On B5, On Greyhawk, On Spelljammer fun...

Not really feeling well, so this will be shorter. After yesterday, you may think my favorite adventure to run was Caves of Tsojcanth. It is fun looking back on it, but in my 12 year old mind at the time, I was just annoyed.

My favorite thing to run was our various homebrew hexcrawls. We started with Greyhawk and marched through Iuz, found the Forgotten City, ventured off the map for some OA fun, and then off the world entirely to brave the phlogiston. I didn't use the Rock of Braal at all, but instead used various asteroids as a home base.

We went to Space 1889 briefly, but spent a lot of time in Greyspace, Mystaraspace (it's what I called it), and parts of Realmspace. We invented our own planets and generally attempted to be Han Solo in various worlds.

Yes, we shot first.

The neogi were the perennial bad guys always chasing the party from sphere to sphere. There were some beholders, but the guys never ventured to some of the really bad stuff. I have formorian ships (giant ant-people), yet another githyanki civil war, ghost ships that drag you into the deep ethereal to make you lost and various other villains.

I had an ancient mariner that was revived after floating in the phlogiston for hundreds of years. (Yes, someone wasted a wish on him.) I had various alternate earths with a Marvelspace complete with Dr. Strange's spelljammer ship.

Awesome stuff.

I had the most fun running the homebrew because of things the players may have found depending on their whim, the dice and whatever notes I had with me. There's something about the possibility of the game that excites me, even in a traditional dungeon crawl. Finding a red dragon in the bottom of a dungeon (Horror on the Hill) was a surprise to me. Later, I was just as excited as the two-way portal to an ancient moon base locked somewhere in the second level of a dungeon since lost to time.

You never know what's over the next hill. Maybe they'll find the flying ship, the rakasta colonies, Star Frontiers aliens or even a hovertank from Centurion Legion.

It all comes back to hoping that the party will find something odd, but more importantly, having fun doing it. I didn't experience this with various college groups, but I always did with the high school group. It was fun times all the way around, even when I got annoyed and tried to kill them on purpose.

Not to sounds cliche, but really, the most fun adventure is always the next one.