So You Don't Have To

Loren Rosson, a regular reader of this blog and old school RPG fan, recently put together a ranking of twelve of the original fourteen Dragonlance modules published by TSR between 1984 and 1986 (leaving out only DL 5, Dragons of Mystery, which is a sourcebook, not an adventure, and DL 11, Dragons of Glory, which is a wargame). As I remarked to him when Loren first told me about this project, this is a difficult and thankless job. Despite my own decidedly negative feelings about the entire Dragonlance series, I nevertheless think there's great value in looking at these modules, since, for all my criticisms, a few of them contain genuinely imaginative elements. Likewise, they offer some insight into the changing face of TSR, D&D, and roleplaying games generally during the mid-1980s.

If this interests you at all, head on over to Loren's blog and take a look at what he has to say.