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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 1056607" data-attributes="member: 10177">I think Patrick may have hit the nail on the head. Maybe what you want is in actuality a campaign world. If so I hear Midnight and Oathbound are pretty good. Mega-modules are not meant to be an all-encompassing campaign. They are meant to be the "center-piece" of it, but not a completely spelled out step-by-step road map of a campaign. The DM needs to decide where it is in the world, what powers of the campaign world know of it and are involved in it. These are things no module writer can integrate into it. They give you a box of information and ideas. You decide how to open that box and spread it around within your campaign world. You decide on who knows what and why. This is how you make a module part of "your" campaign world. To expect it to automatically fit and work within your campaign world is unrealistic. The DM has to make that happen.If you think that you are being ripped off then show us how to do it. Write one up and submit it to Necromancer. If you can write one as good as you claim it should be, Necromancer will be happy to publish it. Go ask them, I am sure they will tell you the same thing.Otherwise, figure out how to do your part as the DM and flesh out the module to work as a center piece of a campaign. Any version of the Temple of Elemental Evil ran strictly as the campaign would bore me to tears. Any module ran like that would have the same effect on me. I have always accepted it as my responsibility to take a module and make it come alive. I guess that is why I have heard so many people complain about modules that I ran, complaining how those modules sucked. My players loved every single one. So did I, because of how we brought it to life.Any module run "as is" is doomed to mediocrity at best. Except for the Grey Citadel. That one can be run as is. It is alive in and of itself, but not for a whole campaign. Just for the adventure spelled out within its pages.</blockquote>

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