My favorite adventure that I've run has
to be The Sunless Citadel by Bruce Cordell. It was not only the first
full-length adventure I played through, but it's also the first
adventure I ever ran.
What I like about The Sunless Citadel
is that it kind of breaks the mold for what I think of as a typical
first-level adventure. Normally, for a first-level adventure, I think
the cliché is “rescue someone or retrieve some item from some
goblins or orcs, and get a few gold out of the deal.” Pretty simple
stuff, really.
In contrast to that, The Sunless
Citadel has a ton going on: the kobold/goblin feud, the goblins
working for Belak, Belak and the Gulthias Tree, the mystery of the
twig blights, and the missing adventuring party. Not only does it
have all of that, but there's also foreshadowing and references to a
dragon called Ashardalon, along with a map that leads to the next
adventure in the series, The Forge of Fury. On top of that, there's
even a dragon in The Sunless Citadel. What more could you ask for out
of a first-level adventure?
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