D&D 5E (2014) A Quick Not So Positive Review of HotDQ

[Zardnaar]

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adventure.

TLDR
Its crap.

 

[JeffB]

You must like mod warnings and thread deletions.

 

[ChrisCarlson]

What's funny is that this is clearly a rebuttal to WolfDM32's thread. But what I get from them that is different between the two, is that the quality of something is often filtered through who is using it. Someone lacking functional DMing skills can make even a good adventure suck. Where as a great DM can make even a poorly written adventure fun.

YMMV.

 

[WolfDM32]

ChrisCarlson, my point exactly. I see the predesigned campaigns as spring boards to content the DM needs to create. Even with the starter set campaign, the campaign was railroad. The first battle was a group of goblings in the middle of the road with no choice but to fight a group of goblins. Why would many characters even care. They'd be like, here be some dead horses and most likely some goblins... I'm going home for a drink. End of campaign.... A DM that doesn't want to be creative to add their own content, or encounters, or story to the existing content, well, I could see the game getting boring. Not saying that everyone needs to be professional story writers, but, it doesn't take much to create additional stories / plots. or heck even dead ends and evil acts.

 

[Bawylie]

What's funny is that this is clearly a rebuttal to WolfDM32's thread. But what I get from them that is different between the two, is that the quality of something is often filtered through who is using it. Someone lacking functional DMing skills can make even a good adventure suck. Where as a great DM can make even a poorly written adventure fun.

YMMV.

Yeah, I agree with all of this. I haven't bought an adventure that I didn't rip to pieces and then rebuild.

 

[abirdcall]

I thought HotDQ was great. Sure, getting to each scenario was scripted. But the scenarios themselves could be tackled in many ways. It fully utilized all 3 pillars, combat, exploration, and social interaction. The last one was heavily focused on.

I have a feeling that people that didn't like it tried to play through it with just focusing on combat and found it deadly and boring.

 

[gweinel]

Playing the adventure i have to say that it is indeed poorly written. It is half job. I review it (here at enworld) and gave it 2 stars.
The reason i rate it so "high" is despite the poorly implemented ideas, the lack of polishing, balancing, etc, every chapter is distinct and have one or two good ideas in it.

 

[Morrus]

You appear to be mistaking my website for your toilet. Please do not do that again. Thread closed.