D&D 5E Foundation: Older Adventures.

[Zardnaar]

Basically you grab an older adventure and use it as a foundation for a campaign. Anyone else do this for older adventures?

Example. Current campaign uses City if the Spider Queen. Mostly for maps. The campaign is completely different though the adventure vis mostly a backdrop.

Next campaign Fallout 4 post apocalyptic inspired. Using Kingmaker from PF1. PCs explore the maps dealing with the blight, dead/wild magic zones and blight storms.

 

[toucanbuzz]

All the time.

I recently borrowed maps and some rough ideas from Pathfinder's "Legacy of Fire" (a desert adventure with gnolls) for Dark Sun. Mine had nothing to do with the plot, but I could plug some encounters and NPCs in nicely.

Funny you mentioned Kingmaker as I'm currently running a 5E inspired conversion (roughly using 25% original material, mostly maps, and the rest is snatched from other modules...for example replaced Candlemere Island with a haunted prison adventure from the Carrion Crown path...fail to stop its ghosts and they'll emerge, as they have before, and ravage your fledgling barony). Kingmaker rocks for doing this.

 

[Yora]

Last year I ran a campaign of Against the Cult of the Reptile God, The Isle of Dread, and Dwellers of the Forbidden City. Went pretty great.

 

[Casimir Liber]

Last year I ran a campaign of Against the Cult of the Reptile God, The Isle of Dread, and Dwellers of the Forbidden City. Went pretty great.

Certainly Dwellers of the Forbidden City has the potential to be huge. I was tempted to do it myself (really enjoyed DMing it in 1e) but for the fact that our playing group has been in Chult (with another DM) so would seem a bit same-y...

 

[aco175]

I used Under Illefarn in 4e, but nothing in 5e. Then they came out with basically the same module for 5e, but still did not play it.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I used Under Illefarn in 4e, but nothing in 5e. Then they came out with basically the same module for 5e, but still did not play it.


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In spite of playing D&D for 35 years, I didn't start using published adventures until I started running Adventurer's League. I've read Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle, but I've never read Under Illefarn. Aside from taking place in and around Daggerford, what's similar about the two of them?

 

[aco175]

In spite of playing D&D for 35 years, I didn't start using published adventures until I started running Adventurer's League. I've read Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle, but I've never read Under Illefarn. Aside from taking place in and around Daggerford, what's similar about the two of them?

It is pretty much a total copy. I did not play the new one, but flipping through showed the same side quests and such. There is a new big quest with Dragonspear Castle, but made me think it was just a copy/refresh.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It is pretty much a total copy. I did not play the new one, but flipping through showed the same side quests and such. There is a new big quest with Dragonspear Castle, but made me think it was just a copy/refresh.

Well, to be fair, Dragonspear Castle is not an "Adventure for 5e" it was a D&DNext (Playtest) adventure that was, IIRC given away at conventions. I don't know how much was lifted, but it was probably something of a rush job compared to a "real" adventure.

 

[el-remmen]

I know of no other way to run a D&D campaign and it is part of what keeps me from running other genres of TTRPGS (aside from just player interest) is that I have no where near as much material to pull from from other games. I am not above converting a 1E adventure to 5E on the fly (though usually I take the time to actually do some kind of prep/adaptation).

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I know of no other way to run a D&D campaign and it is part of what keeps me from running other genres of TTRPGS (aside from just player interest) is that I have no where near as much material to pull from from other games. I am not above converting a 1E adventure to 5E on the fly (though usually I take the time to actually do some kind of prep/adaptation).

I wouldn't bother doing any prep if I were going to do that, but then again, I pretty much never do any prep for running games. It's both a strength and a weakness of mine. (A strength in that I can do it well enough to get away with it, and a weakness in that I could probably do better if I took the time).