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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 7894787" data-attributes="member: 16077">I would wager that you'd have a better path to an end point were you to randomly select a handful of the 32-page modules from 1e, the 3.0 Sunless Citadel series of modules, or the old DCC 3e modules.&nbsp; The 5e sandbox adventures are just too &quot;something&quot; - by the time the I got done reading them, I kinda forgot what the point was in many cases.&nbsp; The same could be said about the pathfinder adventure paths if you were try to run them straight-through as a single AP.Even the old 1e supermodules became tedious.&nbsp; T1 Hommlett by itself was easy to drop in to just about any campaign.&nbsp; The Nulb stuff in T1-4 is easy to separate out.&nbsp; But by the time you got to the 4th level of the temple dungeon in T1-4, &quot;again, why are we here?&quot; sets in too easily.The size of those big adventures is definitely a challenge for a DM - there is often an obsession to try and read a little more/prep a little more than is really necessary, as compared to the logical break if you were limited to the canvas of a 32-page adventure.&nbsp; Keep 5 different plots going?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; But trying to prep more than one &quot;chapter&quot; in a large module is way too much for many DM (especially less-experienced DMs) to handle and handle well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 7894787, member: 16077"] I would wager that you'd have a better path to an end point were you to randomly select a handful of the 32-page modules from 1e, the 3.0 Sunless Citadel series of modules, or the old DCC 3e modules. The 5e sandbox adventures are just too "something" - by the time the I got done reading them, I kinda forgot what the point was in many cases. The same could be said about the pathfinder adventure paths if you were try to run them straight-through as a single AP. Even the old 1e supermodules became tedious. T1 Hommlett by itself was easy to drop in to just about any campaign. The Nulb stuff in T1-4 is easy to separate out. But by the time you got to the 4th level of the temple dungeon in T1-4, "again, why are we here?" sets in too easily. The size of those big adventures is definitely a challenge for a DM - there is often an obsession to try and read a little more/prep a little more than is really necessary, as compared to the logical break if you were limited to the canvas of a 32-page adventure. Keep 5 different plots going? Sure. But trying to prep more than one "chapter" in a large module is way too much for many DM (especially less-experienced DMs) to handle and handle well. [/QUOTE]

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