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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9371772" data-attributes="member: 7006">They bungle it just as much as they've bungled almost every single module and adventure they've ever produced.  I mean there are very few adventures from the 4E, 3E, or 2E eras that have gotten consistent praise as being fantastic.  And even the "nostalgia" AD&D/Basic adventures that get praise for being the "greatest of all time"... every single one can be considered crap by most of the player base who doesn't look at them through rose-colored glasses.  Each time someone says The Keep On The Borderlands is the greatest module they've ever run, you'll find a bunch of other people who will say it's a P.O.S.So in other words... the supposed mediocrity of 5E adventures is not anything that's been worse than most of the other adventures ever written previously over the last 50 years.  Sure, there will be a handful of modules/adventures that would probably get S-Tier ranking from 99% of all players... but those are incredibly few and far between.  All the rest?  From WotC or TSR or third-party publishers?  Kudos from some folks, trash-binned by the others.In other words... yes, I think standards are too high and few modules or adventures reach them.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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