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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3206843" data-attributes="member: 40522">I love Necromancer Games material. Rappan Athuk is hands-down my favorite non-WotC publication. But it's also 'just' a dungeon crawl. A very interesting, expansive, and challenging dungeon crawl, but it's still a crawl. I happen to dig adventures like this, Necromancer Games does a good job of getting that "first Edition feel" that they shoot for.Red Hand of Doom is pretty neat. Easily my favorite WotC pulication from 2006. Expedition to Castle Ravenloft is reasonably neat. I don't think I dig it as much as some other fans because they changed alot of the details I liked about the original. Most notably, you fight alot of people that you just got information from in the original. I'm planning on running Expedition to Castle Ravenloft some time, but I'll be making a few changes. (Spoilers here.) Madam Eva won't be a hag. She's just going to be an old fortuneteller that does the fortunes of Ravenloft. Danovich won't be a corrputed priest with the blaspheme, he'll just be a distraught priest at the end of his nerves. The zombies and the guardians of the wilderness fanes will be the doings of a night hag leading a warlock cult in the mountains. The characters will actually have to perform counter-rituals to disrupt the fanes, not just kill the current guardians. I just don't like the idea of solving all these challenges with a straight-up fight. (End spoilers.)If you don't like dungeon crawls, I'd suggest you check out the Speaker in Dreams. It's an older adventure, but it still takes alot of the elements of a good dungeon (i.e., keyed encounters) and builds them around a nonlinear plot. Although it doesn't explicity have adventures in it, Heroes of Battle also has alot of good material for designing and running nonlinear adventures that have all the good features of a dungeon (such as traps, plot twists, NPCs and other goodies).</blockquote>

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