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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6252207" data-attributes="member: 5868">Well, I'm biased toward <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&amp;downloadid=414" target="_blank">Raiders of Oakhurst</a> and <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&amp;downloadid=982" target="_blank">The Desolation of Oakhurst</a> because I wrote them to be sandboxy. Both would be easy conversions to 5E.But for classic products, in addition to Hommlet my favorites are:B2, Keep on the Borderlands and sequels/revisits (2E Return is a bit more fleshed out)The Lost City of BarakusCommon features among them that I think are key to a good starting location:- A keyed town/settlement with interesting NPCs who have their own stories and interactions that can be expanded into broader plots and adventures- A wilderness area - Some site-based set-piece encounters that can be found via exploration- Some mysteries that can be followed up if the DM wants to expand the adventure- A plot thread that leads to a reasonable-to-large-sized adventure site- Design that doesn't assume every encounter is a combat encounter and allows PCs to take a variety of approaches to the adventureAnother approach is to simply pick a slightly isolated town/village on the outskirts of civilization in a campaign setting that you like, and drop in adventure sites stolen from your favorite adventures.&nbsp; You need to come of with a framing/linking story, but otherwise your prep is pretty minimal.&nbsp; I once ran a campaign that combined the Keep and Caves from B2 with the Moathouse version from RttToEE as part of the local sandbox.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 6252207, member: 5868"] Well, I'm biased toward [I][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=414"]Raiders of Oakhurst[/URL][/I] and [I][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=982"]The Desolation of Oakhurst[/URL][/I] because I wrote them to be sandboxy. Both would be easy conversions to 5E. But for classic products, in addition to Hommlet my favorites are: [I]B2, Keep on the Borderlands[/I] and sequels/revisits (2E Return is a bit more fleshed out) [I]The Lost City of Barakus[/I] Common features among them that I think are key to a good starting location: - A keyed town/settlement with interesting NPCs who have their own stories and interactions that can be expanded into broader plots and adventures - A wilderness area - Some site-based set-piece encounters that can be found via exploration - Some mysteries that can be followed up if the DM wants to expand the adventure - A plot thread that leads to a reasonable-to-large-sized adventure site - Design that doesn't assume every encounter is a combat encounter and allows PCs to take a variety of approaches to the adventure Another approach is to simply pick a slightly isolated town/village on the outskirts of civilization in a campaign setting that you like, and drop in adventure sites stolen from your favorite adventures. You need to come of with a framing/linking story, but otherwise your prep is pretty minimal. I once ran a campaign that combined the Keep and Caves from B2 with the Moathouse version from RttToEE as part of the local sandbox. [/QUOTE]

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