The thumbnail is hilarious.

LOL you click baited me Joe. Well done! I approve of your picks, all of them...

I'd have to go with: T1 Village of Hommlet L1 Secret of Bone Hill U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh All provide an extensively detailed starting area and interesting adventure locations. I'm partial to I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City, too, because there's so much to do & explore, with plenty of room for expansion.

In my last campaign my players went through The Lost City, Against the Reptile God, The Isle of Dread and The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun all solid modules. The ones that stick out to me from actually playing through back in the day are The Keep on the Borderlands, White Plume Mountain and Tomb of Horrors.

Gary gygax really transformed the world. All our great video games came from DND

Great choices. I tend to agree with your commentary about each. My choices would be: 1: B2 Keep on the Borderlands 2: G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief 3. A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade. Favourite notables not mentioned (because you asked for 3) include: N1 Against the Reptile God, B4 The Lost City, and L2 The Assassins Knot. And T1 Hommlet of course (but I have never run or played it.) X1 Isle of Dread, too. These modules are not perfect. Far from it. But they have the spark of perfection within them. They have something about them that invite all manner of possibility.

Someone should find the lawyer that stole Gygax’s company from him and make them pay.

Good stuff. I never tire of hearing about Greyhawk. S4 is my favorite.

I'm going to have to give it some thought, but you picked three very good candidates.

Hommlet is ok... but I prefer L1 Secret of Bone Hill as you get a lot more area to work in and add your own stuff. It's the same formula as Hommlet but so much more.

Top 3 1e modules? This is harder than the 2e list because there are so many great ones. I'll start off with GDQ1-7 (G3 is my favorite of this favorite!). Then T1-4: I know a lot of old grognards like us are dissapointed with it, but if you tweak it a little, it is a great starting point for a campaign (and I've done just that at least half a dozen times) and the Village of Hommlet is the archetype for small town fantasy settings. Then can I say Frank Mentzer's R1-4? Aquaria is not in the Flanaess, but it is on Oerth. Boy, that was tough. Honorable mention to S3 for the great book of illustrations to show the players (can I squeeze that in?)

My favorite DM: 1) Tomb of Horrors 2) Sinister Secret of Salt marsh 3) White Plume Mountain My favorite as a Player back in the day: 1) Tomb of Horrors 2) Steading of the Hill Giant Chief 3) White Plume Mountain

Great job as always. One thing I would like to see in a future video would be your tips on bringing Greyhawk to a group of brand new 5E players. what modules would you dig up from your collection, any of the new stuff you would recommend, where you would start in greyhawk, what races and classes would you not allow and why. not so much out of personal choice but out of what you would objectively think would and wouldn't work.

So... top 3 post Greyhawk Wars modules/adventures next?

I absolutely love S4 myself! Lots of old school modules that I loved: N1, U3, UK6, T1-8, C1, A4, I1, S3, S1. I rather liked D1 more than D3 in that series, but since I started reading Lovecraft, recently I have a much greater appreciation for D2... Picking just three... wow, that's a tough call. As you can tell from my list above I kind of like modules where the environment is part of the challenge, and would probably go with UK6, A4, and S1. But if you asked me tomorrow I'd probably pick a different three :-P

I remember the three mega modules, the Temple of Elemental Evil, Against the Slaves Lords, and Against the Giants. I must have run a two dozen parties through. Maybe a dozen make it to the Slavers, and of the half dozen which made it to through the giants and drow, only one made it to Loth's plane. Closest we got was just outside her Spider ship. Good times. I miss that after 2e, combats took so long that adventures like those really couldn't be run.

I love the use of Puppets, but that one is not on the list of the best, which of course are: U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, G2 Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, and N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God.

My top 3 where Dark clouds gather Expedition to the barrier peaks Night's dark terror

1. G1 - The Steading of the Hill Giants 2. T1 - Village of Hommlet 3. C1 - Hidden Shrine of Tomoachan

Great video! I loved T1 back in the day for all the reasons you mention though I, as others may have mentioned, preferred L1 as a starting location for new adventurers. For a while I combined the two, with Homlett being a nearby inland village that owed fealty to Restenford, but T1 quickly (and unfairly) fell into disfavor with me after the supermodule T1-4 came out as I didn't like the lack of cohesion or playability of the T2-4 parts and they ended up polluting T1 in my mind. If I had to pick a top three TSR AD&D Greyhawk modules, it would include S2: White Plume Mountain (probably in the top spot, simply because when I think of what module makes me happiest it always comes to mind) as it was a great amount of fun and unexpected challenges and I was so happy I knew my prime numbers 😀, S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks as it was an unexpected concept for a "dungeon crawl" which made it a lot of fun, plus giving me monsters such as froghemoth and the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing that completely would throw off players, and L1 for its super sandbox situation. My favorite module is still B1: In Search of the Unknown. It was there in my Holmes boxed set, and it is where I learned how to DM and how to create future adventures. It's Greyhawk-adjacent depending on what material you use, but it isn't AD&D (though I suppose it is also AD&D-adjacent based on some of the notes within) so I didn't put it on the above list.

Literal LOL at the Puppets prank. The field is narrow here, since most of the Gygax-era modules do not have strong ties to the setting. So I can’t dispute T1’s top spot, and D3 and S4 are very defensible choices as well as classic (if flawed, as you note) adventures. I would nominate WG4, though. Gary wrote a more memorable dungeon than S4’s and introduced an evil hyper-deity almost entirely through hint and suggestion (while making it distinct from his OTHER hidden evil mystery deity). That mystery was so tantalizing multiple designers since have tried to fill in its details.

The point of the early Gygax modules was to play. The storyline was sort of extraneous. So, 7-page long modules were better made than 400 page newer "adventure paths" made today: No fluff.

A1.I had all the G/D/S modules back in the day, but had no chance of running them properly

WG4 Forgotten temple of Tharizdun is my number 1

S4 has the coolest cover

Sold all my old D&D stuff off but kept the Greyhawk, modules and boxed sets.

(I take it that the single sentence you refer to as explaining the G and D modules is in the House Eilservs description.)

I dig that opening music! 😁 Oh I always like against the cult of the reptile God. I've played it in its original setting, I've used it in the forgotten realms my own setting. I've also used the village map, with my own made up story.

I like to discribe TOEE as a Beautiful Mess. You have to research and study it so you can understand it and understand what you will never understand and then rework it. It's like a Ferrari that's been 3/4 built with the other parts laying around. But some of those parts are from a Ford Taurus. good luck.

T1, G1, and N1.

My party is around 4th level characters and we're playing Dnd5. Is it still ok to play the "Village of Hommlet" ?

Cool I don’t use modules but have played a few, at conventions but can’t remember the names

just ran my group through the lost caverns of tsojcanth i converted it over to use 5e system

Bah! you didn't tell us what sentence sums it all up in "Vault of the Drow'!!!! Now I have to spend the day searching. lol

Do the modules you make fit in Greyhawk (i assume they do, i just started Greyhawk andcwant all the content i can get lol)

Ha he pronounced Drow properly…. Rhymes with toe…

Why do you pronounce drow "dro"?

You, sir, pronounce drow correctly. Not drow as in cow, but drow as in crow!

Ha, Puppets!