I've been waxing nostalgic of late and got to thinking about the first adventure I bought and ran for my first AD&D group.
(I4 Oasis of the White Palm)
I have also been fondly remembering the first published adventure I might have played in. (B2 Keep on the Borderland)
So what are the first published adventures you folks ran as DMs or played in with a character?
The first one I played in was either the good ol' B2 or B1 "Search o/t Unknown". And then I probably turned around and DM'ed that one again. But the first one that I bought and DM'ed for our own "Circle of Eight" was I7 "Baltron's Beacon". Man, I ended up DMing that one about 3 times, changing stuff around...though my versions of the puzzle doors in the basement were just shameless variations of the really great ones printed in the book.
B2 the keep on the borderlands is the first published adventure that I DMed and also the first one I partcipated in.
First as player: C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan (an awesome experience!)
First as DM: B1 In Search of the Unknown (those poor players!)
First adventures I DMed:
The sample adventure in the DM's booklet in the OD&D Basic Set (red box), followed by B1 "In Search of the Unknown" and "B3 "Palace of the Silver Princess"... if memory serves me right.
As far as AD&D modules go, the first few I played were either the solo "Midnight on Dagger Alley" or UK 5 "Eye of the Serpent"... at least I think so... and I'm not sure if the order is correct.
I was introduced to the game as a player by a friend who totally improvised stories and encounters and totally made up his own rules on the fly. I remember that he had us roll our hit points (and damage) with d30s! Crazy stuff... We were probably 12 or 13 years old back then.
After that, I DMed the modules mentioned above (using the appropriate edition rules for the appropriate modules). The first time one of my players DMed for me from a published adventure, I think it was probably "Castle Caldwell and Beyond" (followed by the rest of B 1-9, "In Search of Adventure").
It's been so long!
Um, crap.
Played in? Keep on the Borderlands. :P
DMed...ummm...One of the DragonLance ones, the one that had the High Clerist's tower in it.
First Published Adventure I played in...
That would be the D&D adventure boxed set. Played with my Dad & younger brother.
First Published Adventure I ran...
Evil Unearthed in Dungeon issue 82, followed immediately by Playing with fire. Group then dissolved temporarily.
I then adapted The Cradle of Madness (issue 87) into a springboard for a cult of Moander in a realms campaign. To this day, I have a player who can't live the end of that campaign down, due to vile acts committed by his character for the "greater good." It was great, and the evil just kept on coming.
B2. I was playing, I was six years old, and dad was DMing. :D. I recently found this out because he gave me his full D&D collection, and while going through the random stuff, I found B2 hidden away inside the 1st ed D&D boxed set, with copies of all of the player's character sheets inside.
that game was a long.. long time (18 years) ago.
First module played in - G1. Followed by G2 and then G3 (yup, the old individual modules)
First one run...after the little one in the back of the blue book, it was B2.
Reggie.
Does that "introductory adventure" in D&D core book count (the box was red, at least the one I had)?
Actual outside-the-core-box modules? Well, there were a couple of adventures run in early issues of Magus (Finnish RPG magazine) but the first one you would recognize is Isle of Dread.
Sorry, I'm young. The first published D&D module I played in was "The Standing Stone" from WoTC's 3.0 Adventure Path. I played in a few homebrew games before that.
Likewise, in DMing, I made up my own material for a long time before I started running published adventures. The first of those was a highly modified version of Zenith Trajectory.
First played in B1: in search of the unknown.
First DM'd A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity.
Hmmm this is going back a ways....the first one I played in was Skarda's Mirror, I do believe. I spent alot of time playing Basic D&D and alot of the modules just kind of ran together :(.
The first one I ran, however, was definatly Terrible Trouble in Tragidore...aka, the adventure that came with the DM's screen. It's amazing what a group of people can do when you don't have any of the rulebooks :-D
U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. It's still one of the best, IMHO...
First module I ever laid eyes on was S1: The Tomb of Horrors. Some fellow students were playing D&D in the back of the class on a "do-what-you-want" day at school (4th grade - one day before the summer vacation). It hooked me right then and there with it's superb illustration booklet, sparking that first flame that would become the raging inferno that is my passion today.
