I am not picky about the setting but a new adventure arc would be great. The Scales of War was completed back in February.
Let's see a full-fledged adventure path with full-length adventures.
I was thinking Night Below converted to 4e.
It's just not an Adventure Path. It's a completely different published adventure experience that really works in a natural tree format.
What Dungeon really needs is to support higher level play, which is why I have no interest in Chaos Scar anymore. I need more Paragon and Epic tier material.
I see a chaos scar adventure I don't even bother looking at them anymore.
A more streamlined one like a serie of 9 adventures, 3 Heroic, 3 Paragon and 3 Epic would be nice with a unseeming debut, strong tied growing plot and a striking finale. YEAH PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!
Also, a SOLO adventure path would be awesome...for i don't play enought
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A more streamlined one like a serie of 9 adventures, 3 Heroic, 3 Paragon and 3 Epic would be nice with a unseeming debut, strong tied growing plot and a striking finale. YEAH PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!
Also, a SOLO adventure path would be awesome...for i don't play enought
Like the H1-E3 set? Why not?
I would prefer some stand alone adventures that can be put into any campaign rather than that really badly written junk H1-E3. If DM's would do a little work on their games it would go along way. I hae no problem with adventure arcs if they are well written but most adventures for 4th have sucked.
I agree that adventures that can be ut into any campaign are, as a rule, not neccessarily bad. However, I think the problem with a lot of them fall sinto one of two categories. They're either too generic meanign the plot and story get lost without a good thread to tie them together, or they've been written very solidly towards core D&D, which isn't a setting, and sometimes takes extensive work to convert it to another setting.
I want something like enworld War of the burning sky or old 3.5 age of worms. I don't like chaos scar either.
I LOVED Age of Worms. I liked Scales of War, too. Never got into Shackled City.
Thats odd cause back in the days of 1st and 2nd editions most adventures we got we just random adventures with little or no connection and it was up to the DM to figure out if an adventure fit into their story. I think Dm's in general have gotten lazy and don't want to do alot of work and want everything handed to them. I want to say before someone freaks out that I do not think all the DM's out there are lazy but alot are these days.
Not all DMs have the creativity or the time to write an adventure path spanning from 1-30 with an interesting plot all the way. It doesn't make them lazy for that. Ok some might be, but many don't simply because they opt for published adventures. Many DMs opted for published adventures even back in the early 80's. Today's no different.
In 1E/2E rare were the adventure path. I don't think there was a 1-20 in 2E, many 3's wrap up as succession of adventures and IIRC Night Below was a 1-10 big piece. In 3E i don't know.
4E introduced a published adventure path 1-30 right off the bat and one in Dragon magazine. Chaos Scar was an adventure path composed of many branches.
I'd like to see more a linear AP with a very strong plot rather than one pseudo called AP offerring many possible avenues. I'd go for quality over quantity anytime !
Personally, i tend to work 50/50 of the adventures i put my players against. Many Dragons and some published. I've been doing this for years. But i can understand their popularity without questioning the hard laboring aptitudes of DMs.
And it should include the ruins of ancient empires frequently.
I would personally like to see a linked series of adventures spanning a few Dungeon issues and covering a couple levels of play at least. They did something like that a couple years ago. Something something madness (the name escapes me), covered a couple levels of play in the late heroic and early paragon tier as I recall. I thought that was cool...
I also think that multiple shorter arcs offer more variety, which keeps things interesting. While the full APs also offer variety, working some of that into the story can be a bit of a stretch and feel almost forced at times in terms of the flow of events.
My concept of an adventurer involves pursuing several different (and generally unrelated) adventures over the course of a career, maybe because my roots lie in the older editions of the 80's where modules where fairly random expeditions for the most part...
Make them boxed sets worth some 1-5 lvls of gaming time (so about 4-6 sets), maps, tokens etc., price them like upcoming GW adventure boxes and I'm totally in.
While I like the concept of an AP, they are pretty much unplayable for me and my group. An entire AP takes up way too much real time to play through.
So I'd prefer smaller sets of linked adventures plus a separate selection of campaign stories. Give me a power-hungry wizard, an evil cult, and some danger from another plane (plus something less clichè ) and add a page to each adventure with proposals of how to tie in the campaign stories in this adventure, maybe even with different boss monsters.
This way, each DM can pick his own overarching plot and run the published adventures, sort of creating his own personalised AP.
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Suspicion: WoTC wants DM's to purchase adventures through DDI (ie. Dungeon mag) instead of through traditional hard copy. I love dungeon, but i like having the printed word too. I guess I'm old school in that regard.
What do you think about this? Should adventure modules be all digital in the future?
Suspicion: WoTC wants DM's to purchase adventures through DDI (ie. Dungeon mag) instead of through traditional hard copy. I love dungeon, but i like having the printed word too. I guess I'm old school in that regard.
Step 1 - Print Dungeon adventure on printer.
Step 2 - ?
Step 3 - Profit.
Thats odd cause back in the days of 1st and 2nd editions most adventures we got we just random adventures with little or no connection and it was up to the DM to figure out if an adventure fit into their story. I think Dm's in general have gotten lazy and don't want to do alot of work and want everything handed to them. I want to say before someone freaks out that I do not think all the DM's out there are lazy but alot are these days.
I might be taking a vacation from the forums for saying this but this is a bunch of CRAP.
Adventure paths? Chaos scar? How about just a few new official adventure modules? The last 2 (Slaying stone, Stonefang Pass) were very short and now I see that there are NO modules listed for 2011.
Suspicion: WoTC wants DM's to purchase adventures through DDI (ie. Dungeon mag) instead of through traditional hard copy. I love dungeon, but i like having the printed word too. I guess I'm old school in that regard.
What do you think about this? Should adventure modules be all digital in the future?
I don't think the adventures sold that well but they were great stuff. I especially liked the maps included. I think they are cutting costs and the adventures are probably the first to go.
Step 1 - Print Dungeon adventure on printer. Using up half a cartridge of ink.
Step 2 - ?
Step 3 - Profit.
Fixed that for you. I do wish that dungeon was available in a more 'printer-freindly' format. Until it is, it's not really economical to print out adventures from the mags.
Step 1 - Print Dungeon adventure on a cheap, crappy printer, using up half a cartridge of ink.
Step 2 - Buy a better printer.
Step 3 - Profit.
Fixed that for you.
Fixed your fix for you. ;)
Or I could rephrase it as:
Step 1 - Print Dungeon adventure on a halfway decent printer with quality ink cartridges that don't die after half a dozen Character Builder printings
Step 2 - ?
Step 3 - Profit.
Also, one adventure (arc) I'd like to see someone put out is the old Dark Tower.
I'd buy any published adventure with the quality of Slaying Stone (typos and all).