04-09-2021, 12:19 AM | #21 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Old School Renaissance?
You can't really write a 1-20 adventure path that isn't pretty railroady; the complexity just explodes. You can write a sandboxy adventure if you focus on a narrower range of levels and have a way to keep the PCs contained (e.g. Curse of Strahd is basically a 3-10 campaign and you're confined in a modest sized region). Most of the classic adventures were a much smaller level range (though I will say that we tried to play the Dragonlance module series, and it was most certainly a railroad).
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04-09-2021, 11:25 PM | #22 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
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Re: Old School Renaissance?
If the Adventure Paths are really a series of adventures meant to carry a party from 1st to 20th level (I have no idea, Pathfinder was not my thing and neither were published 3e adventures) then I agree that its hard to do that without railroading. It would be easier in a system without such drastic changes in the capabilities of characters over time. But railroady adventures are common regardless of system, like Mary Sues and Marty Stus are common in beginners' novels.
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04-13-2021, 05:47 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Old School Renaissance?
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04-16-2021, 09:18 AM | #24 | |
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Re: Old School Renaissance?
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04-19-2021, 06:08 PM | #25 |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Re: Old School Renaissance?
@Polydamas
AP's are not all designed for 1-20... but they are all designed to be a long term campaign which needs no outside adventures. A few have higher level starts. The D&D 5E ones don't run to 20th. Some are single volume. EG: The Traveller Adventure, Dragonlance 25th Anniversary volume A few are multi-volume... EG: Horde of the Dragon Queen + Rise of Tiamat. The DragonLance campaign in the DL series modules can be seen as an AP. The best known is the Warhammer FRP The Enemy Within sold as a series of separate modules, and then later, sold as a literal bundle of books. The term itself dates to the 3E era, but the concept predates it. |
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