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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8058423" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'll take that a step further and say how do you know if you haven't run it.I say this because oftentimes I've found modules either read better than they run or run better than they read; meaning I truly don't know if it's any good until after I've run it, by which time of course it's too late if it does turn out to be a dog. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Except that's half of a problem that shouldn't exist.Why?Because the usual reason behind running a canned module instead of a homebrew is the canned module in theory does 95% of that work for you!&nbsp; Thus, the DM shouldn't really have to prep anything to just run the module as written. (IME almost all the prep I ever have to do when running a canned module revolves around fitting it into my homebrew campaign and-or story line; i.e. work I've brought upon myself that isn't the module's fault)If I'm expected to prep for a canned module just like I do a homebrew why would I waste my money buying it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8058423, member: 29398"] I'll take that a step further and say how do you know if you haven't run it. I say this because oftentimes I've found modules either read better than they run or run better than they read; meaning I truly don't know if it's any good until after I've run it, by which time of course it's too late if it does turn out to be a dog. :) Except that's half of a problem that shouldn't exist. Why? Because the usual reason behind running a canned module instead of a homebrew is the canned module in theory does 95% of that work for you! Thus, the DM shouldn't really have to prep anything to just run the module as written. (IME almost all the prep I ever have to do when running a canned module revolves around fitting it into my homebrew campaign and-or story line; i.e. work I've brought upon myself that isn't the module's fault) If I'm expected to prep for a canned module just like I do a homebrew why would I waste my money buying it? [/QUOTE]

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