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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 3709097" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't know how often you run modules using system X that were written for system Y. I do it all the time - my group plays its own version of RM, which like any other group's version of RM is unique in its particular suite of options and resolutions of rules inconsistencies, and thus even when we play an RM module I have to convert (often on the fly) to our own house system. But most of the time I use D&D/D20 stuff, because it is readily available, whereas no new RM modules have been published by ICE for about 10 years or so.The reason I buy and run modules is not for the "crunch" - I can pull creatures and NPCs out of the RM books myself, just as I could pull them out of the MM and DMG. I use them for the plot. As other posters have said, the stats really are secondary. Very few modules have plots which turn on particular mechanical features of the rules - and this is particularly true of D&D modules, which generally appeal to strange magical effects that have no explanation within the framework of the D&D rules.When our current campaign finishes, I am hoping to start a HARP campaign that will be set in Greyhawk, and use my collection of first-rate Penumbra and Fiery Dragon modules. I don't see any reason why these modules couldn't be used for a 4E game either. The Penumbra ones in particular seem to me to be chock-full of really clever plots and situations that I would never come up with myself - even if I had the time I don't have the creativity.One of the stated design goals for 4E seem to be to make the GM's job easier, in terms of adventure preparation. If those goals are achieved, that will make it even easier than it otherwise would be to run modules designed for other systems (such as 3E) in a 4E game.</blockquote>

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