D&D 5E Adventure Satisfaction Poll

[Charles Rampant]

Agreed. I voted "enjoyed" running Princes, but if I were rating the adventure, I'd probably give it only 3 out of 5 stars. The module has some good stuff in it and my group had a good time during most of it. But it also has some real flaws that I had to overcome. By the end of the adventure, over half the material I was using was not from the module.

BTW, curious if the OP will post a poll asking the same question for those who played a particular module. Just wondering if the results would be similarly positive or if we'd see more negative votes. (I'd definitely vote negative on the module I'm currently a player in.)

I thought about opening the poll up to both players and DMs, but thought that it would be more valuable to limit to just the DMs at first. Also, and not unimportantly, this forum is very heavily focused towards DMs (unlike reddit.com/r/dnd), so it seemed simpler to focus the sample accordingly.

Enjoy is a bit weak, but I didn't want to get into too technical or precise a definition. Ultimately, we can't have eighteen options per adventure, so limiting it to 'enjoy' or 'not enjoy' seemed as good a method as any

 

[ccs]

Of the published adventures I've only run 2 of them - Yawning Portal (as stand alone adventures, one shots & filler) & am currently running ToA.
Enjoyed both of them.

Now when you get to asking about what I've played....

 

[Mercule]

LMoP wasn't listed, but was actually fun.

I tried to run ToD, but it was so tied to the Realms that I gave up part way through conversion to Eberron. Since I gave it a good shot, I still voted "Played, didn't like".

We did do PotA. I think folks liked it, over all. There was some frustration, but the consensus was that it was because the group opted to continue with the LMoP characters that were explicitly "test the 5E system" characters and rather lacking in long term personality.

I was very surprised when the wheels came off CoS. I thought it was OK, but the group found it to be way too grindy. I could kinda see their point and had made shifts in style to emphasize theater of the mind (which I already favored) and non-combat random encounters/events. It may have been too little, too late. It made me sad because I6 was one of my favorite adventures and I've run that one at least a dozen times. I almost think there was too much to do in CoS.

We're on to pure homebrew, now. Both setting and adventure.