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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drammattex" data-source="post: 5666488" data-attributes="member: 55363">This is an interesting thread. What makes a classic? What's the enduring element? It seems like the modules that do something really different (Ravenloft, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Tomb of Horrors) are remembered, but as time goes by and more and more adventures are produced, which ones really stick, and why? This week I've been unloading a lot of old 1e and 2e stuff on Ebay. Sorting through it all, it makes me sad to see so many--I want to say "forgotten"--products. Modules and supplements that sort of drifted on by. On the other hand, one of our most memorable adventures from high school came from an obscure module nobody ever talks about. The module was "<a href="http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=8410" target="_blank">Fighter's Challenge</a>," and we loooooved it. I can't remember if it was the module itself or what we brought to it, but awesome times were had. When I sorted out the stuff I was getting rid of, I put Waterdeep and the North in the "sell" pile--even though that had been our essential campaign setting--and kept Fighter's Challenge because I just couldn't part with it. On the other hand, the last time I did a purge, The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde ended up on the sell pile. We had a really good time playing it, but for that adventure it was the stuff we had added to the module that had made it especially memorable for our group, so in the end I kept the DM notes, sold the module. So what makes a module a classic? I'm sure I don't know.</blockquote>

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