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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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Faramicos
Senior Scribe
Denmark
468 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Oct 2006 : 21:55:18
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The best i have ever played is an adventure set in Ravenloft during TOT... The horror world of Ravenloft combined with gods walking amongst mortals was a combination that was highly succesful.
The worst i have ever played was an adventure where we started out at level 13-15 (2nd edition). We missed out on the opportunity to get to know our characters during the early levels. This combined with an extremely primititve DM made it something i would rather try to forget. |
"When dragons make war, worlds can only tremble in the shadow of angry wings" |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
1720 Posts |
Posted - 18 Oct 2006 : 22:49:09
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the best adventure i have ever played was a self designed dragonlance campaign. Unfortunately the DM had his dificulties with sticking to the story line and his personal dislikings of not sticking to it. In the end we stopped it.......
The worst playing experience was with a DM too inexperienced to give the players any borders and players too inexperienced not to take advantage of that circumstance. I'd rather forget that experience too. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36886 Posts |
Posted - 18 Oct 2006 : 22:50:21
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Originally posted by Faramicos
The best i have ever played is an adventure set in Ravenloft during TOT... The horror world of Ravenloft combined with gods walking amongst mortals was a combination that was highly succesful.
Huh? How did that work? Ravenloft is a separate plane of existence; it shouldn't have been affected at all by the ToT. |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 18 Oct 2006 : 23:18:39
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| In terms of published adventures? I thought the Mere of Dead Men series (Dungeon 69-73) was excellent and so did my players. |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2006 : 12:44:25
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Best adventure: Ravager of Time, it is so evil that it's good.
Worst adventure: a trilogy of DL adventures dealing with, amonst others, Dragons on the moon... |
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Faramicos
Senior Scribe
Denmark
468 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2006 : 13:31:21
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| My DM took it from the point of view that since Ravenloft is composed of parts of just about all planes it was also affected by ToT... I agree that it was some sort of a bastard combination of concepts, but it worked perfectly. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2006 : 13:37:01
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
Best adventure: Ravager of Time, it is so evil that it's good.
Worst adventure: a trilogy of DL adventures dealing with, amonst others, Dragons on the moon...
Mace, that wouldn't have been In Search of Dragons, Dragon Magic, and Dragon Keep would it (DLE 1-3)? Between the kodragons, wierd little sub cultures, and pregenerated PCs that violated all sorts of the settings rules, I worked really hard "converting" that trilogy to my own DragonLance game, even though I ran it as a "short term" campaign starting with DLE1. |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2006 : 16:34:05
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
Best adventure: Ravager of Time, it is so evil that it's good.
Worst adventure: a trilogy of DL adventures dealing with, amonst others, Dragons on the moon...
Mace, that wouldn't have been In Search of Dragons, Dragon Magic, and Dragon Keep would it (DLE 1-3)? Between the kodragons, wierd little sub cultures, and pregenerated PCs that violated all sorts of the settings rules, I worked really hard "converting" that trilogy to my own DragonLance game, even though I ran it as a "short term" campaign starting with DLE1.
Yep, that's the one... 'orrible...and I wish I had taken the time to convert it. 'orrible, absolutely 'orrible |
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Kalin Agrivar
Senior Scribe
Canada
956 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2006 : 18:20:08
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
Worst adventure: a trilogy of DL adventures dealing with, amonst others, Dragons on the moon...
 I remember that one! my players did like the Dragon city though...
the best: original Temple of Elemental Evil
the worst: that old Grayhawk one where it is like "Alice in Wonderland" *shudder*  |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 20 Oct 2006 : 05:19:27
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worst campaign - bad dm, bad players, everyone had opinions, but noone would step up. 2 adventures and I went elsewhere.
best campaign - forgotten realms with, good dm, great players, everyone contributed to the overall success of the storyline.
lastley, lesson learned, cooperation and participation can make any campaign great.  |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2006 : 02:35:55
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| I thought one of the worst was the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks with all the laser guns and crapola. I always had a soft spot for Against the Giants. |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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Dart Ambermoon
Learned Scribe
Germany
253 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2006 : 04:40:22
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Worst I´ve played was "Rod of 7 Parts" under a first time DM. Now we all make mistakes and fledgling DMs are more than entitled to them...but we started at level one and she plunged us right into the story. So, level one chars...spider demons popping out of gates every ten minutes and clawing up the ying-yang...bad idea.
Eventually my half-elven bard PC jumped into one of the gates and told the Queen of Chaos (I think that was her title?) to just lay the frick off for a while...which I still consider a mercy suicide.
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Marc
Senior Scribe
662 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2006 : 10:30:41
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1) the best - I'm usually the DM so I can't valuate it (though I know that my PCs most talk about ''stole the ancient relic, lantern, from elven tree city adventure'' and ''integrating Dune story in Plains of the Purple Dust campaign'' and ''yuan-ti - couatl conflict - evil campaign'' or ''put an orc chieftain in extradimensional bag adventure'' or ''Matrix (astral plane) campaign''...
