I recall in the last few months seeing a nice website that had a chronological year-by-year listing of the earliest dungeon adventures published for D&D. It included modules by TSR as well as third-party publishers like Judges Guild. I believe the list ended at 1980.

Have you seen this website? If so, can you help me find the link? I can't seem to find it on Google.

Thanks!

Zenopus wrote:Try this Dragonsfoot thread, it has links to several different lists. You might be thinking of Falconer's list, since IIRC it ends ~1980.

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 15&t=47808

Yes! Falconer's list is it! Thanks!

http://ulmo.mux.net/modules76-79.html

Do any of you experts out there have a good feeling for if this list is complete? Are modules like Tombs of Valla and Notnaidag Robber Headquarters all 1980 or later?

Mars wrote:
No it is not close to being complete.  There are lots of small press 3rd party items missing.  Notnaidag is 1979 but Tombs of Valla is 1980.  But there are a number of other companies that produced stuff too - Phoenix Games comes to mind with Lost Abbey of Calthonwey and Mines of Keridav both 1979, etc.

Is there some sort of checklist of this "unofficial" pre-1980 third-party material?

I've been trying to dig through old Acaeum and Tome of Treasures webpages mentioning this kind of stuff, but it's difficult to know how comprehensive these sources are. I haven't been able to find any checklists or databases of non-TSR and non-JG material.

Moustache_Green wrote:
Is there some sort of checklist of this "unofficial" pre-1980 third-party material?

I've been trying to dig through old Acaeum and Tome of Treasures webpages mentioning this kind of stuff, but it's difficult to know how comprehensive these sources are. I haven't been able to find any checklists or databases of non-TSR and non-JG material.

The original non-TSR archive was the "afterglow" website, now defunct but accessible via the WayBack Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/200402190004 ... ontsr.html

A successor is Afterglow2 by the Acaeum's own mbassoc:
http://www.afterglow2.com/

Neither of these is organized by date, though.

There's also the 1991 book Heroic Worlds by Lawrence Schick (author of S2), still in print:

http://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Worlds-His ... 202&sr=8-1

It's got a paragraph for almost every RPG product prior to 1991, and shines for learning about non-TSR RPG products (like obscure non-TSR D&D modules). It's organized by topic, rather than date, so you'll still have to wade through it to find pre-1981 material. But it's very readable, and has nice artwork and short essays by RPG authors (Gygax, Arneson, St. Andre, etc).

Mars wrote:What exactly are you looking for though?  Only adventures? Or accessories too? Or other RPGs?

"earliest dungeon adventures published for D&D"?

Can't even get agreement on the "official list" for that.
For example, Jaquays' Dungeoneer adventures were retrospectively "made" official whereas the dates for some others are given in an inconsistent manner as dates played rather than mass market publication dates (Tsojconth for example).

TheHistorian wrote:
I've been figuring acaeum + ToT + afterglow2 + rpg.net + rpggeek + bugging Mars gets me a list of most of what's out there.  

I'm sure Mark doesn't mind.

(If Jaquays' 'zine-based contributions are worthy of listing (definitely so, IMHO), don't forget those other adventures/scenarios also published in that medium).

faro wrote:I'm sure Mark doesn't mind.

I'm always happy to help fuel small press collecting.  I just found a new resource yesterday and have added a couple new small press items to my list (its a mental list though so I hope I don't forget them).

If you are gunning for a scenario list including Rusty Lamont's No Prize Dungeon Level 5 from JGJ#12, I think you are going to have to make it yourself.  

Thanks everyone for the input. The Afterglow2 site has seriously expanded my mind. I'm dying to play some of this stuff! I guess the privilege is going to cost a bit though... I don't imagine PDFs or bootlegs of this material are floating around.

My original question was indeed about adventure scenarios, but now I'm interested in all this small press stuff. I didn't realize there was so much. A lot of it looks really fascinating. I have a number of questions to post, but I don't want to wear out my welcome here so I'll pace them out.

Thanks everyone!