The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Page

History

To most people, the first "real", full-fledged, Roleplaying Game was Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D. This game appeared somewhere in the early seventies. Around 1978, there came another game-system, taking D&D to another dimension. It was called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The name most associated with both games is that of E. Gary Gygax, who developed a lot of the stuff for the games, partly together with Dave Arneson. Somehow the top honcho's at TSR found it necessary to produce another version, presumably making the game more accessible to a broader audience. This became the "2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons". Lately there have been numerous books with lots of other suggestions to incorporate into ones campaign, but I don't think there is another edition ... yet. Of all the editions that exist, my favorite is still the original AD&D. Sure, it's premise is more hack&slash (i.e. lots of fighting) and less "real" roleplaying, but it sure is fun to play.

Setting

The game of AD&D is set in a somewhat medieval setting. Development of technology and goverment are comparable to the way Europe was during the so-called Dark Ages (approx. 1000 AD). However, in AD&D there is the concept of magic to assure wonderful actions from your characters.

With the addition of magic, and the existance of monsters, it would not be fair to say AD&D is really medieval. Instead, it is really a fantasy setting, with its own peculiarities and laws. As such, you, as a player, will have to be open-minded enough to accept that things will work differently from what you are used to.

Resources

Every decent (specialty) gameshop probably has all the basic (2nd edition) books you want to start playing. Most of them even carry a small assortment of adventures to be used. There are also two magazines published by TSR Inc. that are totally dedicated to AD&D, which are Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine. More info can be found on the TSR website.

With a large number of dedicated followers, it is not surprising that a lot of AD&D related stuff has made it to the Internet. In the beginning, there where a couple of ftp-sites (the WWW wasn't really present yet) that carried houserules and self-made adventures from players from all over the world. Until TSR decided to "protect its trademark" and started to close down sites. The only one remaining, for a while at least, was mpgn.com. When TSR got over its first panic-attack, they decided to create rules for publishing on the Net. So now it is possible (again) to publish your own stuff. Not surprisingly, this has led to some good sites containing lots of adventures and other stuff like rules on religion and new proficiencies.

I have written a couple of adventures myself, some of which have been published on ftp- and websites many years ago. Below is the entire collection of stories that have been transferred into digital form so far. If available, I offer links to both an English and a Dutch version. Please note that these adventures have been written in plain ASCII, so they won't look nice. However, some of the adventures have been converted into Word or other formats. I have included Zipped versions of those conversions that you can download. Should you have any trouble getting them, or if you wish another format, please let me know by email.

Text fileZipped Word file
Black Pyramid English See itDownload it
Black Pyramid Dutch (Zwarte Pyramide) BekijkenDownloaden
Disappearances in Stilldorf See it
Disappearances in Stilldorf Dutch (Verdwijningen in Stilldorf)BekijkenDownloaden
Cool Wave Inn Dutch Bekijken Downloaden
Gif picture of a map of Stilldorf (Hungarian?)
Don't know who made it (lost your mail, if you drew it, please let me know so I can credit you).
The Word document of the Black Pyramid was done by by Emanuele Bolognesi.

If you would like any of the adventures in another format (like WordPerfect or Amigaformatted) just drop me a mail.

A good site is that of adnd.com. In a couple of months time, I hope to provide access to a lot of AD&D-related stuff on my own site too. Other sites that offer adventures (all of which also have my adventure(s), which is how I found most of them): http://www.usc.net/~bean/main.html
http://www.rpg.ru/russian.html
http://www.role-play.net/tomeskeeper/tkadndadvent.htm
http://www.toolcity.net/~dragon/Library.html
http://www.papa-chyrnobyl.com/greyhawk.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/byzantium/55/scena1.htm
http://www.netdemons.com:44/books/~olear/ADnD/Adventures_Scenarios.html
http://fantasy.simplenet.com/archives/adventures/adventures.html
http://www.i.pl/~staszek/rpg/przygody.html
http://geocities.datacellar.net:0080/Area51/Chamber/8495/Library.html
http://www.enteract.com/~aardy/rpg/nb-adv.html
http://www.math.auth.gr/~bchr/advent.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/stonekeep/25/treasure.htm
http://www.atfantasy.com/adventures/
http://www.unixwizards.org/~tom/advent.html
http://darkaldar.free.fr/langue/Eng/list.php3
http://www.defragsrealms.com/modules.html
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Area51/Chamber/4793/adventure_modules.html
http://www.fcs.ru/rpg/rpgt/adnd/modules.html
http://lost-souls.net/AddZone/texts.html
http://www.wzrd.com/home/thyle/DNDL2.htm
http://silverlion.virtualave.net/downloads/adventures.htm
http://www.hallofhero.com/docs/index.cfm
http://rpg.rulez.org/moduls/
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~oysteib/rollespel.html
http://geocities.datacellar.net/drizzt_pt/adventures2.htm
http://home.sol.no/~dkvannei/add.html
http://www.powermedia.multipro.com/vault/dungeonsite/adventure.html
http://members.nbci.com/Burner99/adventures.htm
http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/warhammer/917/missions.htm
http://www.adnd.co.il/dm/adventures/english/
http://www.alaska.net/~brelsfot/dndfiles.html
http://aota.dfxwebs.com/archives/arcmods.html
http://www.rpgdungeon.com/library/quick.html

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