I love how you put the question mark over my profile picture's face to keep the suspense. Thank you for including me in your 100th video. I am honored to be your friend and excited to be part of this video.
I'm an old school gamer that started in 1981. I left the hobby in 1998 and didn't comeback until 2020 during the pandemic. Since then, I have gotten my wife and two grown children into the hobby and have started a second campaign with work friends. While I came back to 5E, I have since moved on to DCC, which I love. I'm a worldbuilder and I'm so glad I found your channel because I find your videos on D&D history inspiring. It sounds like you and I have similar stories with regards to D&D, and like you, I have quite a collection of old TSR books that I still love. Keep doing what you are doing Martin, because you are not only sharing the history of this great game and hobby to a new generation, but also entertaining us old gamers who look with nostalgia on the past. Your long form videos are my favorite and I look forward each week to see what you talk about next. Great job and thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into this channel and its excellent videos.
Thank you SO MUCH! I truly appreciate this comment. Thanks for taking the time to share this with me, and I'm so glad you are enjoying the channel. Cheers to you!
I'm a simple man: I see a new Martin video, I click the Like button. Hoping to see some love here for L1 Secret of Bone Hill, it's a personal favorite of mine.
Aw man... well, I do mention it and it was *this* close. But you might like another one I mention. Cheers! AND... Thank you so much for your support of the channel. I really appreciate it!
One thing I really like about your content is that it’s one long form video I can click on and listen to, instead of like 20 short form videos a week. Both have their place, but I prefer the long form.
I have been buying up old vintage modules lately so this is greatly appreciated! Your channel started right when I started getting into vintage D&D and you have already helped me navigate getting into collecting again.
I'm so happy to hear my channel is helpful to you! Thank you so much for letting me know, and for watching and commenting. Good luck on your quest to collect some vintage D&D goodness!
It's really heart warming to hear about your experiences with prof DM. As I think I've said before his series on the caves of carnage and other easily early era videos were great inspiration for me as well as I was getting (back) into old school D&D. Thank you among other things for reminding me about that inspiration! So happy to hear of you ongoing communication with the professor!
I love your channel, I run a 5e game but have loved watching your channel. It has been a huge help in building my own world and sprinkling in some of the classic adventures. Congrats on 100 episodes!
I'm glad you enjoyed that! I wasn't sure it would work out due to being so last minute. I'm glad it came together well. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
I am so happy to hear that. Thank you very much for subscribing, and I do hope you enjoy my channel. I have a very unconventional style, in that I don't script my videos, but instead just make some rough bullet points and then talk off the top of my head. My videos are also very long, which just seems to suit the audience I've found. I only tell you all this to make sure you know that I'm nowhere near as "professional" as the guests I had in this episode! Cheers, and enjoy the channel.
@daddyrolleda1 actually, that's the key to speaking authentically i try to instill in my clients. Scripts and teleprompters are stale unless you are a professional actor. Love your style. Don't change
Martin, congratulations on posting your 100th video. I've been a subscriber for over a year and it's great to see your channel grow and evolve. I love that you're sharing your favorite modules with us and for having the foresight to ask three other awesome guests to share their top D&D/AD&D modules too. Of the four of you, I think my favorites align best with Professor DM's choices and I was shocked no one else chose Ravenloft as a top pick other than him. And, no one chose S2 White Plume Mountain? Wow! It goes to show there are so many awesome modules from the 70s and 80s and this has invigorated me to start doing reviews of modules on my own channel. I love being a part of this community of players, DMs, and DungeonTubers. Although I've played D&D for 40 years, I always learn something new from you and others-both from watching videos and reading the comments. In fact, this video has inspired me to create my own video talking about my top 10. Thanks Martin! Happy gaming! -Joe from The Philosophy of Game Mastering.
What a great comment! Thank you so much for sharing this all with me! I really appreciate it. I love this community, too, and I'm always happy that I seem to have cultivated a very nice group of people here who are kind, supportive, and creative! I can't remember if I mentioned it in the video, but S2 was the very first module I ever got, specifically because it was cheaper than the others (I seem to recall at my local toy store, S2 was $4.50 whereas most modules were $6.00; while that's not a lot of out-of-pocket cash, in a way, it means it was 25% cheaper!). I do like it quite a bit, but just like the other two S-series modules I mentioned more. I can Ravenloft recently for my friend (the dad player in my daughter's D&D group, if you've heard me mention him before), and had a blast. I do like it, but... I tend to gravitate more toward a pulpy aesthetic that's a bit more opened-ended. Thanks again for your support! And, leave me a link when you drop your video about your Top 10!
@@daddyrolleda1 Thanks Martin. I'll surely send you a link when I upload my video of my top 10 adventures. I have the modules pulled out and I'm going through them this week.
Congratulations on your 100th ep! It was a great one. Most of my top 10 picks were covered between your four lists, other than a couple of lesser known ones, I3 - Pharaoh (the whole Desert of Desolation trilogy, really), and I8 - Ravager of Time. I also appreciate you highlighting Jim Holloway, my favorite RPG artist. I always enjoyed the way he could insert humor into what could be overly serious, dry depictions.
I really grew to appreciate and enjoy Jim Holloway's art as I got older and began going back to re-read and/or play/run all my old stuff. I understood a few years ago that his family was working on a documentary film about him, but I don't believe it's come to fruition yet. I have very fond memories of playing through the Desert of Desolation! It was really fun! Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers!
I am sadly not super familiar with B5 or N4. I've heard great things about B5 and it's one I'd like to add to my collection one day and hopefully run it for a group! Thanks for sharing your list, and for your support of the channel. Cheers!
Congrats on the 100th!! You have been doing a great job telling us about the early era of TSR products. Love it! Keep up the good work, and make us a good drink too.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your kind words and am so happy you're enjoying the channel. (And, thanks for watching the bonus content, too!)
So right on with Quest of The Silver Sword. The 90s D&D modules tend to be overlooked, but that one was fun to play through. We ended up with enough loot that our party was renovating the Keep as our headquarters
Your party can't have Barrik's Keep, because my party is already in there. Well.. to be fair, I probably know of at least four parties that have taken up residence.
Cracked me up! I do recall many old Dragon Magazine letters back in the late 70's and early 80's when folks would write in and say "we've killed XYZ, so you can delete them from the official publications..." and I was never quite sure if they were just being funny or if they actually thought that there was someone a single shared universe!
Another stellar episode and congratulations on 100 episodes! I got my first taste of D&D with the Holmes blue book and soon stepped up to AD&D. I really enjoy your in depth research into the earlier days of D&D.
