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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6707667" data-attributes="member: 7006">A.I want plot and story.  A larger book with one central storyline has more opportunities for interesting hooks, twists, and side paths, all of which feed into a long-term plan and goal.  And they also then allow me to make my own side paths off of it if/when the party chooses to go off into another direction, with the knowledge of an overarching arc that I can feed the players hooks to get them back into it.I already own hundreds of individual modules from the last forty years of gaming... and most of the time they are nothing but perfunctory story hooks with a half-dozen monsters lined up for the party to fight through.  I can make those myself.  A blank map and a monster manual and I can create the Caves of Chaos.  But it's the why of the Caves of Chaos's existence, the why of the party going to the Caves of Chaos, the why of how the Caves of Chaos is a part of some bigger thematic whole that I like to have, and that usually only come out of a larger campaign-spanning adventure book.</blockquote>