Which classic issues of Dungeon Magazine are best?

[David Howery]

I used to have the complete Dungeon run from 1 to 100, but several moves and accidents over the years has reduced my collection; now, I have only 1-36, plus the later issues with my own stuff in them. Add me to the list of the fans of the Boucher brothers as well. I think 'Into the Fire' and 'Ancient Blood' have to be two the best D&D adventures ever published...

 

[Steel_Wind]

If you could point to only one, it would be from Sept/October 1992, Issue #37. That issue contained the classic Dungeon Adventure: The Mud Sorceror's Tomb.

The Mud Sorceror's Tomb lead the list of classic Dungeon Adventures in fan and critical praise and was updated and republished by Paizo for 3.5 play in issue #138 of Dungeon.

I have them both. The updated version is better, imo, but that should not detract from the worth of the original classic.

 

[hagor]

I can't tell you how many gaming groups I've launched with "The Keep at Koralgesh."

The adventure I used most to introduce several groups/start several campaigns (in 2E) was "Dovedale" from #46.

In fact, I find #46 a rather strong issue: I enjoyed running "Goblin Fever" and enjoyed reading (never got around running it) "Iron Orb of the Duergar"

Hagor

 

[Knightfall]

#54 - Unhallowed Ground. Murder in a monastery.

I must agree... that's a great adventure.

 

[tylerthehobo]

Occasionally on ebay you can find the CD-ROM collection that was released in the 90s (to much conflict over copyright issues, if I recall) that collects the first 200 or 250 issues or so. Lots of neat stuff, and just SO MUCH of it.

I still look back fondly on the early Ed Greenwood articles prior to the release of the Forgotten Realms, and in particular one column on the flora and fauna of Faerun released just after the first grey box. It went on and on about the names of different types of trees, the fruit they bore, and more. Greenwood politely but rather directly shared that the info was originally something considered for the gray box itself, but that it ended up on the cutting room floor. You could tell that to him, a description of the Realms was incomplete without an analysis of its botany, just showing how deep the world seemed (and still seems) to him. Great stuff..

 

[amnuxoll]

My fave is Ex Libris in issue #29. I own every issue of Dungeon.

:AMN:

 

[Derulbaskul]

(snip some stuff about Dragon magazine

Mate, the thread is about Dungeon not Dragon.

(The copyright issue you alluded to was the reprinting of the Knights of the Dinner Table strips. Part, if not all, of the settlement was what allowed Kenzer & Co to produce licensed 3.xE products which is why all the Kingdoms of Kalamar stuff has the proper D&D brand shown [and also what allowed them access to otherwise closed content].)

 

[Knightfall]

My fave is Ex Libris in issue #29. I own every issue of Dungeon.

:AMN:

Envy.

 

[Starfox]

This thread gives some fond remembrances, tough I don't have my old Dungeon issues current any more. Once 3.0 debuted, I pretty much stopped using the older issues, tough I have almost all (I believe my collection is 5 issues short).

Now that it looks like I won't be playing my next campaign in D&D, I'll have the pleasure to look back into the collection again. My favorites were always the mysteries, not the dungeons.

I was intending to share a Google Document listing all adventures from Dungeon here, but could not find it - does someone else know of a good online index? Preferably sortable by different criteria such as level, locale (city/desert/mountain etc) and type of plot?

 

[grodog]

I was intending to share a Google Document listing all adventures from Dungeon here, but could not find it - does someone else know of a good online index? Preferably sortable by different criteria such as level, locale (city/desert/mountain etc) and type of plot?

Jay Hafner's dungeon index @ http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...7-complete-dungeon-index-version-1-152-a.html rocks!