First published adventure you DMed or played in?


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Great question! The first adventure I was the DM for was B-2 Keep on the Borderlands. And I was winging it mostly because I really didn't have much of a clue, but everyone had a good time so it was worth it. We are probably talking the Fall of 1980 here when I was in 8th grade.
My first adventure that I took part in was Castle Amber and I was running two characters: Perigon a 4th level paladin and Taarna a 3rd level fighter. This was probably late 1981 or early 1982.

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As a DM I have never liked module adventures, so I have never run any of them. All of my sessions have been my own creations.

The first game I ever played in, however, was a module and it was the Ship of Horrors from Ravenloft. :)


Darkmeer wrote:


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.

This would be "Babykiller", no?


When I first started playing D&D, we used a lot of bits and pieces from several modules, including the Keep on the Borderlands and the Isle of Dread, but never really ran though anything cohesive. It was more a matter of, "this map looks cool, I'll drop this into the middle of what we are already doing."

The first adventure that we actually played through, more or less the way it was intended, as a cohesive story, was "Mad Monkey verus Dragon Claw." I loved that one. It was absolutely a blast.

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First one I DM'd was Keep on the Borderlands when it came with the Basic Set. First one I played in was "Castle Amber" - we had a horrible DM that kept whining that he wanted someone else to be the DM.

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Wow! I just read the posts before mine and noticed David Gehring had nearly the same D&D beginnings as me. Cool!


TwiceBorn wrote:
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!

Now that's great news!

Wouldn't it be nice to slip that into Age of Worms as Lashonna's humanoid abode. Could be cool.


Like many here the first I played in was 'Keep on the Borderlands'. I remember playing that with my brothers and neighbour a bunch of times but I don't think we ever suceeded in finishing it. My favorite part was always at the begining rolling on the rumors table (to this day all I have to say to crack my brother up is "bree-yark").
The first I DMed was much later in high school, The Temple of Elemental Evil. It was awesome, but I really underestimated it. I remember the back text reading "hours of entertainment". Yeah right 'hours', it took all 4 years of friggin high school! They were great years though :)


Fist try at DMing was with 'B1 In Search of the Unknown.' Didn't do too well, as the rules were confusing at the time (I had no one who had played already, thus was ruffing it). Finally got it in about a year (played only a few games during that time).

As a Player, first modules was Temple of Elemental Evil. I still remember how my character died only part way into that - and is part that was supposed to be easy...


B1 In Search of the Unknown. I'll never forget it :)

It's interesting to me that most everyone recalls an old 1/e module -- does it say something about the age of people on the board or the quality of the original modules? Or both?

Regards all,

Jack

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Man, I played in that old X-2.
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The part where you go over the bridge with the troll underneath, the party was like, "let's do like billy goat's gruff."
So the THIEF goes over the bridge and says, "Mr. Troll, I'm a little billy goat, but my big brother's coming, and he has more meat on him." So the troll let him go.
Then the magic user goes, and the fighter/thief working on becoming a 1e bard, and I tell them all, "let me go last."
So my paladin gets up there, last guy, and he goes, "okay, bleepin' Troll! I'm the biggest, baddest bleep-bleep in this whole bleeping castle, so come out from under there and get your bleep royally kicked the bleep in!!!"
So, everybody's laughing like for 3 minutes, and I'm like, "hey, do you mind? I gotta kill this troll here."
And the DM is like, "paladins shouldn't talk like that, you know."
And I'm like, "I don't care. I don't take it back, make me chaotic good fighter, it was too awesome not to say."
But apparently my deity was entertained too, no loss of paladin powers.


My very first adventure I played in a module of U1,2 & 3 Sinister secret of Saltmarsh series. I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford England and my group had frequented the local mideval banquets. My Character was a ranger named Oy-ve-ismia. The first time I DM'd a game was in the same series of adventures 6 years later.


1st Played: Sunless Citadel -> Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
1st DM'd: The Burning Plague


my first attempt at DMing was to impress my older sister, who got me in to d&d. i ran a ravenloft module for her and my little brother, something from the book of crypts, maybe? i was probably 16 or 17 and it went horribly. even i was bored.

i think the first module i played in was baltrons beacon. it was integrated into our ongoing campaign and worked out smoothly.


Hmm, I think it was keep by the borderlands that I first played in and The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh that I first gmed.


delveg wrote:
Fang wrote:

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.

Me three. or four or five... as with many others here. That adventure rules and any homemede version of it is what I pull out on my players now when they seem to get bored. Just slide in that whole "flavor" and it livens up a log-jamed session.


Doug Sundseth wrote:

Well, it's not really an adventure, but mine was City State of the Invincible Overlord (the original one). I think the first thing more like an adventure was Tegel Manor (again, the original).

All of that with White-Box D&D.

Cool shout out for Judges Guild; I run my world using Judges Guild maps; The CSof the IO is a great one.

Liberty's Edge

Tegel Manor's still scary.
I got my butt handed to me there.

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Heathansson wrote:

Tegel Manor's still scary.

