Adventure - Black Spine (mass combat, astral encounters, non-dark sun monsters, it has it all!) The plot behind this adventure wasn't bad either. Plus I just love Gith/Githyanki.
Campaign Expansion - City by the Silt Sea (Dregoth rocks, and so does his underground city). Very unique encounters/locations to explore and the Caller in Darkness is great.
Accessory - Monstrous Compendium 2 - Terrors Beyond Tyr (awesome artwork and cool monsters made this a beautiful product)
Black Spine was just different and very appealing to me personally since I have always loved the githyanki and githzerai.
Dragon's Crown was just HUGE, and it opened up alot of things as well, so it should probably fall under best accessory too.
Best Campaign Expansion would have to be City by the Silt Sea, with SotDL falling in second place. I have always loved Dregoth and loved what they did with the dray, another one of my faves of DS. Plus it also made it seem like the world wasn't geared toward removing all the SMs.
Adventure: maybe it looks strange but Road to Urik was my favourite. To run as DM I mean... Of course I adapted it but I find the primary idea really cool. Find support, find troops, plot, special missions, contact with the stars of Tyr, plot again. And with City State of Tyr, it's a must... and Purram of Urik becomes my official recurrent evil one.
And when the "army" is ready: wilderness scouting, war campaign, etc. And to finish: a mass battle! Panem et circenses...
...and what's the difference between accessory and campaign expansion?
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Nefal
But of all the books i liked the most... Preservers and Defilers... i STILL use it as a source book. I really, really like 90% of DS3, but for the other 10% i use the original source books.
I also thought ivory triangle was good... scary having a 20th level defiler running around as part of a secret elf merchant band... and not even being in charge!
As for adventures, I wasn't as big a fan of Black Spine since, even in the beginning I've used a strictly closed off Athas (no other campaign worlds or settings exist).
Dragon's Crown was one of the best epic adventures around (with it and Dead Gods from Planescape being tops on the list).
While Road to Urik was also a great adventure, I had ran something very similar in Greyhawk only 2 years before and the similarities (while strickly coincidental) ruined the adventure for myself and the group that remembered the GH adventure.
Thri-kreen of Athas, for being the best splatbook ever. I've yet to read anything that delt with a single race that was given such detailed treatment (at least as far as D&D is concerned, there are others from other publishers that may compare but that's irrelevant).
...and what's the difference between accessory and campaign expansion?
Generally, an accessory is a rules heavy supplement (ala Defilers and Preservers, Dragon Kings, Gladiator's Handbook) while campaign expansions are more fluff oriented and detail the setting, culture, people, and places (Ivory Triangle, City by the Silt Sea, Mind Lords of the Last Sea). Granted, the line between expansion and accessory can be a little thin with some other companies, its rather easy to differentiate the two when looking at TSR's published products.
It made clerics much more interesting.
Thri-Kreen of Athas is a close second.
Kilamar
Best Supplement would be Dune Trader then DK, EAFaW, WatW, GladHB in that order. More from a useability perspective than anything.
Did you use the General from that adventure afterwards? He became one of my favourite antagonists for at least another 2 years.
And yes Mogadishu was the re-occuring power behind a number of 'incidents' to befall the party. Ahhh memories......
Black Spine is great just for having a beholder in it, never mind all the poxy gith.
Always liked the Veiled Alliance supplement for all the extra info on the city-states and drooled over Valley of Dust and Fire until I saw past the glamour and realised what a shallow, bitter unfulfilling piece of work it really was.
Mindlords = squark = squiddish perfection.
None the less I still liked it, just didn't think it was the better of the many.
Hmmm - this thread is supposed to about favourite supplements - I seem to have gone off on a bit of a rant there. So.... how about that ballista, then?
It seemed more of a really big dungeon crawl. The unique/different monsters were fun but letting the barsteds into metal plated corridors was just not clever. I had to have Nibenay relieve them of some of their steely burden.
On another note who liked/disliked the flip book format?
Personally the idea of a book of players handouts work great, though the DM's one didn't seem to work quite as well. But it did seem to force the writers into a very 'encounter' oriented way of doing things. Encounters tended to be longer and more complex but there were less of of them compared to 'standard' adventures.
I prefer less but more complex encounters myself. It was just the format of flipping from page to page that was annoying.
My players all like the flipbooks. We're all big fans of handouts so these keep a steady flow coming and really help establish a common ground where images of Athas are concerned. I was very glad when they started doing the pages of players' flipbooks in chronological order. I can understand the idea behind having them out of sequence in case PCs pry or something. But it has drawbacks in games when, oh, say, you're running Freedom for the first time and ask the players to turn to page 12 for a street scene and, as they are flipping, you hear one player casually mention "Hey, that spear went right through the old guy..." We live and learn I suppose
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