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Favorite Dungeons and Dragons modules (1 Viewer)

Charlie Steiner said:
That's a tough call.  My friends and I were made fun of for playing D & D from the start, so I don't know the urban legends that cropped up were as much of a factor in its propagation as just the sheer nerdity of the game itself prevents mass appeal.  I don't know how big it could have ever gotten, but wherever Gary is now, he must feel proud that his creation has outlived him.
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Yeah, it's fairly time consuming and somewhat complex, so I don't know if it was ever going to be Monopoly or anything.  It probably did about as well as it could and it certainly has spawned a ton of very popular video games, books, movies, etc. 

 
As far as modules, I never played when I was younger, really just started with the release of 5E.

But I do go back and read older modules. A buddy of mine runs his own LGS and I volunteer GM for open tables a couple weeks a month. We try to stick to the current 5E book (Storm King's Thunder) as a guideline, but several different tables and shifting playgroups leads me to read back for ideas. I've now used some of Gygax's Against the Giants for SKT and Tracy Hickman's original Ravenloft for our Curse of Strahd games. Both were fantastic.

 
Couple more links:

www.dmsguild.com - WotC released all their old modules for public use. Should be some good nostalgia there for most of you

Critical Role and www.twitch.tv/geekandsundry - voice actors playing 5E every Thursday night. The DM is Matt Mercer, who gamers may recognize as the voice of Overwatch's McCree, is godlike. It has one of the biggest fanbases on twitch.

My personal favorite is The Adventure Zone - not just the best D&D play podcast, but my favorite podcast overall. The McElroy Brothers (My Brother, My Brother and Me) join with their dad to play 5E and it is just perfection.

 
Never played D&D but did play some other games inspired from it. God bless my dad and brother humoring me as a kid to play a few of these fantasy boardgames when they had no interest in this kind of stuff (wish I could remember the names, one was very similar to Warhammer). I had forgotten the controversy, my mother was one of those that believed it promoted satan worship, but she's wised up as she's gotten older. I remember the same kind of rumors when Magic the Gathering first got big.

Had a friend from college who is a huge boardgame fan. We used to do game nights at his house every once in a few weeks until we all settled down and got married. That's where I first got play stuff like Settlers of Cataan, Axis & Allies, War of the Ring, etc. Most fun I had was a Battlestar Galactica themed game that was a heck of a lot of fun, and freaking hard. You'd be dealt characters and then in secret be told who was a Cylon or not and actively trying to undermine the game. A common, popular gameplay twist in lots of other games, but really fun as I had gotten everyone into the show at the time.

 
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About half of one of my fantasy football leagues played D & D in our early high school years.  One of the guys that hasn't really had a job for the last decade says he wants to get the old group together and start playing.  I told him there is no way I'm digging up the old books and getting back up to speed on the rules.  I told him he should check out Twitch, and talk to another friend about maybe seeing if we can get someone that could DM for us in one of the newer editions (the other friend is pretty active in board games, but has told me he may know a few RPGers also).

This was probably a year ago, and I don't think he's done anything to get the ball rolling.

The last time I played an RPG was my freshman or sophomore year in college, played Paranoia.  That was a fun time.

No real point to the story, but felt that with an open thread on the subject in general, I could drop some rambling thoughts in here.  Save a page from being used in my diary.

Also, the satanic thing - I think that with the make-believe aspect and the focus on a wide variety of belief structures as well as magic being pretty core to the game, that it gave me a more open mind towards other belief structures, or at least an awareness.  That is not always seen as a positive among some religious folks, so I always just took those stories with a grain of salt.

 
anyone here played Top Secret - kind of a 007 D&D?

Used to love that game. In one issue of Dragon was the module "Wacko World" which IMOwas as good as any D&D module

Issue #79

 
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Vanilla Guerrilla said:
The last time I played an RPG was my freshman or sophomore year in college, played Paranoia.  That was a fun time.
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Was in a group in my senior year of high school that played Paranoia.  Extremely fun.  Gamemaster was extremely good and you had absolutely no clue on who to trust.  That was one game you never got emotionally tied to your role/character cause something bad was inevitably going to happen.

 
JoeSteeler said:
anyone here played Top Secret - kind of a 007 D&D?

Used to love that game. In one issue of Dragon was the module "Wacko World" which IMOwas as good as any D&D module

Issue #79
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We dabbled in that game once.  When it came out, we were already pretty far along with D&D and it didn't interest us enough to learn a new set of rules. One game we did bother to learn and had fun playing was Illuminati.

 
timschochet said:
Yes I was a nerd who played D&D. And the very best were:

1. Tomb of Horrors "You've left and left and found my tomb and now your soul will die!"

3. The Keep on the Borderlands- beginning adventure with came in the game package- featuring the Caves of Chaos!
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These two are my favorites (that I can recall...that was a LONG time ago!)

 
Statorama said:
So this ends with a D&D session in Tim's basement, right?
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Which is further removed from reality?  Political threads here or a D&D game? 

I would imagine some here probably used the game as an escape from the fantasy worlds they live in.  *Rolls dice*, that outcome seems more logical.  Talking dragons are more believable than a ranking of 100 favorite colors that goes on for 50 pages.

 
Is there a good way to play this remotely that anyone has actually used? 

I am thinking of starting a game up with a couple of my younger brothers like when we were teenagers but one lives in Colorado and the rest of us are in Michigan.  

 
Sabertooth said:
Is there a good way to play this remotely that anyone has actually used? 

I am thinking of starting a game up with a couple of my younger brothers like when we were teenagers but one lives in Colorado and the rest of us are in Michigan.  
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Roll20 - use it multiple times a month

 
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AcerFC said:
As much of a nerd as I was when I was younger, I never played this. Lets say I want to, how does this work. Is there any way a noob with no character can play in a game with you
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We play every other Tuesday GB. You know where to find us.

 
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