[HOE] What is wrong with the sourcebook adventures?

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I'll chime my two cents in on this one too, 

Hell or High Water, is not too bad.  It's pretty well done, and The Radiation 
screen one is pretty good too.  

HOWEVER

all the adventures have some very similar problems.  The have the same old 
same old plot device of the party doing something because someone asks them 
to.  That's it.  There isn't even any direct threat to the party in any of 
them.   
    The HOE boys can't think of any good ways to get the party started. Being 
asked works once or twice, but every time?  Not to mention they can't think 
of any good way to learn a Servitor's weakness..... and considering they 
invented the darn things, this says something.  
    This on top of the fact that nothing interesting ever happens directly to 
the party. They interfere with the bad guys, but the bad guys never interfere 
back. That plague in the Doomsayer adventure?  Bad guys going after the 
party?  Nope. 
    This leads to adventures where the characters are really nothing but 
gun-toting spectators.  And after a while, this gets very tiresome.  

    One friend of mine has taken to raiding Ravenloft adventures and Sprucing 
them up Deadlands style to solve this very problem.  Works very well.