Which of the H, L, N & S series adventures have you played or ran?

[Glyfair]

Time for the next series of adventures in the "shared experience" polls. I'm working through the series in a somewhat arbitrary fashion.

Which of these have you played in or ran?

 

[T. Foster]

Ran L1, played in and later ran L2; ran N1, played in N5; ran all of the S series; ran the "Assassin's Run" portion of H3 as a RuneQuest adventure (I actually ran the Dragon magazine version, but gave it a vote anyway). Owned but never played in or ran H2, H4, N2, and N4.

 

[Beckett]

Against the Cult of the Reptile God was the first RPG item that I bought, and the first module I attempted to DM. I was 8 at the time, and DMing for my younger brother, so it didn't go so well.

I've since run it more successfully in 1E, 2E, and 3E.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Against the Cult of the Reptile God is arguably the best 1E adventure, IMO. The S series is a lot of fun, but they're nowhere near as sophisticated or as "modern" as N1 is. Only the regrettable deus ex machina final encounter keeps it from being the equal of any of the modern great Dungeon modules.

 

[Aus_Snow]

N (all) and S (all), as a player. Modified, I suspect.

 

[QuaziquestGM]

I played in "against the cult of the reptile god" as an on the fly conversion to 3.5
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As the most experienced player I challenged my self by rolling my pc completely at random and ended up with a NE Gnome Aristocrat. The other players were a Xeph soulknife, a human warlock, and a 1/2 elf NG Cleric.

We needed a little GM hint right before facing the The Big Bad, but otherwise were tearing the module apart.

The first thing we did was bubble into the Inn Front of the evil cult recruiting station, take rooms, ask an impertinant question or two, eat dinner, fail our fort saves and pass out. Well, 3 of us did. The one that didn't had however stated that he was getting drunk, and then got jumped in his room by 5 guys and a cleric.

At this point the gm threw 3/4ths of the module over his shoulder because we had skipped all the investigating, and started reading up on what would happen to us.

We came to, disarmed, and tied up in an underground tunnel somewhere. Or rather, as disarmed as you can make a soulblade and a warlock with out actually removing their arms. The cleric still had all of her spells, and I was, well, still a gnome. One escape artist check later we started systematically tearing the rest of the poor 1st ed module apart with our 3.5 splatbook characters. I was the only one even approaching the expected power level of a level 1 pc.

 

[Glyfair]

Given that the Bloodstone series is somewhat iconic (admittedly, a minor iconic), I'm surprised at the low ratings. Then again, it was the power level of the 4th that was iconic, so maybe it's not surprising it wasn't ran.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Only two.

Oh, and Gly? It's which have you played or run! This is driving me nuts!

 

[Glyfair]

Only two.

Oh, and Gly? It's which have you played or run! This is driving me nuts!

To the the truth, I would rather just list play, as I consider DMing something to be the same as playing in it. I know there are those who split hairs and wanted to avoid that (so I catch you instead ).

 

[T. Foster]

Given that the Bloodstone series is somewhat iconic (admittedly, a minor iconic), I'm surprised at the low ratings. Then again, it was the power level of the 4th that was iconic, so maybe it's not surprising it wasn't ran.

The problem (at least for me) is that the H series modules just aren't very good. I remember (and it's been ~20 years so I'm foggy on the exact details) H4 as being particularly rancid. I spent a great deal of time after buying H2 trying to perform surgery on it to make it into something I'd want to run, and eventually decided it just wasn't worth the effort. Great cover art, though, by the late Keith Parkinson.