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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 9372958" data-attributes="member: 83242">In response to some recent threads complaining about adventure design (<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/spoilers-for-vecna-eve-of-ruin-are-my-standards-too-high-for-adventures.704698/" target="_blank">Are My Standards Too High for Adventures?</a> & <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/tangent-from-vecna-how-many-actually-good-adventures-are-there.704713/unread" target="_blank">How Many Actually Good Adventures Are There?</a>) and in the spirit of the EnWorld "Enhancing series (<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/enhancing-vecna-eve-of-ruin-spoilers.704192/" target="_blank">Enhancing Vecna: Eve of Ruin SPOILERS</a> & <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/tangent-from-vecna-how-many-actually-good-adventures-are-there.704713/unread" target="_blank">How Many Actually Good Adventures Are There?</a>) ; I want to know what you think makes a good adventure. Don't tell me what is bad - what's the good stuff! Personally I have never had a good time with published adventures from 1e - 5e from Paizo, Chaosium, TSR or WotC.  I just don't know how to use them. They all seem terribly unhelpful to me.  However, I do have ideas of what I would want. So in my mind, what I want, what I think is a good adventure (similar to what [USER=467]@Reynard[/USER] said here: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/spoilers-for-vecna-eve-of-ruin-are-my-standards-too-high-for-adventures.704698/post-9372796" target="_blank">SAKS</a>), is a non-adventure. I want:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A general area described. Depending on the scope it could be a region, a town, or castle. Not in great detail, but with general locations, adventure hooks and ideas. Major NPCs, factions, and forces at work described, but not detail. Not much story baggage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Discrete detailed encounters. These should include expected level ranges (and suggestions on how to revise the level / challenge), scenarios packed with interesting and engaging information, and options for combat and/or social and/or exploration as needed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Adventure ideas. A series of suggestions and ideas how these different encounters might link up. Suggestions on how an different resolutions of different encounters might affect other encounters.</li> </ol>I could see, depending on scale, that these could even be broken out into several books / pamphlets. Either initially or through expansions.So, this sounds like good adventure design to me. Ideas and suggestions only, no prescribed story or plot.What do think makes a good adventure. What do you want?</blockquote>

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