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Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: RPGPundit on May 31, 2012, 03:05:32 PM
Whether they're short little dungeons or full-blown modules, which are the best old-school D&D adventures available for free on the intarwebs?

RPGPundit
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: AnthonyRoberson on May 31, 2012, 03:45:52 PM
It's not an adventure per se but I really dig the Blackmarsh campaign setting.
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Sacrosanct on May 31, 2012, 03:59:20 PM
Do you want actual old modules, or old school clones (like OSRIC, LL, etc)
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: TheHistorian on May 31, 2012, 06:00:43 PM
Depends if you mean free or "free".  If the latter, then almost everything is available...  ;)
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: VacuumJockey on May 31, 2012, 06:26:23 PM
Castle of the Mad Mad Archmage (http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.dk/) is a pretty cool megadungeon.
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Fiasco on May 31, 2012, 06:33:57 PM
Dragonsfoot has an excellent catalogue of free modules with very high production standards. The works of John Turcotte (Gnarleybones) are particularly excellent. Check out Where The Fallen Jarls Sleep and it's sequels. Also noteworthy is Red Tam's Bones which is a fantastic channelling of the vibe of Jonathan Strange andMr Norrelinto a kick arse adventure into the world of Faerie.

For real old school fans there is the massive L4 Devilspawn Len Lakovska's sequel to his Lendore Isle series ( Secret of Bone Hill, Assassins's Knot and Deep Dwarven Delve).
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: thedungeondelver on May 31, 2012, 07:11:07 PM
Here's what I've written...

http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/DD1.PDF - a solo player + DM module

http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/DD2.PDF - ditto

http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/WGH2.PDF - stand-alone convention module set in the World of Greyhawk.

http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/WGH3.PDF - first of a series of convention modules, set in Greyhawk.
http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/WGH4.pdf - 2nd

http://www.thedelversdungeon.com/Modules/WGH5.pdf - finale.
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Kuroth on June 01, 2012, 12:01:44 AM
I bet there are still a lot of folks that have never been through Temple of the Frog.  So, I'll provide it as my first suggestion to play with your campaign using any given system for an adventure that takes up the great majority of the concepts that are Dungeons & Dragons.  Supplement II: Blackmoor is still the one freely accessible book of Original D&D.

Supplement II: Blackmoor (http://www.blackmoor.mystara.us/pdfs/D&D%20-%20Supplement%202%20-%20Blackmoor%20(TSR2004).pdf)
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Calithena on June 01, 2012, 11:54:42 AM
I really like Gabor's dungeon in this puffed-up rag:

http://ocp.no-ip.org/document.php?id=17
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Akrasia on June 01, 2012, 12:30:39 PM
Quote from: Calithena;544456I really like Gabor's dungeon in this puffed-up rag:

http://ocp.no-ip.org/document.php?id=17

Melan has a lot of excellent, freely available adventures and related material at his Fomalhaut website (http://fomalhaut.lfg.hu/category/english/resources/).
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Akrasia on June 01, 2012, 12:35:16 PM
Quote from: Fiasco;544271Dragonsfoot has an excellent catalogue of free modules with very high production standards...

Yeah, Dragonsfoot has a lot of great stuff.  It's a pity more people don't seem to know about their downloads section.

I also think The Fane of St. Toad (http://www.mediafire.com/?qzymhbfzydj) is worth getting.
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: RPGPundit on June 01, 2012, 06:14:25 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;544168Do you want actual old modules, or old school clones (like OSRIC, LL, etc)

Both!
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: RPGPundit on June 01, 2012, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: TheHistorian;544226Depends if you mean free or "free".  If the latter, then almost everything is available...  ;)

Quite aware of that, but what I'm talking about for the purposes of this thread is any of the following:

-"amateur products" that were never intended for commercial sale
-"professional free product" that was always made as free material by some gaming company (for their website, or whatever)
-or product that was once for commercial sale but the parent company now offers it for free.

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Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: thedungeondelver on June 01, 2012, 06:19:43 PM
You don't get much more amateur than my stuff so knock yourself out :D
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: TheHistorian on June 01, 2012, 06:21:35 PM
A couple of the original Midkemia books are available for free:  http://www.midkemia.com/ (under Products)
Title: Best FREE Old School adventures?
Post by: Kuroth on June 01, 2012, 09:50:27 PM
Quote from: TheHistorian;544747A couple of the original Midkemia books are available for free:  http://www.midkemia.com/ (under Products)

The Black Tower is a good one that Midkemia offers for free, that's for sure TheHistorian.  Their city specific content sure was good, as was all of their work to provide Chaosium Thieves World.  They offer a compilation of town sites there too, Towns of the Outlands.

The Black Tower (http://midkemia.com/BlkTwr.pdf)

Towns of the Outlands (http://www.midkemia.com/Towns.pdf)