First module I ever DMed was B1: In Search of the Unknown... Without the use of any sourcebook, having only a d4 and a d10, with no clue how to really play, I gathered five kids from my neigborhood on that faithful saturday morning way back in 1982 (I think) and entered a whole new world... And never came back!
First module I ever played in was The first Dragonlance Module with the awesome 3D map of an old temple and subterranian complex. This was about four years later, in 1986 I believe, after moving to Montreal Canada and finally finding people who actually knew what the game was.
I still hang out with these people to this day, although I now DM with a totally different group.
Ultradan
Played = In Search of the Unknown
DMed = D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth (talk about a learning curve)
(Hey Ultradan, nice to see you posting again!)
Hey Ultradan, nice to see you posting again!
Thanks... Incredible as it sounds, I think I just found a way this morning to bypass the computer's "Unauthorized Sites" at work. If so, you'll be reading alot of me again!!
Ultradan
Hey Ultradan, nice to see you posting again!Thanks... Incredible as it sounds, I think I just found a way this morning to bypass the computer's "Unauthorized Sites" at work. If so, you'll be reading alot of me again!!
Ultradan
Awesome, I replied to you in another thread that a few weeks ago the topic of Canadian beer came up and somehow you and your gaming garage came to mind....hmmmmm???
Awesome, I replied to you in another thread that a few weeks ago the topic of Canadian beer came up and somehow you and your gaming garage came to mind....hmmmmm???
Let's see... Gaming... Garage... Beer... Hey! That is ME!!
Ultradan
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U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. It's still one of the best, IMHO...
Good times. That's the first module I ever DMed THEN played in. All aboveboard mind you...
I ran that mod at least 5 times. Will do a revamp for 3.5 if I can ever find willing victims.I guess the first mod I ran was B2; first I played in was Tegel Manor. I think. Can't remember.
Played: Wasn't a player in a published module until I was an adult (DM when I was learning didn't use them)
DM'd: Was either B1:In search of the unknown, or B2:Keep on the Borderlands... can't remember exact order.
First DM'd - Keep on the Borderlands (with one other friend and two NPCs, one of which was based on that Valshea cover so long ago)
First Played - Something like 10 years later, I finally got to play in a game instead of run, and it was the Temple of Elemental Evil. I played a Cavalier and the first game session, the group I'd joined ran into Zuggtmoy. Knowing who she was, I panicked and lost my followers when the DM said they'd not stick around with a "cowardly" knight! *snicker*
First played: Keep on the Borderlands
First DM'd: Keep on the Borderlands, about a month later.
Funny, I just dug that module out so I could run in for my kids.
--Fang
First played: Keep on the Borderlands
First DM'd: Keep on the Borderlands
Me too,I think. Though I played other home made modules before I got to play keep; very wacky and random.
First played: Palace of the Silver Princess.
First ran: The Village of Hommlet, back when it was a standalone module.
I loved palace....must have run that thing half a dozen times.
--Fang
I'm taking the lazy path here, but I'd love to see Keep on the Borderlands re-done for 3.5.
Sure, I could convert it myself, but...
To see the maps in color (not that pale blue and white) and new interior art...
So many good memories here, folks!
Thanks for posting!
Played: White Plume Mountain
DM'd: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh
Man, I love D&D!
B2 the keep on the borderlands is the first published adventure that I DMed and also the first one I partcipated in.
Likewise. I was 10 and my dad had a copy.
played - Village of Hommlet (T1). From there we moved on to Saltmarsh (U1-3). I guess in our world someone else took care of the Temple of Elemental Evil...
DM'd - DL1 (the first DragonLance module)
none of my players survived to see DL2 :-(
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First played: Bloodstone Pass. We drifted into AD&D via wargaming, so we started with the Battlesystem stuff. Fairly high-powered characters for newbies... I think my first PC ever was a lvl 16 Magic-user.
