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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6063827" data-attributes="member: 92305">I got one foot in each bucket.  I like published adventures for the ideas and the pre-designed characters (NPCs take a lot of work!).  The maps, stories, and situations are nice too.  But, I rarely run a published adventure as-is.  Many times, I'll take part of one adventure, make up something new for a time, then connect in another part of another published adventure.Then again, when I'm feeling inspired, I'm apt to just create my own stuff from scratch, sans any published stuff except for maybe source books that are designed to help you create your own stuff (like rules to create a town and such).My current campaign is set during Conan's Hyborian Age.  All the PCs are Cimmerian Barbarians.  We've been playing a couple of years, finished our first storyline (more like an adventure--we can't play all the time), and they've never ventured out of Cimmeria.So, my game has specific requirements.  If I use a published adventure, it's got to be adaptable to Conan's universe.  I usually throw out most of the magic and all of the magic items.  I replace humanoids with humans from other Cimmerian clans (planning on throwing in some Picts and Vanir, too).  The adventure has to work well with a mostly wilderness based campaign--no big cities, few towns, and I don't want to over-do underground dungeons.  This means that I can't use 99% of the published adventures out there, both in print and not.Once you've looked at published adventures through my glasses, you'd be amazed at how similar most of them are.  The game should be called Dungeons and Dungeons.  There's a set-up that provides a reason for the PC party to spend most of their time under ground exploring some deep, dark, creepy place.  That's all there is to most published adventures, as the PCs move from one fight to the next.  "Wait, this morning we fought a wyvern.  At lunch, we ran into a pack of trolls.  Now, it's dusk, and you want me to crawl down in that cave and fight what?"Conan's universe is a bit different from that kind of standard D&D fair.  There's not near as many monster encounters--lots of human encounters, and more encounters with mundane animals like bear and wolves.  True D&D-ish monsters do exist, but those are usually the feature of the adventure rather than just one among many encounters.  So, yeah, when I use published adventures, I usually have to do a lot of cutting and re-molding.</blockquote>

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