2) we were playing in two groups (5 adventurers in each) and one was hunting the other (don't remember why it was 2E) and DM didn't even count time, ended in a disaster. Or when we were collecting brain moles in a meadow for a wizard, or when we were on barren island, and there was nothing and DM expected us to play Robinson Crusoe, or when I've killed (with arrows, arcane archer) Thurdan Tallwand of Mulmaster (DM played him badly) in a battle between Moonsea armies (led by Zhents) and our Vaasa army (with Damaran allies), or when every skeleton (1 HD) had a magical long sword, or when one player left after his squirell's died, or when evil black titan was in a basement of Castle Perilous ... |
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szasstamsgroupie
Acolyte
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 15:12:20
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| I just hate the adventures where you start @ high levels. I hate not knowing my character. I also hate hate hate anything that has to do with powergaming. Not every paladin is lucky enough to just trip over a +5 holy sword on a well traveled path when he is only first level. Oh, and at second level he will find the best enchanted armor available. I mean, come on! |
Talk nerdy to me, baby! |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 15:17:12
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Originally posted by szasstamsgroupie
I just hate the adventures where you start @ high levels. I hate not knowing my character. I also hate hate hate anything that has to do with powergaming. Not every paladin is lucky enough to just trip over a +5 holy sword on a well traveled path when he is only first level. Oh, and at second level he will find the best enchanted armor available. I mean, come on!
The main problem can be, like in my campaign, where you use old adventures...during AD&D 1st and 2nd XP were also given be means of gold pieces. Since the "learning" curve became really steep characters either had to kill hordes of balors and dragons to get their level or find insane amounts of treasure... Monty Haul was sort of a given under the system |
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Kalin Agrivar
Senior Scribe
Canada
956 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 15:49:09
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XP for GP never, ever, made sense to me...
do you feel smarter if you find a $10 bill on the ground?  |
Kalin Xorell El'Agrivar
- High Mage of the Arcane Assembly
- Lore Keeper of the Vault of Ancestors
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 15:56:20
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Originally posted by Kalin Agrivar
XP for GP never, ever, made sense to me...
do you feel smarter if you find a $10 bill on the ground?
No, only if you pocket it and keep it |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 15:59:24
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No, but I do feel as if I have experienced something noteworthy . . .
While I always enjoyed my friend's campaigns in Greyhawk, I don't recall the "Fate of Istus" sessions being particularly memorable. I think he was straining too hard to make sure that it was clear that the things that came up in the module were the reason that the world was shifting from 1st to 2nd edition, and it put some pressure on him.
Part of the reason why I never ran the Shadowdale/Tantras/Waterdeep modules directly for my group, just canabalized parts of them for my campaign. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36886 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2006 : 17:34:06
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Originally posted by Kalin Agrivar
XP for GP never, ever, made sense to me...
do you feel smarter if you find a $10 bill on the ground?
Than the person who dropped it? Yup.
I think my worst adventure was when my friend Mike was trying to DM yet another campaign... Mike already had a habit of doing weird things in his campaigns, and of having campaigns that he got bored with after only a few sessions.
This campaign was another one based on some video game he'd recently played. The party meets, sets off, and then came the end... My friend Gino's bard character insulted my minotaur character (a friendly insult). My minotaur responded by picking the bard up and holding him over his head. Though my minotaur had a strength (in 2E, when this was remarkable) of 19, Mike decided that holding that much weight over his head called for a Dex check... which my minotaur failed, only having an 11 Dex. So the bard fell, and managed to fall off of this island floating in the sky. The other two people in the party decided the minotaur had thrown the bard off the edge, and attacked.
And so, in the first session, one character died because of a check that shouldn't have been required, and then another character died because of it. 50% of the party was dead, at the hands of the other 50%, in the first session. And Mike just sat back and watched.
Because of that session, and all the other things he'd done (or failed to do) as a DM, I swore off playing with Mike as a DM. |
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Twilight
Seeker
Canada
68 Posts |
Posted - 09 Nov 2006 : 07:07:10
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| We had to fight A Level 15 Slime with all LvL 1s we actually one at the cost of my mages familiar:( |
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 27 Nov 2006 : 17:14:06
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| I remember running through Castle Caldwell and Beyond. I recall enjoying it immensely. On the other hand, all those one session and DM quits games really burns me ogurkh. |
If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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bitter thorn
Learned Scribe
USA
184 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2006 : 12:10:12
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I will always rebember B1 Keep on the Boarderlands fondly as my first adventure.
I don't if I'd say it was the worst, I'll always remember G1 as the first TPK I played in. We were so close to winning too! Oh well; no risk no challenge. |
"Nobody listens to the Ranger!"
Our groups are all sticking with 3.X classic Realms. |
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LucianBarasu
Fellaren-Krae Co-ordinator
USA
214 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2006 : 07:34:39
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The best adventure i've ever played in, was a 2nd edition module, Chataeu de Amberville. or something like that. Castle Amber in america I think. It rocked, It was run by my cousin, DMingfor like 8+ years, totally immersed myself. Roleplaying and Rollplaying like nobody's business..
