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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 10 Best Classic D&D Adventures That D&D 2024 Should Bring Back
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:31:35 +0100
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On 1/10/2025 2:52 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:36:23 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> The revised rules for Dungeons & Dragons have created a quasi-new edition of
>> the game, not quite 5th edition, yet decidedly not a complete restructuring
>> of the game. Still, with new rules come new adventures, and often, for
>> Wizards of the Coast, a look back at previous modules from earlier versions
>> of the TTRPG. Some of the best 5e adventures are lifted directly from 3.5 and
>> first edition, and there's no reason why this trend of restructuring old
>> modules will stop now.
> 
> 
> I'd much rather they create NEW modules than go over the same ground
> again. If there is a need for porting the older modules to new rules,
> let third-party designers do that (like Goodman Games is doing with
> the 'Original Adventures Reincarnated' series). But WotC would better
> spend their time and resources on creating new material.

I don't think they want to do any adventures at all. I think they 
finally realized that adventures are largely cost for them, and that the 
true money is in the core rulebooks and a few splatbooks. It's very 
noticeable they made way less supplements and adventure modules than in 
any previous edition. Even the ones they made were mostly re-imagined 
versions of classics, all nicely made up as huge honkers of books that 
looked nice on shelves.
> 
> Frankly, I wouldn't mind a return to the 2E era where TSR was just
> spewing out new material and hoping something sticks. A lot of it
> wasn't very good (Sturgeon's Law strikes again!) but the sheer volume
> meant that some of it was worth playing. Whether it's a flood of new
> modules or just new campaign settings, it'd be a great departure from
> the absolutely glacial release schedule WOTC has now.

I think what you need to be looking at is their online portal. They have 
moved from doing their own stuff to getting fans to create stuff for 
them and making a profit from that.

> 
> 
> But especially they shouldn't be 'remaking' material from just a few
> years ago, like 'Princes of the Apocalypse'. That's right up there
> with Sony remastering 'Horizon:Zero Dark' ;-)
> 

Does it even need to be remade? Isn't the new edition largely 
compatible? (I don't have a clue, I play neither)