(edit - after doing another search now that I know this book exists I see others here have as well, I am suprised others didn't mention it. See
http://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1525&highlight=lawrence+schick among others. I leave this here, but clearly this book rocks!!)
I found it!!
I got a used book today printed in 1991 (so it covers everything we like up to the start of AD&D 2nd ed - perfect!!) called "Heroic Worlds - A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games" by Lawrence Schick. The book is huge, 448 pages long, and it covers in rather complete details a capsule overview/review of (from my initial study) nearly every
RPG rule system, rule book, module, adventure, add-on, etc! And I don't mean a review of "all of the D&D system" I mean a review of each product issued for it! I went to the sections on D&D and AD&D and saw everything I know listed, and for each module a nice capsule was provided. This is exactly what I wanted. Gives brief printing info although nothing like here and some info is outdated I am sure, but the basics are there and the capule review itself is critical.
Going to the section on XL1 I find the following helpful info:
XL1, Quest for the Heartstone
Michael L. Gray, art by Jeff Easley
Laughable scenario for character levels 5-10 designed for use with the LJN and TSR toy D&D characters ("Stongheart," "Warduke," et al.); includes statistics for all the toy figures. It's a wilderness and dungeon scenario, with a frost giants' lair and four pages of illustrations to show the player.
230-950.1/900-84. 32 pp., outer folder. TSR, 1984.
The numbers at the end are in reference to some charts at the end of the book.
What a great resource!! Exactly what I and others have been looking for. Every module I looked up gave a nice capsule of what the contents were.
If you can find a copy, I highly recommend you do so.
