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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6446694" data-attributes="member: 59082">You know how some adventures seem more or less "lore-rich," the feeling that history, legend and myth--story in all its forms--is alive and enmeshed in the adventure? A more generic adventure might seem as if grown in a test-tube, while a more lore-rich setting seems as if it is grown from a deep and complex history and setting. The locations and sites have a feeling of context and history that doesn't feel paper-thin. A lore-rich adventure tends to carry a feeling of myth and vitality to it, as if it is part of a larger Story.I'm not necessarily talking about how much an adventure is linked to a setting, mind you. That could have something to do with it, but an adventure can be "setting-agnostic" and still be lore-rich. An example of a lore-rich setting is the old AD&D Tomb of Horrors. The presence and history of Acererak is palpable in every room (should we call it demi-lore-rich? Bad pun). Certainly it has the feeling and soil of Greyhawk, but it could be transplanted into nearly any fantasy world. Some like to bag on Ruins of Undermountain, but there's a lore-rich quality to it -- at least from my memory; I haven't looked at it in years.What say you? What adventures--any edition, any type--are particularly lore-rich? If you feel like it, what adventures are particularly "lore-poor"?</blockquote>