Published Adventures or Home-Crafted Adventures?

[Aeric]

As a DM, I mix published adventures with my own material. Sometimes I need a filler adventure, other times I need something to kick-start my imagination. I find published adventures work well in both scenarios.

As a player, I prefer home-crafted adventures. Most published adventures are too dungeon-heavy for my tastes. Also, the DMs that I know who run published adventures tend to run them right out of the box with no adjustment for the PCs (i.e. "plug and play"). I like to have adventures that involve my character on more than a superficial level.

 

[Vegepygmy]

I definitely prefer homemade adventures, both as a player and as DM. What I actually play is published stuff, more or less "straight out of the box," and when I DM it's using published stuff with as much homebrew mixed in as I can find the time to do. Gone are the days when I (or anyone else I know) had the time to create all my own material.

 

[Warren Okuma]

It depends. DnD yeah, I prefer printed. Anything else, not really.

 

[Ampolitor]

hmm

well I love homebrewed adventures if its the type of storyline that I like. I've played some published and homebrew that left me at the end saying,,,what the h%$^ were they thinking!
I do love the old style adventures though like the first ravenloft, pharoah, palace of the silver princess. Those had a real good feel to them that most of the newer mods to me just cant capture. There are a few exceptions like the new Ravenloft, the addition and of course some of my own modifications makes the zombie assault on the town wicked cool.
My favorite moduel however of all time that I modified and we had the most fun playing believe it or not was Cleric challenge 2 i think. The one where you face the zombies attacking a town. Man now we had fun with that one.