Well, Candlekeep Mysteries have, well, mysteries, although I've not read it to be able to say how much hacking and slashing is in it.
Waterdeep: Dragonheist is apparently very political, so I imagine that it's not very fight based. It was going to be my wife's first campaign, but it got very complex, so we started her on Yawning Portal instead.
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight intentionally has peaceful resolutions available for every encounter. Again, while I have it, I'm still working through other campaigns so I'm unsure of how good it would be.
We're currently doing The Rime of the Frostmaiden. We're just finishing the first chapter, and it seems to have a nice balance. Some fighting quests, some that naturally lead to a peaceful conclusion, and some "as you like it" quests. It depends on how hard you wish to avoid combat though, I guess.
I'd avoid Tales from the Yawning Portal, it seems pretty hack 'n' slashy too. The Dragon of Icespire Peak quests also seemed to more or less resolve back down to violence despite offering a veneer of peaceful resolution. We've played through the sequel, Storm Lord's Wrath, and that seems pretty universally violent too.
I don't have any experience at all with other adventures yet.
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I'm looking for a module with some mystery and less fighting. Any ideas. Tired of the hack and slash dungeon crawl.
Well, Candlekeep Mysteries have, well, mysteries, although I've not read it to be able to say how much hacking and slashing is in it.
Waterdeep: Dragonheist is apparently very political, so I imagine that it's not very fight based. It was going to be my wife's first campaign, but it got very complex, so we started her on Yawning Portal instead.
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight intentionally has peaceful resolutions available for every encounter. Again, while I have it, I'm still working through other campaigns so I'm unsure of how good it would be.
We're currently doing The Rime of the Frostmaiden. We're just finishing the first chapter, and it seems to have a nice balance. Some fighting quests, some that naturally lead to a peaceful conclusion, and some "as you like it" quests. It depends on how hard you wish to avoid combat though, I guess.
I'd avoid Tales from the Yawning Portal, it seems pretty hack 'n' slashy too. The Dragon of Icespire Peak quests also seemed to more or less resolve back down to violence despite offering a veneer of peaceful resolution. We've played through the sequel, Storm Lord's Wrath, and that seems pretty universally violent too.
I don't have any experience at all with other adventures yet.
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Thank you. I will look into waterdeep. The problem is that my players are now 10th level and I am just tired of doing the fight, loot, repeat thing.