Good high level (10+) swords and sorcery themed adventures?

Rappan Athuk. Have the party enter RA through the Cloister of the Frog God (Tier 2) or the Cavern of the Kraken (Tier 3).

Using bits of Rappan Athuk sounds plausible - I've just come off a couple years running Stonehell megadungeon so not looking to do the whole thing.

I'm really looking more for specifically Conanesque swords & sorcery fantasy rather than 'D&D fantasy' (even dark D&D fantasy) though. So closer to pulp action-horror adventure stories; the kind of thing Conan & co might have stumbled across.

Looking at my resources, there are a ton of low level S&S themed adventures that could be converted; I think stuff like The Licheway & Halls of Tizun Thane from Best of White Dwarf just need their levels bumped up a bit, pretty easily done just by making goblins into Tcho-Tchos, lizardmen into Deep Ones etc. I had been hoping for specifically 5e D&D S&S but that isn't looking too promising.
 

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Have you tried Adventure Lookup? They don't have a filter for tone, but you can filter by setting, level, and common monsters. Maybe something originally written for Greyhawk would work?

Well 'Conan' turned up the two TSR Conan modules...

There may not be anything much like I'm looking for, certainly for 5e. Ironically some of the Paizo Runelords & Shattered Star AP stuff with Cthulu critters looks quite close - and I'm already using those in another campaign!

I suppose one day WoTC might put out an S&S themed campaign, that'd be cool.
 

I'd suggest The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, particularly the Undertemple/Cyst portion of the module. It's got that weird, pulp fantasy vibe.

You could use the upper Temple as well, tho I'd be inclined to make the norkers more like ape-men to keep with the Howardesque s&s aesthetic.
 

I'd suggest The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, particularly the Undertemple/Cyst portion of the module. It's got that weird, pulp fantasy vibe.

You could use the upper Temple as well, tho I'd be inclined to make the norkers more like ape-men to keep with the Howardesque s&s aesthetic.

Thanks - I have that in hardcopy, will give it a look-over. Can replace Norkers with Beastmen no problem.
 

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