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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5172412" data-attributes="member: 40177">This is an interesting thread, but personally, I'd rather it not be everyone just listing adventures they've played... it'd be much better if everyone actually DETAILED the adventures... especially the rarer ones!Veiled Society, for example, is an old BECMI adventure for low level PCs.  It's set in the city of Specularum, and have the PCs involved in a murder mystery.  It was designed as a low-level urban mystery - a new way to start out BECMI games (as opposed to the usual dungeon crawls).  It's an interesting game to run through, though there are more "traditional" moments as well.  Some of the clues are pretty obvious, and others are of the sort that no player will ever figure out... and it all balances out.  Like a lot of late 80s/early 90s adventures, though, it's highly "railroady" at times.  Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan is my all-time favourite adventure.  Basically, the PCs are stuck in a dungeon, and only have a set period of time to get out.  There are a lot of "temptations" that can lead the party astray.  It's built for tournament play, with a scoring summary at the end that's always intrigued me.  Many of the traps are absolutely fiendish, and there are a few RP encounters that I've taken and used in other games (particularly the giant talking crayfish that thinks he's a god.  I mean, that's just awesome).Conan Unchained! has a picture of Arnold Schwarzeneggar on the cover, in COnan guise.  IT's pretty awesome.  It has a bunch of rules for running games in Hyborea, basically consisting of modifications to the core 1e rules.  It also, I believe, introduces action points.  The adventure itself starts with the PCs being captives, and then they fight their way free and somehow get involved in a fight against a wizard/sorcerer.  If memory serves.  There are also a few demons in the plot that are fairly lovecraftian.  I've never run it, but it was an interesting read, and I know I've plundered from it before.</blockquote>

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