D&D General List good 3e adventures for a starting Forgotten Realms campaign?

[earthsea_wizard]

Been a long time and am looking at the realms again. Group plays 3e/3.5 hybrid, will be using the 3e FR books as source material. We want something longer and more fleshed out. There was the 3 series starting with Cormyr: Tearing of the Weave but that's about the only series I don't want to run.

I am thinking I will start with Raiders of Galath's Roost from Dungeon magazine, but am looking for other inspiration of things to start with instead or where to go from there.

 

[Zardnaar]

Was going to suggest Raiders of Galath Roost lol.

If you have access to Dungeon its really one of the APs or adapt something.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

Was going to suggest Raiders of Galath Roost lol.

If you have access to Dungeon its really one of the APs or adapt something.

There is also Eric L. Boyds recent 3.5 update of Under Illefarn, he expanded it by several hundred pages and converted it to 3.5 a few years ago. But I am not sure I want to set the game in 1357. There are suggestions for setting it later but still. And I'm not a stickler for canon but I like major things to line up.

So yeah Raiders of Galaths Roost and Under Illefarn "Anew" are my two contendors right now.

I am happy to adapt modules, I am now thinking Crucible of Freya could slot in easily, I love that module and have run it in Greyhawk.

There seem to be surprisingly few good 2e adventures that are Forgotten Realms specific. Halls of Eveningstar and the Doom of Daggerdale series, but while the latter are notable, they also get mixed reviews.

 

[aco175]

Must be something in old Dungeon Magazines. Do not recall anything specific from 20+ years ago

 

[Tonguez]

The Sons of Gruumsh is a good adventure and can be a good follow up to Raiders of Galath Roost, especially if you have a few more orcs and half-orcs among the raiders

 

[earthsea_wizard]

The Sons of Gruumsh is a good adventure and can be a good follow up to Raiders of Galath Roost, especially if you have a few more orcs and half-orcs among the raiders

Ah yes, I wonder how well that could also tie into the Moonsea adventures?

 

[TheSword]

I would adapt Red Hand of Doom for the Realms.

You could also adapt Return to The Temple of Elemental Evil to FR as wrll

Otherwise consider one of the three great dungeon magazine paths. Shackled City, Age of Worms or Savage Tides. Even if you don’t want to do the campaigns there are some great adventures in there.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

I would adapt Red Hand of Doom for the Realms.

You could also adapt Return to The Temple of Elemental Evil to FR as wrll

Otherwise consider one of the three great dungeon magazine paths. Shackled City, Age of Worms or Savage Tides. Even if you don’t want to do the campaigns there are some great adventures in there.

This group has done Age of Worms (set in Greyhawk). I would definitely consider the other two, but a brief look at conversion notes shows there isn't much to make a DMs life easy and they don't convert so well. Thoughts on that?

Red Hand of Doom I have in my back pocket for when they get hire level or for a separate group of characters down the road.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just pulled up the online conversion notes for Savage Tide and it seems that the whole adventure has side bars linking it to the realms and is more suitable than Shackled City, which is as closely tied to Greyhawk as Age of Worms is. This is exciting actually, I always wanted to run this one and it looks like a good candidate...

 

[Zardnaar]

Forge of Fury and Sunless Citadel are generic enough for realms imho.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

Forge of Fury and Sunless Citadel are generic enough for realms imho.

Sunless Citadel is my favorite starter adventure alongside Crucible of Freya. Forge of Fury is good as well. I have two play groups though and will be running them both in the same setting. One of the groups is brand new to D&D and I think I am going to start them on either Sunless Citadel or Crucible of Freya.

For the long time, experienced group, I think Savage Tide as mentioned above my fit the bill...