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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 1557646" data-attributes="member: 3109">Eric--that's exactly what I'm starting to do.  I've got a stack of Dungeons that I have never used and much of which I've never even read.  As my wife was getting closer to having our second DMling, I realized more and more that the load of 100% homebrew was going to be too much.  So I decided to start using published materials to ease the load.My approach is to keep my own long-term plot arcs and incorporate published materials into that frame.  I'm tweaking the published materials and adding some of my own encounters in order to advance my plots, but the bulk of the adventuring is not going to be my own.We're just starting the first published adventure in the campaign.  The party has to cross a harsh desert and they need some action after a protracted social/political adventure.  So I'm dropping in the Dark Sun adventure they just published in Dungeon.  I'm swapping some of my homebrew stuff in place of some of the DS-specific stuff to keep it consistent with my world.  And I'm using NPCs in the adventure to convey information that relates to the larger plots as well.  Net result, I'm going to get four or five sessions out of one session's worth of preparation.  That's efficient DMing!  And more importantly, it's getting me more excited about running the game, which had become pretty difficult.  Turns out the load had been too much for a while, and it was starting to catch up with me.</blockquote>

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