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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6977052" data-attributes="member: 996">I didn't pay a lot of attention to modules back in the day.&nbsp; I'd occasionally look through one, I ended up with a number for no particular reason - thrown in with a back issue of Dragon I was buying at a flea market, left with me when another friend left the hobby (or just the State) or whatever - and I don't have a lot of fond memories of under-rated TSR modules (and some less fond memories of over-rated ones).&nbsp; Though I did rather like the Ghost Tower of Inverness, and it doesn't seem like it's much remembered.OTOH, there's one 3e module that got pretty bad press that I quite enjoyed, Heart of Nightfang Spire.&nbsp; No, really.&nbsp; When Cordell wrote this er, whatever it was exactly, I think he'd clearly become aware of just how badly off the rails 3e could go, and he'd written a module that prettymuch asked the DM to punish their players for every cheesy trick that had materialized.&nbsp; It's really not a great story, and the structure is very video-game (collect 4 keys to unlock the boss fight!), but it does challenge the way 3e was being abused back then.&nbsp; It's kinda like Tomb of Horrors that way...... except that a regular party that isn't all casters going overboard with 5MWDs and scry/buff/teleport and whatnot can actually clear it.&nbsp; Not exactly a walk in the park, but doable.&nbsp; Of course, I played through it with a good DM, so it just might have had some of the rough edges polished.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6977052, member: 996"] I didn't pay a lot of attention to modules back in the day. I'd occasionally look through one, I ended up with a number for no particular reason - thrown in with a back issue of Dragon I was buying at a flea market, left with me when another friend left the hobby (or just the State) or whatever - and I don't have a lot of fond memories of under-rated TSR modules (and some less fond memories of over-rated ones). Though I did rather like the Ghost Tower of Inverness, and it doesn't seem like it's much remembered. OTOH, there's one 3e module that got pretty bad press that I quite enjoyed, Heart of Nightfang Spire. No, really. When Cordell wrote this er, whatever it was exactly, I think he'd clearly become aware of just how badly off the rails 3e could go, and he'd written a module that prettymuch asked the DM to punish their players for every cheesy trick that had materialized. It's really not a great story, and the structure is very video-game (collect 4 keys to unlock the boss fight!), but it does challenge the way 3e was being abused back then. It's kinda like Tomb of Horrors that way... ... except that a regular party that isn't all casters going overboard with 5MWDs and scry/buff/teleport and whatnot can actually clear it. Not exactly a walk in the park, but doable. Of course, I played through it with a good DM, so it just might have had some of the rough edges polished. ;) [/QUOTE]

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