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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razuur" data-source="post: 1733350" data-attributes="member: 1997">Well I have to come in on the publishers side as a consumer.I think adventures are really neat.  How many have I bought?  Next to none.  Why?  I have such a hard time finding an adventure that fits the "flavor" of my campaign world.Lets take Atlas Games, for example.  Easily one of my top ten companies.  They made a slew of adventures in the early d20 days:I bought one of them.  Why?  Looking at them, I could tell that they were all great adventures - but they didn't fit my world.  One was heavy psionics - nope.  One was regarding time travel - nope.  etc. etc.  Fianlly, one of them: Unhallowed Halls fit my world and GM style.  Were the others bad?  Heck no.  Did they fit my style heck no.Now ask me what other Atlas games products I have bought:Occult Lore, Nyambe, Fantasy Bestiary, Dynasties and Demigogues, Crime and Punishment, Love & War, Black Monks of Glastonbury, Seven cities, Seven Strongholds, Seven Sacred sites...  All of them teemed with ideas and inspiration that I can create multiple adventures.Do the math.  What did Atlas make money on with me?I can do the same with countelss other companies.  I will agree that I like Bastion's (and others) inclusion of adventures in their source books.  not becuse I run them, but becuase I pull things from them to use in my adventures!Products like RPG Object's "Legends of Excalibur" by RPG Objects do loads fo me in inspiration, and provide the tools I need to make my own adventures.  And adventure is much harder to sell because of the limited utility.And based on WOTC's previous attempts at 3.X adventures - I won't be holding my breath about deciding between them and a 3rd party sourcebook.Just 2 cents.Razuur(Typos edited)</blockquote>

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