Which "Expedition" to get?

[kaomera]

I don't assume that Greyhawk will be better than any of the other Expedition books. For a frugal buyer like myself it just seems like common sense to wait a couple of months and get the feedback on Greyhawk before investing that kind of cash in a mega-adventure. I've never purchased a mega-adventure before, but I'd hate to spend that kind of money on one of the current three and then discover Greyhawk is a superior product. It's not that I assume or expect greatness from the Greyhawk Expedition book, but...it could happen.

Yeah, but d00d, it's got "Greyhawk" written on the cover!

I seriously think I'm going to end up buying it, even though I really don't like the format and I'm not sure if it's really something I could ever run.

Of the three out so far I'd recommend Ravenloft. There's some neat stuff in there, but I could only see myself running it as a self-contained mini-campaign. Undermountain seemed the weakest of the three, but I'm biased against FR and Waterdeep in particular. Demonweb Pits is big and goofy and has a lot of stuff that could be stolen and put to good use, but again I'd only expect to be able to use it as a self-contained thang, and I don't think it would hold up in that environment. (I've done a good enough read-through on all three to determine that I would not be running them without serious modifications, at the request of one of my players who was buying them and wanted to be sure before he read them himself.)

 

[ivocaliban]

Yeah, but d00d, it's got "Greyhawk" written on the cover!

Duly noted! But shhhh...I'm trying to be fair and balanced.

I seriously think I'm going to end up buying it, even though I really don't like the format and I'm not sure if it's really something I could ever run.

That could very well be said for about half of my RPG collection.

 

[TerraDave]

In Wolfgang Baur's new Kobold Quarterly Eric Mona talks quite a bit about the Grehawk Expedition book. It already sounds better then some of the others. One interesting thing is that he mentions doing a sizable city portion. So it may not all be "dungeon crawl".

 

[JoeGKushner]

In Wolfgang Baur's new Kobold Quarterly Eric Mona talks quite a bit about the Grehawk Expedition book. It already sounds better then some of the others. One interesting thing is that he mentions doing a sizable city portion. So it may not all be "dungeon crawl".

And that's good, but it's Wolfgang's magazine, and I believe Wolfang was the author of one of the books I see getting a lot of bad marks here.

I guess I'm saying you could have the best authors but in the hands of a company whose concerns seem more esoteric every quarter...

 

[Knightfall]

I voted for Undermountain. It's the one I've bought. I didn't even have to think about it.

I hummed and hawed over Castle Ravenloft, but decided against it, for now. And I'm not into the whole Demonweb Pits. Drow are so overrated and so is Miss Spider Goddess from Hell.

 

[Knightfall]

Yeah, but d00d, it's got "Greyhawk" written on the cover!

I seriously think I'm going to end up buying it, even though I really don't like the format and I'm not sure if it's really something I could ever run.

I agree 100%. I'll buy ANYTHING Greyhawk, as long as it's true to the campaign world. And since D&D is, by default, set in Greyhawk, I'm definitely going to pick up the Ruins of Greyhawk book.

And, I too, am not a big fan of the new adventure format.