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Tree in your backyard @Treemcgee10/23/2023, 8:49 PM

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Clouder @Clouder10/23/2023, 8:21 PM

Are there "classic" 2e AD&D adventures?

I was idly flipping through some old Ravenloft pdfs and realized I've seen blogs and videos praise adventures from pretty much every era of D&D except 2e AD&D. For as much stuff TSR published in the 90s (mostly settings, I know), it feels like an odd gap. Regardless of quality, it feels like something would be held up as popular, either in the moment or retroactively.

EDIT: Clarifying what I mean by "classic" here - something that folks talk about, record videos about, reprint edition-to-edition, etc. A popular adventure. Not necessarily a good one, though - Tomb of Horrors is a mean adventure that I don't think is particularly good and I dearly wish was never adapted outside it's original context ever again. It is undeniably a "classic" D&D adventure.

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Tree in your backyard @Treemcgee10/23/2023, 8:49 PM

idk much about 2e but d'you mean like tomb of horrors? that would be my closest guess

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@noise10/23/2023, 9:20 PM

Classic here means good or acclaimed or just something that was made in about that time?
I think both Dark Sun and Dragonlance had adventures mirroring the books in some way, so these might be considered classic?

'Die, Vecna, Die' probably was such?

Clouder @Clouder10/23/2023, 9:32 PM

Acclaimed. I don't actually think a lot of "classic" adventures are good. Looking at you, Tomb of Horrors! Similarly, I have a couple 2e adventures I think would be fun to run or adapt - Night of the Vampire has the bones of a neat whodunnit to it and Tales of Enchantment looked like a fun, vaguely fairy tale-esque wilderness adventure. But they aren't talked about like folks invoke Isle of Dread or Forge of Fury.

Dark Sun was the one I wondered about. I think that setting opened on a slave revolt adventure I have seen replicated in the setting in other editions. Dragonlance is a classic, but it's a 1e classic. It's also odd by today's standards.

@noise10/23/2023, 11:15 PM

Original Saltmarsh? "The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh", I think - or is this also for ADnD 1st?

Clouder @Clouder10/23/2023, 11:17 PM

It is for 1e AD&D, yeah. It looked like fun when I read it a few years ago, though!

Clouder @Clouder10/23/2023, 9:33 PM

Die, Vecna, Die might be? At the least, the title and premise make me want to read it!

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Clouder @Clouder10/23/2023, 9:13 PM

You're halfway there, yeah. Tomb of Horrors is a classic adventure, but it dates to OD&D - the original edition. It's such a classic that it's been ported to several additional editions, including 5e. And other editions have adventures like that - 1e AD&D, Basic/Expert, 3rd Edition. I just am not really aware of any 2e AD&D adventures held-up as a classic.