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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2233655" data-attributes="member: 158">When Keep on the Borderlands, White Plume Mountain, Dungeons of the Slave lords, etc. were written, campaigns were not quite that varied at the time. Two campaigns were probably more alive than they were different. Even now, the number of Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance players, or players of homebrews in these veins, probably still outstrip the number of Eberron, Planescape, and Dark Sun players. With the core of the idea as it is, it can be placed in any of them with a minimum of fuss. The Cleric in the Caves of Chaos can be a cleric of the Mockery, or Bane, or Hextor; however, The avangion in a Dark Sun module would be a little harder to translate -- perhaps a powerful fey or some such. Even then, I admit that the appeal of the old modules has faded largely now that both the game rules and settings are so varied; But when a cleric was a cleric was a cleric, it was more portable to put the caves in the Flanaess, or Faerun, or Krynn than to convert so much. My point is mainly why the modules were so popular for so long, rather than supporting why they would be popular now. Although I'll always admit to stealing a bit or piece for something current every now and again. I don't do that for much of anything from the 1990's from TSR.</blockquote>