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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7156361" data-attributes="member: 29398">This is an interesting perspective, because usually a mention of railroading around here gets the locomotive shoved down the mentioner's proverbial throat.Other than Dragonlance, which is a thing all unto itself, true career-start to career-end APs didn't really show up in any big way until Paizo...who proceeded to build their business around them.  It's called Pathfinder, and it's pretty late in the history of D&D and its variants.2e was story-heavy, to be sure, but not in the pre-packaged adventure path style of PF.  4e kind of tried to have an adventure path with the official WotC modules but most of what I saw looked like stand-alones to me.  5e, despite your claim that it's sandbox-dominated, has seen quite a few career-length AP-like modules - mostly in hardcover by WotC - and these seem to be seeing lots of play.Now as for smaller quasi-APs embedded within a larger campaign, sure.  Loads of people back in the day ran the Slavers series, or the U1-U3 Saltmarsh series, or I3-I5 in the desert, or the G-series or even all of GDQ - but none of those series were a whole campaign by any means...they weren't big enough, for one thing.  So even ignoring homebrew adventures written by the DM a typical 1e game would likely end up a mix of sandbox (between the linked series) and quasi-AP.Maybe something like this, with the sandboxy bits highlighted:Keep on the BorderlandsSERIES- U1- U2- U3Slavers' Stockade run as a standaloneMaltese Clue (a Judges' Guild module)Baltron's BeaconGhost Tower of InvernessSERIES- G1- G2- G3White Plume MtnForgotten Temple of TharizdunSERIES- D1- D2- D3- Q1Campaign end.Lan-"grumpy old D&D players and grumpy old cats have one saying in common: get out of my sandbox"-efan</blockquote>

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