It even has Strongheart TM, Warduke TM, and the other toy company characters as pregens (including the bad guys). BUt going through it I did notice one amusing detail. The module suggests that the party have at least two clerics, but there's only one out of the 11 pregens! TSR at its wonkyest? 
