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#1
twin_campaigns
Oct 30, 2007 7:21:41 I was wondering: what was the first official Mystaran adventure you
have played as a player or a DM? (Not counting the Basic Set introductory adventure)

For me, the first was Palace of the Silver Princess from B1-9, set in the Karameikan version of the Haven valley. Oh, to remember all those inventive ways the PCs tried to resurrect the petrified people!
#2
hihama
Oct 30, 2007 7:42:44 B1 In the Search of Unknown.

I still remember how our DM scared **** out of us when we first time encountered the troglodytes. We actually played that before the introductory adventure and I think none of our first characters survived the troglodytes.

With my second character, Father Wuet, I survived that adventure and the introductory adventure we played next but the ogre in Caves of Chaos was too much. Both our fighters have been wounded by kobolds and somehow my cleric ended up entering first in ogres cave...
#3
agathokles
Oct 30, 2007 8:30:59 B2 Keep on the Borderlands. IIRC, it was also the first module I DMed.
#4
slashnull
Oct 30, 2007 9:42:06 The first module I played in was X1 - Isle of Dread. Before that my brother had been making up dungeons for us. Afterwards it was straight to X11 and then X13.

First module I DMed was the B1-9 supermodule! That was great fun.
#5
Hugin
Oct 30, 2007 11:34:13 My first module was also the Isle of Dread. Unfortunately, it was the only module for several years since the only book I had was the expert rulebook. That's right, not even he basic rulebook! It was sometime latter that I found the RC and we actually discovered how to play the game properly. (To our credit, we weren't that far off).

Since then I've managed to hunt down a strong majority of Mystara's products and I'm still playing some of these modules for the first time. Oh, happy times! :D
#6
CmdrCorsiken
Oct 30, 2007 12:05:10 First I ever played: Curse of Xanathon, in 1982 when it was new. Actually used this one in the last campaign I ran last year.
First I ever DMed: Keep on the Borderlands, in about 1985, still one of my favorites. Last used it about 8 years ago.
#7
iramus
Oct 30, 2007 15:00:02 First ever game I played was a small dungeon designed by my older brother for my friends and I. Our first encounter was with a zombie, we didn't know what it was so we ran!

The first official mod we played was B1 In Search Of The Unknown, followed by B2.
#8
stanles
Oct 30, 2007 18:21:53 B5 Horror on the Hill was the first one that I played, B6 The Veiled Society was the first one that I DMed, and no they weren't in any sort of order, or anything.
#9
johnbiles
Oct 30, 2007 23:39:34 I first played Keep in the Borderlands in 1982. I'm not sure HOW, but I have since acquired four copies of it and I have Return to Keep on the Borderlands as well.
#10
Hugin
Oct 31, 2007 9:17:48
B5 Horror on the Hill was the first one that I played...

I'm currently running my group through that module for the first time, albeit modified. I placed it on the silverflow river, in the southeast corner of the Northern Wildlands, just 8 miles north of the Wendar border. The settlement is now an estate belonging to Lord Wendby. The ruined monestary was an elven one built in the early times of Nimbeth to honour Ordana, ancestors, and nature, as well as for philosophy.

The humanoids are now mainly Denagothian brutes and orcs who have traveled through the mountain pass and are lead by a cleric of Idris. The module fit extremely well into this spot simply by changing the backstory and some of the creatures.

Our first encounter was with a zombie, we didn't know what it was so we ran!

How I miss those days when everything was new and mysterious!
#11
Cthulhudrew
Oct 31, 2007 11:05:35 The first module I ever played in was also X2: Curse of Xanathon. I played a couple of the NPCs from the module (Quillan the thief and Ariel the cleric), while my brother played his own PCs (he and his friend- who introduced us to the game- had been playing for a while already).

The first adventure I ever played, though, was the brief keep in the 1980 Player's Handbook (I can't think of the name of it offhand, sadly; the one where only one side is mapped out). I played Black Dougal (and got killed by the Crab Spiders in one of the rooms.)

As for first module DM'd? That's a toughie. I'm going to guess it was probably B2, although I really can't recall.
#12
timothyddd
Oct 31, 2007 16:10:29 B2 Keep on the Borderlands - Was also my first module and the character I played is still alive. The character is a now a 14th level dwarven fighter that I've converted to 3.5Edition.

I recently finished DMing the "Return To The Keep On The Borderland" and I was able to describe how a young dwarf and an elf (my best friends character) had cleared out the caves 5 years previous.
#13
sbwilson
Nov 04, 2007 18:34:51 Another vote for B2 - Keep on the Borderlands. Here's some vaguely humorous remembrances (at least to me) from that first experience with D&D.

First off, we didn't know what a keep was, so we just assumed the name of the adventure meant the same as "Stay on the Borderlands".

Having never seen the word "chaos" before, we pronounce it "Caves of Cha-hose" ("Cha" as in cha-cha-cha).

Never playing an RPG before, we laid out the map between us and took turns moving our "tokens" over the map (in separate directions of course) and having someone else read what was in the room ("I'm going to try to find that secret door right there. Didn't make the roll. Dang.")