First DMed: The Temple of Elemental Evil. I've run that one four (or five? Getting old, can't remember) times with different groups, and I still love it. The old crew gathered again to do the Return to... supermodule - the look they got when they met Hedrack was PRICELESS ("Man, I've wanted to kill him for 20 years!"), especially as some of the PCs were sons of the PCs from the old adventure ("You killed my uncle! Die!!").
The first time I ever gamed we played the Dragonlance Classics module Dragons of Ice. I played a half-elf ranger. I distinctly remember the roof of that inn in Tarsis being ripped off and sivak draconians descending from the skies. I barely remember anything else, as it happened in the winter of 1991 (I was 14).
I ran the module again in the winter of 1997 while I was in college. We were knee deep in the Classics campaign, and I was DMing two separate groups (one at home, the other at school), just like they suggest in the module (and just like it happens in the Chronicles books). We made it as far as Icewall/Silvanesti, and the campaign dissolved after that.
I also remember one of our first modules was Dymrak Dread, which I had the opportunity of dusting off for our new Age of Worms campaign. I had three adventuresome kids from Diamond Lake wander too far from town, close to the "Dymrak Cairn" as I dubbed it, which was inhabited by goblins. The kids were taken as slaves, and the PCs had to save them. They did this in-between visits to the Whispering Cairn.
I love dipping into old modules. I'd REALLY love to run Ravenloft 16/House of Strahd sometime again.
First one I played in was Keep on the Borderlands.
First I DMed was the same.
Hehe, it was the opposite from Hojas for me. The 1st i ever played in was 'Keep On The Borderlands' and the 1st i ever DMed was 'Isle Of Dread'. Isn't it scary that nearly everyone around here seems to have started with 'Keep...' ? What is this? Some kind of senior veteran board? ;)
Wow... I feel at home here already. :P This is like an old folk's home for DnD...
First ran- Keep
First played- Isle of Dread
First bought- All that glitters ADnD. Only one I bought come to think of it. My friends and I enjoyed building worlds too much I guess.
I love dipping into old modules. I'd REALLY love to run Ravenloft 16/House of Strahd sometime again.
Then you're in luck... check out the products page, they're releasing "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" (v 3.5 of I6 + additional material, if I remember correctly) in October!
Keep on the Borderlands was my first D&D experience as the DM, over and over again. The first adventure I remember playing as a player would be White Plume Mountain, which I played and DMed over and over again. I think Whiter Plume Mountain would make a good video game.
After that, I DMed the modules mentioned above (using the appropriate edition rules for the appropriate modules). The first time one of my players DMed for me from a published adventure, I think it was probably "Castle Caldwell and Beyond" (followed by the rest of B 1-9, "In Search of Adventure").
It's been so long!
Castle Caldwell and Beyond!!!
Ohmigod! I loved that adventure! Wait...the young master has never played any of these "old" adventures! Ignore this post!
;-)
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Hey Ultradan, nice to see you posting again!Thanks... Incredible as it sounds, I think I just found a way this morning to bypass the computer's "Unauthorized Sites" at work. If so, you'll be reading alot of me again!!
Ultradan
Took my advice on the Digglehoffer bypass,huh?
Good on you, mate! Great to have you back.FH
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First one I played was 'Destiny of Kings' run by a moron DM who was using a published AD&D adventure with only the basic edition D&D rules to run it. He also pronounced Prince Edmund 'Prince ed-mudd'.
It was especially sad because I was 7 and he was 16, and I could read the books with greater comprehension than he. Also, my character was killed by a lightning bolt from the heavens midway throught the adventure because 'humans suck'.
First published adventure I DM'd was probably Welcome to the Krypthome in one of the 1995 issues of Dungeon when I was 14.
First as DM: B1 In Search of the Unknown
First as Player: S1 Tomb of Horrors (solo!) -- talk about starting out the hard way!
First attempts at playing. We REALLY didnt quite understand the rules so noone DMd we just read through the books. I think we were probably missing some of them. We were trying to play AD&D but using a Hit chart from D&D lol. We went thruough Temple of Elemental Evil and Castle Greyhawk.
as far as the first actual Module that was ran by a real DM, it was the Ravenloft one "Feast of Goblyns".