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I just wanted to try and get a quick idea of how people are feeling about WotC's published adventures that are planned. I've pre-ordered H1-3, but I'm a lot more reluctant to pre-order P1 and P2 for vague general reasons.

What's everyone else's plans in regards to these?

I have pre-ordered H1 for the same reason as TragicMagic.

However, I doubt I'll be continuing the series. I expect to be homebrewing my own adventures instead.

I wanted to throw a bit more into this thread since I think my late-night "post before you forget" idea is a little thin.

In the last 6 months or so I've come to realize that I'm not actually that great at writing adventures. I can be, but I don't have the time to devote to making *great* adventures, or even entirely good adventures. Passible, I suppose.

Part of this came from prepping my 4e campaign, going back through old notes and whatnot and realizing that good stories were in there, good settings, but the adventures themselves were kinda on the bad side. This mingled with experiences as a player where we ran through a few pre-written adventures amidst the usual homebrew and I started to wise on to the fact that hombrew does not inherently equal good, and began to feel that Homebrew has been set up by the community as a kind of Holy Grail of "real D&D".

On the other side from that was coming to the boards and seeing people talk about Temple of Elemental Evil, Keep on the Borderlands, Undermountain, and other iconic adventures that have effectively entered the communal language of "what D&D is" but they're all adventures that I've never played.

Last little factor is that any given pre-written adventure probably won't be any worse than what I would probably write, and still saves me a lot of time.

In that regard this topic really isn't about "who's pre-ordering" as it is about general feelings towards the pre-written campaigns: who's planning on getting them and for what purpose, what are the pros and cons of pre-builts, and is it a good idea that WotC is trying to shape the GSL for the express purpose of encouraging more adventure writing?

Even though my setting keeps to the PoL idea and a little bit of the cosmology my setting is still to far-out there for anything but adventure modules that somehow were made just for my setting.

I also, while I do run my games through "episodes" (normally 2-3 sessions per episode) which have their own minor plotlines and could branch out into more major plotlines later on in the campaign. I still have a main plotline that I follow from start to finish (it just doesn't come up every episode) so adventure modules that deviate to greatly from that plot don't work.

That being said if I was playing a basic PoL 4e game I would look into it.