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Horror is also an incredibly broad genre. It’s not all gore or gross out. You also have thrills, psychological horror, gothic, zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc. Not liking slashers, for example, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t eat up zombie apocalypse books or gothic horror or supernatural horror...

Of course. To me that's a referee buying a module. Even if they're in training. Yeah. That's also one of the other big reasons I don't generally use modules.

I would argue that the power over life and death remains, it's just obscured slightly.

It’s weird interacting with someone who has such monumentally bad takes on just about everything. And yet others call you out as someone to listen to on exactly those topics you have such bad takes on. Maybe they’re getting a more curated version of you while the rest of us are drinking from the...

He’s listed in the credits for Nott. So it’s most likely him. It sounds like they digitally altered his voice. Maybe he just can’t do that voice anymore.

Exactly. That’s one of the main points here. Consciously making it easier to run games by making an effort to present modules in an easy-to-run way. The easier it is to run games the better it is for everyone. It’s such a weird gatekeepy stance to say it should be harder than necessary and far...

This makes a lot of really bad assumptions about the content being fundamentally different when the main difference is presentation. The ready-to-run module also has lore, can also be mined for ideas and inspiration, etc. The only reason players would be buying modules is to cheat. So if WotC...

Yeah. I think CR leads the charge of 5E feeling like fantasy superheroes in a fantasy superhero world. Is it me or is Sam’s Nott voice different? I’d imagine he doesn’t want to keep doing that gnarly voice he used in the live play. Especially after the throat cancer. Jester makes everything...

Information density as in more information per page, right? That’s an argument for bullet points and clipped descriptions rather than large paragraphs you have to dig through to get to the buried tidbits. Consider a 250-page module for $50 that could be easily summarized and converted to a...

Our priorities are dramatically different in this regard.

This touches on another thing I’m finding a lot of in modules, overly wordy descriptions of motives and justifications, plots and schemes, etc. Give me a terse explanation of what the baddies are up to and why. Tell me what they’re going to do if the PCs do not intervene. And give me some...

Present it twice and have a good editor. Page count is irrelevant in digital forms. If you’re dealing with printed material, you can simply provide a digital download free to those who already purchased the print version. Simple problem, simple solution.

The pointlessness of talking with some people in two parts. Part 1. "It's great that the industry is catering to your tastes. It would be great if more than like six people in the industry catered to my tastes." Part 2. "How dare you attack me like that?! If they make anything for you that...

There's a game for that. Kobolds Ate My Baby! First edition came out in 1999.

For anyone curious, the terribly bland intro music should be this banger of a song instead. Massive spoiler after the 1 minute mark.