Congratulations on the 100th video. I have hooked since Petal Throne and have watching ever since. I've learned so much from your videos. Keep it up. Think you won initiative for 2025!!
So far, you're the only one! I was cracking up inside when I said it. I figured this kind of audience would respond well to that, but I know my videos are really long so I suspect some folks kind of tune in and out while they are doing other things. Anyway, glad you enjoyed the little joke!
I really hope you enjoy it! I had a ton of fun putting it together, even though it was a little more difficult as I had to record and edit it over multiple days and incorporate videos from three other folks. Cheers!
Congrats on the 100th video, Martin! Watching your content made me fall in love with BX and i'm going to run it to my 5e group now, we are doing a one-shot using OSE next weekend and your videos, Professor DM's and Daniel's from Bandits Keep are a huge inspiration!! I would like to enter the International giveaway
Greetings fellow old D&D nerd. I love modules, they WERE my D&D in my teens as the fact that my group were scattered over our city, and we had a lot of schoolwork pressures, meant that creating a consistent regular campaign was nigh on impossible. I've reviewed many of them on my own channel, but for now, here are my top 5... 1- UK3 The Gauntlet - it didn't get much traction in the US. It has a huge battle, a claustrophic and realistic-feeling keep, a good variety of enemies and puzzles - and drunk Gnolls! 2- U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh - a perfect low level adventure, beautifully paced with unsurpassed attention to detail 3- B4 The Lost City - imho the greatest of all B/X adventures, the plot hooks, the roleplaying potential, the atmosphere, all great 4- G1/2/3 - a masterpiece in packing the most adventure into the fewest pages 5- hmmm, errrmmm, lots I want to put here, but I'm going to go for the wacky wonderfulness of X2 Castle Amber (honourable mentions - UK4, S2, S4, WG4, D1-2, D3, X1, X4, I4, I6, T1, B10) I have an intense dislike for the Dragonlance modules - bleeeuuurgh, and don't rate S3 as highly as the rest of you!)
Firstly, I've enjoyed many videos on your channel! Thank you so much for making them! I love your list! I have UK2 - UK4 but 2 & 3 were favorites, partially for the art, but I also loved that they used stuff from the rule books that other modules didn't use as often (if at all). Obviously I agree with you on U1, B4, S4, and X1). I do very much like the Giants/Drow series as well and I'm looking forward to running my daughter's group through them at some point. I was *this* close to putting X2 on my list as well, but at the last minute I swapped it for L2 just to get a different author/creator in my list. Of your Honorable Mentions, the only ones I'm not super familiar with are WG4 and B10 - I know of them, but never played/ran/read them. Thanks again!
I would argue that Caverns of Thracia is one of the best D&D adventures made. That is the one that I remember best from my younger days playing. My book is covered in pencil marks from playing for years.
It's a fantastic adventure, for sure, and gets lots of love from folks. I sadly never had a chance to play it, as my local shop only carried official TSR stuff for some reason. For my list, I did tell my contributors to focus only on TSR adventures, as that's what I had access to as a kid and I wanted to see what they would pick.
This was a really cool episode. I don’t know much about the TSR era, because I am quite new to the game (10 years). It has been fun learning and hearing about these modules
Great channel, Martin, and well done on 100 videos; it's a worthy achievement. At 1:00:55, I noticed the artwork has the name Erol Otus in the top right corner, but it's embossed in the stone, making it hard to see among the rest of the background. Cheers, and thanks for sharing your D&D wisdom with us.
Thanks for this DRA1! I also love PDM and his version of B2 .. Caves of Chaos, which his video series, the Caves of Carnage, had a very profound inspirational impact on me. I am very grateful to you both! Thank you!
Another good video. I was at DaveCon this year. Had a blast! Baron and Dan are super cool guys. Baron beat me at Dungeon! But I'll get him next year lol!
Oh, very cool! I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you! (Or... did I? I don't always connected people's screen names with their real names). Thank you very much for watching and commenting. Cheers!
My favorite will always be Tomb of Horrors. The first time I saw it back in 1981, it filled me with a sense of dread and it has not lost its power 43 years later. Runner up is Hommlet and the Temple of Elemental Evil.
Congrats on 100 videos! The historical aspect is what grabbed my attention, bonus content is always appreciated, tried some drinks I wouldn’t normally and looked up some musical leads. I love picking up some older edition nuggets and slipping them into my 5e campaigns from articles and other publications that I would never come a cross normally. "I would like to enter the Gamma World Boot Hill giveaway."
Also, on a different note... thank you so much for this great comment! I really appreciate you sharing this with me. I love that you stay through the bonus content and have found some drinks and music that you weren't familiar with, and of course most importantly that you've been inspired to incorporate some old-school ideas into your 5E game! That's been a goal of mine since I started my blog way back in 2011 (to get folks playing new editions to be inspired by previous content), so I thank you so much for saying that! Cheers!
Congrats on the 100th video! Been following for a while now, I can't believe it have been so many videos. Also awesome that you are giving us a chance for the non US-people. I would like to enter the international giveaway.
I love the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown music and holiday specials. Also, thanks for the review of all the modules. I think I could even see me including the assassin's module in my 5e campaign.
GREAT 100TH EPISODE! In the spirit of sharing, and modules I am Thankful for, here is my Top 10: 10) C2- Ghost Tower of Inverness 9) X1- Isle of Dread 8) U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh 7) B1 - In Search of the Unknown 6) B4 - The Lost City 5) B6 - The Veiled Society 4) X6- Quagmire! ( Giggity Giggity) 3) X11- Saga of the Shadow Lord 2) B2 - Keep on the Borderlands 1) B10- Night's Dark Terror Yes , very Basic and BECMI heavy list, but those adventures were so well written and even when I switched to AD&D, I preferred the Basic/ BECMI adventures.
Lots of great picks there and quite a few that overlap with mine! I've actually not really spent any time with X6, X11, or B10 but I've heard good things, especially about B10. Cheers! Also, kudos for the Family Guy reference!
@@daddyrolleda1 you MUST play B10 with your daughters!!! The other two, X6 and X11 are often overlooked but B10 is like B2 on steroids -- a sandbox with faaaar more goodies to work with. IMO
Interesting video. I have always liked B2 and X1, favorites of mine. The Village of Hommlet, Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and Tomb of Horrors have also been regulars in my campaigns, and I really liked Gamma World the times I got to run it. Nicely done! I would like to enter the Gamma World and Boot Hill giveaway. Thanks, and remember rolling 1's isn't always bad. Happy Holidays!
