Most Underrated old TSR Module

DestroyYouAlot · May 23, 2012, 11:36:34 PM

Quote from: Kaz;541625I heard/read once that FA1 Halls of the High King was a good module. I saw it and FR2 Moonshae used and picked them both up a while back.

I have glanced through them both but not spent much time with them. I hope to run FA1 in an upcoming Forgotten Realms campaign.

Where would you rate FA1 on the overrated/underrated scale? Anyone got any experiences with it?

I think it looks like a great campaign from reading it - it'd require a good bit of work to flesh out, but overall a nice piece of work. I wanna have a whack at it, at some point, although I'll have to figure out how it'd work pre-Time of Troubles (since that hasn't happened IMC).

It's a mid-level campaign, though - you'd probably want to use N4 Treasure Hunt as a lead-in, at the very least

The Butcher · May 24, 2012, 12:25:52 AM

Quote from: nezach;541623Ah. I see what you did. You inferred via a metaphor using sand and its proximity to female genitalia that because I typed what I must assume to you is a lot of text I am a woman!

Touche! Can you imagine? Being a woman? Why the very thought! Not just any woman either, but one with extreme quantities of silicates irritating their massive genitalia. Truly the worst sort.

Is that supposed to alleviate your coming across as a humongous douche? Not helping.

nezach · May 24, 2012, 02:28:18 AM

Quote from: The Butcher;541673Is that supposed to alleviate your coming across as a humongous douche? Not helping.

That's a lot of pebbles, you must have huge fallopian tubes. Don't be a such feminine hygiene product.

Am I doing this right? I'm new to this 5th grade level blandly misogynistic framed internet putdown thing.

Sommerjon · May 24, 2012, 10:07:19 AM

I've always liked

Under Illefarn

The Butcher · May 24, 2012, 11:11:02 AM

Quote from: nezach;541696That's a lot of pebbles, you must have huge fallopian tubes. Don't be a such feminine hygiene product.

Am I doing this right? I'm new to this 5th grade level blandly misogynistic framed internet putdown thing.

Welcome to your new life as the sole tenant of my ignore list.

Sigmund · May 24, 2012, 01:13:55 PM

Quote from: ptingler;540689I think B1 In Search of the Unknown is really good for teaching the GM and players what is expected in a typical setup. The index at rpg.net has it listed as ranked 691 out of 4146. It's WAY better than that.

Another vote for B1. It was the one that came in my Holmes basic set, and it let me imagine to my heart's content, filling in the blanks how i wanted, doing it wrong, whatever I wanted. It is synonymous with D&D for me. It set the right precedent for how D&D is best played IMO, tinkering and tweaking and making it your own.

crkrueger · May 24, 2012, 04:53:46 PM

Quote from: nezach;541696I'm new to this 5th grade level blandly misogynistic framed internet putdown thing.

I highly doubt that, since you seem to have the whole "righteous indignation over suggesting I may not have been aware of something" down pat.

Skywalker · May 24, 2012, 04:56:14 PM

And D&D Next playtest comes with B2 Keep of the Borderlands, not B1 In Search of the Unknown!

Bah! Bah, I say!

Sacrosanct · May 24, 2012, 05:06:09 PM

Quote from: Skywalker;541922And D&D Next playtest comes with B2 Keep of the Borderlands, not B1 In Search of the Unknown!

Bah! Bah, I say!

That's no shocker, seeing as how B2 and not B1 was with Moldvay's Basic, and is wildly more popular than B1

Skywalker · May 24, 2012, 06:51:49 PM

Quote from: Sacrosanct;541929That's no shocker, seeing as how B2 and not B1 was with Moldvay's Basic, and is wildly more popular than B1

And B1 was with Holmes' Basic. As such, its purely a popularity decision, which is the essence of why I consider B1 to be underrated.

nezach · May 24, 2012, 10:43:43 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;541919I highly doubt that, since you seem to have the whole "righteous indignation over suggesting I may not have been aware of something" down pat.

Doubt all you like, I'm honestly no good at that shit. I'll cop to the righteous indignation schtick though. You directly called me out on it and honestly that's what it was. I'll also cop to being rude, a boor, and otherwise poorly behaved if directly asked too. Well, I'd like to think so anyway. Who knows?

Kuroth · May 24, 2012, 11:30:48 PM

Beside as a group the adventures for AD&D 1 in Dungeon 1-17, Day of Al'Akbar has a whole region, a city, maps, keyed locations and non-player characters. It all combines to make what Gygax might have used as a pocket plane. The manner which the players arrive at the locations is pretty open to player decisions. There is a lot in it, and I find Allen did generally good work on it as a whole.

I also find that various modules that are usually considered part of a series often work better as stand alone products or staged adventures in a campaign, like the Giants modules or Slavelords. So, they are underrated in their use in alternative application.

FASERIP · May 25, 2012, 02:05:14 AM

For the sake of comparison, a list of the eight worst modules of all time:

1. N2 - Forest Oracle
2. S4 - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
3. WG7 - Castle Greyhawk
4. B1 - In Search of the Unknown
5. Tie: Entire Dragonlance Series
6. EX1 - Dungeonland; EX2 - Land beyond the Magic Mirror
7. WG9 - Gargoyle
8. D1 - Descent into the Depths of the Earth

Weird fucking list; I'm surprised they could get some obscure things right and some well known things so wrong (B1, S4, D1).

DestroyYouAlot · May 25, 2012, 08:44:23 AM

Quote from: FASERIP;542138For the sake of comparison, a list of the eight worst modules of all time:

1. N2 - Forest Oracle
2. S4 - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
3. WG7 - Castle Greyhawk
4. B1 - In Search of the Unknown
5. Tie: Entire Dragonlance Series
6. EX1 - Dungeonland; EX2 - Land beyond the Magic Mirror
7. WG9 - Gargoyle
8. D1 - Descent into the Depths of the Earth

Weird fucking list; I'm surprised they could get some obscure things right and some well known things so wrong (B1, S4, D1).

PPPpppppfffttttttttt

Wow, glad I wasn't drinking coffee, just now.

Sigmund · May 25, 2012, 08:51:29 AM

Quote from: FASERIP;542138For the sake of comparison, a list of the eight worst modules of all time:

1. N2 - Forest Oracle
2. S4 - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
3. WG7 - Castle Greyhawk
4. B1 - In Search of the Unknown
5. Tie: Entire Dragonlance Series
6. EX1 - Dungeonland; EX2 - Land beyond the Magic Mirror
7. WG9 - Gargoyle
8. D1 - Descent into the Depths of the Earth

Weird fucking list; I'm surprised they could get some obscure things right and some well known things so wrong (B1, S4, D1).

Obviously I can't agree with inclusion of B1. What the author saw as a bug, I saw as a feature. Who gives a fuck what the pre-gen characters where called? Don't like the name? change it. Better yet, make your own character.