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My one-shots tend to match up better, primarily because I use whatever intro adventure comes with the rules. The exceptions come when I use a "weird" rule-set to model some media. Like the Scion rule set to run a a game based on Love Hina. Anima's Ki system would also work surprisingly well for...

Oh, I do that a lot. More than the right way around, honestly. I once ran a campaign that used MEGS DC Heroes for the mechanics, Champions for the adventures, and Shadowrun for the setting. In my current PF2e campaign, I'm rescuing a homebrew setting that I originally intended for Rolemaster...

So, leaving aside the "you have to assume a very granular time cost to everything" problem. And just using your example, "faster" characters (i.e. those who in 5e can move more than others in a single move) are effectively penalized. And N squares per clock tick also isn't very granular. N...

Hmm... adventures frequently have enemy religious strongholds that must be looted/captives freed, etc. They aren't generally presented as monasteries/nunneries, but that is (practically) what they are. I'll admit though that I haven't seen many (any?) adventures where the characters are...

Lost Mines: DM'd, finished ToD - Hoard: DM'd, finished ToD - Rise: DM'd, finished DiA: scavenged for homebrew climax. I called it 2, because I wasn't sure if Lost Mines counted or not. And I didn't count Descent Into Aveernus at all, since I just scavenged it for pieces.

Heck, D&D has had organizational/patron rules since 2e, when they detailed how to make your own orders of knighthood. 3e had some good 3rd-party systems. PF2e's Reputation System can be easily hacked to work that way. Frankly though, the best systems are outside of the the d20 umbrella these...

To lean in on the Starfleet feel... The Shieldbearers might also be the ones trying to expand the cultures the Radiant Citadel connects too/activate those shardships. Explore a portal, evaluate/rescue the natives and their world(s), report back.

From my experience, having played one Zero-to-Epic campaign in 5e: Lost Mines of Phandelver (original): S Tyranny of Dragons - Hoard of the Dragon Queen: B Tyranny of Dragons - Rise of Tiamat: C Descent Into Avernus: D (I raided it for the setting, but from what I could see of the adventure...

Hmm... As I've gotten more and more experienced, I've moved away from adventure products and paths - especially the longer ones. Primarily because I have an extensive backlog, and also because I feel more than competent to roll my own. I find most maps actually too constraining, but that's...

To mangle a quote from the God of Magic about wizards: "They believe they did it all themselves." At least currently. In past campaigns, the PCs have met deities and deity-level beings. I've found that it greatly reduces the scale and awe of the beings. Even when the deity in question isn't...

Ah. Yeah. I understand what you mean. And yes, it would be better for it. Responsive dungeons, dynamic dungeons, whatever you call them, weren't really a technique used back then. Talked about in a few articles, but even those would be considered very elementary today. It was also not...

4e I'm out. And I know it's not part of the 3.x adventure path. Beyond that, I'm not all that familiar with the 3.x official adventures (like Red Hand of Doom, etc. [though it's also not Red Hand]). Good luck.

Oh. Maybe one of the Mystara modules. I didn't play it, but didn't one of the desert nomad modules have castle-sized juggernauts?

Maybe "out-of-phase" or even "out-of-time-phase" towers? I.e. two (or more) overlapping towers, sharing the same space? C2 (The Ghost Tower) had something like that. And the Desert of Desolation series (I3-5) also had something similar, I think.

So just to propose and get the first filters established: Volume, in this scenario, means number of pieces. Not the physical volume of those pieces. (You wiseacres.) And we're discussing the visual, not written or audible, arts. we're only considering the original pieces, not any reproductions...

I'm kind of in between. I understand why people feel like you just shouldn't be able to go down to Morlan's Useful Items Shop and pick up a Staff of Penutlimate Cosmic Power, or a +3 Sword of Unending Slayage. For one thing, the market for such things is both tiny, and sporadic. Brokerage for...

Since the idea is to guide the new DM in their learning experience, pushing a lot of work on to them - especially with little to no guidance, is probably not ideal. Which is why I skipped over B4. (We don't talk about B3.) Likewise, expecting a newbie DM to be able to fully handle faction play...

I forgot about the comic books. I was thinking it would be limited to the official DnD publisher materials, and as far as I know the DnD/FR comics were not published by TSR/WotC, but by Marvel(? I think). There also the problem of what constitutes a "piece of art" for a comic book. Given that...

Over all editions? Are we including Dragon and Dungeon? Do we care that Dungeon and Dragon were both published by Paizo before their demise? Because D&D's been around long enough that a number of the early (OD&D, B/X, 1 & 2) contenders will have retired and been lost to the new generation. Even...

Having just adapted and run B1 for my PF2e group, I'm not sure I'd recommend it for beginning GMs. While the room keys aren't bad, and the prompts to stock monsters and treasure aren't bad, overall B1 really shows that it was the 4th adventure ever published. The map - from a modern...