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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5071908" data-attributes="member: 15470">We had a similar experience: 20+ years gaming together, and our first 4e experience the DM figured "I'll use published material so I don't mess things up" but it turned out that the published materials didn't have great plot, didn't have those "memorable" scenes that make a campaign, and we had ten times more fun with everything he altered, etc. He wound up getting to a point where he could recognize the 50% of the encounters that were simply no fun at all, and just ditched them entirely, and finally figured out that what we were really enjoying was the material he came up with, and what we were hating were the as-published material ..... as soon as he ditched the published crud and got back to the kind of creativity he'd shown in 1e, 2e, and 3e, we all had a blast again.</blockquote>