Which adventure was your first? Ever itch to play/DM it again?
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Mishihari Lord
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Mine was the little adventure in the back of the basic set, the one with rat tunnels and a water exit out the back. I was 10 and my mom was the DM (1980) I tried to run it once ~1988, but I was so overcome with nostalgia that I had to quit about 30 minutes into it.
As a Player to introduce me to DnD my friends invited me to build a character for "A Paladin in Hell" Only he had to be a Cleric and they still wonder why I kept haveing trouble remembering I could heal them in the fight when the better choice is to "Flame strike" the enemy.
Would i like to play it again yes cause we stopped half way through
The first game I ran was City of the Spider Queen, which i have re-run for 3 groups 2 of which fell apart, and then an evil aligned group that saw it through to the end. I know i didn't get it right though. So once I've had a bit more practice i'll try again if i can find a group
Zamtap
Would i like to play it again yes cause we stopped half way through
The first game I ran was City of the Spider Queen, which i have re-run for 3 groups 2 of which fell apart, and then an evil aligned group that saw it through to the end. I know i didn't get it right though. So once I've had a bit more practice i'll try again if i can find a group
Zamtap
Mycanid
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Lanefan said:First adventure as a player: a homebrew module called "Nakki-Nakk", which I've since played in again, and DM'ed.
First "canned module" adventure as a player: the lower level(s) of "Bone Hill" (we were cleaning up after a previous party had missed over half the adventure).
First adventure as a DM: a homebrew disaster called "Trey Hill" where expectations all around were low to nonexistent, mainly so I could learn the DM'ing ropes.
First canned module as DM: "Rahasia".
Favourite canned module to play: "Tomb of the Lizard King".
Favourite canned module to DM: "Lost Temple of Tharizdun", but you gotta be ready to die.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Lanefan
On re-reading the thread since I first posted I thought this would be an interesting format for all you posters to re-submit info to!
So I'll follow this form and maybe someone else will also post by this method....
1st canned module adventure as player: In Search of the Unknown
1st adventure as a DM: In Search of the Unknown (also a "canned module")
Favorite "canned module" to play: I REALLY liked the "Saltmarsh" trilogy....
Favorite "canned module" to DM: I'd have to say A4 - IN the Dungeons of the Slave Lords (the introducing module of the ... MYCONIDS! ... yay!)
Ahem ... pardon me.
ilgatto
How inconvenient
1st adventure: A randomly generated AD&D 1E dungeon, rolled live on the DMG1 tables. Those were the days.
1st canned module adventure as player: The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh (U1).
1st adventure as a DM: The Halls of Tizun Thane (Best of White Dwarf Scenarios 1).
Favorite "canned module" to play: Hmm... Tricky, for the various DMs mostly created their own worlds and adventures (stealing things from whatever sources took their fancy as applicable). So although we must have played most, if not all, older 1E and 2E adventures in one way or another, one doesn't really come to mind, although our early sessions in Tegel Manor (JG27) are now the stuff of legend. I also have fond memories of Slave Pits of the Undercity (A1) and Against the Giants (G1-2-3 version; never really made it far into the Underdark), if for the role they played in the lives of my various PCs rather than anything else.
Favorite "canned module" to DM: Tricky again for the above reasons but I do believe this'll have to be The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (WG4), which I ran a lot for various parties. An excellent module that is clean, very straightforward to run, and has a nice cliff-hanger at the end.
Tizun Thane has also remained a favorite and I ran a long campaign in an area were most of the inhabitants of the two major centers of population frequented by the PCs were more or less lifted straight from The Secret of Bone Hill (L1) and The Assassin's Knot (L2), so I guess these deserve mention.
As to the "pining": If there is any pining to be done, it should probably be for the days of innocence, when everything we encountered and the joy of discovering and exploring aspects of the personality of our PCs was still new.
1st canned module adventure as player: The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh (U1).
The party were taken prisoner by the evil Sanbalet (Color Spray!) and tied up in the cave below the mansion. They only managed to escape after everybody with any Strength to speak of had failed their Bend Bars/Lift Gates check and the magic-user of the party (4% chance) said that he might as well have a go, too...
To this day, I remember the tension when he picked up the dice and the table-wide explosion of joy when he rolled 02%.
Never looked back.
To this day, I remember the tension when he picked up the dice and the table-wide explosion of joy when he rolled 02%.
Never looked back.
1st adventure as a DM: The Halls of Tizun Thane (Best of White Dwarf Scenarios 1).
Favorite "canned module" to play: Hmm... Tricky, for the various DMs mostly created their own worlds and adventures (stealing things from whatever sources took their fancy as applicable). So although we must have played most, if not all, older 1E and 2E adventures in one way or another, one doesn't really come to mind, although our early sessions in Tegel Manor (JG27) are now the stuff of legend. I also have fond memories of Slave Pits of the Undercity (A1) and Against the Giants (G1-2-3 version; never really made it far into the Underdark), if for the role they played in the lives of my various PCs rather than anything else.
Favorite "canned module" to DM: Tricky again for the above reasons but I do believe this'll have to be The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (WG4), which I ran a lot for various parties. An excellent module that is clean, very straightforward to run, and has a nice cliff-hanger at the end.
