Customer Reviews

Scourge of the Slavelords Supermodule A1-4 (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons)

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4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

It is completely without a doubt one of my favorite modules. It is simple yet epic. CLASSIC!

Most of the artwork was done by the best in the buisness, Ron & Val Lindahn. IMO, there wasn't ENOUGH artwork.

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Original lineup:
A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity by David Cook
A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade by Harold Johnson and Tom Moldvay
A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords by Allen Hammack
A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords by Lawrence Schick
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As you can see, some of the best module authors TSR ever had. WOC has nothing on this.

BTW, if you find a typo - get over it! That's what your imagination's there for. Oh, I forgot - it's what WOC users lack.

If you are a fan of true classic d&d - this is absolutely it.

Where T1-4 is the ultimate dungeon crawl, and GDQ1-7 is the best high-level saga of all time, A1-4 is pure storytelling, drama, and ingenious encounters. Your PCs will behold the true spectacle of Greyhawk as they begin in Hommlet, then journey through the wilderness, experience the courtly intrigue of Dame Gold, pursue the relentless slavers across the Wild Coast, and are then nearly brought in shackles to the dark lords' feet... and that's just in the first chapter! For levels 7-11, this 128-page supermodule will provide your players with over a hundred hours of unforgettable adventure. Highest recommendation!

However, put next to Temple of Elemental evil and the Spider Queen saga, I found it lacking, above and beyond the typos et. al. It tried to reach a little too far, the double capture mentioned above the most obvious example(s).

I'd just like to ask the other reviewer to quit ripping on the module for its artwork. Those pictures are half the fun of the game! Every dungeon module is a winner and I can't believe a true fan would give it only 3 stars.

This collection of competition modules would rate 5 stars if it hadn't been produced during TSR's 80s heyday when they seemed to have no proofreaders working for them. This thing is riddled with typos, and the art is flat-out atrocious. Still, if you can slog through the mess, the meat of the adventures shines through. A great epic quest to defeat the slavelords is a facet in a larger mega-adventure which includes the Temple of Elemental Evil and Queen of the Spiders. If and when TSR cleans this up and reissues it, it'll get 5 stars.

The reviewer who thinks all modules contemporaneous with Scourge had lousy art and apparently no editing should check out Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth or the Giants modules or Tomb of Horrors, all of which had good to great art and decent proofreading, and, most importantly, pre-date this truly awful example of a decent adventure ruined by carelessness. I bought the original modules new, and I was appalled at how lousy this collected edition was. We RPG players who didn't complain about such trash got what we deserved from TSR for many years: a flood of junk. Thank God Wizards of the Coast saved AD&D.