B1 - In Search of the Unknown
Published by Wizards of the Coast.
Reviews
This is one of the very first adventure modules published by TSR, put out about the same time as the G-series, D-series, and Tomb of Horrors. It was created for the Holmes edition of the Basic rules and was included in some versions of that boxed set. There are a few differences between the original pastel covered version and the later brown covered revision that was put out for the Moldvay revision of Dungeons & Dragons. However these differences are minor and really won't alter game-play significantly.
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The Holmes Basic Set I owned came with module B1 In Search of the Unknown by Mike Carr, better known as the creator of Fight in the Skies (aka Dawn Patrol). If I had to choose the one module that had the greatest effect on me as a referee, it's this module, hands down. The reason is quite simple: B1 was written specifically as an "instructional aid for beginning Dungeon Masters" and so it was. I learned a number of really important lessons from using this module -- and use it I did -- chief among them being this: rooms containing pools of unknown liquids are cool.
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