D&D General Good overland adventures?

Sacrosanct

Legend
Looking for some recommendations (any edition) of adventures that have a significant amount of the encounters in an open overland area. Despite D&D portraying itself as the fantasy knight in shining armor trope, the overwhelming number of adventures are dungeon crawls or city heists that aren’t conducive to mounted combat. Som I’m looking for any adventures anyone recommends where at least 1/4 of the encounters would work while mounted. SKT perhaps?
 

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Parmandur

Book-Friend
The old CM modules come to mind, from my understanding: tournaments and mass combat and all.

X3 & X4, from my understanding, are open terrain overland hexcrawls, to my understanding.
 

Eltab

Lord of the Hidden Layer
The chapter of HotDQ with the merchant caravan travelling from Baldurs Gate to Waterdeep might serve as a framework. A cavalry escort could scout ahead for trouble, or pursue bandits who are fleeing the scene, or deliberately trigger an ambush on the road before the caravan arrives, or come charging over a hill once raiders get into arrow-fire exchanges with the normal (on foot) escorts.

P.S. Outside that port city of Chult riding one of the dinosaurs!
(Shamelessly stolen from the Eberron book)
 

Anything with lots of traveling might have lots of outdoor encounters, mostly random. Desert of Desolation comes to mind if you have discounted ToA.

Then there are pseudo-dungeons, that use dense undergrowth or other impassable terrain to channel the party between encounters.

If you want to focus specifically on knights on horses, you could adapt A Knight's Tale movie into an adventure around the Cormyrian jousting circuit.
 

MatthewJHanson

Registered Ninja
Publisher
If I can do a little self-promotion, my company has publishes a sandbox called the Runewild, in which the PCs explore a forest filled with witches and fey. There's a number of mini-dungeons within it, but also plenty of encounters in the middle of the forest or the surrounding hills and plains. One features a wearboar mounted on a giant boar, so opportunity for mounts on both sides.
 

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