Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!ereborbbs.duckdns.org!.POSTED.192.168.18.6!not-for-mail
From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: edition wars
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 18:33:48 +0100
Organization: Erebor InterNetNews
Message-ID: <vgli1r$cj$2@ereborbbs.duckdns.org>
References: <vf2kna$9cq3$1@dont-email.me>
 <6715e0ca$1$3068692$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <dmpchjt25i452ivj5vvtbttsjiu1trplkp@4ax.com> <vf7kmb$1cv4o$1@dont-email.me>
 <dbgfhjd03hp3oels0tcb980o8fupt1idhv@4ax.com>
 <vfbcvj$c2d$2@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> <vgl57u$37bmm$3@dont-email.me>
NNTP-Posting-Host: c3066ed76bae8bcc0e476efb157ff758
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:33:47 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: ereborbbs.duckdns.org; posting-host="192.168.18.6";
	logging-data="403"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ereborbbs.duckdns.org"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <vgl57u$37bmm$3@dont-email.me>
Bytes: 3300
Lines: 42

On 11/8/2024 2:55 PM, Justisaur wrote:

> I rarely if ever used 2e modules when I played 2e. Pretty much all 
> homebrew or occasional 1e modules converted.
> 
> I still think the majority of modules for 3e+ are pale garbage compared 
> to the 1e & Basic modules.  The most fun I've had playing 5e is right 
> now my friend is running us through a an official converted B4 The Lost 
> City.
> 
> There was a couple parts of an adventure path I really enjoyed that he 
> ran in 3e-3.5e, the rest of it was meh at best. I ran a different one 
> which I found pretty bad.  I read a starter module that sounded really 
> good but I never got around to running it.  I enjoyed running the 
> starter module for 4e, but everything after that was not good on both 
> sides.
> 
> I did run a couple 3e campaigns that were very homebrew I enjoyed, but 
> nothing in 3.5e or 4e homebrew turned out well.  5e was more hit and 
> miss, I never got anything past 8th level, and there was one I ran with 
> converted KotB that didn't go well, but Zenopus and Lost Isle of 
> Castanamir did.  I did have one homebrew I ran I kind of wished I'd kept 
> going that I ended at 5th I think when I had difficulty keeping up with 
> the pace of creating the adventures.
> 

I have been going through a lot of old modules to pick out the ones that 
I actually would want to play nowadays, and from 3e on the whole way 
they are written has changed so much that many of them are pretty much 
worthless in my opinion.
I remember going through some of the adventure modules when 3e was new, 
and I found it neither enjoyable, nor did my players really invest work 
in understanding the system.
A good scenario from 2e or earlier is still kind of worth playing though.
Not that there are so many of them. The railroad tendencies that later 
would make 3e so boring to me already were worming their way into them.

Still, they often had ideas that still can be useful.

I actually wouldn't mind finding actually good scenarios from 3e or even 
4e. But somehow I think the whole approach to scenario design changed 
too much.