So, what was the best adventure ever that wasn't for any edition of D&D or any OSR game?

Quote from: RPGPundit;995903So, what was the best adventure ever that wasn't for any edition of D&D or any OSR game?

 - The Enemy Within Campaign - and probably this peaks at Death on the Reik for me. It's basically Apocalypse Now on a barge, heading through some of the dark Chaos reaches of the Empire...and against the collective wisdom of loadsa critics, I actually quite liked Ken Rolston's Something Rotten in Kislev too.

 - Similarly, I like a lot of Ken Rolston's work in Paranoia too - but the best single scenario, for me, is probably Clones in Space by Erick Wujcik.

 - I have never failed to entertain with Call of Cthulhu's The Haunting, Dead Man Stomp and all the other scenarios from the core on any given Halloween. It also boasts it's three classic epic campaigns - Masks of Nyarlathotep, Beyond the Mountains of Madness and Horror on the Orient Express. My personal favourite in Mountains.

- Unknown Armies has some excellent One Shots in the supplement of the same name, especially Jail Break, and it's intro adventure Bill in Three Places is simply brilliant.

- Kult's Black Madonna campaign, set in Eastern Europe at the time of the Berlin Wall coming down, is very evocative to read - as is everything else for Kult actually, although I haven't played it.

- I am currently enjoying running Traveller's Pirates of Drinax campaign, and to honest I have never read a bad Gareth Hanrahan scenario ever. Probably the best RPG writer in the hobby today.

I would definitely have to second the Enemy Within.

I had a blast playing and running it. My favorite was actually 'Shadows over Bogunhaffen' the first part. Pure urban adventure fun.

SPOILER ALERT - Stop reading now!: And my favourite part of it was that my character actually failed in chucking a grenade at the evil cultists (mid-ritual). And they managed to open a gate to chaos in the middle of the town. It was hilarious... Well, myself and the GM thought it was. Probably not the nicest experience for the townsfolk.

For Runequest: The Borderlands campaign pack was awesome, so much material in such a compact form. 7 adventures which varied from a free-form diplomacy mission, rescuing the "princess" from tower once owned by a vampire, an old-fashioned dungeon crawl (complete with dragon) to a spell as merchant caravan guards. And I'm always a sucker for found item tables! :-) Best of the lot was probably Jezra's rescue. My shield glued to the floor when I fell over while fighting skeletons. It didn't end well ...

The enemy within was indeed classic.

I loved some of the old traveller (double) adventures - chamax plague/horde was a nice variation on the "alien/s" trope, Twilight's Peak felt like an epic that was squeezed into a tiny book. And I have a soft spot for a WD traveller scenario Green Horizon - Spaceship lands in Norway during WW2 to grab some heavy water from the local plant, just as a Lancaster strike is incoming. Sorry  - that's about 4 "best" adventures :-)

For Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep was awesome (and deadly).

Sky Raiders trilogy for Traveller (from FASA).

Basically a giant asteroid ship ruled by inbred pirates is wreaking havoc (occasionally) on the galaxy and the PCs have to track it down then stop it.

There's several system-agnostic, one-page dungeons that are awesome to read, though I'm having problems recalling a specific one right now.

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"A Federation starship is tasked to relocate inhabitants of the doomed planet Aleriad. The problem is, they don't want to leave." Featuring Ambassador Robert Fox from "A Taste of Armageddon," one of my favorite episodes.

Quote from: TrippyHippy;995929- The Enemy Within Campaign - and probably this peaks at Death on the Reik for me. It's basically Apocalypse Now on a barge, heading through some of the dark Chaos reaches of the Empire...and against the collective wisdom of loadsa critics, I actually quite liked Ken Rolston's Something Rotten in Kislev too.

As a standalone, Something Rotten in Kislev is really good. It just wasn't written to be part of TEW, and it shows. The mission-based structure feels off compared to all the earlier parts of the campaign, and my players resented it.

Some of the missions are rough even by WFRP standards. It reminded me a little of the WFRP version of Paranoia. If you were playing an isolated Kislev campaign built on the concept of the the Tsar sending you on doomed missions every week, that is fine. However, if you have just invested a year in playing the TEW campaign, the players aren't going to chuckle at being hit with almost guaranteed TPKs in the penultimate volume.

I think the it would be a lot more fondly remembered if it had been its own campaign book and not shoehorned into another campaign.

 

Quote- Similarly, I like a lot of Ken Rolston's work in Paranoia too - but the best single scenario, for me, is probably Clones in Space by Erick Wujcik.

A lot Paranoia adventures are better to read than play, but that is a good on

 - I have never failed to entertain with Call of Cthulhu's The Haunting, Dead Man Stomp and all the other scenarios from the core on any given Halloween. It also boasts it's three classic epic campaigns - Masks of Nyarlathotep, Beyond the Mountains of Madness and Horror on the Orient Express. My personal favourite in Mountains. [/quote]

All good choices, but Masks is my favorite.

Quote- Unknown Armies has some excellent One Shots in the supplement of the same name, especially Jail Break, and it's intro adventure Bill in Three Places is simply brilliant.

I love Jail Break.

I've collected a lot of Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventures and have run them for my players in-between other situations and adventures I generated myself.

So far my players have explored Death Frost Doom (2nd edition), The God That Crawls, Scenic Dunnsmouth, and Stranger Storm from the original LotFP Referee book. They had a blast with with all of them.

Are they the "best"? I have no idea. There are so many adventures out there and there are so many of those I've never tried. But I do know my players loved them.

Non-D&D, non-OSR?

Apple Lane would be my favorite adventure. Other good ones are Snake Pipe Hollow and Duck Tower.

Almost all the adventures I have ever used have been for D&D other than the RQ adventures. An occasional interesting adventure from some other game system.

Wait...

Is the question "Best non-D&D, non-OSR adventure?"
Or "Best non-D&D, OSR adventure"?

Quote from: ChristopherKubasik;996054Wait...

Is the question "Best non-D&D, non-OSR adventure?"
Or "Best non-D&D, OSR adventure"?

QuoteSo, what was the best adventure ever that wasn't for any edition of D&D or any OSR game?

Parses to me as non-D&D AND non-OSR...

But the thread title is maybe more confusing...

Pirates of Drinax.

Really any of the early Runequest boxed sets (plus Griffin Mountain, which was published as a book but is similar to the boxed sets). These are all fantastic and can be used together to create a single regional campaign stretching from the River of Cradles valley through the mountains to the north:

Borderlands
Pavis
Big Rubble
Griffin Mountain
Troll Pack

I own a lot of games and hundreds of modules and I don't think I've seen anything that can touch these as a collective set.

One of my all-time favorites is 'Convergence' by John Tymes published in the original Delta Green sourcebook.

I've run it four times and each time I always get a thrill. There is so much going on... This is how the X Files should have been.