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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 2970552" data-attributes="member: 1613">Like TFoster, I also ran A1 as both a tourney and in campaign play.  My players liked the A-series the most of the various tourneys mass-produced by TSR (discounting the G and D series, since they weren't written originally as tourney modules), and we ran them a few times as prep for playing in local tourneys in the NJ-PA-NY-DE-MD corridor.  As a campaign module, I also liked A1 a lot.  The temple compound offered lots of options for expansion, and as Ourph said, allowed innovative players a lot of options for entering into the environment.  I didn't find issues with the basilisk and ghouls wandering around, Quasqueton, since IIRC the slavers had actually bricked up portions of the temple courtyards, which confined the basilisk to those areas (but woe to PCs who climb in from above! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  I also designed additional buildings for Highport, and linked some of them to the slaver temple via the sewers (some of the areas could only be entered by the sewers and then by ascending to the surface:  the upper works of some buildings had collapsed to the point that they encounter areas were inaccessible from above ground).  All-in-all, A1 is my favorite non-Gygax, non-Kuntz TSR module.  IME it's great <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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