I got my butt handed to me there.

Yeah, drained to death, aged to decripitude, paralyzed and eaten ... we spent a lot of time in that place. And that was just my characters.

Liberty's Edge

I went in there with a +3 long sword, and walked out aged to 88 years old, using it as a cane.


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Another vote for Isle of Dread (first played) and Keep on the Borderlands (first DM'd).

I think the reason so many of us have some variation of this is that the modules were included in the boxed rule sets - X1 was in the expert box and B2 came with the basic game.

Other theories include: a) modules were few and far between. What choices did we have? and b) Ye, the Lord Gygax stepped forth holding aloft two tablets, modules as they were, and decreed "Play these for I have written them!" And it was good. And Gygax did grin.


Judge's Guild had some really great adventures and aids!

Mayfair's CSoIO was good, too.


waltero wrote:
Ye, the Lord Gygax stepped forth holding aloft two tablets, modules as they were, and decreed "Play these for I have written them!" And it was good. And Gygax did grin.

Yea, verily, for the Lord our Gygax hath spoken, and did declare that "D&D is Good, and thou shall play it, and learn it, and love it."

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Lilith wrote:
waltero wrote:
Ye, the Lord Gygax stepped forth holding aloft two tablets, modules as they were, and decreed "Play these for I have written them!" And it was good. And Gygax did grin.
Yea, verily, for the Lord our Gygax hath spoken, and did declare that "D&D is Good, and thou shall play it, and learn it, and love it."

And ye, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Monopoly, I shall fear no other game. For thou art with me Oh Gygax. Thy dice and thy DM screen shall comfort me.


The first adventure I ever played was Keep on the Borderlands. I played an ELF! His name was SMAUG! I thought Sleep was a cool spell, so I used IT! The bandit chieftain cut my HEAD off!

(*G* Thus, setting a tradition of being the first PC in every party I play in to lose a character. It's almost painful, it is... *sniff*)


Mike Griffith wrote:
So what are the first published adventures you folks ran as DMs or played in with a character?

That would be The Keep On The Borderlands, the original edition, I think, back when you could still get a Flametongue sword in that room with the wights(I think they were wights) before they changed it to a plain old +2 sword. Remember that original boxed set with the 'chits' instead of dice? 'Chits' were those numbered pieces of paper you'd cut out, turn face down, mix up and grab one at random to determine your 'roll'. Dice must've been more expensive back then, I guess ;)


Keep on the Borderlands still one of my favorites, getting ready to try to wrangle my old pals (who now live all over...) into playing it again at an online website. Really looking forward to that. =)


In high school, I had a modest collection of TSR modules including D1-3 and Village of Hommlett, but never got to run very many of them because I lived in the country and didn't have my own set of wheels until I temporarily "outgrew" the game (i.e. got more interested in girls, sports, and fitting in), so playing time was rare.

First played in: Temple of Set(?)--I don't remember the name, but I think it was a Judge's Guild publication. It was a pretty nasty dungeon crawl with something like 19 levels--I think we made it through two or three. (First TSR module was G2, Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl--we never finished that one either).

First DM'd: A1 Slavepits of the Undercity (game broke up due to one PC backstabbing another for out of game reasons, as a 16-year old DM I wasn't quite sure how to handle it, and we just stopped playing).

First completed as player: Flood Season from SCAP (my son DM'd for me)

First completed as DM: Whispering Cairn

When I got back into the game, I started making up my own material to DM for my son and my nephew. My son got a couple of Dungeon back issues with early SCAP adventures to DM for me, which is what turned me on to the quality of stuff published in Dungeon. The end result has been a subscription and me jumping on to the "old modules nostalgia wagon" starting with the Istivin arc published last year, which did such a nice job of tying 3.5e to the old GDQ series.


I belong to the B2 - Keep on the Borderlands crowd. Must've run through or DM'd that 20 times. Followed closely by U1 - Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and L1 - Secret of Bone Hill.

As for Dungeon Magazine, the first one I remember going through was "Wards of Witching Ways." Much fun. I had at least one party that kept the keep as their headquarters


I'm another B2 user! Got mine in the blue box (Red dragon on the front) with the chits, etc. What a pain! But we had a blast running through it. I'm looking through the conversion I found online to 3.0 and thinking of where in Eberron I'll put it for my sons. I think they will have a blast....(and one of them got a Stirge in their Dragon Queen box today, he he)

Be nice if they did a 3.5 version like they've done with some of the other modules. Keep is a great starting adventure.

-Dave


First played: B1

First run: B1

If I remember correctly (waaaaaay back to 1980 os so), there were only 2 of us. One DMed, the other played. Then we switched.

Which actually worked since the adventure was based on the DM placing monsters and treasures from lists into desired locations.

Then it was straight off the deep end into some very odd homegrown adventures. But, hey, we were 11.


cwslyclgh wrote:
B2 the keep on the borderlands is the first published adventure that I DMed and also the first one I partcipated in.

Same


As player: B3 Silver Princess

As DM: X5 Temple of Doom

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