B2 Keep on the Borderlands suffers a bit from the fact that it doesn't have enough regular people. Sure, it can be explained away, but what I like to do is to add a village (such as T1 Hommlet) down at the base of the hill the keep sits on, and move most of the 'normal' buildings down there and having the castle more as a fallback position and housing the moneylender and the jeweler, for security. As for the Caves of Chaos, I like to explain them as abandoned mines, which does mean that the wilderness exploration gets somewhat short-circuited. But it was hard to understand how the rumor mill was so well informed, but totally unaware where the Caves are? The Caves of Chaos can become somewhat repetitive, too: select a cave system, fight the guards, fight the main group, meet the women and children, kill the boss. One idea was to spread a couple of the humanoid tribes around the wilderness map, too. This keeps things a bit more interesting. Also, the scale of the wilderness map needs some adjusting, too, and it is better if all humanoid caves are not within a rock's throw as well, so I would adjust the outside map for the Caves of Chaos, too.
B2 in my opinion is probably the important module ever written, not because its the best, but it teaches a beginner DM and Player what they need to do. Back as a teen when we started in the late 70's we played the module several times before we started "spreading out" and making our own stuff. Yes, having a small village just out side of the keep should be done, ( I do it) and then also you need to add a larger town a few days journey away ( in the opposite direction that the "Borderlands are" which allows for a better place to buy and sell then the little hamlet, just outside the keep. To improve the the "caves" a person need the spread the individuale caves further away from each other, and enlarge them, and of coarse, be sure to have something behind the fallen rocks in the undead cave, as well as make a "cave of the unknown" . Yes, the distances are a little close for all the outside encounters, but a person is supposed to go thru the keep on the borderland, then sit down and use the basis of how to start YOUR own world, ie your own starting area.
@@nobody342 I definitely agree that the advice at the start of the B2 is very important and useful to people starting to play and GM. Nor would I say that B2 is a bad module. Simply that it can be even better with a bit of tweaking, stuff like giving names to the NPCs. B10 is much better in that respect, actually giving the NPCs some personality, too. Sure, the GM can (and should) come up with that stuff on his own, but from my perspective, it is actually more helpful to have that info than how many gold pieces the NPC has in their pockets. Especially given how poor pickpockets the 1st level thieves are... I like to partially make away the Borderland feel, and instead have the road lead to a town a few days away, a shortcut. Thus, there are merchant caravans, which are threatened by the humanoids in the Caves of Chaos, explaining some of the captives as well as the need to do something about it.
I did the same but seperated the caves into groups seperated by more wilderness, so A, B and C are at one spot, D, E and F, G by itself, etc. Trails connect them as do the rumors, so more reason to explore them in detail and more oppurtunity to guide the group from one to the next. And then I am linking the rest of the B modules into a greater world connected to this B2/T1 mash up!
Great video! Great choices on the other folks who gave their lists. My favorite published D&D adventure ever is actually a 5e adventure. But to play by your rules, my top 5 TSR era would be: 5. B2 - Keep on the Borderlands. 4. -- The Assasin's Run by Ed Greenwood (from Dragon #64 in 1982) An obstacle course style testing ground for Assasins (and thieves, Fighters, etc) 3. X1 - Isle of Dread (Dave Cook and Tom Moldvay. *mic drop*) 2. S2 - Wight Plume Mountain (The Grandfather/King of all funhouse dungeons) 1. I6 - Ravenloft.
You have great taste! I remember The Assassin's Run! I hadn't thought about including Dragon adventures but maybe I can save those for a follow-up video!
Congratulations on 100 episodes! I have the books and dice but no longer the box for my Moldvay Basic and the Expert set, my AD&D books plus a few modules and Dragons. I have most of the rest on PDF now. Never had Gamma or Boothill, but I do have Twilight2000, Top Secret and James Bond, Star Trek and Star Frontiers! Damn I am old!
Jim Holloway was an absolute workhorse and so very talented. While many of his pieces had a slapstick element that resembles actual play pretty well, he was certainly capable of dramatic and serious works too.
As for the monochrome C1 cover: cast your eyes to the top right stone to confirm the artist. As you mentioned, the style is unique and hard to mistake.
I'm much younger so I ended getting into Magic the Gathering first. I'm very excited to see WoTC putting out Dungeons and Dragons adventures set in those worlds. That has now brought me in to DnD. Go ahead and boo lol
I always thought it would've been natural for WotC to create an MtG Campaign Setting for D&D and I'm surprised it took them so long! What got me into Magic was actually the stories on the cards! My best friend and I at the time, being "flush" with cash from living at home with our parents and having jobs, would buy a full box for each new release and then call each other after work to go over which cards we got and then swap with each other so that we could each get a full set (this was before I had access to the Internet at home, around 1993 or 1994). And we'd always talk about how cool the story was that was being told once you had the complete set of cards! Thanks for watching and commenting!
“I would like to enter the Gamma World/ Boot Hill giveaway.” Great video, and congrats on the milestone. I’m already subscribed to one of your guests, but I’ll be sure to look up and add the others on YT as well as whatever other social media platforms I share with them!
Famine in Fargo, the Gamma World module, is one of the most memorable adventures I've ever run. The group I ran it for still talks about it over a decade later (14 years) and consider it the most fun they've ever had in any game. As a GM, Famine in Fargo brings out your inner Sam Raimi for running a horror comedy adventure. You start out very serious and delve into the dangerous and absurd. As a module, it plays well across multiple systems. I played the original and ran it for Gamma World 7e (aka 4e lite). I consider FiF the benchmark for horror comedy adventures. Campaign and Catacombs Sourcebook Guide is the best GM supplement ever written. Although it's an AD&D 2e supplement, I reread it every time I start a new campaign no matter what game or system I'm running. I recommend it to all GMs.
Very inspiring video. I would like to make a small remark that David Cook was also the main creator of the Plainscape setting, the most unique setting. It was this mysterious but addictive setting, namely the game Plainscape Torment, that inspired me to become a Dungeon Master.❤
Great video! I don’t usually run pre-made adventures as I have so much fun creating (or improvising) my own - the only exceptions I can remember are B2, and the first level of Castle Mistamere from Mentzer’s Basic.
Thanks for the video! Homebrew rules! 😁 I have run a couple of classics like the Giant Series which I played in back at early conventions. During the 3.XE era, I ran The Red Hand of Doom, which is more like a mini setting with plot hooks, as is the adventure with the original 5E Starter Set. What's up Chuck? Enjoy your Thanksgiving! I'll be doing the Mess Around!
I got into gaming late because I didn't have friends or family that played growing up, so August 1994 is when I started. Didn't play in most of these except Tomb of Horrors. I did enjoy the Slave Lords and Temple of Elemental Evil. I also ran Night Below several times and think it's great.
