Monte reviews Dungeon

Krug · Jul 31, 2004

http://www.montecook.com/review.html

EricNoah · Jul 31, 2004

I disagree with Monte fundamentally on the role of stat blocks. Don't make me open the Monster Manual during the game! Other than that, pretty interesting review (if a little nitpicky).

MDSnowman · Jul 31, 2004

EricNoah said:
I disagree with Monte fundamentally on the role of stat blocks. Don't make me open the Monster Manual during the game! Other than that, pretty interesting review (if a little nitpicky).

lol Nitpicks are nice way of saying "I couldn't find a real reason to complain so I'll make my stance on stat blocks and referring to all PCs as Heroes very clear."

fanboy2000 · Jul 31, 2004

EricNoah said:
I disagree with Monte fundamentally on the role of stat blocks. Don't make me open the Monster Manual during the game! Other than that, pretty interesting review (if a little nitpicky).

I agree. One of the first things I do before running a published adventure is generate stat blocks for all the monsters and print them out.

Jason Bulmahn · Jul 31, 2004

MDSnowman said:
lol Nitpicks are nice way of saying "I couldn't find a real reason to complain so I'll make my stance on stat blocks and referring to all PCs as Heroes very clear."

Ahh well.. if the worst thing said by Monte Cook about my adventure is assuming the PCs are "heroes".. I guess I can roll with that

Truthfully though.. that's just a bad habit of mine... got to work on that

Jason Bulmahn
Author of Mad God's Key

pogre · Jul 31, 2004

IuztheEvil said:
Ahh well.. if the worst thing said by Monte Cook about my adventure is assuming the PCs are "heroes".. I guess I can roll with that

Truthfully though.. that's just a bad habit of mine... got to work on that

Jason Bulmahn
Author of Mad God's Key

I liked your adventure Jason - good job man!

mearls · Jul 31, 2004

pogre said:
I liked your adventure Jason - good job man!

Seconded. The new Dungeon is great, and your adventure was a fantastic way to kick things off.

Olgar Shiverstone · Jul 31, 2004

mearls said:
Seconded. The new Dungeon is great, and your adventure was a fantastic way to kick things off.

Agreed. Good adventures in this issue, and I love the new format and focus on D&D DMs. It's everything I've been asking for!

Cam Banks · Jul 31, 2004

IuztheEvil said:
Ahh well.. if the worst thing said by Monte Cook about my adventure is assuming the PCs are "heroes".. I guess I can roll with that

Truthfully though.. that's just a bad habit of mine... got to work on that

I dunno - I'm kind of fond of the distinction some games, such as SAGA, make between PCs and NPCs. They call them heroes and characters. For me, the PCs are heroes, because they're the stars of the show. All the rest of the individuals played by the DM are just characters. It certainly makes it read easier if you use "heroes" instead of "PCs" or "player characters".

Don't be too afraid to keep the habit.

Great work!

Cheers,
Cam

Sammael · Jul 31, 2004

I prefer "protagonists" myself.

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