We laughed for days about the ogre having mouldy cheese in his bag.

After several deaths, we ganged up on said ogre and killed him, only to find out later that the goblins next door had the plan to call on him for aid if they were ever attacked. The running joke went something like this: "Ogre! Ogre! ... Ogre? (switching to a sad voice) Oh...ogre..." (how we knew how to pronounce "ogre" and not "chaos" is beyond me)

I don't remember ever getting beyond the first few caves but it sure was fun and still has me hooked almost 30 years later.
#14
twin_campaigns
Nov 05, 2007 1:12:43 Thanks sbwilson, you made my day.

I've never played Keep on the Borderlands for some reason.

My friends also had hilarious beginnings in rpgs. They bought AD&D 1st ed
books and each read one of them independently. The guy who got stuck
with mostrous atlas was well and truly lost. Hit Dice? Number of Appearance?

Anyway, when they started playing, they interpreted some rules in a weird way. The wizard had one spell per level - literally. The player threw one sleep spell all through the 1st level of play, two spells on the second etc. I think they got as far as the 3rd level before they found out that the wizard was a tad more powerful.
#15
havard
Nov 05, 2007 13:18:21 Isle of Dread was the first module I ever played in. I played my first character ever, an elf named Igor, whose Coat of Arms was a vulture. We were extremely happy when we liberated some slave women from one of the neighbouring islands. This is where I got into my first rules argument when the DM said that elves would only accept elves as henchmen and that this rule applied to slaves as well ;)

Igor eventually made it to Name level and constructed a tree house for himself. I think I still have the fairly nice ElfQuest inspired drawing of his tree house somewhere.

Havard
#16
maddog
Nov 05, 2007 18:45:43 I can't remember the first module that I played but I can remember the first module I DM'ed. X2, Castle Amber in 1984! Just recently, I was finally able to be a pc in it! Good times, good times!

--Ray.
#17
dystopianknight
Nov 08, 2007 2:54:09 The first module I played in was Isle of Dread. My PC was a Fighter named Bilbo, yeah not very original but I was only 9 and had just read The Hobit. All our group had advanced to level 4 or so after finishing the Basic adventure without any deaths yet though things changed very quickly once we got to the Isle of Dread.

