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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3544795" data-attributes="member: 30001">Hommlet details every single farmer, pet dog, and hidden gold piece in the village.&nbsp; This whole time AFAICT you've suggested that good adventure material is immediately relevant - I have no idea how details on how many hitpoints a peaceful farmer has or where he hides his gold is relevant to describing something that's suppose to be a safe port (which it's not really, but that's another story).&nbsp; It seemed pretty clear to me that module writers assumed that their creations would be used in ways they didn't anticipate - Keep on the Borderlands (as an intro module) bothers to say this explicitly.&nbsp; Are you suggesting that module T1 is a good example, or bad example of what you're talking about?Oh - and Hommlet's impact is not necessarily felt through the adventure (if by that you mean the moathouse) any more than the Five Shires impact is felt in the Isle of Dread.&nbsp; Whatever connection is there is largely a creation of the DM - not the material as written.&nbsp; I've run the Moathouse dungeon completely seperate from Hommlet and Greyhawk, there's very little explicit connection between the encounters in the dungeon and the surface world - all you need to do is come up with an evil cult to explain the presence of the cleric.&nbsp; And even then, if your players are the kind that &quot;don't care&quot; about who ruled the town 150 years ago, then why would they even care why the cleric is really there?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 3544795, member: 30001"] Hommlet details every single farmer, pet dog, and hidden gold piece in the village. This whole time AFAICT you've suggested that good adventure material is immediately relevant - I have no idea how details on how many hitpoints a peaceful farmer has or where he hides his gold is relevant to describing something that's suppose to be a safe port (which it's not really, but that's another story). It seemed pretty clear to me that module writers assumed that their creations would be used in ways they didn't anticipate - Keep on the Borderlands (as an intro module) bothers to say this explicitly. Are you suggesting that module T1 is a good example, or bad example of what you're talking about? Oh - and Hommlet's impact is not necessarily felt through the adventure (if by that you mean the moathouse) any more than the Five Shires impact is felt in the Isle of Dread. Whatever connection is there is largely a creation of the DM - not the material as written. I've run the Moathouse dungeon completely seperate from Hommlet and Greyhawk, there's very little explicit connection between the encounters in the dungeon and the surface world - all you need to do is come up with an evil cult to explain the presence of the cleric. And even then, if your players are the kind that "don't care" about who ruled the town 150 years ago, then why would they even care why the cleric is really there? [/QUOTE]

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