Daddy Rolled a 1 (not in any order): The Keep on the Borderlands B2 The Lost City B4 The Veiled Society B6 Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan C1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City I1 The Assassin's Knot L2 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks S3 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth S4 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh U1 Isle of Dread X1 Almost on the list: Against the Cult of the Reptile God N1
Well, without having watched, my own top 10 list ;) 1. T1 Village of Homlet 2. Fate of Istus 3. U1 Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh 4. Against the Giants 5. C4/C5 Prophecy of Brie 6. B11/B12 7. I6 Ravenloft 8. X6 Quagmire 9. N5 Under Illefarn 10. I1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God
I would have to say that my most memorable and enjoyable dungeon from "way back then" would have to be "Caverns of Thracia" from Judge's Guild. This cavern felt alive to me, and the different ways that levels were connected or could be accessed was new compared to just another set of stairs or another walkway up and down. It would the first time that a dungeon crawl actually gave me a sense of being 3 dimensional rather than just another 2d paper map dungeon. This was the first dungeon, after The Village of Hommlet, that felt alive to me. I enjoyed this both as a player, intrigued by the enormity of the place, and then as a DM fascinated by the intricacy with which this enormous place had been put together. It also launched me into a deep dive of other Judge's Guild products and allowed me to find products my players weren't familiar with since most of them simply focused on TSR as their main source of product.
I really love the local hero, low magic campaign. L1 & L2 as a mini Gazetteer. B3 has all the hooks. The medusa wandering monster. A combination of N1 & I2 w/ U2 The evil priest, combine T1 & B2 w/ B1 as a smaller temple. Travis is corrupted in, B5 & L3 w/ Phandalin as Guido's Fort. Duchess and Candela run the L2 town, use it for U1 w/ tower of Zenopus and A0 outside of town and the rest of the A series as a Port Royale on X1. The Princess is changed to Rahasia going to the princess in B9 & B7. And the eye is an eye of Zargon to B4. My copy of Gamma World and Boothill are in better shape 😉
All of this sounds fantastic! Thanks for sharing all these ideas. I replaced these copies of Gamma World and Boothill ~10-20 years ago and now I'm finally making some space by gifting these copies to someone else! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Lost city and barrier peaks were on my list. One of my all time favs that alot sleep on is Night's Dark terror which was a basic/expert transition module.
Just watched your video on the top ten lists. VERY interesting. Also, you mentioned that you run old school games for your kids. I did (and still do) the same. In fact, I went so far as to build most of them on my Minecraft server to full size and scale so the players could actually walk around IN the dungeons instead of just looking down on a paper map or vtt. As I am a builder in real life, I made sure everything was fully functioning and structurally accurate right down to doors, windows and stair placement, making needed corrections as I went. It was a huge hit with the kids and yours might enjoy it as well. PM me and I will gladly send you the server codes. Thanks again for the great video.
Good video I always learn something new. On a side note love your new book can not wait to use it in my OSE game one of our players is going to play an alchemist
Love this list and played most of these over the years, most many years ago. Almost everyone I know who started at a certain time played B2, the whole Dragonlance campaign and Ravenloft.. Interesting subject for a vid and I do wonder what I would stack up as my favourites! "I would like to enter the International give away".
I love how you put the question mark over my profile picture's face to keep the suspense. Thank you for including me in your 100th video. I am honored to be your friend and excited to be part of this video.
And I finally got to see your face!
@@DMTalesTTRPG I am not sure it was worth the wait.
@@redwyrmofficial sure it was!
I'm an old school gamer that started in 1981. I left the hobby in 1998 and didn't comeback until 2020 during the pandemic. Since then, I have gotten my wife and two grown children into the hobby and have started a second campaign with work friends. While I came back to 5E, I have since moved on to DCC, which I love. I'm a worldbuilder and I'm so glad I found your channel because I find your videos on D&D history inspiring. It sounds like you and I have similar stories with regards to D&D, and like you, I have quite a collection of old TSR books that I still love. Keep doing what you are doing Martin, because you are not only sharing the history of this great game and hobby to a new generation, but also entertaining us old gamers who look with nostalgia on the past. Your long form videos are my favorite and I look forward each week to see what you talk about next. Great job and thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into this channel and its excellent videos.
Thank you SO MUCH! I truly appreciate this comment. Thanks for taking the time to share this with me, and I'm so glad you are enjoying the channel. Cheers to you!
Thanks for the invite, Martin!
Thanks for participating, especially on such short notice! I loved your picks!
@ it was fun!!!
Not only is this the D&D superhero team we wanted, but it is also the D&D superhero team we deserve.
Oh, that's awesome! Now I want us to be in a comic book together. The Fantastic Four and the Fab Four are taken... hm...
@@daddyrolleda1The Tabletop Tetrad?
The Grog Squad?
Thanks and congratulations on 100 videos!
This is amazing! Thank you so very much for your very generous support! I really appreciate it!
I'm a simple man: I see a new Martin video, I click the Like button. Hoping to see some love here for L1 Secret of Bone Hill, it's a personal favorite of mine.
Aw man... well, I do mention it and it was *this* close. But you might like another one I mention. Cheers!
AND... Thank you so much for your support of the channel. I really appreciate it!
@@daddyrolleda1 Boo, unsubscribed (kidding!!!). Congrats on number 100!
Ha! That cracked me up! I will give you a spoiler that my pick is only one number off from "L1." 😁
@@daddyrolleda1 the ones you and the others listed that I am familiar with or own are all undeniable bangers.
I gave my youngest child a middle name based on that module.
One thing I really like about your content is that it’s one long form video I can click on and listen to, instead of like 20 short form videos a week. Both have their place, but I prefer the long form.
Thank you very much for letting me know! I appreciate it. Cheers!
I have been buying up old vintage modules lately so this is greatly appreciated! Your channel started right when I started getting into vintage D&D and you have already helped me navigate getting into collecting again.
I'm so happy to hear my channel is helpful to you! Thank you so much for letting me know, and for watching and commenting. Good luck on your quest to collect some vintage D&D goodness!
Congrats on 100 videos!! Thanks for all you do, you are a boon to the TTRPG community!!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your support of the channel. Cheers!
Great stuff! So cool to see other creators paying it forward! Love the channel, content, and community!❤
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and I, too, love this community! Cheers!
Glad this video is doing great. We do brunch for thanksgiving and I’m watching while I make food.
Thank you so much! I hope it was good company while you cooked!
