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1. RPG Item: T1-4: The Temple of Elemental Evil [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:95]
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What a fantastic adventure. Other than a mini introductory scenario my GM cooked up, The Village of Hommlet / Temple of Elemental Evil set was my first foray into RPG gaming. I still have many fond memories of the early adventures of Lance Longsword (Paladin), Stinky Whizzleteats (Wizard), Brantley (Duelist), and Ellowen-Deeowen (my Elven Bladesinger - the name is a riddle).
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L.O.N.D.O.N. That's actually a surprisingly effective way of creating names for fantasy races.

*Ponders the wisdom of naming his next character Arpy Geegee*
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I always found myself more interested in hearing about Gygax's original campaign than actually playing through it myself.
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I have a particularly soft spot for it because it was my first 'real' adventure. I mean this is back when it was

"It's a Bugbear! Wait....What's a Bugbear? What can it DOOOO?! Run!"

Wow....I just realized it's been about 18 years since we ran through this.
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Which of these adventures was it that there was a Heat Metal trap on the Hallway? Was it Temple or one of the later modules? I won't give away the spoiler, but it was one of the many times in our adventures that E-D wound up naked and running for his life.
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I remember going into Things for Thinkers in the late 70's/early 80s and bought the D&D boxed and T1. A few weeks later I asked for T2 Temple of Elemental Evil and about 10 years later it arrived.
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  • Posted Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:48 pm
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Ellowen-Deeowen wrote:
Which of these adventures was it that there was a Heat Metal trap on the Hallway? Was it Temple or one of the later modules? I won't give away the spoiler, but it was one of the many times in our adventures that E-D wound up naked and running for his life.


That would be White Plume Mountain (S2).
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2. RPG Item: S2: White Plume Mountain [Average Rating:7.79 Overall Rank:127]
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A short, but fun adventure with lots of traps.
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This gets my vote as one of the top five of all time.

Who can forget the tiered pit with a couple manticores waiting at the bottom? sauron
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3. RPG Item: I6: Ravenloft [Average Rating:8.17 Overall Rank:29]
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An absolute classic...though our dream team of thugs pummeled Strahd unmercifully. You know it's bad when the wizard uses his Wand of Frost to dome Strahd IN with the party. (This was also one of our first adventures running a 2nd Edition Breach-Gnome Deep-Gnome, Snorri Stoneskin. HOLY CRAP. Let's just say they have been Nerfed SIGNIFICANTLY in subsequent editions.) We actually reworked and reran this adventure multiple times with new goals, traps, etc. because we had so much fun the first time.

"Adventures, prepare to to meet your doo....Oh....It's you guys again."
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4. RPG Item: I3-5: Desert of Desolation [Average Rating:7.86 Overall Rank:132]
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A nice change of pace from the normal Faux-Medieval theme. Obviously, Egyptian themed and brimming with traps.
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I ran the first part of this set, I3-Pharoh. It was probably the best I ever did at DMing. A very well put together adventure.
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5. RPG Item: G1-2-3: Against the Giants [Average Rating:7.94 Overall Rank:55]
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This was our third set of adventures ever, following the GM's homebrew and Temple of Elemental Evil. As usual fragile Ellowen-Deeowen was leading the charge with Lance Longsword (the Paladin) "covering our rear."
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6. RPG Item: D1-2: Descent into the Depths of the Earth [Average Rating:7.84 Overall Rank:106]
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We never played the entire Queen of Spiders series, but we did follow up Against the Giants with Descent into the Depths of the Earth and....
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7. RPG Item: D3: Vault of the Drow [Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:180]
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Another excellent module. I enjoyed it so much I went out and bought both Menzoberranzan, The Guide to the Drow, and Ruins of Undermountain for a long-planned Underdark campaign that never materialized.
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8. RPG Item: Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules [Average Rating:7.39 Overall Rank:189]
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This may not be the greatest adventure in terms of quality, but the mini-scenario in this boxed set is certainly the one I've run the greatest number of times, having done it about a dozen times, first as a kid, then for kids, as their introduction to rolelaying games.
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9. RPG Item: UK4: When A Star Falls [Average Rating:7.07 Overall Rank:2511]
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The first TSR UK module I ran. To this day, still one of my favorites.
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10. RPG Item: I2: Tomb of the Lizard King [Average Rating:7.13 Overall Rank:901]
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This was one of my first AD&D modules and still ranks as a personal favorite. I always enjoyed this tale of an ancient, vampiric lizard man and his many minions in an underground fortress in the swamps. Over the years, I updated and tuned the module and DM'd it numerous times.
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11. RPG Item: N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God [Average Rating:7.55 Overall Rank:201]
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In our group, this was one of the classics. A strange mysterious cult, this turned out to be one of the first adventures in the "Hunt a Cult" genre that many games have since embraced.
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12. RPG Item: B2: The Keep on the Borderlands [Average Rating:7.64 Overall Rank:77]
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Definitely belongs on this list--THE classic low-level module for all budding D&D enthusiasts back in the day.

