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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9464080" data-attributes="member: 9254">This. I hate adventure paths because player deviation (and gm improvisation) creates too much work later.&nbsp; And I hate forcing adherence to rails for more than 2 or 3 sessions.&nbsp; Rails are fine for short stretches but over the course of a year or more they leech out the fun.&nbsp; However I will happily use pregen one-shot type adventures in my bespoke homebrew campaign.&nbsp; They give me time to rework the core plot when the players do go sideways and/or they provide events that are (probably) unrelated to the core plot, so it keeps the party unsure which events are really connected.I literally just bought the entire 48 adventure run of AEG d20 mini-modules off Drivethru for $8.&nbsp; Each of them is like 10-14 pages long.&nbsp; Total crapshoot on quality but at $0.15 each..........and that answers the question.&nbsp; WotC can't match the decades of inexpensive d20 3rd party products on cost, so they have to go for quality. To justify printing a glossy cover they need a lot of page count which they currently equate to adventure paths.Maybe&nbsp; they'll bring back some digital-only form of Dungeon magazine as part of a DDB subscription.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9464080, member: 9254"] This. I hate adventure paths because player deviation (and gm improvisation) creates too much work later. And I hate forcing adherence to rails for more than 2 or 3 sessions. Rails are fine for short stretches but over the course of a year or more they leech out the fun. However I will happily use pregen one-shot type adventures in my bespoke homebrew campaign. They give me time to rework the core plot when the players do go sideways and/or they provide events that are (probably) unrelated to the core plot, so it keeps the party unsure which events are really connected. I literally just bought the entire 48 adventure run of AEG d20 mini-modules off Drivethru for $8. Each of them is like 10-14 pages long. Total crapshoot on quality but at $0.15 each..... .....and that answers the question. WotC can't match the decades of inexpensive d20 3rd party products on cost, so they have to go for quality. To justify printing a glossy cover they need a lot of page count which they currently equate to adventure paths. Maybe they'll bring back some digital-only form of Dungeon magazine as part of a DDB subscription. [/QUOTE]

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