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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7835183" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I love 4E but the starter adventure - <strong>Keep on the Shadowfell</strong> - for that was pretty bad. It committed the greatest sin an adventure can commit - it was extremely boring. The sequels were less boring but they were a bit tacky and ridiculous. So we would definitely not want to revive that.</p><p></p><p>With 2E the "classic" is what came with the DM's Screen - <strong>Terrible Trouble at Tragidore</strong>, which is exactly awful as the name suggests. Again, not a good adventure by any means, definitely not worth reviving.</p><p></p><p>Some 2E settings had introductory adventures too. The first Dark Sun one is pretty cool, but very heavily scripted in a way that would make it feel a bit too contrived for modern audiences, I think. The Forgotten Realms one from the part-way-through 2E FR boxed set (blue box? I forget. Not grey box that was 1E) which featured Gandalf, er... I mean Elminster poncing around and giving the party an adventure (basically rats in the basement stuff) had a surprising amount of atmosphere, but it wasn't killer. It did give my party an enduring fear of badgers, so there's that.</p><p></p><p>I think looking at older editions you'd mostly want to focus on L1-3 adventures which were not edition-starters, because they'll be more competently-written and engaging than edition-starters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7835183, member: 18"] I love 4E but the starter adventure - [B]Keep on the Shadowfell[/B] - for that was pretty bad. It committed the greatest sin an adventure can commit - it was extremely boring. The sequels were less boring but they were a bit tacky and ridiculous. So we would definitely not want to revive that. With 2E the "classic" is what came with the DM's Screen - [B]Terrible Trouble at Tragidore[/B], which is exactly awful as the name suggests. Again, not a good adventure by any means, definitely not worth reviving. Some 2E settings had introductory adventures too. The first Dark Sun one is pretty cool, but very heavily scripted in a way that would make it feel a bit too contrived for modern audiences, I think. The Forgotten Realms one from the part-way-through 2E FR boxed set (blue box? I forget. Not grey box that was 1E) which featured Gandalf, er... I mean Elminster poncing around and giving the party an adventure (basically rats in the basement stuff) had a surprising amount of atmosphere, but it wasn't killer. It did give my party an enduring fear of badgers, so there's that. I think looking at older editions you'd mostly want to focus on L1-3 adventures which were not edition-starters, because they'll be more competently-written and engaging than edition-starters. [/QUOTE]
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