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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6424008" data-attributes="member: 7006">I also use published adventures all the time, either run as-is, or morphed into something more appropriate for the particular section of the campaign it falls into.However, I also freely admit that I much prefer the plots of published modules, rather than just the encounters within them.  I pull the modules with the interesting stories connected to them and which have the stories intertwined with the interactions within.  Which is why I actually find lots of the really old modules kind of useless.  I don't need help putting a bunch of monsters and a couple traps within a dungeon... I want help in creating an interesting plot as to why they are there, what they are doing, who else has interest in it, and what are the potential long-term results should this plotline work or not work.So the Caves of Chaos?  To me, that's a big 'meh'.  A castle with a list of NPCs to talk to (but no throughline as to why talking to them is wanted or necessary), and a series of caves that have a random list of monsters in them.  That kind of thing I can come up with on my own.It's a compelling storyline/plot/mystery like in Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh or The Last Breaths of Ashenport that I really find to be the most useful and interesting.</blockquote>