Tizun Thane has also remained a favorite and I ran a long campaign in an area were most of the inhabitants of the two major centers of population frequented by the PCs were more or less lifted straight from The Secret of Bone Hill (L1) and The Assassin's Knot (L2), so I guess these deserve mention.
As to the "pining": If there is any pining to be done, it should probably be for the days of innocence, when everything we encountered and the joy of discovering and exploring aspects of the personality of our PCs was still new.
B2 was also me. I've run it soooo many times. Way back in the day I had a friend that I'd take turns with running B2 as we tried to master the single character speed run.Mine was B2 Keep on the Borderland. I keep threatening to run it again. I have a feeling it could be done in such a way that the party wouldn't know what adventure it was until it was too late.
More recently I flipped the script B2 and wrote that up as a Trophy Gold incursion. B2 is always there.
aramis erak
Legend
the old keep in the back of Moldvay Basic. From time to time, I run it... I've run it in Basic (BX, Cyclopedia), AD&D 1E & 2E. I've used it for inspiration in WFRP 1E as well.
Strider1973
Explorer
The first Adventure I played, as a player, was the AD&D 1e Temple of Elemental Evil, and the first adventure I ran as a DM was the Keep on the Borderlands.
While I've no particular desire to play/run those adventures again, I'd like to run old school adventures like "Treasure Hunt", "Rahasia!", "Dragonlance Classics" modules, with modern systems, like Pathfinder 2e, Level Up! Advanced Fifth Edition, or Original 5e Dungeons & Dragons, or with quasi-osr systems as Castles & Crusades.
i'd like to recapture some aspects of the feel and the style of those adventures and of the OSR gaming (for instance players' skills and wits along and over characters' features, and rulings over rules, in some cases) blending them with more modern rulesets, which I prefer.
Two of the best adventures of BECMI era which I'd like to run again are "The Curseof Xanathon" and, above all, "THE CROWN OF ANCIENT GLORY", an adventure which I really adore, and that is very dear and close to my mind, memory and heart, both for gaming and personal/emotional reasons.
Personally, I don't like the lethality of the earlier adventures and rulesets. Neither do I like he extreme power of PCs in more modern games, but Pathfinder 2e and Level Up! Advanced Fifth Edition, and also Dungeons & Dragons 5e, with some optional rule from the DMG, all hit my personal sweet spot. Personal preference, of course.
Happy life and happy gaming!
While I've no particular desire to play/run those adventures again, I'd like to run old school adventures like "Treasure Hunt", "Rahasia!", "Dragonlance Classics" modules, with modern systems, like Pathfinder 2e, Level Up! Advanced Fifth Edition, or Original 5e Dungeons & Dragons, or with quasi-osr systems as Castles & Crusades.
i'd like to recapture some aspects of the feel and the style of those adventures and of the OSR gaming (for instance players' skills and wits along and over characters' features, and rulings over rules, in some cases) blending them with more modern rulesets, which I prefer.
Two of the best adventures of BECMI era which I'd like to run again are "The Curseof Xanathon" and, above all, "THE CROWN OF ANCIENT GLORY", an adventure which I really adore, and that is very dear and close to my mind, memory and heart, both for gaming and personal/emotional reasons.
Personally, I don't like the lethality of the earlier adventures and rulesets. Neither do I like he extreme power of PCs in more modern games, but Pathfinder 2e and Level Up! Advanced Fifth Edition, and also Dungeons & Dragons 5e, with some optional rule from the DMG, all hit my personal sweet spot. Personal preference, of course.
Happy life and happy gaming!
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DrunkonDuty
he/him
Keep on the Borderland. Was that B2? Back in 1982.
I've got most of a setting I call "Beyond the Keep on the Borderlands" which I might run stuff in someday.
I've got most of a setting I call "Beyond the Keep on the Borderlands" which I might run stuff in someday.
Lord Shark
Adventurer
Keep on the Borderlands. Zero interest in running or playing it again.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
I made up all of my adventures during my first 25 years of gaming. I didn't really take notes, so I couldn't really run them again even if I wanted to.
Otherwise, the first pre-written adventure I ran was probable Forge of Fury? Sure, I'd run that again if I had a mind to.
Otherwise, the first pre-written adventure I ran was probable Forge of Fury? Sure, I'd run that again if I had a mind to.
Committed Hero
Adventurer
Pretty sure it was G2.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
My first adventure module I ever ran was X1: The Isle of Dread. I love that adventure so much that I have worked it into every campaign I've ever run since the 1980s. I've converted it to 3.5E, I've converted it to Pathfinder, and now I'm using the excellent Goodman Games conversion for my upcoming 5E campaign.
It's the best module ever written. Fight me.
It's the best module ever written. Fight me.
aco175
Legend
The first adventure we played I cannot remember the name. It had a set of bars that split the party and we died from bugbears or gnolls or such. Might be B1 or B2. I think my father ran B2 from the basic book after that but do not recall much. I want to run the series but likely would modify it more than Goodman has done with more story and placement.
