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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alarian" data-source="post: 6308482" data-attributes="member: 24407">I've used a combination of homebrew and modules for the past 30+ years.  I rarely run them as written though.  Quite often, if I'm using a module and a player mentions they have played through it before I tell them, go ahead and use what you know about it in character.  It can be something they learned while researching information in preparation for the adventure or perhaps rumors and tales they have picked up over the years.  Other than the map, I have always changed the contents enough they while memory of the layout of the map might be a bit of a perk the actual adventure itself will be so different that previous knowledge is usually not of much help to them.For example, I've been running an adventure using the Judges Guild module Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor for the past several months.  A few sessions ago one of the players who GM'd the module himself years ago commented jokingly the room they were in reminded him of the module.  He was shocked when I told him they had been running that module for the past several months.  For me at least, Prepared modules provide a wealth of adventure seeds.</blockquote>