Help me make WotC adventures better.

[Raven Crowking]

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?


Is anyone from WotC still reading this thread?

 

[gribble]

In a standard dungeon-style adventure, terconnect the levels and sections more. This allows for an adventure to play differently on repeated use, as the party has more choice in which ways to go and thus might not encounter obstacles and opposition in any predictable order.

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I can't think offhand of a published adventure that does this really well.

Both Tomb of Abysor (I'm sure I spelt that wrong) and Rappan Athuk from Necromancer Games do this really well.

 

[The_Gneech]

Is anyone from WotC still reading this thread?

Well, we can't be absolutely sure that anyone from WotC ever was ... Rodney might have just posted and left for his birthday party. But I suspect he's more interested in reaping than sowing at this point and so is just letting the conversation run its course.

-The Gneech

 

[Raven Crowking]

Well, we can't be absolutely sure that anyone from WotC ever was ... Rodney might have just posted and left for his birthday party. But I suspect he's more interested in reaping than sowing at this point and so is just letting the conversation run its course.

-The Gneech

Could be.

Could also be a "let's get people to talk about WotC adventures" thread.

Years of playing D&D have made me paranoid and suspicious of the motives of NPCs....er, of other people.

(Also, any excuse for quoting Pink Floyd is acceptable in my books.)


RC

 

[Jack99]

Could be.

Could also be a "let's get people to talk about WotC adventures" thread.

Years of playing D&D have made me paranoid and suspicious of the motives of NPCs....er, of other people.

(Also, any excuse for quoting Pink Floyd is acceptable in my books.)


RC

IMO, that's just as likely as you being on Paizo payroll and paid to try to smear WotC in every thread on this board.

Enough, people. Jack, exactly what experience here has made you think this sort of personal attack is acceptable? I don't care whether you agree with someone or not, you won't take personal shots. PM me if this is the least bit unclear. ~ PCat

 

[Stoat]

Yes, I'd prefer it if the default was to stat a "Goblin Lair" as a single, multi-room, encounter. Make that encounter Party Level +4 if it's likely to be the only battle of the day. Use lots of minions - a single PL+4 battle with 30 goblins is more fun than 3 PL+0 battles with 5 goblins each, anyway.

WotC said two years ago that this would more or less be the standard. Smaller groups of monsters would constitute a single, multi-room encounter rather than having each separate room stand alone. Shadowfell doesn't go as far as you suggest, but it does break the dungeon up into clusters of three to five rooms.

Later adventures have backtracked. AFAIR, H-3 contains only single-room encounters.

 

[Dausuul]

IMO, that's just as likely as you being on Paizo payroll and paid to try to smear WotC in every thread on this board.

If that's the case, he's doing a poor job of it. He's way too cogent and reasonable. Seriously, RCK, you call this trolling? I've seen better trolls hanging from rear-view mirrors!

[SIZE=-2]<Just in case it wasn't clear, this is a joke. I am not actually accusing anyone of being a troll.>[/SIZE]

 

[Jack99]

If that's the case, he's doing a poor job of it. He's way too cogent and reasonable. Seriously, RCK, you call this trolling? I've seen better trolls hanging from rear-view mirrors!

[SIZE=-2]<Just in case it wasn't clear, this is a joke. I am not actually accusing anyone of being a troll.>[/SIZE]

Exactly. Just like I think it's extremely unlikely that WotC started this thread under a false pretense, in order to get people to talk about their adventures.

 

[Raven Crowking]

IMO, that's just as likely as you being on Paizo payroll and paid to try to smear WotC in every thread on this board.

Except the ones where I don't.....Or the ones where I compliment them.....

.......Which are, of course, just there to throw you off the scent.......



(If only I was getting paid by Paizo..... Or, well, anybody, just to talk about D&D....Now you've gone and made me sad.)

Seriously, though, a nod from someone at WotC would be nice. I sent a PM a few days ago and have got no response about the module conversions.....Can we post conversions of earlier edition modules to 4e?

On a related note, I am now working on converting some 4e adventures, and would be willing to go into detail about how the adventures seem (to me) if anyone from WotC is still "listening". And, trust me, this is not all negative feedback....there are some things I really like. (I actually posted about one Dungeon adventure some time ago, the one with the dungeon under the face in the hill).

(Upcoming in my campaign is a shif to a more "open sandbox" world....I am literally going to shift the PCs' home city from one material plane to another. It is telling that there is material in some WotC adventures that I don't want to use right now, because it is "too good" to be lost when the plane shift occurs. Because I am doing the same with earlier edition adventures, I can easily compare and contrast.)


RC

 

[mudbunny]

I will poke my contact at WotC again about the module conversion. I will also note that it *would* be nice to have Rodney drop back in at some point in time.