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Post Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:58 am 
 

Okay, I'm no expert in Dragon or Dungeon Magazine, having focused my collecting time and money primarily on D&D and AD&D books and mods, so I have to pose this question to the greater (and more knowledgeable) community.

This weekend, my son asked me what my favourite adventures were when I was his age (he's 15).  After listing off the typical mods, he amended his question.  "What was your favourite solo adventure?" I had to stop for a second and think.  I almost always GM'd and rarely played, but when I did play, I had a fairly high level assassin.  I started to recall an adventure printed in either Dragon or Dungeon, called  (I think) "the Assassin's Run".  There may have even been an "Assassin's Run 2" later on.  This adventure was for a solo assassin, a very rare adventure indeed.  I actually developed a solo adventure for an assassin type adventurer in my game system because of this great article/adventure!

I'd like to get my hands on that book again; does anyone know what issue that was in?  Did I recall the name correctly?

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:18 am 
 

According to the Dragon Index (http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/adventures.html), it was in issue #64.  No "Assassin's Run 2" listed.

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:26 am 
 

As an aside, I Googled it, and it says that "Assassin's Run" was included in a Bloodstone module (H1-H4), without Ed Greenwood's knowledge.

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:07 pm 
 

FoulFoot wrote:According to the Dragon Index (http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/adventures.html), it was in issue #64.  No "Assassin's Run 2" listed.

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Thanks Foul!  I didn't even know of this Index!  Excellent, now to find one for purchase.    :|

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:41 pm 
 

FoulFoot wrote:As an aside, I Googled it, and it says that "Assassin's Run" was included in a Bloodstone module (H1-H4), without Ed Greenwood's knowledge.


I have this vague idea that it was reprinted as well, Scott, but I wasn't thinking of H1-4 (or, perhaps I was, and don't realize it ;) ).


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:40 am 
 

grodog wrote:
FoulFoot wrote:As an aside, I Googled it, and it says that "Assassin's Run" was included in a Bloodstone module (H1-H4), without Ed Greenwood's knowledge.


I have this vague idea that it was reprinted as well, Scott, but I wasn't thinking of H1-4 (or, perhaps I was, and don't realize it ;) ).


I thought 'Assassin's Run' was reprinted in one of the Forgotten Realms boxed sets.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:34 pm 
 

My Google-fu reveals that it was reprinted in H3.  See the comment to this blog post for just one place that identifies H3: http://bxblackrazor.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... tures.html

When Jason said box set, that rung a bell, but I (and maybe he) was probably thinking of "Into The Forgotten Realms", a version of which ended up in the original grey box.


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Post Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:20 am 
 

Wow, talk about coincidence, I was going through a box of spare maps last night and was checking out the H3 map. The Assassin's Citadel is prominently featured.


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