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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9724680" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>This is the occasional reminder that Dragon Magazine was a publication of a little-known company called TSR.</p><p></p><p>TSR (for those not familiar with it) was a small games publishing house that put out WG7.</p><p></p><p>Now, assuming that the house magazine of TSR would award the "Best Role-Playing Adventure" to a TSR adventure ... the following were the <em>modules </em>released (the 1989 award went to 1988 modules):</p><p></p><p>DL15 & DL16 (short adventure collections)</p><p>H4 (The Throne of Bloodstone, Levels 18-100 ... I'll let the level guidance for this speak for itself)</p><p>I14 (Sword of the Iron Legion, 1-15+, Battlesystem required)</p><p>OA5 (Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw)</p><p>OP1 (Tales of the Outer Planes- mini adventure collection)</p><p>WG7 (Castle Greyhawk)</p><p></p><p>I will say this- this was one of the worst ever years for module releases in TSR's history.* I've never looked at them systematically, but I'm comfortable saying that it is ... the worst. And yet, I still think that the reason it "won" is because it was the ONLY MAJOR ADVENTURE RELEASE THAT YEAR, and this was a marketing push by TSR.</p><p></p><p>And you know what? It was still the worst of that barrel of dreck. ....okay, H4 might be <em>as bad</em>. But it's close. H4 was just terrible. But it wasn't terrible <em>and </em>motivated by spite.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*In my attempt to be fair and balanced, I will say that TSR was a little preoccupied because they were trying to, you know, revamp the core rules at the time. Not a small project.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9724680, member: 7023840"] This is the occasional reminder that Dragon Magazine was a publication of a little-known company called TSR. TSR (for those not familiar with it) was a small games publishing house that put out WG7. Now, assuming that the house magazine of TSR would award the "Best Role-Playing Adventure" to a TSR adventure ... the following were the [I]modules [/I]released (the 1989 award went to 1988 modules): DL15 & DL16 (short adventure collections) H4 (The Throne of Bloodstone, Levels 18-100 ... I'll let the level guidance for this speak for itself) I14 (Sword of the Iron Legion, 1-15+, Battlesystem required) OA5 (Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw) OP1 (Tales of the Outer Planes- mini adventure collection) WG7 (Castle Greyhawk) I will say this- this was one of the worst ever years for module releases in TSR's history.* I've never looked at them systematically, but I'm comfortable saying that it is ... the worst. And yet, I still think that the reason it "won" is because it was the ONLY MAJOR ADVENTURE RELEASE THAT YEAR, and this was a marketing push by TSR. And you know what? It was still the worst of that barrel of dreck. ....okay, H4 might be [I]as bad[/I]. But it's close. H4 was just terrible. But it wasn't terrible [I]and [/I]motivated by spite. *In my attempt to be fair and balanced, I will say that TSR was a little preoccupied because they were trying to, you know, revamp the core rules at the time. Not a small project. [/QUOTE]
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