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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 2956548" data-attributes="member: 29398">A plot-based adventure is only any good if the players pick up on the plot. <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=":)" />  I'm reminded of this by your mention of 'Night's Dark Terror', as that's a module I wouldn't DM again if I was paid to.  All it turned into was a series of disconnected encounters...disconnected because the PC's never asked anyone, friend or foe what was going on and never even tried to connect the dots.  That, and they kept losing the encounters - some through bad luck, others through stupidity - despite starting at an average just under 4th level (the module assumes you start about 2nd-3rd)...by the time they were done, they'd gone through about 2 complete parties worth of characters and never did reach the valley of Kartoblepas(sp?).  I probably overkilled on not finding more persuasive ways to lead them to the plot, but I was intentionally trying not to railroad.Perhaps my worst experience as a DM.Lanefan</blockquote>