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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 337135" data-attributes="member: 2785">I almost never run published modules. I hate having to stop in the middle of a game to reference something in the module, or worse, get the details of the story wrong because I didn't write them. I tried to run the Sunless Citadel once last year, got so annoyed with it halfway through that I quit. I bungled on roleplaying Meepo and got him quickly killed by the PCs, which led to other problems. Actually, I hate published adventures. That's why I write all my own - I have total control and total knowledge, and I know exactly where and what everything is, why they are there, and how to roleplay them correctly without having to slow down gameplay to look stuff up. My players have told me they prefer my adventures to storebought anyway. The one thing I dislike doing when designing an adventure is building a dungeon. I love running them, I despise building them. I regularly steal maps from the web or old adventure modules and populate them with my own critters. Once I took one of those free download maps from the WotC site, photocopied it three times, then connected all four parts together into one megadungeon. My players loved that adventure, and the DMs among them were amused when I revealed how I'd come up with such a large dungeon so quickly. If only they were all so easy to build.</blockquote>