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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6271354" data-attributes="member: 3192">For me a module is quite simply a game. Sort of like modules for Advanced Squad Leader. They are pieces to place within the larger campaign setting, but they aren't a road that must be completed. In fact, completing them is a bit like emptying a dungeon. Unless you set up shop there more proverbial bears are going to find this cave and begin hibernating in it. As games modules are tightly balanced and set up with appropriate game elements in appropriate locations. They are designed like any other wargame, cardgame, or boardgame to have a maximum amount of variety with only a few amount of materials. The more possible outcomes and connections there are between the game elements (i.e. the greater number of game states), the more interesting the module is. This is a good definition of a module as compared to a campaign setting. Campaign settings are less connected. Sure, they are towns and cities, dungeons and ruins, random collections of magic items and monsters, assortments of cultural behaviors and strategies. But D&D settings are like genres: disconnected as a whole, but with defining features which identify them. Sort of like people who define a duck based upon components rather than their interrelationship with everything else.In a sandbox game the adventure modules are basically the cluster of game components at a given starting time with a high degree of connections between them. That and the adventure modules are designed as game challenges for each of the classes offered by the game. Campaign material is all the extra stuff that isn't related to the classes, but still defines the world. We don't have modules for being the best artisan in a village or running an inn in a fantasy city. We have combat, magic, clericism, and thieving cut through in everything published.</blockquote>

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