Here's some you can check out before buying (or not buy at all, if you just want to print and play):

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads

Thanks for your help. I did check out wizards.com and downloaded their Ravenloft modules. As I suspected, the modules posted thereon are almost all timed event affairs.

Sincerely,
            Alphonso Warden

P.S. Not to toot my own horn, but if you guys are looking for new modules compatible with 1st Edition AD&D, you might want to check out some of my OSRIC-system modules. I have written three for Expeditious Retreat Press' Advanced Adventures line -- The Prison of Meneptah, The Lost Pyramid of Imhotep, The Conqueror Worm, and The Verdant Vault of Malakum. I have also written two for Brave Halfling Publishing's OSRIC line of products -- The People of the Pit and The Forgotten Temple of Baalzebul. Lastly, I have written two more modules for Usherwood Adventures' 1st Edition line -- The Awakening and The Rebel Faction. All of my adventures were inspired by TSR's line of pre-1984 AD&D products. The Expeditious Retreat Press modules are available in print* and PDF format while the Brave Halfling Publishing and Usherwood Adventures modules are available in print-on-demand (via Lulu.com) and PDF format.

*The Verdant Vault of Malakum hasn't been released in print format yet.

the ravenloft setting is one of my favorite things in AD&D.

however as mentioned above, if you just utilise the material as you see it and dont try anything creative yourself, it can lead you down a pretty bad path imo.

some of the material and ideas involved are absolutely excellent and over the many years, i have had a ton of fun with it.

how i use the material is this (and this IS just my own creative taste). being a great fan of the old hammer house of horror and many other 60s/70s vampire films, i create my settings similar to these and then the material available from the various ravenloft adventures, i pick things out to suit what i want. i rarely run the whole adventure - for me, this works much better and it is far more satisfying having your own plot.

but all that said, i am not really a great fan of 2E material. there is some good stuff, but i dont like being forced down a particular path. i like to have my own sub-plots and change things all the time depending what happens as the game progresses.

what i've always fallen back on, is having a multiple little adventures throughout the land, but then always falling back on module I6 (one of my all time faves), but i always play strahd as almost invincible...hes the hidden terror at the back of everything else going on and there is always a power struggle happening in the background, between one thing or another, almost always involving strahd in it somehow.

if the adventurers ever get to the castle and closer to the end goal...all the times i have DMd, the players have eventually died there.

none have ever complained and have always enjoyed how it played out.

as i said, its how you utilise the material and i would strongly suggest picking out the ideas and using your own ideas within them, to get exactly what you want from it. it gets you away from the "one-dimensional" avenue you sometimes find yourself going down......

hope all that makes sense and its good to hear someone else out there utilising Ravenloft material

Al

A bit of an old post, but I haven't been on in awhile. Feast of Goblyns is my favorite Ravenloft module, though I don't know them all and haven't read any in well over a decade. But, if memory serves, my other favorites were Thoughts of Darkness and From the Shadows. Roots of Evil, House of Strahd and Vecna Reborn might be your other best bets.

Keith the Thief wrote:I didn't realize Ravenloft was a setting.

I thought it was just a module for 1E.

It is and it is: first a 1e module, then a 2e campaign setting.

Much like Munafik above, I quit AD&D and D&D in the mid-late 80s,
and I never even tried 2E.

Just recently learned, on another thread, how incredibly
popular Ravenloft (the Module) is among the folks here.

Is the setting just a big haunted house?
Alternate plane??

dndgeek wrote: Roots of Evil, House of Strahd and Vecna Reborn might be your other best bets.

I personally liked Vecna Reborn.  It would be a tough adventure for even veteran players.  

I liked the module Ravenloft.

I own and like RR1 Darklords.

I like one or two of the Ravenloft campaign products, but I think most of the series is over-baked.

FormCritic wrote:I like one or two of the Ravenloft campaign products, but I think most of the series is over-baked.

I'd recommend that you take a look at the Domains of Dread setting book from 1997, and the products that followed it. They present a much more cohesive version of Ravenloft, away from the "weekend in hell" model of the early years.