What’s New Art General Maps and locations Date Information – November 1978 Acaeum says November, DriveThruRPG says November. Copyright says March 1979 (1979-03-13) but that was registered on 1983-03-24 and they’re notoriously bad. There’s an ad for it in Dragon #22 feb ’79. It’s code is 9023, which comes after S1 which was 9022 published …
Category Archives: Adventure Module
Module S1 – Tomb of Horrors
What’s New Art General Date Information – October 1978
Module D3 – Vault of the Drow
What’s New Art General Date Information – August 1978
Module D2 – Shrine of The Kuo-Toa
What’s New Art General Date Information – August 1978
Module D1 – Descent Into the Depths of the Earth
What’s New? First module with tear off hand-out map for the players! First module with 2 versions of a map – one for the DM, a matching partial one for the players First module to have 1 map level go over 2 panels First modules to have Wizard logo, not Lizard logo First mention I …
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Module G3 – Hall of the Fire Giant King
What’s New? First 16 page module (G1 & G2 are 8 pages) First 3 panel/3 map cover (although the Australian version doesn’t have a 3rd panel) First to have a new monster description at the end of the module Drow! Mind flayers!! Art Back to DCS III for the cover. I like how the armour …
Module G2 – The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
What’s New? Huh, anyone familiar with painting 5E minis? Well one treasure item in this module is Nolzur’s Marvellous Pigments! As far as I can tell, this is their first appearance and their description wouldn’t even be explained until the DM’s Guide came out much later It has dragons! (G1 didn’t, so it’s a first …
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Module G1 – Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
I’m so excited to get to the first official module. The adventure modules are what I enjoy reading the most. What’s New Its’ the first D&D module designed, produced and distributed by TSR – woohoo! (Lost Tsojcanth wasn’t distributed by TSR, Vampire Queen et al were written by others. Temple of the Frog was a …
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The Misty Isles
Ok, so strictly speaking, this was never distributed by TSR but I wanted to read it anyway and I think others may want to conclude the Wee Warriors trilogy as well. So, here we get a huge expansion in scope. Palace of the Vampire Queen was a single building. Dwarven Glory was slightly larger – …
The Dwarven Glory
Dungeon Masters Kit – Number 2 Check out those dwarves! Check out that treasure! Check out that weird archway? Like Palace of the Vampire Queen, this wasn’t created by TSR but is included here because it was distributed by them. The weirdest thing about this? It uses hex maps, where every hex is 3 feet. …