The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any ENWorld that goes over five pages automatically needs to start showing ads for therapy to posters.

 

[payn]

I'm not really interested, but I've also only seen that sort of complaint about the adventures in the Starter and Beginner Sets. Have people been complaining thus about other adventures?

Yes they have about adventure paths and reprints. Of course the starter adventures make sense for this criticism.

 

[payn]

Thats a first. Somebody posted a clickbait video that doesn't support their position as proof that other opinions exist...

 

[prabe]

Yes they have about adventure paths and reprints. Of course the starter adventures make sense for this criticism.

Huh. I don't much like published adventures, especially adventure paths, but I wouldn't expect them to teach GMing if they weren't advertised as starting adventures.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Huh. I don't much like published adventures, especially adventure paths, but I wouldn't expect them to teach GMing if they weren't advertised as starting adventures.

I thought Out of the Abyss and Tomb of Annihilation were pretty good as far as teaching a bit about GMing. OotA starts off with the worst railroad, but the rest of it is pretty open and it's really easy to turn it into a hexcrawl, and it has a little advice about running Underdark campaigns. ToA is much more of a deliberate hexcrawl, and has some good advice near the beginning, but then the rest is a chaotic mess -- some interesting locational encounters, some dull, little interaction between them except with the actual Tomb itself; I would have like a little more of an "ecology," with sites having more interaction with each other, rather than just the final boss. But I still rate it very highly, and it's easy to add your own stuff.

 

[J.Quondam]

I am sad that my favorite ice cream recipe book did not say in big letters "And if you walk away, tell the newbie that the salt goes in the outside with the ice, and not in the cannister with the ingredients!".

I made that mistake one summer when I was about 10 years old.
I still haven't lived that one down.

 

[Cadence]

I made that mistake one summer when I was about 10 years old.
I still haven't lived that one down.

This was a PhD student...

 

[Cadence]

"There are many styles of pizza that can be found in the midwest: floppy-grease, burnt-rectangle, soup-in-a-crust, snooty-topping-mish-mash, and tavern style are five major ones. We non-judgementally discuss them below."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"There are many styles of pizza that can be found in the midwest: floppy-grease, burnt-rectangle, soup-in-a-crust, snooty-topping-mish-mash, and tavern style are five major ones. We non-judgementally discuss them below."

See, I've acknowledged that what you like is bad. Why can't you be reasonable and acknowledge it too?

 

[prabe]

See, I've acknowledged that what you like is bad. Why can't you be reasonable and acknowledge it too?

That sounds like a scintillating conversation I'm missing.