The first module I DMed was B10 Night's Dark Terror, probaly my most used Module.
#18
twin_campaigns
Nov 09, 2007 2:56:48 Our group has two PCs which were created in 1988, named Radagast and Flint Fireforge. There is something funny in watching two 35-year olds playing seriously with those names.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 twin_campaigns Oct 30, 2007 7:21:41	I was wondering: what was the first official Mystaran adventure you have played as a player or a DM? (Not counting the Basic Set introductory adventure) For me, the first was Palace of the Silver Princess from B1-9, set in the Karameikan version of the Haven valley. Oh, to remember all those inventive ways the PCs tried to resurrect the petrified people!
#2 hihama Oct 30, 2007 7:42:44	B1 In the Search of Unknown. I still remember how our DM scared **** out of us when we first time encountered the troglodytes. We actually played that before the introductory adventure and I think none of our first characters survived the troglodytes. With my second character, Father Wuet, I survived that adventure and the introductory adventure we played next but the ogre in Caves of Chaos was too much. Both our fighters have been wounded by kobolds and somehow my cleric ended up entering first in ogres cave...
#3 agathokles Oct 30, 2007 8:30:59	B2 Keep on the Borderlands. IIRC, it was also the first module I DMed.
#4 slashnull Oct 30, 2007 9:42:06	The first module I played in was X1 - Isle of Dread. Before that my brother had been making up dungeons for us. Afterwards it was straight to X11 and then X13. First module I DMed was the B1-9 supermodule! That was great fun.
#5 Hugin Oct 30, 2007 11:34:13	My first module was also the Isle of Dread. Unfortunately, it was the only module for several years since the only book I had was the expert rulebook. That's right, not even he basic rulebook! It was sometime latter that I found the RC and we actually discovered how to play the game properly. (To our credit, we weren't that far off). Since then I've managed to hunt down a strong majority of Mystara's products and I'm still playing some of these modules for the first time. Oh, happy times! :D
#6 CmdrCorsiken Oct 30, 2007 12:05:10	First I ever played: Curse of Xanathon, in 1982 when it was new. Actually used this one in the last campaign I ran last year. First I ever DMed: Keep on the Borderlands, in about 1985, still one of my favorites. Last used it about 8 years ago.
#7 iramus Oct 30, 2007 15:00:02	First ever game I played was a small dungeon designed by my older brother for my friends and I. Our first encounter was with a zombie, we didn't know what it was so we ran! The first official mod we played was B1 In Search Of The Unknown, followed by B2.
#8 stanles Oct 30, 2007 18:21:53	B5 Horror on the Hill was the first one that I played, B6 The Veiled Society was the first one that I DMed, and no they weren't in any sort of order, or anything.
#9 johnbiles Oct 30, 2007 23:39:34	I first played Keep in the Borderlands in 1982. I'm not sure HOW, but I have since acquired four copies of it and I have Return to Keep on the Borderlands as well.
#10 Hugin Oct 31, 2007 9:17:48	B5 Horror on the Hill was the first one that I played... I'm currently running my group through that module for the first time, albeit modified. I placed it on the silverflow river, in the southeast corner of the Northern Wildlands, just 8 miles north of the Wendar border. The settlement is now an estate belonging to Lord Wendby. The ruined monestary was an elven one built in the early times of Nimbeth to honour Ordana, ancestors, and nature, as well as for philosophy. The humanoids are now mainly Denagothian brutes and orcs who have traveled through the mountain pass and are lead by a cleric of Idris. The module fit extremely well into this spot simply by changing the backstory and some of the creatures. Our first encounter was with a zombie, we didn't know what it was so we ran! How I miss those days when everything was new and mysterious!
#11 Cthulhudrew Oct 31, 2007 11:05:35	The first module I ever played in was also X2: Curse of Xanathon. I played a couple of the NPCs from the module (Quillan the thief and Ariel the cleric), while my brother played his own PCs (he and his friend- who introduced us to the game- had been playing for a while already). The first adventure I ever played, though, was the brief keep in the 1980 Player's Handbook (I can't think of the name of it offhand, sadly; the one where only one side is mapped out). I played Black Dougal (and got killed by the Crab Spiders in one of the rooms.) As for first module DM'd? That's a toughie. I'm going to guess it was probably B2, although I really can't recall.
#12 timothyddd Oct 31, 2007 16:10:29	B2 Keep on the Borderlands - Was also my first module and the character I played is still alive. The character is a now a 14th level dwarven fighter that I've converted to 3.5Edition. I recently finished DMing the "Return To The Keep On The Borderland" and I was able to describe how a young dwarf and an elf (my best friends character) had cleared out the caves 5 years previous.
#13 sbwilson Nov 04, 2007 18:34:51	Another vote for B2 - Keep on the Borderlands. Here's some vaguely humorous remembrances (at least to me) from that first experience with D&D. First off, we didn't know what a keep was, so we just assumed the name of the adventure meant the same as "Stay on the Borderlands". Having never seen the word "chaos" before, we pronounce it "Caves of Cha-hose" ("Cha" as in cha-cha-cha). Never playing an RPG before, we laid out the map between us and took turns moving our "tokens" over the map (in separate directions of course) and having someone else read what was in the room ("I'm going to try to find that secret door right there. Didn't make the roll. Dang.") We laughed for days about the ogre having mouldy cheese in his bag. After several deaths, we ganged up on said ogre and killed him, only to find out later that the goblins next door had the plan to call on him for aid if they were ever attacked. The running joke went something like this: "Ogre! Ogre! ... Ogre? (switching to a sad voice) Oh...ogre..." (how we knew how to pronounce "ogre" and not "chaos" is beyond me) I don't remember ever getting beyond the first few caves but it sure was fun and still has me hooked almost 30 years later.
#14 twin_campaigns Nov 05, 2007 1:12:43	Thanks sbwilson, you made my day. I've never played Keep on the Borderlands for some reason. My friends also had hilarious beginnings in rpgs. They bought AD&D 1st ed books and each read one of them independently. The guy who got stuck with mostrous atlas was well and truly lost. Hit Dice? Number of Appearance? Anyway, when they started playing, they interpreted some rules in a weird way. The wizard had one spell per level - literally. The player threw one sleep spell all through the 1st level of play, two spells on the second etc. I think they got as far as the 3rd level before they found out that the wizard was a tad more powerful.
#15 havard Nov 05, 2007 13:18:21	Isle of Dread was the first module I ever played in. I played my first character ever, an elf named Igor, whose Coat of Arms was a vulture. We were extremely happy when we liberated some slave women from one of the neighbouring islands. This is where I got into my first rules argument when the DM said that elves would only accept elves as henchmen and that this rule applied to slaves as well ;) Igor eventually made it to Name level and constructed a tree house for himself. I think I still have the fairly nice ElfQuest inspired drawing of his tree house somewhere. Havard
#16 maddog Nov 05, 2007 18:45:43	I can't remember the first module that I played but I can remember the first module I DM'ed. X2, Castle Amber in 1984! Just recently, I was finally able to be a pc in it! Good times, good times! --Ray.
#17 dystopianknight Nov 08, 2007 2:54:09	The first module I played in was Isle of Dread. My PC was a Fighter named Bilbo, yeah not very original but I was only 9 and had just read The Hobit. All our group had advanced to level 4 or so after finishing the Basic adventure without any deaths yet though things changed very quickly once we got to the Isle of Dread. The first module I DMed was B10 Night's Dark Terror, probaly my most used Module.
#18 twin_campaigns Nov 09, 2007 2:56:48	Our group has two PCs which were created in 1988, named Radagast and Flint Fireforge. There is something funny in watching two 35-year olds playing seriously with those names.