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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Elton" data-source="post: 1717463" data-attributes="member: 14486">[QUOTE=Mystery Man]Strong opinions get strong reactions, _blank_ happens. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />         I remain cautiously optimistic.         I'm not so sure that going back to the adventure market is such a great idea. We'll see.      I would like to see the adventures that are published give the controls to the DM rather that have a linear plot for the DM to read and the players to follow. That linear plot that reads from start to finish with encounters in between just isnt working IMHO. An ideal adventure module for me would be very open ended with the tools for the DM to create the encounters and things like that around the plot.     That would include a list of NPCs and their motivations. A dungeon, a wilderness area, a city and whatever else with a list of things to put in them rather than a static set of encouters and EL's. Five or six examples of major events with the ability to plop tem in anywhere the DM sees fit. And a plot to wrap it all around.</blockquote>  Like a mini-campaign?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> It shouldn't be too hard to do in a d20 modern, d20 future, or d20 fantasy vein. Lets see, the old ICE adventure "Tales of the Loremasters" gave a listing of adventure sites and how the NPCs around those adventure sites would react to a given situation.      Lets take Hellgate Keep for instance. Someone like you can redetail a few sites around Hellgate Keep; and maybe a bit of the Hellgate Keep dungeon, and then actually state in the text that the adventure sites provide your own path for adventure.    Another way to do it is to provide an adventure in a traditional format, and then detail sites of interesting goodness around the main site. I could do that with Neverwinter or even Silverymoon. The worst thing to do, I think, is to write really bad ones or to say that you are going to do it and then get chicken feet and then don't. To compete with Necromancer Games, Wizards has to up the bar I think, to make their adventures better than the competition.    [/QUOTE]

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