G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, does it get any better than this....?

I don't think I'll get shouted down if I suggest Steading of the Hill Giant Chief is possibly the module converted to more versions of D&D than any other? People clearly have an affection for it.  

Combined with G2 and G3 it still gets into a lot of  'best-of'  lists.
High point was possibly in 2004 when it was voted as best-dungeon of all time.  OK so it had a little help with the other G modules, the D modules and the big Q.

A while back I decided to do the three Giant modules using 4e.
By pure coincidence, as soon as I'd finished converting G1 to 4e for my own use, Wizards announced they were going to publish 4e versions of them as a 'homage'.

Dungeon 197 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief.
Dungeon 198 Warrens of the Stone Giant Thane    
   (This was a new addition....but I like it!)
Dungeon 199 Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
Dungeon 200 Hall of the Fire Giant King.
Superbly detailed. Outstanding artwork. I think they are all great.

The four modules were woven into a larger ongoing campaign that ran to conclusion in 5 (maybe 6 years)! It really was a a big one.  (Perhaps more about the Krulle-Campaign another time?)

By the time the party reached the Hill Giant's Steading, 4e was just too much like hard work.
I ran it using homebrew rules that 'boiled-down' a lot of the useful source material from the Dungeon articles.

Not content with chalking the wall out on boards....I decided to build it.
More precisely I wanted to make a representation of the outer walls that I could reuse as a palisade.

I was happy with one thing I did. 

I used Games Workshop Ogres as most of the Giants.  To begin with all of them were primarily flesh coloured as Hill Giants.  Once we were past the Steading a number of them were over painted White with a Blue wash to become Frost Giants. Finally they were painted Red to become Fire giants.

I thought the discrepancy in size would look wrong. In-game... it worked out fine.     

I've decided to put the walls up on eBay. Maybe someone else can  use them as the Steading. 

My suspicion is that they will end up being bought as 40K barricades or the edges of a trench system.  There is over 21feet of it (645cm)

You can search for 181804319100

28mm Palisade Wall terrain. 645cm (21'). Made for D&D Hill Giant Steading

       

link

Happy Bidding. 

PS: The last use of the palisade was representing the outer walls of the the 'Sodden Hold' warehouse in the  current Age-of-Worms campaign.