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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6943295" data-attributes="member: 6716779">IN my games I allow 3pp stuff for 5E. Some people do not like it which is fair enough as some of it is outright crap. However its not like WoTC has not made bad stuff before. The trick is to find the good stuff. A few 3PP are also done by ex TSR/WotC staffers who have been working on D&D a lot longer than say Mike Mearls has. IN fact I can remember an interview in Dragon circa 2000 with Mearls who at the time was working for a 3pp himself. Mearls later contributed for Dungeon magazine Gary Gygax worked with Troll Lord Games (who are now making 5E stuff) and Green Ronin and Kobold Publishing who have made some of the 5E APs are ex WoTC staffers as well.  Consider Wolfgang Baur. Who is Wolfgang Baur? Well he used to work for TSR and his earliest work I can find is in the January/February Issue 15 of Dungeon Magazine and he wrote an adventure titled The Glass House. Mr Baur has been publishing for D&D since 1E. So what has he done since then? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Baur" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Baur</a>A few other bits and pieces.The Ship of Night (Dungeon 20, Nov/Dec 1989)Kingdom of the Ghouls (Dungeon 70, Sep/Oct 1998He also wrote for the Age of Worms and Savage Tide AP's in 3.5Basically some of the best Dungeon adventures (which also makes them some of the best D&D adventures as well) and the Kobolds published the Hordes of the Dragon Queen and RoT (HotDQ was a bit of a stinker, rules in flux and all that though). Going by Mearls work at writing adventures I would be more inclined to look at anything Wolfgang publishes over Mearls at least for adventures.</blockquote>

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