Quote from: Dan Davenport;541174As to the topic at hand: Isle of Dread's always high up there for me. I'm also a big fan of The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and Tomb of the Lizard King.

I love Isle of Dread, but it wouldn't be one that I would consider underrated. It gets such high praise.

Quote from: Skywalker;541221I love Isle of Dread, but it wouldn't be one that I would consider underrated. It gets such high praise.

This.  It's sort of a well-known classic.

There is this little-known gem you might not have heard of. It is called The Keep on the Borderlands, and it is about going into caves, killing people and taking their stuff, and then going into a castle and killing more dangerous people and taking their stuff. It is like pure D&D. There is also a crazy hermit guy with a killer cat; that's a good one too.

Quote from: Melan;541238There is this little-known gem you might not have heard of. It is called The Keep on the Borderlands, and it is about going into caves, killing people and taking their stuff, and then going into a castle and killing more dangerous people and taking their stuff. It is like pure D&D. There is also a crazy hermit guy with a killer cat; that's a good one too.

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Quote from: Melan;541238There is this little-known gem you might not have heard of. It is called The Keep on the Borderlands, and it is about going into caves, killing people and taking their stuff, and then going into a castle and killing more dangerous people and taking their stuff. It is like pure D&D. There is also a crazy hermit guy with a killer cat; that's a good one too.

It would also be my vote for the Most Overrated old TSR Module

IMO B2 doesn't hold up all that well to the hype it gets and B1 'Search for the Unknown' encapsulates the core D&D experience much better than B2.

It has already been mentioned, but I have a soft spot for B4: The Lost City.  It always struck me as being very much in the spirit of the S&S fiction that I love rather than vanilla fantasy.  It is pretty much a ripoff of a RE Howard Conan story, so that isn't surprising I suppose!  

I liked it because of the tone, but also because it was easy to expand the rich backdrop of the dying civilization in thrall to decadence and Lovecraftian evil.  Just the fact that you can play it and face mostly human opponents in the form of the competing cults is pretty cool in my book.  Then you can add the subtlety of politics if you want.  It can be a simple dungeon crawl, or something much more nuanced.


-TGA

Quote from: Melan;541238There is this little-known gem you might not have heard of. It is called The Keep on the Borderlands, and it is about going into caves, killing people and taking their stuff, and then going into a castle and killing more dangerous people and taking their stuff. It is like pure D&D. There is also a crazy hermit guy with a killer cat; that's a good one too.

hahahahaha

Put this in all caps and it'd make an A+ joesky review.

http://joeskythedungeonbrawler.wordpress.com/

Quote from: Melan;541238There is this little-known gem you might not have heard of. It is called The Keep on the Borderlands, and it is about going into caves, killing people and taking their stuff, and then going into a castle and killing more dangerous people and taking their stuff. It is like pure D&D. There is also a crazy hermit guy with a killer cat; that's a good one too.

Yeah, I was going to make a similar faux pas and say B10 Night's Dark Terror, but a Google search showed me that it's actually fairly well regarded all around.

If the dungeon you think is underrated is on this list it's not actually that underrated. Take some time and check it out. It saved me from making a fool of myself by saying "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" was an overlooked module.

1. Queen of Spiders, 1986 (G1-3, D1-3, Q1)
2. Ravenloft, 1983 (I6)
3. Tomb of Horrors, 1978 (S1)
4. The Temple of Elemental Evil, 1985 (T1-4)
5. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, 1980 (S3)
6. The Desert of Desolation, 1987 (I3-5)
7. The Keep on the Borderlands, 1979 (B1)
8. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, 2001
9. White Plume Mountain, 1979 (S2)
10. Return to the Tomb of Horrors, 1998
11. The Gates of Firestorm Peak, 1996
12. The Forge of Fury, 2000
13. Dwellers of the Forbidden City, 1981 (I1)
14. Dead Gods, 1997
15. Castle Amber, 1981 (X2)
16. Isle of Dread, 1980 (X1)
17. Ruins of Undermountain, 1991
18. The Hidden Shrine of Tamochan, 1980 (C1)
19. Against the Cult of the Reptile God, 1982 (N1)
20. Scourge of the Slave Lords, 1986 (A1-4)
21. Dark Tower, 1980 (from Judge's Guild)
22. The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, 1982 (S4)
23. The Forgotten Temple of Tharzidun, 1982 (WG4)
24. City of the Spider Queen, 2002
25. Dragons of Despair, 1984 (DL1)
26. City of Skulls, 1993 (WGR6)
27. The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, 1981 (U1)
28. The Lost City, 1982 (B4)
29. The Assassin's Knot, 1983 (L2)
30. The Ghost Tower of Inverness, 1980 (C2)

Dungeon Magazine # 116, November 2004

Ha!  Castle Amber-aw shit.  Number 15.  

Yeah, I was kinda hoping to see some "Treasure of the Hideous One" or "Curse of Xanathon" references in this thread!

Quote from: DestroyYouAlot;541276hahahahaha

Put this in all caps and it'd make an A+ joesky review.

http://joeskythedungeonbrawler.wordpress.com/

Oh man, the Barbarian class write-up on that link gave me some solid laughs. Awesome link!

Quote from: nezach;5412987. The Keep on the Borderlands, 1979 (B1)

Jesus! Keep of the Borderlands is even stealing In Search of the Unknown's module number now. What a fucker!

I think that definitively proves B1 as the most underrated old TSR module. End thread

Quote from: Kaz;541301Oh man, the Barbarian class write-up on that link gave me some solid laughs. Awesome link!

Off-topic, but I seriously think it's the most workable barbarian class I've seen yet.  

I'm going to third or fourth the Veiled Society. I actually got some mileage from that one and indeed, if you nuke the linearity of its plot, you are left with tons of pieces you can use in your game, particularly urban settings. Good stuff.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;540941I've always been partial to S4, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.  Of the original 'special' modules, it was the one that gets the least amount of love.

In the campaign I was in, we never actually got to the caverns in the first place, because we figured we'd be clever and head to the farthest away of the potential sites.  And we got caught in a landslide, naturally.

We'd worked our way back to where --in the end-- the real caverns were to be located before the campaign abruptly came to an end:  my parents had listened to Pat Robertson waaay too much and threw out our D&D stuff.

This is my favorite module, and that says alot, as I also loved vault of the Drow immensely.

Tsojcanth is a masterpiece, and darn challenging to say the least.