It's really heart warming to hear about your experiences with prof DM. As I think I've said before his series on the caves of carnage and other easily early era videos were great inspiration for me as well as I was getting (back) into old school D&D. Thank you among other things for reminding me about that inspiration! So happy to hear of you ongoing communication with the professor!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
My favorite adventure to run from the TSR days is RQ1 Night of the Walking Dead. I ran it two times and it was a blast.
Six times so far, and one of those times I actually updated it to work with 3.5 edition. Love that adventure! So cool finding another RQ1 fan.
@@VarchildMarquee I am contemplating running it using Chaosiums BRP rules system.
Thank you so much! I'm not super familiar with that particular module, but now I want to check it out!
Congratulations on 100 episodes!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
Hell yeah! Fellow Virginian.
@@comradestannis sic semper tyrannis, my dude
@@spartaninvirginia noice, thnx
I love your channel, I run a 5e game but have loved watching your channel. It has been a huge help in building my own world and sprinkling in some of the classic adventures. Congrats on 100 episodes!
Thanks! Didn’t want to do this on my contest entry :)
Thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
Basic Fantasy mentioned! That's what I run!
I just finished a 2 ½ year campaign. It’s a very fun game.
Congrats on your 100th video! :) Really cool list and awesome insight from all three guests :)
I'm glad you enjoyed that! I wasn't sure it would work out due to being so last minute. I'm glad it came together well. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Not sure how you ended up in my feed but I'm so excited to binge your channel!
I am so happy to hear that. Thank you very much for subscribing, and I do hope you enjoy my channel. I have a very unconventional style, in that I don't script my videos, but instead just make some rough bullet points and then talk off the top of my head. My videos are also very long, which just seems to suit the audience I've found. I only tell you all this to make sure you know that I'm nowhere near as "professional" as the guests I had in this episode!
Cheers, and enjoy the channel.
@daddyrolleda1 actually, that's the key to speaking authentically i try to instill in my clients. Scripts and teleprompters are stale unless you are a professional actor. Love your style. Don't change
Congratulations on 100 long-form videos!!
Thank you so much!
Martin, congratulations on posting your 100th video. I've been a subscriber for over a year and it's great to see your channel grow and evolve. I love that you're sharing your favorite modules with us and for having the foresight to ask three other awesome guests to share their top D&D/AD&D modules too. Of the four of you, I think my favorites align best with Professor DM's choices and I was shocked no one else chose Ravenloft as a top pick other than him. And, no one chose S2 White Plume Mountain? Wow! It goes to show there are so many awesome modules from the 70s and 80s and this has invigorated me to start doing reviews of modules on my own channel. I love being a part of this community of players, DMs, and DungeonTubers. Although I've played D&D for 40 years, I always learn something new from you and others-both from watching videos and reading the comments. In fact, this video has inspired me to create my own video talking about my top 10. Thanks Martin! Happy gaming! -Joe from The Philosophy of Game Mastering.
What a great comment! Thank you so much for sharing this all with me! I really appreciate it. I love this community, too, and I'm always happy that I seem to have cultivated a very nice group of people here who are kind, supportive, and creative!
I can't remember if I mentioned it in the video, but S2 was the very first module I ever got, specifically because it was cheaper than the others (I seem to recall at my local toy store, S2 was $4.50 whereas most modules were $6.00; while that's not a lot of out-of-pocket cash, in a way, it means it was 25% cheaper!). I do like it quite a bit, but just like the other two S-series modules I mentioned more.
I can Ravenloft recently for my friend (the dad player in my daughter's D&D group, if you've heard me mention him before), and had a blast. I do like it, but... I tend to gravitate more toward a pulpy aesthetic that's a bit more opened-ended.
Thanks again for your support! And, leave me a link when you drop your video about your Top 10!
@@daddyrolleda1 Thanks Martin. I'll surely send you a link when I upload my video of my top 10 adventures. I have the modules pulled out and I'm going through them this week.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your support of the channel! I really appreciate it! (Especially as you've been a long-time supporter).
Congratulations on your 100th ep! It was a great one. Most of my top 10 picks were covered between your four lists, other than a couple of lesser known ones, I3 - Pharaoh (the whole Desert of Desolation trilogy, really), and I8 - Ravager of Time.
I also appreciate you highlighting Jim Holloway, my favorite RPG artist. I always enjoyed the way he could insert humor into what could be overly serious, dry depictions.
I really grew to appreciate and enjoy Jim Holloway's art as I got older and began going back to re-read and/or play/run all my old stuff. I understood a few years ago that his family was working on a documentary film about him, but I don't believe it's come to fruition yet.
I have very fond memories of playing through the Desert of Desolation! It was really fun!
Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers!
Congratulations on 100 videos!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
My 3 favourite modules are:
B5 Horror on the Hill
X1 Isle of Dread
N4 Treasure Hunt
I am sadly not super familiar with B5 or N4. I've heard great things about B5 and it's one I'd like to add to my collection one day and hopefully run it for a group! Thanks for sharing your list, and for your support of the channel. Cheers!
Congrats on the 100th!! You have been doing a great job telling us about the early era of TSR products. Love it! Keep up the good work, and make us a good drink too.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your kind words and am so happy you're enjoying the channel. (And, thanks for watching the bonus content, too!)
So right on with Quest of The Silver Sword. The 90s D&D modules tend to be overlooked, but that one was fun to play through. We ended up with enough loot that our party was renovating the Keep as our headquarters
Your party can't have Barrik's Keep, because my party is already in there. Well.. to be fair, I probably know of at least four parties that have taken up residence.
Cracked me up! I do recall many old Dragon Magazine letters back in the late 70's and early 80's when folks would write in and say "we've killed XYZ, so you can delete them from the official publications..." and I was never quite sure if they were just being funny or if they actually thought that there was someone a single shared universe!
I love looking back at this stuff. Takes me back to the 70s when I first picked a lot of it up.
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you very much for letting me know, and I'm very happy you're enjoying the channel. Cheers!
Another stellar episode and congratulations on 100 episodes! I got my first taste of D&D with the Holmes blue book and soon stepped up to AD&D. I really enjoy your in depth research into the earlier days of D&D.
I really appreciate you saying that! Thank you so much for your kind words and I'm thrilled that you enjoy my content. Cheers!
Thank you!! I've wanted some context on older adventures and this seems like a great primer!
Fantastic! Just what I needed. Thank you! (btw, love your channel)
I'm so happy to hear that! Thank you very much for watching and commenting. Cheers!
Congratulations on the 100th video. I have hooked since Petal Throne and have watching ever since. I've learned so much from your videos. Keep it up. Think you won initiative for 2025!!
