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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 4740101" data-attributes="member: 1613">X4 and X5 are, hands-down, the best adventures in the lot you selected this time around, Knightfall.   They are direct sequels, and are in turn followed by X10 Red Arrow, Black Shield (so they're a module trilogy, although X10 is written by Michael Dobson and not Dave Cook who wrote X4 and X5).  [spoiler]They are all about religious war brewing in the desert, with the PCs attached to the armies defending against the invading nomads.  They are the best desert adventures published by TSR, and beat out I9, UK6 (which is, however, also quite good and an underlooked gem IMO), and WGR3.  X4 and X5 are well-worth picking up, though not, however, before the individual S1-4 modules.[/spoiler]S1-4 are certainly excellent adventures, but the compilation supermodule is not worth buying if you don't already own S1, S2, S3, and S4 as individual adventures.  Spoilers for the adventures follow, just in case:  [spoiler] Portions of the originals are dropped and expanded, specifically levels 2, 5, and 6 of S3, and the entire booklets of new monsters/spells/magic items from S4 (many of which were reproduced in Unearthed Arcana and MM2, but not all by any means); in addition, the color plates from S3's  illustration booklet are b&w, and all of the S1 and S3 illustrations and all module maps are smaller than the originals (the original illustration booklets and maps were 8 1/2 x 11 but the new illos booklet is the same size as the other supermodule map booklets; this includes Erol Otus' wonderful map of WPM from S2).  All that said, if you do already own the originals and really like them, there are some additions to the S1-4 compilation, including expanding upon the wilderness encounters for S4 and a handout of the hermit's diary fragment.  That said, it is definitely not worth buying this compilation to secure the original contents of the modules, since many key elements are missing.[/spoiler]Hopefully that helps your decision making process.  And, if you do decide to buy S4, you should buy WG4 as well, since they're sister-adventures, so to speak.</blockquote>

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