I've had this forever and never played or read any of the "Oriental Adventures" material before. The current campaign I'm running is set in a world created by a company called Cobramode that does 3D printed miniatures and decided to spec them out for 5e and create a world. It definitely has an Oriental Adventures feeling to it, so I thought this might give some ideas about how to make my game more realistic and add more "Asian flavor" to it.

It didn't.

This just seemed repetitive and filled with a bunch of boring encounters. The overall plot was pretty standard, there were a couple of fun npcs. The only thing that really stuck out was the final battle which has the characters taking over a dragon and fighting the big baddie using the dragon. That was original, and maybe kind of fun to get to use powers you don't usually have.

If I was going to run this I would remove about 65% of the encounters, reduce the number of valleys to about half and add more meaningful encounters that served a purpose and didn't just feel like grinding. ( )