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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7706276" data-attributes="member: 907">Not really. It shares the concept of "cultists worshiping Elemental Evil in a semi-shared dungeon and not liking one another", but beyond that they're highly different.D&D has been around for over 40 years. It would be very difficult to make adventures that don't use some of the same themes as old ones. I mean, back in the 90s we had an adventure trilogy about reclaiming one of the Dales from Zhentish occupation - does that mean that any adventure dealing with occupying invaders and/or the Zhentarim is a "rehash"? The 90s saw Night Below, where adventurers figure out what's up in the barony of Haranshire and pursue the baddies (that turn out to be a mind flayer/aboleth alliance) to their underground city - does that mean any adventure set in the Underdark, or dealing with Mind Flayers or Aboleths, is a rehash? You also had Dragon Mountain, a former dwarven fortress mostly occupied by kobolds bossed around by a dragon - does that mean that any dungeon featuring plenty of traps, kobolds, and/or a red dragon at its heart is a rehash?Not using some of the most iconic concepts of D&D would be like rebooting Spider-Man, but insisting on only using new villains instead of Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, the Lizard, Kraven, Electro, or Venom. At the same time, only using these would be dull too, you need something new in there. But totally eschewing going back to old concepts is just dumb and counter-productive.Now, Tales of the Yawning Portal is explicitly a "remastering" of old modules. Curse of Strahd, likewise. But Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat, Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss, and Storm King's Thunder are new things.</blockquote>

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