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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7715413" data-attributes="member: 6785802">I liked the idea of Yawning Portal enough that I purchased it. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough of an update (nice maps, though) of the really old stuff to make me excited. I own Tomb of Horrors and White Plume Mountain from the S Series hardcover reprint.My friend's parents owned G1-3 and Hidden Shrine back in the day and I was always intrigued by it when I read them at his house. In fact, I liked Hidden Shrine enough I bought a copy off of ebay in 2014. I purchased G1-3 from dndclassics as a pdf for $5.The downside of a 5e conversion I'd label as average is there is little added value to someone who owns these already. The downside of waiting to get Yawning Portal is I went out and bought the really old stuff already and also the old modules that were reprinted aren't modules I'd consider my favorites after reading them, though Tamoachan is fun for all the illustrations it comes with. It's the only one of the four old modules I'd like to run.On the other hand, I'm happy to see the other three as I almost bought Dead in Thay in 2014 and it's nice to see highly rated 3e adventures I never played.So I ended up buying Yawning Portal to show WotC I want more like this and because I had yet to buy anything from my FLGS even though I've been playing there for a year. It was (just) worth my $35 for the four adventures I'm ever likely to run. Though it cost me $50 from the FLGS I consider the extra $15 a reasonable cost for using his store for a year to run games.What I'd like to see from reprints in the future is more effort put into the conversion to 5e rules. That is, it needs to be better than I can do. I know the illustrations and map art will be better, but from what I've read of Yawning Portal there wasn't as much care taken as I'd like to see.Also, I'd like a B/X/C series module or any 1e module from after 1980. That is, I'd like something that isn't really old. We got a great selection of early TSR years adventures, I'd love something different.What I'd really like, however, is something explicitly set somewhere other than standard Realms. D&D has so many wonderful settings with their own idiosyncrasies. And if were aren't going to get a setting book, the adventure (like we used to see in so many old adventures) itself provides the setting information and specialized rules.If WotC is really going to keep everything in print, the only way to distinguish the new product on the shelf is by being different. Planescape, Dark Sun, Mystara, Zakhara (would buy 10 copies in a heartbeat), whatever. Players who want something different for their next campaign will know what to get if you make it obvious on the cover. In the adventure you can provide a reasonable amount of setting information and direct DMs who want more to specific products on DMsGuild.Give us a different setting or the books will just end up competing against themselves.Oh, and I'm game for whatever Unearthed Arcana ends up being. I trust what we get will have enough to interest me in a companion to the PHB/DMG.</blockquote>

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