Oh wow.... what a great comment! Thank you so much for your support. I truly appreciate it. Cheers to you!
Congrats on hitting 100!
I really enjoy your content and look forward to to viewing hundreds of more videos in the future.
Thank you very much! Thanks for your support of the channel. Cheers!
"A Star Trek thing where only the even ones are good." Well said. Don't know how many people got that, but well put!
So far, you're the only one! I was cracking up inside when I said it. I figured this kind of audience would respond well to that, but I know my videos are really long so I suspect some folks kind of tune in and out while they are doing other things.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed the little joke!
Oh yay!! This is gonna be a good one
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it. Cheers!
Just started the video, but read the breakdown of modules discussed, and they're all bangers. Can't wait to hear the discussion!
I really hope you enjoy it! I had a ton of fun putting it together, even though it was a little more difficult as I had to record and edit it over multiple days and incorporate videos from three other folks. Cheers!
Love this channel. Love ttprg history and love your passion for the topic. Here’s to the next 100!
Congrats on the 100th video, Martin! Watching your content made me fall in love with BX and i'm going to run it to my 5e group now, we are doing a one-shot using OSE next weekend and your videos, Professor DM's and Daniel's from Bandits Keep are a huge inspiration!!
I would like to enter the International giveaway
You are international entrant #23. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Greetings fellow old D&D nerd. I love modules, they WERE my D&D in my teens as the fact that my group were scattered over our city, and we had a lot of schoolwork pressures, meant that creating a consistent regular campaign was nigh on impossible. I've reviewed many of them on my own channel, but for now, here are my top 5...
1- UK3 The Gauntlet - it didn't get much traction in the US. It has a huge battle, a claustrophic and realistic-feeling keep, a good variety of enemies and puzzles - and drunk Gnolls!
2- U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh - a perfect low level adventure, beautifully paced with unsurpassed attention to detail
3- B4 The Lost City - imho the greatest of all B/X adventures, the plot hooks, the roleplaying potential, the atmosphere, all great
4- G1/2/3 - a masterpiece in packing the most adventure into the fewest pages
5- hmmm, errrmmm, lots I want to put here, but I'm going to go for the wacky wonderfulness of X2 Castle Amber
(honourable mentions - UK4, S2, S4, WG4, D1-2, D3, X1, X4, I4, I6, T1, B10)
I have an intense dislike for the Dragonlance modules - bleeeuuurgh, and don't rate S3 as highly as the rest of you!)
Firstly, I've enjoyed many videos on your channel! Thank you so much for making them!
I love your list! I have UK2 - UK4 but 2 & 3 were favorites, partially for the art, but I also loved that they used stuff from the rule books that other modules didn't use as often (if at all). Obviously I agree with you on U1, B4, S4, and X1).
I do very much like the Giants/Drow series as well and I'm looking forward to running my daughter's group through them at some point. I was *this* close to putting X2 on my list as well, but at the last minute I swapped it for L2 just to get a different author/creator in my list. Of your Honorable Mentions, the only ones I'm not super familiar with are WG4 and B10 - I know of them, but never played/ran/read them.
Thanks again!
Congratulations on your 100th video! 👍
Thank you very much!
congrats on your 100th video!
Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
Great video and greater guests!!! 🎉 keep up the great shows
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and also thank you for your support of the channel. Cheers!
Congratulations on making it to 100, Martin! No small feat.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
Congratulations on your 100 episode. I really have enjoyed many of them. Please enter me into the contest.
I would argue that Caverns of Thracia is one of the best D&D adventures made. That is the one that I remember best from my younger days playing. My book is covered in pencil marks from playing for years.
It's a fantastic adventure, for sure, and gets lots of love from folks. I sadly never had a chance to play it, as my local shop only carried official TSR stuff for some reason. For my list, I did tell my contributors to focus only on TSR adventures, as that's what I had access to as a kid and I wanted to see what they would pick.
No UA-camr is complete without a top ten 😂
The Eagle Has Landed
Ha! I did one a few weeks ago and it was a huge hit, so I figured why not try it again for my 100th video! Thanks for watching and commenting!
This was a really cool episode. I don’t know much about the TSR era, because I am quite new to the game (10 years). It has been fun learning and hearing about these modules
Great collaboration gentlemen!
Great channel, Martin, and well done on 100 videos; it's a worthy achievement. At 1:00:55, I noticed the artwork has the name Erol Otus in the top right corner, but it's embossed in the stone, making it hard to see among the rest of the background. Cheers, and thanks for sharing your D&D wisdom with us.
Thanks for this DRA1! I also love PDM and his version of B2 .. Caves of Chaos, which his video series, the Caves of Carnage, had a very profound inspirational impact on me. I am very grateful to you both! Thank you!
I binged so much of your channel yesterday that last night I was having dreams about the difference between the various editions of d&d
Another good video. I was at DaveCon this year. Had a blast! Baron and Dan are super cool guys. Baron beat me at Dungeon! But I'll get him next year lol!
Oh, very cool! I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you! (Or... did I? I don't always connected people's screen names with their real names).
Thank you very much for watching and commenting. Cheers!
Congratulations on 100 episodes. Hopefully many more to come. You've just got another sub. I'd also like to enter the international giveaway.
You are international entrant #28. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
My favorite will always be Tomb of Horrors. The first time I saw it back in 1981, it filled me with a sense of dread and it has not lost its power 43 years later.
Runner up is Hommlet and the Temple of Elemental Evil.
Congrats on 100 videos! The historical aspect is what grabbed my attention, bonus content is always appreciated, tried some drinks I wouldn’t normally and looked up some musical leads. I love picking up some older edition nuggets and slipping them into my 5e campaigns from articles and other publications that I would never come a cross normally.
"I would like to enter the Gamma World Boot Hill giveaway."
You are entrant #46. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Also, on a different note... thank you so much for this great comment! I really appreciate you sharing this with me. I love that you stay through the bonus content and have found some drinks and music that you weren't familiar with, and of course most importantly that you've been inspired to incorporate some old-school ideas into your 5E game! That's been a goal of mine since I started my blog way back in 2011 (to get folks playing new editions to be inspired by previous content), so I thank you so much for saying that! Cheers!
Congrats on the 100th video! Been following for a while now, I can't believe it have been so many videos. Also awesome that you are giving us a chance for the non US-people. I would like to enter the international giveaway.
You are international entrant #15. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
I love the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown music and holiday specials. Also, thanks for the review of all the modules. I think I could even see me including the assassin's module in my 5e campaign.
