Oh yeah. This is an easy one to throw in. And even though it's created for BECMI, as long as you know the monster stats, you can run it in any edition.
I ran this adventure half a year ago as a starter adventure for my ongoing campaign. Great, straight-to-the-point adventure. Since I ran it for the OSE, I had to tweak a couple of things, but other than that, it was a blast.
When I ran this one, two mid-level PCs tried to recover the Jade Hare, but got their butts kicked by pure numbers. Abu Ghabar escaped and took the enchanted statue to his master... It's an easy drop-in side-quest or "filler night", as you say. Nice review!
I got Dungeon of Dread through our school reading program called RIF. Reading Is Fundamental. It was very early. Probably first edition. When I saw this module, I had to download it. Nostalgia.
4:30 That makes zero sense. Bats don't stay in their caves at night, they're out looking for food. You might find a few flying in or out of the place, but there should be far fewer of them than there are during the daytime when, as you said, they'll be asleep. Presumably the goblin guards will wake the bats while screaming for help if given the chance to do so during the daytime. While I'm at it, the entrance to this whole complex is carpeted with guano. Are there filthy footprints tracking the stuff all over the place and showing where the goblins have been recently? Rows of goblin boots lined up by the first two guard posts? Big dirty doormats with signs in goblin telling you to clean your boots? And how well concealed is the escape tunnel exit from the outside? Does the tunnel have alarms rigged in it? I'd expect any competent players to scout around the area pretty thoroughly looking for other entrances instead of just strolling into the big obvious one. This could be a real quick run if the party marches into evil warlock guy's bedroom first thing.
I got this for free in the mail somehow. It definitely wasn't included in my 1992 D&D starter set. I think there was a postcard in the box to get a free updated product catalog, and they included the adventure in the envelope with the catalog. This is the only thing that makes sense as for years, the only TSR products I owned were the 1992 black box starter, the Jade Hare, and two different TSR catalogs. The catalogs had far more page count and higher production quality than the Jade here itself.
@@TheLostAdventurer Yes. For years before I was able to start buying D&D materials, I would look through the catalogs at the covers, titles and descriptions of those products, and then imagine my own versions of what rules and setting info might be inside.
@@michaellinke6448 I fully understand that, I'd always imagine playing with all the warhammer 40k miniatures I couldn't get as a kid. If you kept the Jade Hare. You got yourself a very expensive collectors piece that's worth a pretty penny nowadays.
@@TheLostAdventurer I've got the adventure somewhere, but it's not in great condition. Mine also didn't come with the awesome cover, though. I only found out about that awesome art later while searching for info about the adventure online.
Heh, I have this module. I got it by sending in the registration card for D&D Basic Set to TSR. Some time later they sent me a preview of AD&D "First Quest" on a cassette tape (still have that too). Then nothing. I think they got eaten by a passing card game company.
That's exactly what happened, they changed it to a white background, mirrored it and then made this printing. They only did one print run of this module
Ahhh...brings up memories of 1982's Choose-Your-Own-Adventure "Dungeon of Dread". I can still smell the pages and cheap ink 😂
Sounds like a fun side quest.
I like the little animations/art you put in the video.
These animations are GREAT!
Thanks Devin!
I'd never heard of this one - but I like quick, inexpensive, scenarios that can be dropped into games. Will take a look.
Oh yeah. This is an easy one to throw in. And even though it's created for BECMI, as long as you know the monster stats, you can run it in any edition.
I ran this adventure half a year ago as a starter adventure for my ongoing campaign. Great, straight-to-the-point adventure. Since I ran it for the OSE, I had to tweak a couple of things, but other than that, it was a blast.
When I ran this one, two mid-level PCs tried to recover the Jade Hare, but got their butts kicked by pure numbers. Abu Ghabar escaped and took the enchanted statue to his master... It's an easy drop-in side-quest or "filler night", as you say. Nice review!
We have always found that larger numbers of weaker monsters is more dangerous then a few stronger monsters.
Was it the goblin barracks that got em?
Excellent review
I got Dungeon of Dread through our school reading program called RIF. Reading Is Fundamental. It was very early. Probably first edition. When I saw this module, I had to download it. Nostalgia.
4:30 That makes zero sense. Bats don't stay in their caves at night, they're out looking for food. You might find a few flying in or out of the place, but there should be far fewer of them than there are during the daytime when, as you said, they'll be asleep.
Presumably the goblin guards will wake the bats while screaming for help if given the chance to do so during the daytime.
While I'm at it, the entrance to this whole complex is carpeted with guano. Are there filthy footprints tracking the stuff all over the place and showing where the goblins have been recently? Rows of goblin boots lined up by the first two guard posts? Big dirty doormats with signs in goblin telling you to clean your boots?
And how well concealed is the escape tunnel exit from the outside? Does the tunnel have alarms rigged in it? I'd expect any competent players to scout around the area pretty thoroughly looking for other entrances instead of just strolling into the big obvious one. This could be a real quick run if the party marches into evil warlock guy's bedroom first thing.
Love arabian/middle-eastern desert setting
It's definitely a nice change, but at the same time the adventure is so generic you could do name swaps and place it anywhere you wanted
@@TheLostAdventurer true
This is a fun adventure.
That art work is also the cover of which way dungeons and dragons book it's like a solo adventure.....that's why i am watching this i have that book!
I got this for free in the mail somehow. It definitely wasn't included in my 1992 D&D starter set. I think there was a postcard in the box to get a free updated product catalog, and they included the adventure in the envelope with the catalog. This is the only thing that makes sense as for years, the only TSR products I owned were the 1992 black box starter, the Jade Hare, and two different TSR catalogs. The catalogs had far more page count and higher production quality than the Jade here itself.
the catalog was better quality.... lol. did you keep it?
@@TheLostAdventurer Yes. For years before I was able to start buying D&D materials, I would look through the catalogs at the covers, titles and descriptions of those products, and then imagine my own versions of what rules and setting info might be inside.
@@michaellinke6448 I fully understand that, I'd always imagine playing with all the warhammer 40k miniatures I couldn't get as a kid.
If you kept the Jade Hare. You got yourself a very expensive collectors piece that's worth a pretty penny nowadays.
@@TheLostAdventurer I've got the adventure somewhere, but it's not in great condition. Mine also didn't come with the awesome cover, though. I only found out about that awesome art later while searching for info about the adventure online.
Heh, I have this module. I got it by sending in the registration card for D&D Basic Set to TSR. Some time later they sent me a preview of AD&D "First Quest" on a cassette tape (still have that too). Then nothing. I think they got eaten by a passing card game company.
Looks like the cover of the first Endless Quest book, "Dungeon of Dread", only mirrored.
That's exactly what happened, they changed it to a white background, mirrored it and then made this printing. They only did one print run of this module
They're wrote an adventure for a party of first level characters that has a creature that requires magical weapons to hit?
Excellent review