Most were written for Dungeons & Dragons but there were also including a smattering of adventure for Game Designer Workshop's Traveller, as well TSR's own Boot Hill, Top Secret and Marvel Superheroes games. The Dragon Magazine presented its first adventure in The Dragon #32 (December 1979), and nearly every other issue featured another.
Thus, many of TSR's periodicals featured their own adventures – often sourced from the players themselves rather than written in-house. But even this torrent of material was not enough for the insatiable hunger of the players.
Eventually TSR caught on to the fact that adventures and source-books were where the real money was at, and – after tentatively dipping their toes in with The Temple of the Frog in the Supplement II: Blackmoor (1975), they released a slew of memorable modules and campaign material onto the market, starting with G1 – Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (1978) and later following up with classics like B1 In Search of the the Unknown (1979), S1 Tomb of Horrors (1978) and T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil (1985). But as any Dungeon Master will tell you, writing an adventure is hard, time-consuming work and even if he isn't interested in using a pre-written adventure, he certainly enjoyed reading them for inspiration. With an entire world of imagination at their fingertips, why would any budding role-player be interested exploring in somebody else's universe? They as much as laughed when Bill Owen and Bob Bledslaw – founders of the Judges Guild – asked for permission to create supplements for D&D (but TSR gave them a license anyway and royalty-free too, because at the time TSR didn't see how there could be any profit in that business).
They figured it was enough just to write the rules for the game – figuring out the mechanics and play-balance – and players and Dungeon Masters would do all the rest. You know, in the beginning Gary Gygax and his crew at TSR didn't even see the need for adventures.
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