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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9353345" data-attributes="member: 7044459">When I started playing in the early 2000's I didn't know there was such a thing as published adventures. We bought all of our books from Borders, which is a now defunct chain bookstore, similar to a Barnes and Noble. It was cool that they carried these books, but they didn't carry a wide variety. The core 3, and then we did get occasional supplements like the 3.Xe Complete Books. I wish I had known that we had a decent LGS in our town, but at the time, we weren't aware that Comic Shops were also often Game Stores. I did end up frequenting that store later and the owner was a great dude, and they stocked toooooons of old books/modules. Hindsight 20/20.. You don't know what you've got, til it's gone.. and all that.Regardless we never used adventures/modules. As far as I know my brother ran everything off the dome. I did once find a short murder mystery type adventure on a forum online. I paid like a dollar to print it off at the library and I tried to run it.. But it immediately fell apart when the players didn't do what the adventure expected them to do, and I was not at all prepared to handle a train derailment. Fast forward ~15 years and I'm not really playing any D&D but I'm really hungry for it, so I was consuming a lot of content, and learning a lot about the history of the game. I really wish I had known then what I know now. I could have run some modules and probably had a lot of fun.Thus far with my current group I ran a lightly modified version of "Them Apples" from Dungeon Magazine #48. I really only modified the house where the adventure takes place. I dislike how old adventures will do weird stuff to thwart the players from doing things that are pretty obvious. (For instance, assume that a above-average intelligence giant would build a log cabin with no windows, and light it with torches, so that he had to live in a smoky smoggy hell box, and then you players couldn't perhaps climb through a window. ) I'm prepping to run Sunless Citadel this weekend, and I'm doing A LOT of modification. For one thing, I'm streamlining the dungeon. Cutting out empty rooms, and gratuitous random encounters. If I wanted this adventure to last a lot longer I might run it as is, but I'm hoping for two sessions.. I've got to say.. Drawing big dungeons is freaking hard.</blockquote>

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