Kickstarting a book of homemade D&D modules from the 1980s

Plagmada -- the Play Generated Map and Document Archive -- is kickstarting a book of homebrew D&D modules made by game-geeks in their misspent youth. The lead title is the remarkable The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord, created by 13-year-old Gaius Stern in 1981. The book will contain other homebrew adventures, and is seeking your contributions, which you can email to collections@plagmada.org, for inclusion in the book, which will be called "The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord and Other Adventures from Our Collective Youth."

The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord & Other Adventures (Thanks, Tim!)

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El Fez

Damn! I KNEW I should have stopped my Mom from tossing out all my jr. high stuff! My geek buddies and I had a Pink Floyd-themed dungeon that was crazy fun!
liquidstar

Awesome – very cool idea. Though those giants look suspiciously Frost-like. Played through the original series that starts with the Temple of Elemental Evil (though one could make an argument I guess that it actually starts with the introductory module Keep on the Borderlands) and ends with Queen of the Demonweb Pits – that I am sure is the inspiration for the module pictured. The art really brings me back, I m afraid that the art on the module pictured is only slightly inferior to a lot of early D&D art, but now it has great nostalgic plus so it’s still nice. Makes me wish I still had all my own early home made modules intact, though my younger brother rarely had to make a new ‘dungeon’.
robdobbs

I too have long since lost all my custom D@D campaigns.
http://plagmada.org Tim H

These sad stories of loss are the reason the plagmada.org project exists. Seek out your old gaming buddies from those days and prod them into contacting the archive, it’s only a matter of time until their stuff too disappears.
http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog

I remember writing one in which a guardian naga’s alignment (normally lawful good) was some flavor of evil – so, you know, we’d have an excuse to kill it. Not just for its treasure (and because it’s evil), but for its valuable naugahyde. But I’d be very surprised if I could locate the old papers 27 years later.
knoxblox

Channeling my junior-high school grammar nazi, I would really hate to fail my roll against that “butt-on gismo” shown in the text after the link. Yikes.

Yes, fellow gamers, I was that kid.
Boundegar

Has this one been recreated on Ludus?
- http://plagmada.org Tim H
  
  What does that mean?
Jen Onymous

Holy Crap.

I KNOW I have SOME of my old DM binders around, and some of my old hand-created monster stat sheets. And my handmade props for players.

I remember using an old calligraphy set that my Mom had, and some old vellum, and made my own “scroll fragment” complete with water stains and burnt edges.

And, I think I STILL have my handmade Deck of Many Things. Made with oaktag and a set of expensive Farber markers…