Tsojcanth Review | Classic D&D Recap | Wandering DMs S08 E22

um so one thing i wanted to do here uh is that we had a little bit of an audio glitch when we first started uh streaming and i had a little bit of a like why why am i picking this particular adventure and since i got blanked out i had one or two questions on on my blue sky actually like i'm surprised you picked that particular adventure so let me just go through my my six bullets of why the the cosmos was telling me to run this particular Lost Caverns of Sajkenth adventure here in 2026.

So number one, it's the 50th anniversary.

The first time that Sajkenth was ever run was at WinterCon 1976.

So I thought that was pretty cool that we're coming back to that 50 years later.

When we first ever did a birthday game call, It was so great.

I was so excited about it.

And that same summer, someone put up a round-robin polling for the best ever first edition adventure.

And this was a gentleman at Musings from the Moat House that did this.

And Sajiganth came out number one.

Beat out the Giants, beat out two Mahars, beat out the A Series, beat out the U Series.

Came out the number one most favored adventure from that particular old school survey.

So I thought that, and it surprised me.

I'm not going to, I won't kid you.

I was actually surprised that it came out to be number one.

So I thought I was

missing something.

Right? Number three, it's one of the very few instances where we have the actual tournament text to study.

And for me personally, it's the only instance that I know where we actually have not just like some description of what the tournament was like, we have the actual original of tournament text.

And we can examine the differences.

And they're huge.

They're enormous.

Between the tournament in 76 and the first edition publication in 1982, it's really a fascinating case study in the presentation.

Aside from that, it's a fascinating case study in the presentation styles of how adventures got published.

And again, there's a very stripped down old school version 76.

There's a more polished up kind of middle ground evolving advanced D&D version of 82.