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Monday, May 19, 2025

Esper’s List of Great Modules, 3.5e plenty

Esper’s list is on his vid “my favorite D&D adventure of all time”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMheMozZM2c

Lots r from Dragon Magazine during 3.5e.

Meenlock.
Don't be Afraid of the Dark, 1973. Inspired the Meenlocks. 


" i liked a lot of the adventures in
0:16the old dungeon magazine from 3E 3.5E
0:20the Seeds of Sehon three-part adventure
0:23arc was really cool uh the tides of
0:26dread
which was like the finale of
0:28Piso's 3e adventures which really was a
0:30whole campaign
that had a lot of
0:32fantastic moments in it some of the

0:34early Wizard of the Coast 4E adventures"
were quite good like Sleeper in the Tomb
0:38of Dreams and all the kind of like good
0:40Nier Veil stuff including Ambershard
0:43Manor
which Christopher Perkins ran for
0:45Acquisitions Incorporated back in their
0:47early days



5e stuff I would
0:49probably say that Dungeon of the Mad
0:51Mage is my favorite there it's just a
0:54bunch of really well-crafted dungeons i
0:57think that of all the official you know
1:005e published campaigns like official
1:02campaigns Dungeon of the Mad Mage is the
1:05one that really captures the actual
1:07classic essence of Dungeons and Dragons

1:10the most so there's these and a whole
1:12bunch of other ones that I really like
1:13but if I have to pick just one adventure
1:15I'm going to go with Escape from
1:17Meanlock Prison
and it comes from
1:19Dungeon Magazine issue 146 back in 2007
1:24May 2007 so kind of later in the
1:27lifespan of 3.5e it's a first level
1:30adventure and it's actually a horror
1:32adventure however the players going into
1:35it don't know that it's a horror
1:37adventure which I think makes it so much
1:39more effective it has a really
1:41interesting and unique adventure hook
1:43where the characters get paid to go out
1:46to an isolated private prison that's
1:49also a a vineyard like they make wine
1:52there as well the prisoners make the
1:54wine it's a private prison there's a lot
1:56of like political prisoners there and
1:58really unique strange NPCs that are
2:00imprisoned there and the characters are
2:02paid to go and do a prisoner transfer
2:05they're paid to go pick up this one
2:07prisoner who's this like strange



@roberthradek71001 day ago
Meenlocks were inspired by the creatures in the movie "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" from 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz3dB0z08vs . Guillermo del Toro even made a remake of it in 2011. Definitely gives you a lot of inspiration on how to run meenlocks.

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