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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4454694" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I tend to agree that it's odd that these modules haven't recieved even more criticism than they have, and/or that people even really care about them. They really just don't seem to be very good.</p><p></p><p>I suspect, though, that the reasons they haven't are part of the same reason that people want an AP - Specifically, they believe these are just the beginnings, and that things may well get better in time, as writers find their feet and the supposed AP gains more direction.</p><p></p><p>An overview would inarguably help people to guage whether it's worth sticking with them and hoping the quality will improve, or whether they should just dump them. Also, for me, and I suspect many others, a lot of the recent Dungeon and Dragon material has been quite highly varied in content and tone, ranging from the genuinely sinister and somewhat epic, to stuff that comes across as nerdy and hokey, and would certainly cause my players a lot of eye-rolling. So again, an overview of the AP, and where it's going, what sort of villains we're going to deal with, and so on, would really help determine whether this is something that's worth paying any real attention to. I don't want to follow an AP, only to find the ultimate baddies are pretty much a "dumb joke" or worse, that the whole thing turns into a particularly tedious and unimaginative series of dungeon crawls, or a combination of the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4454694, member: 18"] I tend to agree that it's odd that these modules haven't recieved even more criticism than they have, and/or that people even really care about them. They really just don't seem to be very good. I suspect, though, that the reasons they haven't are part of the same reason that people want an AP - Specifically, they believe these are just the beginnings, and that things may well get better in time, as writers find their feet and the supposed AP gains more direction. An overview would inarguably help people to guage whether it's worth sticking with them and hoping the quality will improve, or whether they should just dump them. Also, for me, and I suspect many others, a lot of the recent Dungeon and Dragon material has been quite highly varied in content and tone, ranging from the genuinely sinister and somewhat epic, to stuff that comes across as nerdy and hokey, and would certainly cause my players a lot of eye-rolling. So again, an overview of the AP, and where it's going, what sort of villains we're going to deal with, and so on, would really help determine whether this is something that's worth paying any real attention to. I don't want to follow an AP, only to find the ultimate baddies are pretty much a "dumb joke" or worse, that the whole thing turns into a particularly tedious and unimaginative series of dungeon crawls, or a combination of the two. [/QUOTE]
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