I am a homebrew snob

[Gruns]

Homebrew 4 life

I'm definately a home-brewer. Unfortunately, I don't always (i.e., never) have the time I want/need to hammer out all of the details of my adventures, so I resort to grabbing one off the net. To this day, I have yet to find a single adventure that was genuinely fun.
Later!
Gruns

 

[Wayside]

Why on earth would I want to play someone else's idea of Earth?!?

Lucky for you your players aren't asking that same or a similar question when you run games. Everybody draws on existing material, very few people rely on any published material completely, all creative work in RPG's is cooperative, and you're fooling yourself if you say otherwise.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

They say that confession is good for the soul, so perhaps this will give my karma a needed tune-up.

I am The Shaman, and I am a homebrew snob.

I am Brent and I steal ideas from everyone.

I have no use for published adventures and I don't understand those who do. The idea of running something that some GM (or worse GMs!) is playing/has played makes me itch uncontrollably. The Adventure Path seems like the pre-published road to creative ruin.

I have LOTS of use for published adventures. The idea of spending dozens of MORE hours preparing for a 4-6 hour game every week makes me want to cry. The Adventure Path seems like dozens of hours of time saved.

I look at books filled with campaign modules and I can't fathom the fascination. Why on earth would I want to play someone else's idea of Earth?!? Lists of pre-gen'd NPCs (or worse, BBEGs!) are a creation of the archdevils themselves.

I look at books filled with campaign modules, and I find lots of ideas I may have never thought of on my own. Why on earth would I want to spend hours statting out minor NPCs when someone else has done the work for me. Pre-generated NPCs (and BBEGs) are a Godsend . . . I can take those pregenned critters and make them my own by applying my own style and creativity to them.

Hear my cry, oh you GMs! Throw off your Shackled Cities of level 1-20 adventures! Forsake a return to Temples of Elemental Evil! Homebrewers, stand up as one and show the love for a blank sheet of graph paper and a handful of colored pencils!

*snip* Keep it civil, please. -Darkness

I am The Shaman, and I am a homebrew snob.

I am Brent, and I steal ideas from everyone.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I'm the same way Shaman, but I have been known to occaisonally run a published adventure and I borrow ideas from all over the place (but never anything whole).
My current setting is about 10 pages of just the need to know facts/info and a decent map plus 1 page of character creation rules. If I had time maybe I'd do more but I don't see too much of a point.
And I spend about 2 hours every week at most in preperation for the next session.

 

[dpmcalister]

I do both. My WFRP campaign uses the Enemy Within (because it is just so great), whereas my d20 Swashbuckling Adventures campaign is purely homebrew (I don't even use Theah as the campaign world).

 

[DonTadow]

The best advice I ever got as a writer is, "you'll never reach the potential of your writing if you don't read". That pretty much sums up why I read, use and pick apart other adventures and source material. I think you're limiting yourself if you don't walk outside of your box everynow and then. To say "everything but what i do is crap" is a sign that a writer has pigeon held himself to mediocracy as one can not improve without making conscious improvements.

 

[Hjorimir]

My problem isn't that publishers are not writing good stuff, it is the fact that none of it matches up nicely with what I like. I find it less work to build up a setting or adventure than to try and shove a square block through a round hole.

 

[EricNoah]

Ah, I will say I haven't used a published adventure *as written* in ages. But I use them for inspiration, plot ideas, maps, NPCs, etc. And I do design a lot of my own adventures from scratch.

It's the homebrewed campaign setting that I will never be able to do right.

Thanks for the hugs. My tears are all gone now.

 

[Acquana]

*snip quote* -Darkness

Hey, dude. Troll more. Seriously.

It's not like I dont' know what you mean, but damn dude.

And to say that I'm completely homebrew is a lie anyway. That's why I love d20: If I dont' wanna spend time workin on monsters and NPCs? They're right there! I can then spend the time in the game focusing on the character interaction. The DMG, d20 Modern, Star Wars, all have that lovely, lovely bit with sample NPCs (heck the DMG has 'em in tables by level, which rocks) so that if I need to pull something straight out of the air, I can!

I mean ... it seems like the times I spend hours and hours working on stuff, those are the sessions the PCs are gonna run off and do something completely different.

Oh, and homebrew people? Keep posting your stuff! Cuz those are great help too. It's not laziness. Reminds me of my mom's cooking. My mom will take shortcuts, use premade sauces and things, but make absolutely wonderful, original dishes. I spent dinner with my brother in law's family one time, and his mom cooking EVERYTHING from scratch. I mean, sure, it was great, but we didn't eat dinner until like 10 at night.

It applies here.

 

[Acquana]

Thanks for the hugs. My tears are all gone now.

And you're welcome. Feel grateful, I don't just hand those out often!