D&D General How would you feel if Official Adventures only covered 3 levels?


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Why are people hung up on short adventures. What Im saying is the WHOLE Dragonlance adventure could be like 3-6.

Still full length adventures just that they cover less levels instead of trying to cram 1-10 into it. Walk down a road gain a level. Have 2 fights. Gain a level. Visit 3 areas in the town gain a level. Chapter ends gain a level.
 

Gaining levels too fast can trivialize the game IMO and it's one of my issues with 5e. The superhero aspect of modern D&D is very unsatisfying, which is why I prefer BECMI. A "Levels 1-3" 5e adventure would be super short and boring compared to the old classics like Keep on the Borderlands and In Search of the Unknown (both levels 1-3). Outside of the 5e starter-set modules (like Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragons of Stormwreck Isle) the majority of the 5e modules have to cover more levels because the X.P. requirements are so low.

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I have found that I do not want adventures any longer. I have started using Kobold Press's Book of Lairs recently and they give me 1-3 session events that I can slot into my own games.

For traditional small adventures, I find them all the time as PDFs and this is fine. I prefer them as PDFs and I can print out pages on my own as needed.

If I use them, I prefer setting agnostic things that can be slotted into any campaign.
 

Outside of the 5e starter-set modules (like Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragons of Stormwreck Isle) the majority of the 5e modules have to cover more levels because the X.P. requirements are so low.
given that you do not get anywhere close to the required XP to level up and they all use milestones leveling instead , I doubt that
 

I started a thread a while back to collect examples of AL adventures that can be strung into arcs that cover one storyline in 3-4 levels. It might be of interest to some reading this thread. Also, please feel free to add any other examples that you might know about.

 

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