Reasons for the letter designation of 1st ed. modules

[diaglo]

MV - ? (Midnight on Dagger Alley)
N - New players?
R - ? (series of former tournament adventures)
XS - Expert Solo? (Thunderdelve Mountain)

MV - Magic Viewer
N - Novice
R - RPGA they were for RPGA play only
XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain was the second XSOLO module.

 

[DMH]

Thank you all for the answers!

 

[Glyfair]

DQ - ? (The Shattered Statue)

Dragonquest.

It was an excellent roleplaying game produced by SPI. When TSR picked up SPI, they tried to keep it going including producing a couple of things for it. The Shattered Statue was a multi-system adventure Dragonquest and AD&D.

 

[francisca]

And WG4 is a sequel to S4 and there is no WG1-3...not haphazard at all...

I think this is correct:

WG1 is the original folio for the setting
WG2 and WG3 are the books in the boxed set, though they don't carry the designation.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I think this is correct:

WG1 is the original folio for the setting
WG2 and WG3 are the books in the boxed set, though they don't carry the designation.

I believe you are correct.

DM

 

[TerraDave]

I think this is correct:

WG1 is the original folio for the setting
WG2 and WG3 are the books in the boxed set, though they don't carry the designation.

Ahh, I haven't seen this before.

This is another story, from here:

No modules were ever assigned codes WG1 - WG3. WG1 and WG2 were apparently earmarked for T1 Village of Hommlet and its planned sequel, Temple of Elemental Evil (thanks to Ian Malcomson for this info). WG3 was originally to be assigned to Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, but that module ended up with code S4. WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun is the sequel (loosely tied) to that module.

 

[rogueattorney]

This is another story, from here:

That link tells the true story.

EX1 and EX2 were both originally going to be CG1 and CG2 for "Castle Greyhawk" since they were levels from that castle.

R.A.

 

[rogueattorney]

CA - ? (Swords of the Undercity, Swords of Deceit - Lankhmar adventures)
H - ? (Bloodstone Adventures)

CA = "City of Adventure" as they went with the "Lankhmar: City of Adventure" Supplement.

H = High level.

R.A.

 

[francisca]

That link tells the true story.

EX1 and EX2 were both originally going to be CG1 and CG2 for "Castle Greyhawk" since they were levels from that castle.

R.A.

Yep, RA is right. I know I've read that the two books in the GH boxed set had some designation, but I'll be darned if I can find it.

 

[Zander]

I think that the 'Q' in modules coded 'xxQ' stands for Quest. Thus, DLQ is Dragonlance Quest, DSQ is Dark Sun Quest etc.