So as a writing exercise, and for my own and my friends' enjoyment, I'm adapting Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords adventure path.

I thought it would be moderately easy, and it kind of is. Insert my own characters, change a couple of plot points, boom done. But then I realized why. In that I'm leaving out huge gaps of world building and descriptions. Characterization I'm doing fine on though, both my own and established ones.

But I just finished part 1 of 6 and realized that it doesn't really stand alone and that you need to have read or played through the game yourself.

I was reminded of a criticism I read of the later Harry Potter films (post 3) that while the first two were adaptations and could go in blind and understand what was going on, later they became visualized highlights of scenes from the books. If you hadn't read them, you would completely know what was going on.

Not sure if I should go back and improve my work just so I don't get into bad habits or leave it as is since it's just for fun and appropriate for the target audience.