The Greatest Generation of D&D Modules

[Falconer]

The Greatest Generation of D&D Modules

A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity	A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade	A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slavelords	A4 In the Dungeons of the Slavelords	B1 In Search of the Unknown
B2 The Keep on the Borderlands	B3 Palace of the Silver Princess	B4 The Lost City	C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan	C2 The Ghost Tower of Inverness
D1-2 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth	D3 Vault of the Drow	G1-2-3 Against the Giants	I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City	L1 The Secret of Bone Hill
N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God	Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits	S1 Tomb of Horrors	S2 White Plume Mountain	S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth	T1 The Village of Hommlet	U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh	U2 Danger at Dunwater	U3 The Final Enemy
UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave	WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun	X1 The Isle of Dread	X2 Castle Amber

Just something I threw together for fun, after musing on Goodman's successful "Dungeon Crawl Classics" line. I think it speaks for itself. Beautiful. Regards.

[JamesEightBitStar]

Personally not a big fan of modules, but being a personal owner of several, including some pictured here (Keep on the Borderlands and The Village of Hommlet in particular) I can kind of see what makes these classics.

I flipped through Keep on the Borderlands recently. It just provides a setting--no storytelling, just a lot of pre-prepared stuff to give your players plenty of things to do. Afterwards I read the 2nd Edition module Flames of the Falcon and the difference was marked--the thing was like a novel with dice rolls.

[T. Foster]

Evan though I'm personally partial to the 'pastel generation,' this display definitely has the most nostalgia value for me (and, seemingly, lots and lots of other folks too). However, for consistency, you should replace your current picture of A1 with one of the later printing that had the "face" logo

EDIT: also, it's funny to notice that whoever was put in charge of layout for B3, B4 and X2 apparently didn't quite grasp the "orange banner for Classic, yellow banner for Advanced" concept...

[rogatny]

When I decided to fill out my D&D collection about 5 years ago, I consciously tried to make sure I got those versions of the modules as opposed to the pastel versions or the "new-school" versions (B4 and X1).

In the case of D3, I think the pastel version is quite a bit more common. So, I ended up paying more for it. However, I love the uniformity of look. I'm real, real, real anal about that.

I'm going to say that all of the adventures that I consider classics were in that run (but I do not consider all the adventures in the run classics) except maybe B5 and B7. The only other ones outside that run that even have a case for classic status are I3 to I6, and maybe WG5 and WG6.

By the way, some of the "new school" layouts started coming out before the last of the classic look when out. For example, I2 came out in 1982 and U3 came out in 1983. You could say they went with the older style to go with the rest of the U series. But by that token, L2 should have been in the older style.