Are All These Adventure Books Completely Unnecessary?!?!?!?! (DM Tips)

[@knghtbrd]

Have you ever looked at the Tome of Adventure Design? You could remix adventures endlessly, you could! And there's definitely some favorites that I'd like to remix for my next campaign, and I guarantee 40 year experienced grognards would not recognize the seriously oldschool source of what I have in mind. They just won't. But have a look at this book if you get the chance. The notion is that any good adventure needs a backstory, a location, opposition, variation of challenge, exploration, a race against time, resource management, milestones/conclusions, and options for continuation. And if you have some of these, it's got tools to help you cook up the others. It's an amazingly cool book.

[@millenniumf1138]

Man, Garmin, you are one of my favorite KZbinrs for a reason. You are a great host, and you post really interesting content besides just crafting (which was the reason I started watching), and this show is comfort food for me. This was really good advice for me to hear as someone who is on a budget, but wants to have some D&D books in my collection that will be useful to me.

[@IWFarrar2]

Don't forget to mine your players backstories for additional adventure hooks and fun!!

[@sweetderpg]

I definitely do the same. Yes, I have run the big WotC modules. But for my homebrew world, I love using interesting one shots and just adapting them to fit the story my players are telling. I gotta say Dungeon in a Box adventures are really great for this. They leave enough space that you can easily modify things. I actually just renewed my subscription (Digital only) so that I could have access to more of the stories. I haven't ever run the DiaB campaign as is... I don't know if they're as good as WotC modules for that, but as easily adaptable adventures to manipulate - they are fantastic!

[@jacobhope6164]

Most of my current players did not play D&D in the 80's or 90's, and I have tons of classic material on PDF at my finger tips. Basic, AD&D, 2e, 3e, and 3.5 has a lot of amazing content, way more than I could ever get through.That being said, I really like the Goodman Games Classics line. Not only are the adventures great, but they offer a sort of template for converting old modules to 5e.

[@awaytoanywhere699]

at 10:30 the book between ‘banners of honor’ and ‘shattered obelisk’. Which title does it have, I can’t seem to read it. ….. on the video topic: yes I hear you. Collecting books and using books to play are two very different hobbies! But I enjoy flipping through my rpg_library too and getting inspired. Even just for fun. It is the same with a dice collection. You technically only need 6 dice… but hey! odd colours and shapes are fun too! 😅

[@thactotum]

I'm working on a reskinning of the old 5e starter and essentials (Phandelver, and Icespire peak) with Storm kings thunder; Into the core of A 5e Dark Sun game (with a Curse of Strahd/Kalak, and an abridged Tyranny of Dragons in the middle as a bridge between them). there should be enough there to play for years, especially if we use character tree variants. it really sandboxes up a setting for Athas onto which I can add Dark Sun lore. that can further expand the sandbox indefinitely.

[@Zr0din]

Did you do a review of Banners of Honor? WOW you have some books I've never seen! Saltmarsh and Avernus I feel are special because they have mechanics in them (naval combat and vehicle combat) that need to be included into the 2024 DMG. I mean, we had 10 years of lessons - they better be carried forward. I'm reading through Scarlet Citadel and I'm cutting the first two levels apart as one shot (5 room dungeons). What is that book under Banners of Honor? The blue and gold spine? Never seen it before. I've never seen Faerie Campaigns before either. So here is my MINIMUM BOOK LIST per your format: Frostmaiden , Drakkenheim or Margrave for my world with adventure. The challenge here is that each is a very specific environment and you are going to want to have players that are up for that type of game. Where Evil Lives for my Anthology (Maybe Golden Vault) - you can just put the lair in where you need it. Rolled and Told (hard to find) or Trilemma Adventures has a bunch of small one shots. But even better and easier to run would be QuarterShots (still on pre-order).

[@Karlmakesstuff]

Guilty as charged for getting adventures just for entertaining reading, I don't think I've ever run more than bits and pieces of one or two if them. I homebrew 99.99% of the stuff I run though, so even one is unnecessary if it comes to it.

[@dylanallen7847]

Yup. I'm in this boat as well. Although I did run the first campaign in a tropical jungle and I still cherry pick a lot of the random locations in ToA for it if I need something. It's handy because ToA comes with all the random tables, and then you can just reflavor any of the encounters to fit your own setting.

[@ryansullivan5854]

Great advice.

[@TheParkAttendant]

Hi Garmin, I'm Ozwald, pleased to make your acquaintance. There is another jondra, were science fiction meets D&D. I've read a few of those in the past.

[@drewbakka5265]

Yes. Because I could pirate them if I wanted to and I usually end up just plagerizing bits and dungeons for my own stories. Fug WotC