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<blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 1728768" data-attributes="member: 990"><p>I may not be 15, but I did teach myself to play and DM 4 years ago. </p><p> </p><p>Fair enough. No harm done.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p> </p><p>So you find that adventures are actually useful? (Well of course you do, else you wouldn't have started this thread. But it's perplexing to me.) I have *tried* to use them, but my players always wander off to do other stuff. So for me, adventures aren't actually less work, since I have to slap stuff onto them at the last minute when the party goes haring off. Heck, I'm presently trying to run the Freeport trilogy, but they barely managed to pay attention long enough to finish the first module, because they wanted to explore the jungle. </p><p> </p><p>Actually, I haven't ever run an adventure straight through, except for one that I was play-testing, preparatory to writing a review. My players hated every minute of it. In fact, I never wrote the review because I couldn't find anything constructive to say, and I didn't want to appear to be doing a hatchet job. Admitedly, the adventure was one of the worst railroads I've ever seen. </p><p> </p><p>Oh, and I should probably tell you that although I don't like running published adventures, I do buy them. I think I own nearly every adventure published for 3.0, except for the ones with the sluts on the covers. I even bought the FFE adventures! Why do I buy them? Hmm. Possibly I'm crazy. Or possibly I like to read them for ideas. You be the judge.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buttercup, post: 1728768, member: 990"] I may not be 15, but I did teach myself to play and DM 4 years ago. Fair enough. No harm done.:) So you find that adventures are actually useful? (Well of course you do, else you wouldn't have started this thread. But it's perplexing to me.) I have *tried* to use them, but my players always wander off to do other stuff. So for me, adventures aren't actually less work, since I have to slap stuff onto them at the last minute when the party goes haring off. Heck, I'm presently trying to run the Freeport trilogy, but they barely managed to pay attention long enough to finish the first module, because they wanted to explore the jungle. Actually, I haven't ever run an adventure straight through, except for one that I was play-testing, preparatory to writing a review. My players hated every minute of it. In fact, I never wrote the review because I couldn't find anything constructive to say, and I didn't want to appear to be doing a hatchet job. Admitedly, the adventure was one of the worst railroads I've ever seen. Oh, and I should probably tell you that although I don't like running published adventures, I do buy them. I think I own nearly every adventure published for 3.0, except for the ones with the sluts on the covers. I even bought the FFE adventures! Why do I buy them? Hmm. Possibly I'm crazy. Or possibly I like to read them for ideas. You be the judge.:D [/QUOTE]
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