Hey a quick question guys, any opinions on this old 2nd edition boxes set? It looks neat and I found one for decent price but I'm not willing to plop down cash without some trusted opinions.

I've owned it twice, and got rid of it both times.  It was that forgettable.

I admit, though, that I have similar issues with most of the supplemental material for the Realms, even Greenwood's.  They often kill the mystery and magic of the original "Grey Box" for me.

My advice: write up your own ideas for Myth Drannor.  I guarantee they'll be ten times more awesome than the published material.

Hey Were-grognard, where this cool avatar of yours came from ?

It's from an issue of DC's Warlord comic in 2009.

That would be correct

If I recall (I owned it once too, long ago) it felt very incomplete to me, and not very useful; but I'll be damned if I remember exactly why.


RPGPundit

Easily the most disappointing FR release ever it was written by Greenwood and it was the focus of so much of the original back story of the grey boxed set. The only positive I can tell you about are the adventure cards they are little cards about 10" by 5" with a small dungeon map keyed with encounters, descriptions & treasure. Extremely concise adaptable to any setting each one a little dungeon crawl. If the set had 30 of these instead of just 6 or 7 it would have made it worth it. To second what Pundit said it seemed very incomplete and I can't put a finger on exactly why.

Also it had a series of linked adventures that lead to obtaining an incredibly bad ass artifact called the arm of valor and it has the worst DM advice saying basically its too bad ass for PC's to own so take it away from them let the Knights of Myth Drannor have it or have the setting villains relentlessly hunting them until they gave it up to Elminster or some other annoying Mary Sue or they die and its pried from their cold dead hands I suppose.

Wow, thanks for the heads up guys, glad I did not spend the cash on this one. I will just hold out for either the old Greyhawk folio, or one of the Forgotten Realms boxed sets.

From my recollection, the 1e FR sourcebook-material was generally way better than the 2e stuff, and that becomes more true the later into 2e things went (I'm guessing some of the earlier 2e stuff had already been partly written when the edition shift happened).

RPGPundit

Some people really like it, I think the idea is that it is a megadungeon sandbox that is not 100% spelled out, there are areas to fill in.  Part of the concept was the in game DM of Dungeon (Zaztam?) often changed things around and ran it like a mouse maze IIRC.

I used it once at a one shot at a game convention. Useful backdrop/place to explore.

I think it is fine if you flesh it out/personalize it.

Not really a complete 'module' but has potential.

Quote from: Bill;696006I used it once at a one shot at a game convention. Useful backdrop/place to explore.

I think it is fine if you flesh it out/personalize it.

Not really a complete 'module' but has potential.

This seems to be a characteristic of all of Greenwood's classic megadungeons. Myth Drannor, Undermountain, and The Haunted Halls of Eveningstar all seem half completed.

Then again, it's not like D&D fans ever got the true Castle Greyhawk, so maybe it's a time-honored tradition.  That, or a message to go make your own damn megadungeon

Quote from: Bill;696006I used it once at a one shot at a game convention. Useful backdrop/place to explore.

I think it is fine if you flesh it out/personalize it.

Not really a complete 'module' but has potential.

Exactly!
First I found it a bit disappointing, but I got enough adventure hooks from reading it to built it into my own campaign, so in the end...it was definitely worth the expense.