D&D 5E Buying Adventures

[Holy Bovine]

I dunno - hundreds? I buy adventures all the time. Anything that looks interesting or useful. I pull them out for inspiration when I'm running on empty or just for entertainment.

My one goal is to have a complete set of the 'alphabet' series of D&D and AD&D modules (the A, B, C, etc series). I'm at about 90% right now but some of them are crazy expensive.

 

[Stormonu]

How many exist?

Seriously, I made a habit of collection all the 1E & 2E products that I knew existed, and a good portion of 3E. In fact, according to the database I kept (up until very late 3.5E), I have 1090 adventures, including the adventures from Dungeon #4 to #121.

As for your poll, as Lt. Brody would say, "You're gonna need a bigger poll."

 

[MerricB]

How many exist?

I'm going with "lots".

Seriously, I made a habit of collection all the 1E & 2E products that I knew existed, and a good portion of 3E. In fact, according to the database I kept (up until very late 3.5E), I have 1090 adventures, including the adventures from Dungeon #4 to #121.

As for your poll, as Lt. Brody would say, "You're gonna need a bigger poll."

I was wrong. It's "more than lots"!

Cheers!

 

[mach1.9pants]

And then if we add PDF adventures into the mix, lots and more than lots really doesn't cover it.

 

[pickin_grinnin]

I have never bought adventures, even in the early days of D&D. I always make up my own.

 

[delericho]

(@Mouseferatu and I were going through the original D&D books the other day, trying to work out when Tiamat and demons were first considered gods...)

And...? Don't leave us hanging!

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I used to avoid them like the plague back in my BECMI and 2E days, preferring to homebrew all the way.

When 3E came along, I was all growed up and too busy to devote that much prep time, so I started buying and using adventures.

Now, I'm a bit of a collector (when I can afford to be), picking up PDFs whenever I can.

In terms of numbers. definitely way more than 11. Maybe not in the 100 range...yet.

 

[variant]

I've never bought an adventure. Part of what I like about DMing is crafting my own story and I can't really justify paying for an adventure to just take pieces from to use.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One thing I'm getting from this is that ENWorld skews heavily towards GMs.

 

[mach1.9pants]

IME GMs are much more heavily invested in the game. Most of my players don't go to forums or read RPG news or anything. They also purchase next to nothing and often don't read the rules enough. Thus, along with gaming with my kids, I have turned to simpler and/or OSR rules. I personally still love more crunchy systems, but that is mostly just reading.