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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 5858195" data-attributes="member: 4892">I like all of the options in the poll, some to more degrees than others in my gaming career.I currently prefer Adventure Paths. I like them for many of the reasons Traveon Wyvernspur lists as likes for Mega-Adventures. Epic? Check. Plenty of world events that can shake the very foundations of what everything is built upon? Check.I don't find them constraining. Nothing NEEDS to happen to keep the campaign going. Good APs give hooks and advice for going off the path. And I rely on the same resources TW would (short adventures) when the party explores other options.What the framework of a good AP gives me is motivations and machinations of the NPCs of the world. If the party does not explore the path as the author expected, then I adapt the story appropriately. I imagine a poorly written AP could lead to "do this or the world goes boom," but I wouldn't run such an AP without heavy modification. The results of the party not reacting as expected to part of the pre-written path depends upin what they did instead and how that effects the overarching plots of the villains.My group once loved a string of short-ish adventures. Mostly in the form of 1E adventure modules. We pretty much played each as we could get our hands on them as a one-shot with whatever characters we had of appropriate level. If we had a steady stream of adventures as fun as those we could conceivably do this again.We also once loved mega-site adventures. We even had a run of nostalgia and tried playing WLD again recently. I don't know if it's that particular mega-site, but it bacame too much of the same thing. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil suffered the same issue after a while. Undermountain was just too unfinished for our tastes. The last one we definitely had fun with was Ruins of Greyhawk. We never finished it, but we did get pretty far.</blockquote>

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