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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derfel" data-source="post: 2181882" data-attributes="member: 1047">The biggest difference I've seen between the two dungeons is that RA is easier to play right from the book. The WLD is, frankly, boring at the begining and requires far too much work to make interesting. Rappan Athuk is much more engaging. I buy modules because I don't have much time to prepare for a session. With RA I can read the level the players are currently in and start DMing. With WLD I would need to spend hours creating replacement encounters, modifying the map and fleshing out the story to make it useful. This is why I wasn't able to keep DMing WLD for long. The best way to describe my feelings of the two dungeons is that RA feels more organic, while the WLD is very calculated and formulaic.I also found the story in RA to be more interesting and cohesive. The overall story in WLD is fairly light. The sub-plots in each region are generally better, but the regions feel very disconnected from each other. The WLD is better served as a series of seperate dungeons, not one large complex.</blockquote>