There have been a lot of D&D.Sci scenarios, but there's a lot of variance between them in complexity and quality. Some are more difficult, and might not be a good place to start, while others are much simpler - some were very good, while others on reflection didn't flow quite right.

Unfortunately, LW karma doesn't track the quality of these scenarios very well: often mediocre scenarios are higher-karma than better scenarios (whether because they had good writing around a poor scenario, or because people upvoted before playing them, or just because more people happened to be online and see them).

If you're interested in playing D&D.Sci scenarios, but don't know where to start, this index (compiled by frequent authors abstractapplic and aphyer, we'll try to keep this updated going forwards) is a good reference point to make sure you can pick good scenarios at a difficulty level you're comfortable with.

If you're new to D&D.Sci, you should probably start with the lower-Complexity scenarios and move up to the higher-Complexity ones. Scenarios with Quality Rating 1-2 are probably less worth playing, while the higher-rated ones are ones we'd recommend.

Scenario	Complexity Rating (1=easy, 5=hard)	Quality Rating (1=low, 5=high)	Author^[1]
D&D.Sci Release Day: Topple the Tower (NEW)	3.5??	???	aphyer
D&D.Sci Thanksgiving: the Festival Feast	3	2	aphyer
D&D.Sci: Serial Healers	2	4	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones	3	2	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci Tax Day: Adventurers and Assessments	3	2	aphyer
D&D. Sci Dungeonbuilding: the Dungeon Tournament	3	3	aphyer
D&D Sci Coliseum: Arena of Data	4	3	aphyer
D&D.Sci: Whom Shall You Call?	2	2^[2]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci Alchemy: Archmage Anachronos and the Supply Chain Issues	3	5	aphyer
D&D.Sci Long War: Defender of Data-mocracy	4	4	aphyer
D&D.Sci (Easy Mode): On The Construction Of Impossible Structures	1	3	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci: The Mad Tyrant's Pet Turtles	4	4^[3]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci(-fi): Colonizing the SuperHyperSphere	3	3^[3]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci 5E: Return of the League of Defenders	4	3	aphyer
D&D.Sci: All the D8a. Allllllll of it.	5	1^[4]	aphyer
D&D.Sci December 2022: The Boojumologist	2	1^[2]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci September 2022: The Allocation Helm	3	4	abstractapplic
Dwarves & D.Sci: Data Fortress	3	3	aphyer
Ars D&D.sci: Mysteries of Mana	3	3	aphyer
D&D.Sci June 2022: A Goddess Tried To Reincarnate Me Into Another World	2	2^[2]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci Divination: Nine Black Doves	4	2	aphyer
Duels & D.Sci March 2022: It's time for D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-data!	5	5	aphyer
D&D.SCP: Anomalous Acquisitions	5	2^[5]	aphyer
D&D.Sci Holiday Special: How the Grinch Pessimized Christmas	3	3	aphyer
D&D.Sci Dungeoncrawling: The Crown of Command	4	3	aphyer
D&D.Sci 4th Edition: League of Defenders of the Storm	4	5	aphyer
D&D.Sci Pathfinder: Return of the Gray Swan	5^[6]	2	aphyer
D&D.Sci August 2021: The Oracle and the Monk	2	4	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax	4	3	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci May 2021: Monster Carcass Auction	2	2	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci April 2021: Voyages of the Gray Swan	2	5^[3]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci III: Mancer Matchups	3	1	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci II: The Sorceror's Personal Shopper	2	5^[3]	abstractapplic
D&D.Sci	3	5	abstractapplic

If you disagree with any of these ratings let us know, we're happy to review - there were some scenarios where we disagreed on the correct rating while compiling this list, and we'd appreciate your comments as an outside view, especially if you're a frequent player!

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Keen-eyed readers will notice a correlation between this column and the 'Complexity' column.
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abstractapplic: These scenarios were attempts to convey / demonstrate specific ideas with real-world relevance; I judge that they failed at this; I therefore grade them a little less generously than you might.
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abstractapplic: These scenarios were attempts to convey / demonstrate specific ideas with real-world relevance; I judge that they succeeded at this; I therefore grade them a little more generously than you might.
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aphyer: I thought this scenario was great, and still do, but given that absolutely nobody but me liked it I am forced to admit that the odds suggest you will not like it either.
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aphyer: I'm quite proud of the writing in this scenario, but the actual scenario itself was mediocre.
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aphyer: Sadly the difficulty rating for this scenario arises less from complexity and more from tedium: the scenario doesn't have an intricate model with sneaky multivariate effects, it just has way too many simple effects to juggle and dull bits of work to do.