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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5251102" data-attributes="member: 29398">Something to watch out for:Every adventure has a "core" - the actual dungeon, lair, whatever that is at the heart of the adventure.  The module has to have this, in as much detail as possible.BUT, and it's a very important BUT, every time more external stuff gets added in terms of story or setting or whatever it becomes a bigger headache to drop that adventure into an existing campaign or setting.Dropping in a ruined castle is easy.  A nearby town is also pretty easy.  BUT STOP THERE!Dropping in an entire prewritten realm and history and bunch of famous NPCs surrounding that ruined castle and making 'em all fit with my ongoing campaign and setting is a bloody pain in the arse.  Which means I'm 99% likely to end up chucking everything in the written module except the core adventure and replacing it with what fits my game; thus more work for me.  And I don't really want to pay for content I'm only going to chuck out and that is going to cause me extra work.In a commercial adventure I'm looking for the core - the actual adventure - written up in such a way as to cover the corner-case eventualities and be easy to run.  Give me that, and let me worry about all the other stuff such as slotting it into my campaign.Lan-"the exception, of course, is if the adventure is intended to become the setting"-efan</blockquote>