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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 9323989" data-attributes="member: 16212"><p>I have limited anecdotal evidence. In my AD&D youth, the many DM's I hung around with at school had fistfuls of adventures. I borrowed a couple, and ran them, but thought I knew everything soon after and started making stuff up (I didn't hear the word "homebrew" until much later). That was my contemporary AD&D/2e experience.</p><p></p><p>3ed represented a reinvigoration of our D&D group. I bought and ran ten or twelve first party modules, and several Dragonlance adventures, before switching to homebrew. The other 3ed DM in my group ran us through much of Return to Temple of EE before that petered out. That's the only official product he bought of that era, to my knowledge. These days he has retreated firmly into AD&D. </p><p></p><p>I transitioned eagerly to 4E and adored the folder-style adventure products. The adventures varied in quality, but the presentation was incredible. I hoovered them up much as I did with 3ed, buying perhaps 90% of them, and running about half of those. Again, I was the only 4E DM in my group.</p><p></p><p>Once more I transitioned quickly to 5E and have great admiration (and appreciation) for the restrained release schedule. I've bought about 60% of the published adventures, but run very few of them. I started Out of the Abyss, but after the first chapter it diverted wildly off course and has now turned into the homebrew campaign that dominates our table time. We put it on hold during lockdown, whereupon Yawning Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh did heavy duty. I've dipped occasionally into some of the books, and most certainly mined the monsters and items from them via DNDB. It looks like I might be running Strahd this year as well.</p><p></p><p>I've mentored two other 5E DM's into the hobby in the last few years. One of them simply borrows material off my shelf, which is great as the money spent on those products hasn't gone to waste. The other has bought a couple of books to my knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 9323989, member: 16212"] I have limited anecdotal evidence. In my AD&D youth, the many DM's I hung around with at school had fistfuls of adventures. I borrowed a couple, and ran them, but thought I knew everything soon after and started making stuff up (I didn't hear the word "homebrew" until much later). That was my contemporary AD&D/2e experience. 3ed represented a reinvigoration of our D&D group. I bought and ran ten or twelve first party modules, and several Dragonlance adventures, before switching to homebrew. The other 3ed DM in my group ran us through much of Return to Temple of EE before that petered out. That's the only official product he bought of that era, to my knowledge. These days he has retreated firmly into AD&D. I transitioned eagerly to 4E and adored the folder-style adventure products. The adventures varied in quality, but the presentation was incredible. I hoovered them up much as I did with 3ed, buying perhaps 90% of them, and running about half of those. Again, I was the only 4E DM in my group. Once more I transitioned quickly to 5E and have great admiration (and appreciation) for the restrained release schedule. I've bought about 60% of the published adventures, but run very few of them. I started Out of the Abyss, but after the first chapter it diverted wildly off course and has now turned into the homebrew campaign that dominates our table time. We put it on hold during lockdown, whereupon Yawning Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh did heavy duty. I've dipped occasionally into some of the books, and most certainly mined the monsters and items from them via DNDB. It looks like I might be running Strahd this year as well. I've mentored two other 5E DM's into the hobby in the last few years. One of them simply borrows material off my shelf, which is great as the money spent on those products hasn't gone to waste. The other has bought a couple of books to my knowledge. [/QUOTE]
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