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<blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 5089087" data-attributes="member: 18017"><p>The Grognardia review also points to the tables as the weakest part of it. The glowing praise for the book there is focused on the essays about evocative dungeon features. From my own experience, I find that it's pretty easy to make tables for my own use, and that the best published tables are less helpful in actual play than the half-baked ones I make. I think this is because the act of making the table forces me to imagine multiple possibilities that are appropriate to my specific game ahead of time, while using a Toolbox table means that I have to decide if it's appropriate and what it means in this situation only after I make the roll.</p><p></p><p>So from this perspective, advice about what kinds of things might appear on tables is more valuable than pre-made tables, and if Goodman asked Curtis to provide some tables for the published book as an example of how you could take the advice and turn it into a table, it's actually kind of good if the results leave me fired up to do one that's better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tav_Behemoth, post: 5089087, member: 18017"] The Grognardia review also points to the tables as the weakest part of it. The glowing praise for the book there is focused on the essays about evocative dungeon features. From my own experience, I find that it's pretty easy to make tables for my own use, and that the best published tables are less helpful in actual play than the half-baked ones I make. I think this is because the act of making the table forces me to imagine multiple possibilities that are appropriate to my specific game ahead of time, while using a Toolbox table means that I have to decide if it's appropriate and what it means in this situation only after I make the roll. So from this perspective, advice about what kinds of things might appear on tables is more valuable than pre-made tables, and if Goodman asked Curtis to provide some tables for the published book as an example of how you could take the advice and turn it into a table, it's actually kind of good if the results leave me fired up to do one that's better. [/QUOTE]
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