Top 10 Greatest Adventures IN the Dungeon Magazine

[HeavyG]

Could you tell me what number that is in?
Thanks,
Stegger

Wererats is in issue 14.

Ghost is in #35.

 

[Stegger]

just looked it up:
Mightier than the sword was in Dungeon 29 and mud sorceror's was in issue 37.
Just in case anybody other than me wanted to have a look.
Stegger

 

[Narfellus]

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Grakhirt's Lair
Trouble at Grog's
Mightier Than the Sword
Tallow's Deep
Rose for Talakara
Mud Sorcerer's Tomb
Falcon's Peak

Yeah, Tallows Deep was a good one. Made my players scared of goblins again. Man that was years ago...

 

[Stegger]

Is it because of nostalgia that almost all the adventures are from rather early issues of Dungeon or were they just better back then? And if so, why? Are newer adventures just reusing old ideas?
Stegger

 

[Silver Moon]

My favorite Dungeon adventure is The Ghost of Mistmoor.

Mine too, although "Beast of Burden" from Dungeon #100 was a close second - my group loved it.

 

[diaglo]

Is it because of nostalgia that almost all the adventures are from rather early issues of Dungeon or were they just better back then? And if so, why? Are newer adventures just reusing old ideas?
Stegger

yes. the issues were better back then. and the ideas in the newer issues are rehashes of material done by other companies or stories or games.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

I agree with some of the aforementioned ones- Grakhirt's Lair, Trouble at Grog's, and Mud Sorcerer's Tomb are all classics. Here are a few others, and many more recent ones that I'm quite fond of:

Ancient Blood (#20)
Things that go Bump in the Night (#38)
Kingdom of the Ghouls (#70)
Priestly Secrets (#71)
Preemptive Strike (#74)
The Forgotten Man (#75) (Probably my favorite one ever)
Visiting Tylwyth (#77)
Lear the Giant-King (#78)
Fortune Favors the Dead (#80)
The Scar (#80)
Evil Unearthed (#82)
Playing with Fire (#82)
Dark Times in Sherwood (#82)
The Harrowing (#84)
The Dying of the Light (#84)
Dungeon of the Fire Opal (#84)
Glacier Season (#87)
Gorgoldand's Gauntlet (#87 Bonus CD)

I haven't really cared for much I've seen in Dungeon after about issue #90 or so... but things could still pick up. The new format is quite promising...

(I wrote a longer post explaining why I thought all the aforementioned adventures were great, but my computer crashed and I lost it before it posted, dang it!)

 

[MonsterMash]

I like the ones for 3e from issue 82
Evil Unearthed
Playing with Fire - written by Jeff Grubb who I've always rated because of the Al-Qadim setting.

 

[DMH]

Horror's Harvest in 38 (pod people)

Fiends of Tethyr in 54 (utahraptors in the realms)

The Frothing Miscreant in 80 (mad gnome inventions)

Mertylmane's Road in 76 (see cover for reason)

Fruit of the Vine in 76 (mix olive slime with yellow musk creeper)

Lord of the Scarlet Tide in 85 (Cthulhuistic horror)

 

[Ishmayl]

One of my favorite adventures came from a pretty old Dungeon. I unfortunately can't remember the name of it, or the names of the various monsters, but I remember it was a high-level adventure with some sort of being who had possessed a tree and was killing all the forest Elves and druids and such. An Elven lady hired you to help out. That's all I can remember; it must have been at least 10-12 years ago though.