Having a conversation with a co-worker yesterday, of a similar vintage as myself, I realized that we both shared the same approximate Dungeons and Dragons time, about 1981-1987. he mentioned that he had usually DM’d and they that had bought, and gone through, most of the modules.
Unfortunately, as most of my time gaming in the 80’s was solo, I didn’t use the modules much (its hard to DM and play at the same time…), but I always liked them and bought them when they stood out. As I have been finding fun in my personal AD&D 1Ed resurgence I’m been having the last year, I’ve thought about modules, and thought about the ones I never got, but would now like to have. Note that I’m only looking at AD&D modules here, and no offshoots, not even Dragonlance
I still have all of mine, so I thought I’d take a stroll down Module lane to see what I’d like to consider. Just for kicks, they’re ordered by year first and then catalog number… And note that I have highlighted the ones that I have… Which is 20 published between 1978-1983 and one published after 1983.
1978
D1 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth
D2 Shrine of the kuo-toa
D3 Vault of the drow
G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
G2 Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King
S1 Tomb of Horrors
1979
S2 White Plume Mountain
T1 The Village of Hommlet
1980
A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity
C1 Hidden shrine of Tamochan
C2 Ghost Tower of Inverness
S3 Expedition to the barrier peaks
Q1 queen of the demonweb pits
1981
A2 Secrets of the Slavers Stockade
A3 Assault on the aerie of the slavelords
A4 in the dungeons of the slave lords
D1-2 Descent in the Depths of the Earth
G1-2-3 Against the giants
I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City
L1 The Secret of Bone hill
U1 The sinister secret of saltmarsh
1982
I2 Tomb of the Lizard King
I3 Pharaoh
N1 Against the cult of the reptile god
u2 danger at dunwater
S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun
1983
I4 Oasis of the white palm
I5 Lost Tomb of Martek
I6 Ravenloft
L2 Assassins Knot
u3 the final enemy
UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave
UK2 The Sentinel
1984
C3 The Lost Island of Castamir
N2 The FOrest Oracle
UK3 The Gauntlet
UK4 When a Star Falls
UK5 Eye of the Serpent
UK6 All That Glitters…
WG5 Mordenkainen’s Fantastic Adventure
1985
C4 To Find a King
I7 Baltron’s Beacon
T1-4 The temple of elemental evil
UK7 Dark Clouds Gather
WG6 Isle of the Ape
1986
A1-4 Scourge of the slavelords
GDQ1-y Queen of the spiders (the G’s and D’s combined)
I8 Ravager of time
I9 Day of Al’Akbar
I10 Ravenloft II
N3 Destiny of Kings
N4 Treasure hunt
1987
C5 The Bane of Llewellyn
C6 RPGA Tournament handbook
I3-5 Desert of Desolation
I11 Needle
I12 Egg of the phoenix
I13 Adventures pack 1
N5 Under Illefarm
1988 and beyond…
I14 Swords of the iron legion
WG7 Castle Greyhawk
L3 Deep Dwarven Delve (not released until 1999)
Assuming that I should stick top my strategy of only having ones from 1983 or before, I would say that the main ones I am missing are:
T1 The Village of Hommlet 1979
C2 Ghost Tower of Inverness 1980
I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City 1981
L1 The Secret of Bone hill 1981
I2 Tomb of the Lizard King 1982
N1 Against the cult of the reptile god 1982
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