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Winston Smith	10 Jan 2019 4:26 a.m. PST
Back in my day, we didn't have no pre-written hottsie tottsie modules. No sir!
ScottWashburn	10 Jan 2019 5:07 a.m. PST
Yup! Those were the day, huh?
20thmaine	10 Jan 2019 5:51 a.m. PST
We slogged through G1-G3, I was the DM. Oh Lord did my players hate me when it became obvious that G3 was going to lead straight into D1. "Can't you just write the Dungeons like you used to?" they said. And I knew they were right, but it was so time consuming and these modules represented the peak of TSR dungeonering talent! The players were right. We never did do D1-D3 (my copies are still mint I suppose!), mostly because one of the guys bought Q1 (the follow on to D1-D3!) and so the plot was shot. However – City State of The Invincible Overlord was a great jumping off place for new adventures. The best "module" I ever invested in. For some reason none of the other City Modules produced by Judges Guild were half as good.
USAFpilot	10 Jan 2019 8:52 a.m. PST
S2 White Plume Montain A1-4 The Slaver Series The G/giant and D/drow modules were rather uninteresting high level hack and slash.
Mithmee	10 Jan 2019 2:57 p.m. PST
Back in the later 1970's and early 1980's I had so many of the modules. But than I got married and had children and found miniatures. So dumb old me got rid of nearly every single one of my D&D stuff. Do you know what these costs these days. Smart me did keep all of the 1st Edition AD&D books and a few of the modules, like; Tegel Manor, The Temple of Elemental Evil (just do not where that is at the moment). City State of The Invincible Overlord Had the original of this way back when. But I got the Collector's Edition of 5th Edition of D&D for Christmas so I have began to get some of these old Modules, which is why I know what they cost these days. So far I have gotten: Got this one in the mail last night. This one I got last week. Plus I have this coming So yes The City State of The Invincible Overlord is the best city and lets just say that to get this book you will pay. The great thing is that since I buy stuff from Amazon this ended up costing me nothing. Oh and yes I did but one of the new ones. link
20thmaine	10 Jan 2019 5:43 p.m. PST
T1 was great. Just seemed a long time to wait for T2.
Mithmee	10 Jan 2019 8:23 p.m. PST
Yes it was and back in the later 1970's we lost several characters and NPC's going into it. First is was the Giant Frogs then the Green Slime (you know what happens to NPC's when Green Slime drops onto them and your Cleric is only level 1/2… they die) than the other monsters. It was only a final sleep spell that lucky put down a brunch of bad guys that we allowed us to finally get out of there. Though still not as bad as: The Tomb of Horrors where 21 went in and only 4 came out alive and one of those was struck in the skull.
20thmaine	11 Jan 2019 10:48 a.m. PST
I remember Tomb of Horrors – in the sense that I know I was a player in a game that used it – but I recall nothing about it except that there was a Liche on the cover, and I knew our party had no chance if we met a liche….. …probably we all died.
Phrodon	11 Jan 2019 12:47 p.m. PST
My favs: T1 – Village of Hommlet A1-A4 – Slavers U1 -Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh C2 – Ghost Tower C4 – To Find a King L2 – Assassins Knot N1 – Against the Cult Reptile God S2 – White Plume Mountain
Parzival	15 Jan 2019 11:29 a.m. PST
BTW, both B1 & B2, in all editions, are available as exact reprints in the compilation hardback Into the Borderlands by Goodman Games. The book also includes 5e versions of these, with a linked storyline and additional adventuring locations. There's also a nice write up of the history of the original modules. Worth a look!
20thmaine	18 Jan 2019 7:47 a.m. PST
That sounds really interesting – but £60.00 GBP (on Amazon) was a bit more than I expected to see!