Ruin Explorer
Legend
Sure but from my perspective as a DM, that makes it far worse.Well, the DM is the one paying for it. They're not just donating their time.
I'm not paying for an adventure to read a fun story. If I wanted to read a fun story, I'd buy a fantasy novel. I do all the time! It'll be much better that way.
If I'm paying for an adventure to run for the group, so I want an adventure that is:
A) Fun for the players as well as me, and not just a series of cutscenes where the PCs watch NPCs having real discussions or doing cool stuff - something which was true of many WoD campaigns and is alive and well in the 21st century, because the new Dragonlance campaign for example features plenty of that.
B) Well-organised to run, not set up so it tells a compelling story as a book. This is a serious problem with a lot of modern adventures imho. I've discussed it many times.
Are those unreasonable demands? I don't think so, personally. If I buy a microwave, I want to microwave things with it, not like, admire it but find it impractical to actually use. And to be fair, there are consumer goods which look cool and are totally impractical and dumb and I also hate those!