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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 6306965" data-attributes="member: 151">While I'm not criticizing your choice of poll numbers, I have to agree that 11+ is pretty low for many posters here because, if nothing else of our sheer age in the hobby.  I've been playing D&D since 1979 or thereabouts.  11 modules in 35 years isn't really all that much, especially if you add in Dungeon Magazine.  A future poll might benefit from either raising that last tier or from changing the parameters to a more varied time profile (for example: during any single edition, in the last 5 or 10 years, etc.).In my case, I purchased tons of modules for Basic and AD&D, but virtually none for 2E (as I hadn't been playing).  Then 3E dropped and I bought EVERYTHING as I returned to the hobby.  I bought the entire 3E adventure path, so that's what, 7 modules right there?  Then I bought mini-modules, regular modules, maxi-modules (RttToEE, Rapan Athuk, etc.).  Campaign settings (which contained modules in some cases).  I subscribed to Pathfinder for a time and their module service (until I realized I had more modules than I could possibly use).  Under 4E, I bought no printed modules, but did maintain a DDI subscription, which feature Dungeon Magazine.  I almost bought modules many times, but 4E never really convinced me to bother, since I didn't like the 'encounter' style very much.Under 5E, I will gladly drop coin on modules, if they are well done.  I rarely use modules straight-up, but often use them as starting points or easy stat-blocks and character lists.  Then I tend to tailor them for my own uses.  I appreciate them as time and labor savers, even if I don't use them exactly as written.</blockquote>

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