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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 5025570" data-attributes="member: 22260">I am glad I inadvertantly bumped this. B1: In Search of the Unkown: Good concept and interesting execution: A classic OD&D dungeon loaded with everything, but the actual monsters and treasure, which the DM was free to place. I didn't "get" B1 for a long time, but now see at as a model whose time may have come again. S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth: Good Concept: keep on the borderlands, turned up to 11. You have a series of wierd caverns, strange monsters, a big wilderness area, and a little backstory. Great Execution: Loads of new monsters and items, including some like the Behir and the Demonicon of Igwiz that would approach iconoic status, some pretty out there encounters, and a great boss fight long before people used that term. WG4, lost Temple of Tharizdun: Nearly great concept: the lost temple of the bound dark god, before it was a total cliche, guarded by an army of monstrous humanoids that actually act like a an army of monstrous humanoids. Good, but not perfect, execution: Great, great stuff in the hidden temple, good notes on how to run the mountain giant and his crew, allowing you to throw some surprises at the party, and some obvious filler partially redeemed by coming from the fiend folio.I6 Ravenloft: as noted, great concept and excution. It opened the door to many bad things afterwords, which really makes it the pinnacle. Fiery Dragon's NeMoren's Vault: Good Concept: Take our best old school dungeon, and use it in 3E. Great Execution: the individual encounters and non-combat features, and the way the back story is reveiled,  make this almost perfect.Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil: Pretty good concept: take a huge icononic supermodule from 1E, update it to 3E, and maybe make it a little better. Erratic execution: the decision to work in Tharizdun, and work around the more convuleted bits of T1-4, great. The moathouse and nulb, great to good. Invidiual encounters, sometimes great. As a whole, a giant slog that never ends. Of course, this goes back to the concept...if they had just trimmed it back, to maybe covering 6 or 7 levels instead of 10, would have made it a truly great adventure.</blockquote>

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