The pioneer, I would also argue, of the universal conundrum: "Is it inherently wrong to kill all the evil humanoid women and children, too, since they'll just go on to cause MORE evil?"

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13. RPG Item: Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits [Average Rating:7.57 Overall Rank:158]
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the exciting conclusion to the G1-3 D1-3 run... (which makes it really either G7 or D4, depending on where you jump on the train...)

and the first module I ever ran. (My group at the time had played G1-3 and D1-3, and Andrew, our normal GM, handed me Q1 for my birthday...)

It's a bug hunt in an impossible maze. And quite the hoot, since the queen bug is the Goddess Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders. Drow, bugs, Driders, and bizzare mini-worlds.

Quite a hoot.
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For some reason, our DM at the time never cared for Demonweb Pits. Instead, our capstone adventure for the Temple - Giants - Descent - Vault series was a highly modified version of The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga. I forget the reasoning at the time, but he did a really nice job of tying it all back to BY. TOUGH high-level adventure capped off with Lance's final redemption as he charged through a Prismatic Wall (making every save) with just enough juice left to finish off a near dead Baba Yaga. It was the one truly heroic act our paladin made in the entire campaign.
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14. RPG Item: L2: The Assassin's Knot [Average Rating:7.13 Overall Rank:1076]
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I think it's a toss up between this and the original I6: Ravenloft for the greatest classic of the 1st edition AD&D era.

This was very different at the time, one of the few that wasn't just a dungeon crawl. A town based, free roaming murder mystery with time based as well as location based events occuring.
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15. RPG Item: X2: Castle Amber (Château d' Amberville) [Average Rating:7.43 Overall Rank:258]
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The first module I ran where people were really engaged besides wanting to kill things.

Very creative, and just plain fun in its oddness.

But don't drink the wine.

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16. RPG Item: Tegel Manor [Average Rating:7.67 Overall Rank:2041]
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No rhyme or reason, no save the world plot. Just a haunted house where each room has it's own thing going on. Just fun.
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LOL - just a big giant pointless mansion to go through! Great fun, and the names of the people and creatures in that module were so funny.
 
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17. RPG Item: S1: Tomb of Horrors [Average Rating:7.96 Overall Rank:37]
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I remember everyone hating this module because we would all die, but a great module IMO.
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18. RPG Item: U1: The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh [Average Rating:7.93 Overall Rank:78]
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The start of one of my all-time favorite module series! Had a lot of interesting and misleading things going on - enough to keep the PCs busy for a good long time.
 
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In case you didn't know, they novelized a few of the old original Greyhawk adventures a few years ago. Including Keep on the Borderland, Tomb of Horrors, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Against the Giants. Most of them were okay, Tomb of Horrors being my fave from the list above.

But White Plume Mountain, Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Queen of the Demonweb Pits (all by Paul Kidd) were the best. Well written and funny characters yet keeping to the spirit of the original modules. I was so disappointed that he didn't write more, considering at the end of one of them the characters get the deed to Tegel Manor.
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Okay, also I totally want to play these again.
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