Where can I find a Good Source of Free Adventures?

[cheadberg]

Greetings all. I just back back last month from Iraq and I am finally out of the Army for good (unless I re-enlist ) Any ways I have been gone for 6 months and I am looking to start running with my old group. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a site(s) where they post free 3.5 adventures? I have been to a few and only a few were o.k. I am looking for more FR settings or ones that can easily be converted. Also has anyone ever taken the time to convert old modules to 3.5? Any input would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

[reveal]

Congrats on being back! I know it can be a hard decision whether to re-up or not.

For sites, here are a few:

http://www.dndadventure.com/
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b
http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=268&

 

[mearls]

Greetings all. I just back back last month from Iraq and I am finally out of the Army for good (unless I re-enlist ) Any ways I have been gone for 6 months and I am looking to start running with my old group. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a site(s) where they post free 3.5 adventures? I have been to a few and only a few were o.k. I am looking for more FR settings or ones that can easily be converted. Also has anyone ever taken the time to convert old modules to 3.5? Any input would be great. Thanks in advance.

Welcome back!

WotC has some pretty good adventures on their site. I've run a few of them, and they went well. Here's the main page:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b

 

[Kaji]

Gotta agree with Mike. Wizards even put together a chart sorted by level, so you can pick out a couple close to the level you want to play. And a sizable number of the adventure authors included material for scaling the adventure. It's usually sparse, but its often there. I've run several of these, and enjoyed them all. My gang had a terrible (for them) time with the Crumbling Hall of the Frost Giants mod, very tough and well planned.

 

[Felon]

Well, Wizards doesn't really serve up "adventures". They offer good encounters. They give you a place to have a fight and things to fight with, and maybe a hook to get you into the encounter. Plot is incidental.

 

[Poster Bard]

I've said it before and will say it again. I think you'll find that some of the best FREE adventures are put together by EN Worlders under the Cooperative Dungeon projects and published by a Top d20 ePublisher, Mark of Creative Mountain Games -

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?&products_id=2500

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?&products_id=2781

And there are more in the works right now. Do yourself another favor and pick up his low-level Whispering Woodwind adventure while you're there -

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=301

It's been well played at many gamedays, a favorite of a lot of EN Worlders, and is geared for 3.5 rules. It even has a lot of additional material including a 10 supplement that is a players' guide to a small town and a six page center section (within the 40 page adventure) detailing a whole tribe based on the Trundlefolk Culture Class (NPC class - temperate/wilderland nomads). That additioanl Trundlefolk section can be used as the basis for a whole separate adventure. You could probably use the Whispering Woodwind material for first and second level, or second and third, or even third and fourth, as it has plenty of advice for DMs on how to scale the adventure.

Grab THREE FREE spellbooks and SRD 3.5 Revised demos while you're there also -

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3613

There are few publishers of any size that have given the community so much FREE and GREAT material. CMG rules!

 

[pennywiz]

http://www.dndadventure.com/
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b
http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=268&

Beat me to it!

 

[mearls]

Well, Wizards doesn't really serve up "adventures". They offer good encounters. They give you a place to have a fight and things to fight with, and maybe a hook to get you into the encounter. Plot is incidental.

No offense, but my experience with them has been nothing like that. JD Wiker's fantastic adventure, The Ettin's Riddle, is a classic "not a single combat roll in 3 hours of gaming" sort of adventure. It's perhaps one of the best adventures I've ever run.

 

[Duncan Haldane]

Have you considered the RPGA? If you become a member (which is free) you can order modules and run them for your friends.

They are generally pretty good, and they are free. They are available for a range of levels. While most are set up for RPGA campaigns (such as Living Greyhawk), you can take those and change them however you want, so long as you don't then try to suggest the characters are legitimate for campaign play.

Duncan