Been digging through a lot of old posts, some of which I remember reading a few years back when I was first hanging out here. Lots of fascinating things in THIS thread, and a hexcrawling thread.
It all has me thinking once more about a kind of SUPER Isles of Dread. I've long been attracted to Dread but have never run it since it seems a little directionless and, in some ways, staid. I've been accumulating all sorts of Dread-like stuff and tropical ruins adventures for years, and every now and then I think about taking all the best elements from the various supplements and modules and hexcrawls and just smushing them all together, along with a bunch of stuff I know me and my principal player would groove on and making a kind of super Island of Dread style hexcrawl.
I keep hesitating to start because A. it's a lot of work, as you megadungeon builders have made clear and B. because most of it isn't mine and therefore I won't be able to do anything with it after I set it up to play in, but maybe that's a silly impediment. So, Plague Island, and Island of Forgotten Gods and Cauldron and the OAR Dread and various issues of NOD, not to mention Jungle Ruins of Mantaro Shanti (or whatever it's called) and Monster Island and etc. I am looking once more at you and your brethren and getting ready for some cutting and pasting and mapping and typing and thinking. Good thing I have copious spare time. Oh, wait... Sure seems like it could be a lot of fun, though, if I find time...