Published or homemade adventures?

[RFisher]

Every time I used a published adventure, I end up swearing I'll never do it again.

I firmly believe in mining published adventures to inspire homebrew adventures, though.

 

[rgard]

I'm curious; how many of the DMs here at EN-World use published adventues and how many write their own? If you could also drop a few lines about why you do things the way you do, that'd be great,

Personally, I love the creative process of making my own adventures. I tried running a published campaign once (RttToEE, because I usually like Monte's work), but I hated it. It felt like I wasn't really the DM anymore, I was just the guy who looked up stuff in the book. (To my relief, the campaign ended with a TPK the second session. I've stuck to writing my own campaigns ever since.

Quick tangent to the thread...Jolly, just read your chapter one preview! Sounds great to me!

Thanks,
Rich

 

[diaglo]

i rewrite all published modules

plus i make some up on my own.


diaglo "100% homebrewed" Ooi

 

[rgard]

I voted that I usually write my own adventures. Also, when I do purchase an adventure, I usually re-write parts of it or add/delete encounters. I won't DM a published adventure verbatim as I know too many folks who will buy the same adventure, not tell anybody and use it to G2 while they play.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Hussar]

Now that's a pretty even spread across the board.

 

[Wombat]

Preworked adventures simply never fit my world.

I don't play by-the-rules D&D (never have, really, thought I was close in the early days), I don't like most of the pre-made adventures I have been on (or run, in two cases), and I find that the amount of effort that is in trying to bring a pre-written adventure around to actually fit the criteria for my home world is so great that it would often be just as easy to simply write my own that fit from the get-go.

I have read multiple adventures from multiple systems -- my favourite reads are still the Paranoia adventures! The Call of Cthulhu are sometimes interesting as well. Beyond that ... meh.

So I'll stick to my own adventures that fit my own worlds.

 

[the Jester]

I usually homebrew, but I'd say that's only around 70% of the time- I do love me a good module! I'm working up a group to go through Red Hand of Doom right now, actually.

 

[Voadam]

Published adventures. Though I heavily modify them for my campaigns and party I always use something as the skeleton to build around. I have no problem if the party does not follow the module path and I've had groups ditch things part way through and leave and even switch sides to join with the bad guys.

 

[Maldin]

Half of what I run is published adventures, however I usually modify them to fit my campaign/campaign world. Sometimes minor changes, sometimes they are so modified as to be nearly unrecognizable, and everything inbetween.

Denis, aka "Maldin"
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[ThirdWizard]

I've only run one published adventure, the Thief's Challenge (II?) from 2e.