Because Moldvay & Cook Got it Right
Few of the many, many gamers who played through the familiar 'green cover' version of B3: The Palace of the Silver Princess by Tom Moldvay and Jean Wells ever realized that there had been an earlier, suppressed 'orange cover' version by Jean Wells alone. What did we lose when TSR handed the module to Tom Moldvay to rewrite? Matriarchy, whimsy, and free roaming. The original is definitely worth finding.
B9: Castle Caldwell and Beyond is an adventure module published in 1985, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG. It is intended for player characters of level 1-3.
The module contains five short adventures. The first two, The Clearing of Castle Caldwell and Dungeons of Terror, are designed as connected, successive adventures, while the remaining three are stand-alone scenarios.
Players must defeat the creatures they encounter in the castle and its dungeons, save an imprisoned princess, escape from a prison themselves, and find and return a holy relic that belongs to a church.
B8: Journey to the Rock is an adventure module written by Michael Malone and published in 1985, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG. It is intended for player characters of level 1-3.
B8 is a wilderness adventure scenario, which presents rules for adventuring in the wilderness. The wizard Lirdrium Arkayz wants to know the secret of 'The Rock' and hires the characters to uncover it. The player characters must journey through a hazardous countryside by choosing one of three possible travel routes to get to the Rock.
AB1: "Peril at the Rock" is a four-part Basic Fantasy RPG adventure module detailing a campaign played at a game convention. The first chapter focuses on a dungeon crawl within a strange tower built over a spatial rift unleashing Nazgorean monsters. Chapter two is a hex crawl across a wilderness map to locate a Hilltop Abbey possessing the magic needed to close the rift. Chapter three involves exploring the abbey, facing hivelings, and acquiring the miracle scroll. Finally, Chapter four returns the players to the tower for a final confrontation with the rift and remaining monsters after the eclipse opens it permanently.
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B7: Rahasia is an adventure module originally self-published in 1980 by Tracy and Laura Hickmanin 1980, then later revised and published for TSR in 1983 for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG.
An elven village is threatened by a dark Priest known only as the Rahib. He has kidnapped two of the village's fairest maidens and now demands that Rahasia, the most beautiful elf, surrender herself to free the others. The player characters are drawn into this adventure when they find a plea for help from Rahasia. The only way to free the captured maidens is to enter an old temple, built upon the ruins of a wizard's tower buried under a mountain.
B6: The Veiled Society is an adventure module published in 1984, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG.
It takes place in the city of Specularum, where the player characters must investigate a murder to find out which of three rival factions is responsible.
Released in 2020, it still has the Old-School vibe of a classic. This multi-module work contains twelve short adventures (150 pages of material) for lower to mid-level characters.
Get it free at the Basic Fantasy RPG website.
B5: Horror on the Hill is an adventure module published by TSR, Inc. in 1983, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, but is also compatible with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG. It contains around 20 encounters on the surface, a monastery, three dungeon levels and three new monsters.
The Lost City (B4) is a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module by 1981 Basic creator Tom Moldvay. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG.
It was first published by TSR in 1982. The working title for the module was "The Lost City of Cynidicea." Moldvay designed the module as a low-level scenario to give novice Dungeon Masters experience in fleshing out adventures such that it is only partially complete. The plot involves the player characters discovering a ruined subterranean city slowly rising out of the sands.
Initially released in 2013, it has the Old-School vibe of a classic. This multi-module work contains over 100 pages of adventures for lower to mid-level characters.
Get it free at the Basic Fantasy RPG website.
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