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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 7680928" data-attributes="member: 11365">The current format is a fairly big change from the previous format. In part this is an attempt to provide the adventure as more of a sandbox that encourages the DM to tweak. I think the most consistent criticism is that the DM has to do a lot of prep with the current adventures... often the start isn't even the start! We will surely see adjustments to the approach over time. One thing to keep in mind is that the licensees were all at work long before the adventures released. Right now, WotC is working 2-3 stories ahead and planning 4-5 ahead. This means that the licensees and freelancers are only now starting to write with a firm understanding of how the game plays and what the best approaches are for ease of use and fun play.The cost and size... I would be surprised to see those remain the same. 5E needed some meaty experiences to get people playing. It has that now. It won't need a continual slew of huge long adventures, though we may see a few more before they change approaches. The <a href="http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/psionics-survey-results" target="_blank">current D&D survey</a> includes a question asking how far we have played through the different adventures, which should help them gauge that.I also suspect the format has a lot to do with the story bibles WotC uses to delineate the season's story. That bible has a lot of information and begs that third party designer to really use a lot of it and create complexity not for the experience, but for the capture of the story's detail. (I worked from the Tyranny of Dragons story bible, which was very cool. In my effort I ended up trying to do a lot with the story bible only to find that most of the secrets had become common knowledge by the time my adventure released.)</blockquote>

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