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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 6543034" data-attributes="member: 13703">When I start DMing 5E (sometime later this year) I want to run a more dynamic, player-driven campaign.  Given that I’m still fairly time-poor, I figure the easiest way to do this is to throw out a heap of different plot hooks, rumours, etc., from different adventures and see which plot hooks the players follow up on.  From there I would run that adventure as far as the players wanted to take it, whilst introducing other plot hooks as they went along (maybe in a dungeon they find clues that point them to 3 further adventures).So I went through my collection to see exactly what published adventures I owned and what levels they were for.  I was surprised to find that I own 138 published adventures for D&D 3.XE/Pathfinder.  On top of that I own about 50-ish Dungeon issues from the same era.  I knew I had a lot of published adventures, but didn’t realise it was quite that many!  Most of them are in PDF format, but about 55-ish are in dead tree format.  I didn’t pay a huge amount for most of them.  Around 10 adventures were free releases.  Most of the 34 DCC adventures I own are PDFs that I bought for $2 each at a Paizo sale.  Similarly I bought 15 Monkey God adventures in PDF for $1 each and 4 Wicked Fantasy Factory and 4 Bleeding Edge adventures in hard copy at another $2 sale.  So I got over half my collection at the cost of a little over $100.  The amount I’ve spent on Pathfinder adventures and mega-books like Rappan Athuk I’d rather not think about! <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" />If I had to pick a favourite out of all of the published adventures I won, it would be my Shackled City Adventure Path hardcover compilation.  It was the first ever campaign that I ran from 1st level to 20th level and it was also the first campaign I ever ran that reached its designated end point (i.e. the campaign didn’t end early due to other reasons, such as player disputes, people losing interest or players moving away).  It kept our group going for over 3 years of fortnightly gaming sessions and I was really happy with how it all ended.  So I have a lot of find memories.I normally keep all my roleplaying books in mint condition, but the Shackled City book was well and truly trashed by the end of the campaign, simply due to the amount of use it got and the amount of time it spent going back and forth in my work bag as reading material. So how many D&D published adventures do you own?  What era are they from?  What adventure is your favourite?</blockquote>

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