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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3811172" data-attributes="member: 8447">I've run something like two pre-written adventures &quot;as is&quot; ... one was in Paranoia, the other was about half set for RuneQuest (Borderlands, if I remember the name right).&nbsp; When I do pick up pre-written adventures (which in and of itself is rare), I find I have to change many things to make it fit any given campaign -- placenames, hooks, types of treasures, races, types of classes, personalities of NPCs, religions, you name it.&nbsp; The larger problem I find is that most such adventures assume there are certain ways that PCs will act ... and this ain't necessarily the case.&nbsp; Sure, in a dungeon you go from room to room (and for the most part, rather illogically, the encounters stay within the confines of the rooms), but in an outdoor setting, a city, a forest, where there is no set logic tree the players may do things in a very &quot;strange order&quot; (by the standards of the written module).I am used to writing up adventures:&nbsp; A very detailed beginning, a few set pieces, looser notes as it goes along, hopefully an end bit, and a LOT of flying by the seat of my pants.&nbsp; I try to give the players enough room to make their own choices/enough rope to hang themselves, but put time limits and set sequences in to &quot;railroad&quot; matters slightly, thus providing some structure.&nbsp; If they veer totally off course, so be it -- we run with it.Thus written adventures are only useful to me as a guide for ideas, almost never as a set adventure.&nbsp; The authors (and this comes from reading adventures pertaining to something like 15 different systems) assumed a more linear thought pattern, usually, than I have found common in PCs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3811172, member: 8447"] I've run something like two pre-written adventures "as is" ... one was in [I]Paranoia[/I], the other was about half set for [I]RuneQuest [/I](Borderlands, if I remember the name right). When I do pick up pre-written adventures (which in and of itself is rare), I find I have to change many things to make it fit any given campaign -- placenames, hooks, types of treasures, races, types of classes, personalities of NPCs, religions, you name it. The larger problem I find is that most such adventures assume there are certain ways that PCs will act ... and this ain't necessarily the case. Sure, in a dungeon you go from room to room (and for the most part, rather illogically, the encounters stay within the confines of the rooms), but in an outdoor setting, a city, a forest, where there is no set logic tree the players may do things in a very "strange order" (by the standards of the written module). I am used to writing up adventures: A very detailed beginning, a few set pieces, looser notes as it goes along, hopefully an end bit, and a [I]LOT[/I] of flying by the seat of my pants. I try to give the players enough room to make their own choices/enough rope to hang themselves, but put time limits and set sequences in to "railroad" matters slightly, thus providing some structure. If they veer totally off course, so be it -- we run with it. Thus written adventures are only useful to me as a guide for ideas, almost never as a set adventure. The authors (and this comes from reading adventures pertaining to something like 15 different systems) assumed a more linear thought pattern, usually, than I have found common in PCs. [/QUOTE]

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