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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 2062536" data-attributes="member: 15582">I didn't say "promise that if you do run old modules then don't role play." LOL! Life's amazing how people can see the same thing so many different ways. Like for me.*My GM's never went beyond bare bones descriptions and the old mods still ran off of kill and gold XPs, prompting the "kill and take stuff" paradigm.*I personaly see dungeon-based modules as HUGE maze-shaped railroad adventures. I mean you literally have to engage the adventure from a cetain location and leave at a certain location. The encounters in the game WILL happen, it just depends on the order.*Many of the type of subplots (urban based and court intruge) and PC concepts (spies and diplomacy) I like go on hold as I adventure in some dusty ruins somewhere.On the other hand, the style of games I like could be done in C&C ... once I figure out how to convert other races and d20 stuff to the game (Is there going to be a scifi C&C soon? LOL!) The best game I ran was d20 Farscape. I designed several NPC with plots and accomplices in tow on a few different worlds. The PC decided where to land and who to talk to. Sometimes they ran out of town when the heat got to hot. Sometimes they were chased from planet to planet and then bumped into more people and more trouble. Other times, they could decide to go back and pick up something they left off. It was all up to them. The biggest negative is that sometimes they'd get "decision paralysis" because they had so many choices and they kept looking at me to clue them in on the "right direction."As far as bare bones go. I come from the "give me more, I'll blithely ignore what I don't like." I've never understood why people felt nailed down to what's on the page. I ran a d20 Castle Falkenstein game with HALF of 3.0 PHB for months. The campaign was mostly role-play so I needed NPC with classes, not monsters. I've never liked slot magic, so I made up my own skill-based magic system that cribbed from the original CF system. Now adays, the drow don't exist in my pulp-style Eberron for my game. They've been replaced by talking apes who live in a high-tech city. And I agree it's all relative, I've played the Slaver series in both editions and both where drawn out dungeon crawls thanks to the GM.</blockquote>

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