GREAT 100TH EPISODE! In the spirit of sharing, and modules I am Thankful for, here is my Top 10:
10) C2- Ghost Tower of Inverness
9) X1- Isle of Dread
8) U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh
7) B1 - In Search of the Unknown
6) B4 - The Lost City
5) B6 - The Veiled Society
4) X6- Quagmire! ( Giggity Giggity)
3) X11- Saga of the Shadow Lord
2) B2 - Keep on the Borderlands
1) B10- Night's Dark Terror
Yes , very Basic and BECMI heavy list, but those adventures were so well written and even when I switched to AD&D, I preferred the Basic/ BECMI adventures.
Lots of great picks there and quite a few that overlap with mine!
I've actually not really spent any time with X6, X11, or B10 but I've heard good things, especially about B10. Cheers!
Also, kudos for the Family Guy reference!
@@daddyrolleda1 you MUST play B10 with your daughters!!! The other two, X6 and X11 are often overlooked but B10 is like B2 on steroids -- a sandbox with faaaar more goodies to work with. IMO
Interesting video. I have always liked B2 and X1, favorites of mine. The Village of Hommlet, Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and Tomb of Horrors have also been regulars in my campaigns, and I really liked Gamma World the times I got to run it. Nicely done!
I would like to enter the Gamma World and Boot Hill giveaway.
Thanks, and remember rolling 1's isn't always bad. Happy Holidays!
You are entrant #59. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
You've got great taste with your adventures! And thank you very much for the holiday wishes. Happy Holidays to you as well! Cheers!
@@daddyrolleda1 I did indeed enjoy the video - great work.
And thank you!
B2 Keep on the Borderlands suffers a bit from the fact that it doesn't have enough regular people. Sure, it can be explained away, but what I like to do is to add a village (such as T1 Hommlet) down at the base of the hill the keep sits on, and move most of the 'normal' buildings down there and having the castle more as a fallback position and housing the moneylender and the jeweler, for security. As for the Caves of Chaos, I like to explain them as abandoned mines, which does mean that the wilderness exploration gets somewhat short-circuited. But it was hard to understand how the rumor mill was so well informed, but totally unaware where the Caves are?
The Caves of Chaos can become somewhat repetitive, too: select a cave system, fight the guards, fight the main group, meet the women and children, kill the boss. One idea was to spread a couple of the humanoid tribes around the wilderness map, too. This keeps things a bit more interesting. Also, the scale of the wilderness map needs some adjusting, too, and it is better if all humanoid caves are not within a rock's throw as well, so I would adjust the outside map for the Caves of Chaos, too.
B2 in my opinion is probably the important module ever written, not because its the best, but it teaches a beginner DM and Player what they need to do. Back as a teen when we started in the late 70's we played the module several times before we started "spreading out" and making our own stuff. Yes, having a small village just out side of the keep should be done, ( I do it) and then also you need to add a larger town a few days journey away ( in the opposite direction that the "Borderlands are" which allows for a better place to buy and sell then the little hamlet, just outside the keep.
To improve the the "caves" a person need the spread the individuale caves further away from each other, and enlarge them, and of coarse, be sure to have something behind the fallen rocks in the undead cave, as well as make a "cave of the unknown" .
Yes, the distances are a little close for all the outside encounters, but a person is supposed to go thru the keep on the borderland, then sit down and use the basis of how to start YOUR own world, ie your own starting area.
@@nobody342 I definitely agree that the advice at the start of the B2 is very important and useful to people starting to play and GM. Nor would I say that B2 is a bad module. Simply that it can be even better with a bit of tweaking, stuff like giving names to the NPCs. B10 is much better in that respect, actually giving the NPCs some personality, too. Sure, the GM can (and should) come up with that stuff on his own, but from my perspective, it is actually more helpful to have that info than how many gold pieces the NPC has in their pockets. Especially given how poor pickpockets the 1st level thieves are...
I like to partially make away the Borderland feel, and instead have the road lead to a town a few days away, a shortcut. Thus, there are merchant caravans, which are threatened by the humanoids in the Caves of Chaos, explaining some of the captives as well as the need to do something about it.
I did the same but seperated the caves into groups seperated by more wilderness, so A, B and C are at one spot, D, E and F, G by itself, etc. Trails connect them as do the rumors, so more reason to explore them in detail and more oppurtunity to guide the group from one to the next. And then I am linking the rest of the B modules into a greater world connected to this B2/T1 mash up!
Great video! Great choices on the other folks who gave their lists.
My favorite published D&D adventure ever is actually a 5e adventure.
But to play by your rules, my top 5 TSR era would be:
5. B2 - Keep on the Borderlands.
4. -- The Assasin's Run by Ed Greenwood (from Dragon #64 in 1982) An obstacle course style testing ground for Assasins (and thieves, Fighters, etc)
3. X1 - Isle of Dread (Dave Cook and Tom Moldvay. *mic drop*)
2. S2 - Wight Plume Mountain (The Grandfather/King of all funhouse dungeons)
1. I6 - Ravenloft.
You have great taste! I remember The Assassin's Run! I hadn't thought about including Dragon adventures but maybe I can save those for a follow-up video!
Another great vid!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great channel. Thanks
TSR Modules and Cranberry Bltters. Just awesome.
Congratulations on 100 episodes! I have the books and dice but no longer the box for my Moldvay Basic and the Expert set, my AD&D books plus a few modules and Dragons. I have most of the rest on PDF now. Never had Gamma or Boothill, but I do have Twilight2000, Top Secret and James Bond, Star Trek and Star Frontiers! Damn I am old!
Solid review of the artists of TSR. I had the pleasure of working with Harry Quinn for awhile in the 80's.
Jim Holloway was an absolute workhorse and so very talented. While many of his pieces had a slapstick element that resembles actual play pretty well, he was certainly capable of dramatic and serious works too.
Really enjoyed this episode as I do all your videos
As for the monochrome C1 cover: cast your eyes to the top right stone to confirm the artist. As you mentioned, the style is unique and hard to mistake.
Dude! You picked some of my very favorite modules! You have great taste!
Nice lists from all participants in the video.
Congrats on 100 long-form videos!
"I would like to enter the Gamma World - Boot Hills giveaway."
TIA!
You are entrant #17. Cheers, and good luck.
And, thanks for your nice words!
I'm much younger so I ended getting into Magic the Gathering first. I'm very excited to see WoTC putting out Dungeons and Dragons adventures set in those worlds. That has now brought me in to DnD. Go ahead and boo lol
Nah, we each have our path that led us here. Gaming is gaming, happy you found DnD!❤
I always thought it would've been natural for WotC to create an MtG Campaign Setting for D&D and I'm surprised it took them so long!
