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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 6557274" data-attributes="member: 6777696">I don't really see myself running a complete AP anytime soon. Has anybody bought either of the Tyranny of Dragons books specifically with the intention of using them for adventure and encounter ideas in a different homebrew campaign? How has it worked out? The cost of one of the books is about 4x the cost of a 32pg adventure on dndclassics.com. (The fact that HotDQ is a printed book vs a pdf off of dndclassics is irrelevant to me. If anything, I prefer the pdfs to hardcopy because I run my game over Roll20 and do most of my reading on a kindle.)I'd like having material that's already targeted towards 5e, because, while converting older material is certainly doable, adapting 5e-oriented material has to be easier! And the conversions also get harder as the level goes up — different monsters, significantly different capabilities of both PCs and opponents, etc. I can run an adventure like Keep on the Borderlands straight off the 30-some year old page, but most of the as-is combat encounters from Castle Amber fell pretty flat on their face. (In fact, if I were to do that one again, I would definitely recommend stripping out and rebuilding all of the combat encounters, and just sticking with the zany premise.)Anybody gotten any mileage out of these books in their campaigns?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 6557274, member: 6777696"] I don't really see myself running a complete AP anytime soon. Has anybody bought either of the Tyranny of Dragons books specifically with the intention of using them for adventure and encounter ideas in a different homebrew campaign? How has it worked out? The cost of one of the books is about 4x the cost of a 32pg adventure on dndclassics.com. (The fact that HotDQ is a printed book vs a pdf off of dndclassics is irrelevant to me. If anything, I prefer the pdfs to hardcopy because I run my game over Roll20 and do most of my reading on a kindle.) I'd like having material that's already targeted towards 5e, because, while converting older material is certainly doable, adapting 5e-oriented material has to be easier! And the conversions also get harder as the level goes up — different monsters, significantly different capabilities of both PCs and opponents, etc. I can run an adventure like Keep on the Borderlands straight off the 30-some year old page, but most of the as-is combat encounters from Castle Amber fell pretty flat on their face. (In fact, if I were to do that one again, I would definitely recommend stripping out and rebuilding all of the combat encounters, and just sticking with the zany premise.) Anybody gotten any mileage out of these books in their campaigns? [/QUOTE]

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