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The premium reprints of the 1E core books were supplemented by a reprint of Unearthed Arcana, the Dungeons of Dread compilation, and the upcoming Against the Slave Lords compilation. The 3.5 reprints are being supplemented by the Spell Compendium and the Magic Item Compendium. The reprint of Original D&D Is coming with all the supplements for that game included. WotC just released the premium reprints of the three core books for 2E. So what 2E products do you think/hope will be released as premium reprints in support of 2E?
My picks:
Return to the Tomb of Horrors
Gates of Firestorm Peak
Labyrinth of Madness
Illithid Trilogy compilation (plus the Illithiad)
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My favorite 2E material was in "Dungeon" magazine. There were more than a dozen great adventures in there. There were Chadranther's Bane, Euphoria Horrors, Green Lady's Sorrow, Below Vulture Point, Song of the Fens, A Way with Words, Old Man Katan, The Lady of the Mists, Rudwilla's Stew, Goblin Fever, Fraggart's Contraption, The Assassin Within, The Bandits of Buglewood, Clarshh's Sepulchre, Umbra, The Rose of Jumlat, Nemesis... Dang! I can't possibly name all my favorites!
But since reprints of the magazine are highly unlikely, I'll go with "Eye of Pain", and the Al-Qadim module, "Caravans".
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Return to the Tomb of Horrors
This should be mandatory. It is, in my opinion, the best adventure of that magnitude that TSR ever put out. In fact, I'd say that very few advenures from ANY RPG's manage to match both the scope and the quality of RttToH. Doesn't hurt that it's built around, and fully incorporates, such an infamous classic.
I haven't heard of any 2E support books so far and given the remaining window until D&D Next hits the street (probably 14 months would be my guess for Gen Con 2014) I suspect we won't see any.
That said I think the Return to the Tomb of Horrors is a good idea, especially since it included the original 1E tomb in the set. But it might be more useful to a lot of 2E fans if they instead of an adventure they did a compilation of the brown books since those added the various kits which added a lot of diversity to the classes along with the psionics rules.
Thank you Aaron Bitman, my search for those adventures begins.
I don't know whether you're serious, but if you are, then I wonder whether you meant the magazines or the other stuff.
If you meant the magazines, I feel remiss in failing to mention some of my other favorites.
If you meant the other stuff, I should mention that I got "Caravans" for free from wizards.com. It was in the "Old Edition Downloads" page, back in the day. I checked today, and when I try to get to that page, I get "This article or feature is not yet live", but it might work again one day.
The Wayback Machine is your friend for missing-but-previously-available web-pages. It archives everything!
Try this link:
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1213/20090602060955/http://www.wizards.com/de fault.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads
The Caravans link is about half-way down the page.
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Hmmm. My problem is outside of the core books....the Book of Artifacts, and the setting boxsets were it.
Now if they can give me the virtual Planescape boxset in pdf. We'll talk.
Well, IIRC, they have said that they eventually plan to release everything they have published in PDF (although I doubt this includes magazines). I'd expect that most 4E releases will wait until AFTER D&D Next has been released for a bit, and they will probably not release any of the products with the premium reprints for a while either (at the very least until WotC has moved all of their copies out to retail).
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Return to the Tomb of HorrorsThis should be mandatory. It is, in my opinion, the best adventure of that magnitude that TSR ever put out. In fact, I'd say that very few advenures from ANY RPG's manage to match both the scope and the quality of RttToH. Doesn't hurt that it's built around, and fully incorporates, such an infamous classic.
If they reprinted Return to the Tomb of Horrors, I would have to purchase a copy and convert it to Pathfinder.
Meh, thought about doing that for a while, but the systems are just too different. Pathfinder, to be honest, has rubber bumpers on it.
Someone on the boards here ran a party of L 3 characters through the 3.5/rubber-bumper version of the Tomb of Horrors. It sounded like the appropriate level of character (player?) terror was achieved. :)
@ bellona,
FIFY
Thanks! :)
I was in a hurry that day, otherwise I would have done it properly myself.
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Just heard WotC are releasing a product called "Your Imagination" to support 2e. Not overly sure how it works. It seems this single product requires the core three 2e books but then somehow provides decades of game play? I'm skeptical myself.
Still with the current preorder price of $0 USD I'll try it and complain on some Internet forum if it doesn't live up to the hype.
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Didn't TSR trademark all of the Products of Your Imagination(TM) some time ago? (See the fine print at the bottom.)
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Didn't TSR trademark all of the Products of Your Imagination(TM) some time ago? (See the fine print at the bottom.)
Luckily, in my case that ain't products of my imagination, they're products of vodka intoxication. That's how I fly under WotC's radar...
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Didn't TSR trademark all of the Products of Your Imagination(TM) some time ago? (See the fine print at the bottom.)
Explains why no one seems to use their own imagination anymore - afraid of being sued by Gygax's ghost.