aramis erak
Legend
That is similar to the disparity I noticed between the Lorel and the Derro. Apparently magical abilities are weighted very heavily in the 2nd ed AD&D XP charts.
1st ed (tho more transparently) as well.
That is similar to the disparity I noticed between the Lorel and the Derro. Apparently magical abilities are weighted very heavily in the 2nd ed AD&D XP charts.
Wow, I read this entire thread, while we are 25 pages in as of this writing, the original poster is correct, folks are being lazy, or lacking creativity. I understand we all have lives, jobs or whatever, but it doesn't take that much time to sit down and write up a basic little adventure for the night. Not every adventure has to be epic and have plot twists.. I've been DM'ing for years upon years, and I found the best thing to do, is keep a little pad with you to jot down adventure ideas as you think of them. I've in the last few years moved up to just using evernote on my iphone. Its perfect and the free space they give per month is enough for me to grab my phone jot down an adventure idea every day until I get a chance to sit down at the end of the week and see what I can create with them for a nice little adventure.
I keep a Google Doc of session notes. Just finished up some for tonight's game. Has options for the conclusion of the current activity, some ideas of how and where to move the story next, a couple of notes on what the various opposition are up to, some rumor-check info, a specific travelling encounter outline and couple of other things. Took about 20 minutes to write over the past week when I had a chance to jot it down on the laptop or Nexus tablet. Definitely provides great depth to my games.
This has always been true though. It's not like we all sat around in 1979 staring at the wall all day long.
Dude Chill out. I run my own homebrew as well, in fact I enjoy it more often then using published. I've only recently started using adventure paths in a pinch due to the lack of time I have in my new job. Last job I had, I was able to dedicate 10 hours a week to sit down, and write up a great adventure for the saturday group I was running.
But times change and it is not 1979. There is a vastly larger and broader array of entertainment at our fingertips. Many 9-year-olds have supercomputers (iPads) and can buy good games on budgets that fit well within typical allowances. I do not think youngsters are playing RPGs as much as we did, and the non-youngsters who are interested have demands. Adapt or die.
I don't know about some, but I was a lot younger in 1979, with far fewer responsibilities. Adults in 1979 had lots of responsibilities, sure, but I wasn't an adult 25 years ago.
Can we PLEASE dispense with the "people are lazy, people lack creativity" rudeness?? Seriously?? Let's try some basic respect and give people you don't know a little credit first. I've homebrewed for THIRTY years. I've never run a published adventure, campaign, or setting. I like to read what other people write, and I like to see what ideas they have, and I don't want adventure paths.
Wanting more than adventure paths from WotC DOES NOT equal laziness or lack of creativity.
You mean...to buy a book? Like, maybe a game book? Oh, wait...there aren't any.If you want to see what ideas people have go to a bookstore.
What I buy should be irrelevant to you. And yet, here you are.The rate at which Wotc puts out products should be irrelevant
This is awesome. Pot, meet kettle.and as such griping about it is really just looking for an excuse to gripe.
I dunno, you posted a wrongbadfun comment and griped about griping in a post about civility and respecting others. I thought it had a perfect ironic hypocrisy to it. Comedy gold. Good work!But then looking for gripe excuses seems to be the point of the majority of threads so... Clearly I'm doing something wrong