What got me into Magic was actually the stories on the cards! My best friend and I at the time, being "flush" with cash from living at home with our parents and having jobs, would buy a full box for each new release and then call each other after work to go over which cards we got and then swap with each other so that we could each get a full set (this was before I had access to the Internet at home, around 1993 or 1994). And we'd always talk about how cool the story was that was being told once you had the complete set of cards!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
@daddyrolleda1 I understand that. For me, it was the artwork of MtG cards that always fascinated me.
Dungeon Magazine adventure "A Rose for Telekara". Best one I ever ran.
“I would like to enter the Gamma World/ Boot Hill giveaway.”
Great video, and congrats on the milestone.
I’m already subscribed to one of your guests, but I’ll be sure to look up and add the others on YT as well as whatever other social media platforms I share with them!
I would like to enter the Gamma World - Boot Hill giveaway.
@edlib02169 You are entrant #93. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
@davidparker1508 You are entrant #94. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
I would like to enter the Gamma World - Boot Hill giveaway!
Keep up the great work, happy 100th!!
You are entrant #69. Cheers, and good luck. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Famine in Fargo, the Gamma World module, is one of the most memorable adventures I've ever run. The group I ran it for still talks about it over a decade later (14 years) and consider it the most fun they've ever had in any game. As a GM, Famine in Fargo brings out your inner Sam Raimi for running a horror comedy adventure. You start out very serious and delve into the dangerous and absurd. As a module, it plays well across multiple systems. I played the original and ran it for Gamma World 7e (aka 4e lite). I consider FiF the benchmark for horror comedy adventures.
Campaign and Catacombs Sourcebook Guide is the best GM supplement ever written. Although it's an AD&D 2e supplement, I reread it every time I start a new campaign no matter what game or system I'm running. I recommend it to all GMs.
Very inspiring video. I would like to make a small remark that David Cook was also the main creator of the Plainscape setting, the most unique setting. It was this mysterious but addictive setting, namely the game Plainscape Torment, that inspired me to become a Dungeon Master.❤
Congratulations on 100 episodes
Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video!
Congratulations on 100!!!
Nice !
Great video! I don’t usually run pre-made adventures as I have so much fun creating (or improvising) my own - the only exceptions I can remember are B2, and the first level of Castle Mistamere from Mentzer’s Basic.
But I love reading these modules for inspiration anyway!
Thanks for the video! Homebrew rules! 😁 I have run a couple of classics like the Giant Series which I played in back at early conventions. During the 3.XE era, I ran The Red Hand of Doom, which is more like a mini setting with plot hooks, as is the adventure with the original 5E Starter Set. What's up Chuck? Enjoy your Thanksgiving! I'll be doing the Mess Around!
I got into gaming late because I didn't have friends or family that played growing up, so August 1994 is when I started. Didn't play in most of these except Tomb of Horrors. I did enjoy the Slave Lords and Temple of Elemental Evil. I also ran Night Below several times and think it's great.
Happy thanksgiving eve!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Same to you!
Congrats on 100! 💯🎉
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
Daddy Rolled a 1 (not in any order):
The Keep on the Borderlands B2
The Lost City B4
The Veiled Society B6
Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan C1
Dwellers of the Forbidden City I1
The Assassin's Knot L2
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks S3
Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth S4
The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh U1
Isle of Dread X1
Almost on the list:
Against the Cult of the Reptile God N1
Congrats on a 100 vids!
What a fun video. Well done.
Well, without having watched, my own top 10 list ;)
1. T1 Village of Homlet
2. Fate of Istus
3. U1 Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh
4. Against the Giants
5. C4/C5 Prophecy of Brie
6. B11/B12
7. I6 Ravenloft
8. X6 Quagmire
9. N5 Under Illefarn
10. I1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God
Great list, thanks for the nostalgia
I look forward to finding some of these old modules.
I would have to say that my most memorable and enjoyable dungeon from "way back then" would have to be "Caverns of Thracia" from Judge's Guild. This cavern felt alive to me, and the different ways that levels were connected or could be accessed was new compared to just another set of stairs or another walkway up and down. It would the first time that a dungeon crawl actually gave me a sense of being 3 dimensional rather than just another 2d paper map dungeon. This was the first dungeon, after The Village of Hommlet, that felt alive to me. I enjoyed this both as a player, intrigued by the enormity of the place, and then as a DM fascinated by the intricacy with which this enormous place had been put together. It also launched me into a deep dive of other Judge's Guild products and allowed me to find products my players weren't familiar with since most of them simply focused on TSR as their main source of product.
I really love the local hero, low magic campaign. L1 & L2 as a mini Gazetteer. B3 has all the hooks.
The medusa wandering monster. A combination of N1 & I2 w/ U2
The evil priest, combine T1 & B2 w/ B1 as a smaller temple.
Travis is corrupted in, B5 & L3 w/ Phandalin as Guido's Fort.
Duchess and Candela run the L2 town, use it for U1 w/ tower of Zenopus and A0 outside of town and the rest of the A series as a Port Royale on X1.
The Princess is changed to Rahasia going to the princess in B9 & B7.
And the eye is an eye of Zargon to B4.
My copy of Gamma World and Boothill are in better shape 😉
All of this sounds fantastic! Thanks for sharing all these ideas.
I replaced these copies of Gamma World and Boothill ~10-20 years ago and now I'm finally making some space by gifting these copies to someone else!
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Lost city and barrier peaks were on my list. One of my all time favs that alot sleep on is Night's Dark terror which was a basic/expert transition module.
I started with the basic set in 1980. I moved on to AD&D much later. I played 3.5 on and off. I started 5E after moving to Japan in 2014.
Just watched your video on the top ten lists. VERY interesting. Also, you mentioned that you run old school games for your kids. I did (and still do) the same. In fact, I went so far as to build most of them on my Minecraft server to full size and scale so the players could actually walk around IN the dungeons instead of just looking down on a paper map or vtt. As I am a builder in real life, I made sure everything was fully functioning and structurally accurate right down to doors, windows and stair placement, making needed corrections as I went. It was a huge hit with the kids and yours might enjoy it as well. PM me and I will gladly send you the server codes. Thanks again for the great video.
Good video I always learn something new. On a side note love your new book can not wait to use it in my OSE game one of our players is going to play an alchemist
Congratulations on 100
Love this list and played most of these over the years, most many years ago. Almost everyone I know who started at a certain time played B2, the whole Dragonlance campaign and Ravenloft.. Interesting subject for a vid and I do wonder what I would stack up as my favourites! "I would like to enter the International give away".
You are international entrant #30. Cheers, and good luck. Glad you enjoyed the video.