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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 6978787" data-attributes="member: 6855114">In case you missed it, I was refering to published material. Of course hundreds (if not thousands) of DMs were running free-form campaing well before that (including myself) but published material was not using the free-form campaing style. This was previously only encouraged in the guidelines in the DMG on how to run a campaing.The most free-form you could find previous to that was between two dungeons. How to get there and some wilderness encounter tables. It was not encouraged to create side treks nor were the said side trek included in the adventures. Go to the dungeon, kill, come back, rinse, repeat. A few dungeons did have some wilderness set encounters but it was not frequent enough to be compared to what the Shadow Dale trilogy proposed.Edit: I should even add, that prior to second edition, most published adventures in 1ed were part of tournaments. It slowly changed with adventures like the &quot;I&quot;, &quot;U&quot; and &quot;DL&quot; series. But even these could be used in tournament (save U2...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 6978787, member: 6855114"] In case you missed it, I was refering to published material. Of course hundreds (if not thousands) of DMs were running free-form campaing well before that (including myself) but published material was not using the free-form campaing style. This was previously only encouraged in the guidelines in the DMG on how to run a campaing. The most free-form you could find previous to that was between two dungeons. How to get there and some wilderness encounter tables. It was not encouraged to create side treks nor were the said side trek included in the adventures. Go to the dungeon, kill, come back, rinse, repeat. A few dungeons did have some wilderness set encounters but it was not frequent enough to be compared to what the Shadow Dale trilogy proposed. Edit: I should even add, that prior to second edition, most published adventures in 1ed were part of tournaments. It slowly changed with adventures like the "I", "U" and "DL" series. But even these could be used in tournament (save U2...) [/QUOTE]

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