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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9462769" data-attributes="member: 20564">&quot;Of course, it’s much easier to use a module than to make up your own adventures.&quot;Oh god, this thesis statement is so wrong I worry that anything built on it as a foundation will fall apart.To be more specific, it is entirely overwide in it's assumptions.&nbsp; This may be true for you as a DM, but there are many whom this is 180 degrees in the wrong direction.Let's tear it apart some.&nbsp; This aren't just true for me, these are HECK YEAH true for me.1. It is easier for me to use, revise, and grow my plots and subplots then someone else's.2. It is easier for me to remember what I created than someone else, be it plot, NPC, clue, connection, whatever.3. It is far easier to be consistent when filling in any gaps either between sessions, or improving them during a session, with my own material.4. It is immeasurably easier to work in character arcs during planning then to retrofit them into a completed work.5. It is easier to remove things that aren't working or the players show little interest in and know they aren't load bearing if I put them in.6. It is much easier to create and steer later acts to what the players actually did than to rework an existing module.&nbsp; No module would have been able to deal with the splitting of the Fellowship without drastic rework.7. It is easier to run my own stuff because it's more fun for me.&nbsp; (Creativity is a major ADHD motivator.)The amount of work I need to put in over 6 months to a year for a published module exceeds what I need to do to run my own adventures by quite a bit.&nbsp; And, because the fun level is down, I am a lot less likely to keep it up, which leads to anxiety, feelings of failing the group, and a downward spiral where it repeats.On the other hand, the last four campaigns I've run have been homebrew from setting, adventure, lots of the monsters and items, completed successfully, and ran from 3 to 7 years each.I am not putting down modules - they definitely have a place.&nbsp; But trying to make an all-encompasing statement like &quot;they are easier&quot; is all sorts of false.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9462769, member: 20564"] "Of course, it’s much [B]easier[/B] to use a module than to make up your own adventures." Oh god, this thesis statement is so wrong I worry that anything built on it as a foundation will fall apart. To be more specific, it is entirely overwide in it's assumptions. This may be true for you as a DM, but there are many whom this is 180 degrees in the wrong direction. Let's tear it apart some. This aren't just true for me, these are [I]HECK YEAH[/I] true for me. 1. It is easier for me to use, revise, and grow my plots and subplots then someone else's. 2. It is easier for me to remember what I created than someone else, be it plot, NPC, clue, connection, whatever. 3. It is far easier to be consistent when filling in any gaps either between sessions, or improving them during a session, with my own material. 4. It is immeasurably easier to work in character arcs during planning then to retrofit them into a completed work. 5. It is easier to remove things that aren't working or the players show little interest in and know they aren't load bearing if I put them in. 6. It is much easier to create and steer later acts to what the players actually did than to rework an existing module. No module would have been able to deal with the splitting of the Fellowship without drastic rework. 7. It is easier to run my own stuff because it's more fun for me. (Creativity is a major ADHD motivator.) The amount of work I need to put in over 6 months to a year for a published module exceeds what I need to do to run my own adventures by quite a bit. And, because the fun level is down, I am a lot less likely to keep it up, which leads to anxiety, feelings of failing the group, and a downward spiral where it repeats. On the other hand, the last four campaigns I've run have been homebrew from setting, adventure, lots of the monsters and items, completed successfully, and ran from 3 to 7 years each. I am not putting down modules - they definitely have a place. But trying to make an all-encompasing statement like "they are easier" is all sorts of false. [/QUOTE]

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