Best campaign I ran wa a 35 session Campaign, character went from 1st to retirement and some ascended to their respective God's right hands.(demi powers) THe stopping of a rogue red wizard to capture all Kir-lanans and sacrifice them to return Bhaal into existence and ascending to Bhaal's right hand as a demi power. (Actually writing a book about it.)
Worst adventure was a long time player took the reigns and we made an all Little mons party (kobolds, goblins, quicklings, derro and we had to escape Menzober. as slaves running for freedom. The DM never knew anything about drow other than the other players descibing the DE trilogy to him. It sucked, we all died. What did he expect slaves running from Drow would do? WIN?? |
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Fellaren Krae Project Co-Ordinator
"Why do you cry?"
"He is Conan, Cimmerian. He won't cry... So I cry for him."
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Starchaserva
Acolyte
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Posted - 14 Dec 2006 : 01:46:25
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The best game I ever had was a long epic campaign that I joined late, run by a close friend of mine. He was an awesome DM, he was clearly having as much fun as the players, and would go into the craziest detail, which was cool. I joined midway, and played for a year. What was great about it that we could discuss anything, and he wasn't the type of DM that hated all new stuff, or was biased against a certain book. Just overall fun.
On the other hand, the worst game I was ever in eventually boiled down to a know it all DM doing everything he could to screw his players over, to the point where the main character and center peice of the campaign was his own DMPC, who constantly outclassed everyone else
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 23:30:31
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One of the best Forgotten Realms sessions I ever had was situated on a ship on the moonsea. The game master made a little clue that it was dangerous to take that ship but we didn't found it before it was too late. The clue was the name of the ship "Don TPR éndre le boat". (it's french and english mixed and it means "don't take this boat". During the travel people began to dissapear and we found their mangled boddies back. It was a real investigation session and the whole situation became stranger and stranger. In the end the mystery was revealed. The charming captain of the ship wasn't the captain at all !!. The real captain was killed in Zhentil keep by a doppleganger who took his place over". It was the doppleganger who did all the killing.
Just like I say it was a great session with a real feeling of helplessness.
My worst session was about 2 years ago with a group of guys in rpg-shop. God, I played for 1 hour and then I leaved the shop with an excuse. The DM was bad, the players where terrible etc .... I don't have problems with newbies who have to learn the game (i still have a newbie in my group) but those guys played for a few years and still play worser than I did when I was a newb. Here is a situation:
-Game master: you are now in a dark corridor and you hear the scraping sound of something sinister.
- player 1: hey ****ing loser, come here !! *follow the corridor and begin to jump)
- player 2: *looking to player 1* mmm I see a nice pocket ... i try to took his money
-player 3: Well, I'm going to sit next to the door and drink a beer
and go on ... and go on :( :( :(
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Charles Phipps
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 13 Jan 2007 : 16:35:22
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The best adventure was "Halls of the High King" where the players really fell in love with the Moonshaes. I expanded it into a mini-campaign there.
The worst, I'm not sure, but probably where my player character was reduced to 4th level at the start of the game because the DM didn't think playing at high level would be any fun.
Mixed feelings about was a campaign adaptation of the Tugian Horde except I later realized that they'd used it as an excuse to do the Dragonlance modules (Tiamat was Takhasis)
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2007 : 11:48:21
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Another great adventure that I remember was during my visit in Holland. I have a few friends there and the game master played a ravenloft campaign. He asked me to make a character that would betray his party. I choosed for a cleric called Xantus. Xantus was a fat priest who was very friendly toward the characters. It didn't caused me much trouble to win their trust, something they really would regret later. When the partymembers began to start dangerous questions for me, I hadn't trouble to say a few lies lol
I even made a gift toward one of the Dutch players, a cursed belt. The belt give a +1 bonus against creatures who were weaker than the bearer but give a -3 penalty against creatures who were stronger. Xantus even had a strange creature under his command who stalked the players (and citizens of the town) by night.
In the end nearly a player character was killed by Xantus betrayal and another one weared the cursed item. Xantus was slain, but I really enjoyed the game.
info: During the session I really wore the clothes of a medieval monnik. :-) |
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Grace
Acolyte
Belgium
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Posted - 14 Jan 2007 : 22:27:49
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I'm still on the best adventure I ever played. I started playing in a bad group and when they stopped i joined the group I am in now.
A nice adventure with lots of unexpected twists. 
Latest twist is that one of my characters friends decided to sell his soul to a demon to rescue his lost true love. The true love is back now but he died 2 minutes after she came back.
I can assure you that I'm still upset about that.  |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2007 : 22:40:57
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Originally posted by Grace
I'm still on the best adventure I ever played. I started playing in a bad group and when they stopped i joined the group I am in now.
A nice adventure with lots of unexpected twists.
Latest twist is that one of my characters friends decided to sell his soul to a demon to rescue his lost true love. The true love is back now but he died 2 minutes after she came back.
I can assure you that I'm still upset about that.
Moral: If you deal with a demon, make sure to read the fine print. Especially if it says the demon gets the soul after the person died. |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jan 2007 : 13:53:26
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small corection my dearest Grace, it was a devil NOT a demon :-)
Otherwise as a DM, I was also impressed by Evaryan's actions :) |
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