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<blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 8335796" data-attributes="member: 36349"><p>This is only a problem if the person running that game nor their players can't adjust the game to fit their idea of fun.</p><p>Now if even a little alteration is problematic with that adventure then you'd be right.</p><p>Fortunately we have a lot of other adventures some going way back to the original red box that can help resolve that problem with a little thought and tinkering.</p><p>My recent problem has been more with the dm jumping the railroad, when they had a perfectly good campaign already established but they can't help changing things and think it will improve things when it really doesn't!</p><p>[spoiler]Sorry had a dm run a game in a setting inspired by Dragonlance.</p><p>He wanted to restart it and asked me to convert a ranger into a cleric, unfortunately he can't adapt at all resulting in me running a game in Exandria to explain how my character ended up in his after he messed up his introductory adventure by misusing my character's back story when that introduction plays no part in his setting.</p><p>He then decided he liked Exandria that he wanted his setting located there forgetting one of the PCs was banished from that world making that impossible.</p><p>As i said he jumped the railroad and thought he was being funny, once I realised he was serious I quit as what was the point in playing when he can't even keep his own setting straight?[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hopeless, post: 8335796, member: 36349"] This is only a problem if the person running that game nor their players can't adjust the game to fit their idea of fun. Now if even a little alteration is problematic with that adventure then you'd be right. Fortunately we have a lot of other adventures some going way back to the original red box that can help resolve that problem with a little thought and tinkering. My recent problem has been more with the dm jumping the railroad, when they had a perfectly good campaign already established but they can't help changing things and think it will improve things when it really doesn't! [spoiler]Sorry had a dm run a game in a setting inspired by Dragonlance. He wanted to restart it and asked me to convert a ranger into a cleric, unfortunately he can't adapt at all resulting in me running a game in Exandria to explain how my character ended up in his after he messed up his introductory adventure by misusing my character's back story when that introduction plays no part in his setting. He then decided he liked Exandria that he wanted his setting located there forgetting one of the PCs was banished from that world making that impossible. As i said he jumped the railroad and thought he was being funny, once I realised he was serious I quit as what was the point in playing when he can't even keep his own setting straight?[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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