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After reading the adventure, most of my prep is taken condensing the session into a table-ready cheat sheet where i can see the whole...

Speaking of my experience, absolutely not. If they'd only been far enough along the Dunning-Kruger curve to recognize that if they...

Is it possible that in those terrible experiences the GMs chose modules that do require a lot of prior reading and prep? That they...

For me it is simple... I will always read a module or adventure many time before ever running it, because I need to make sure it fits...

Jumping in a bit late here but what if rather then thinking of this as two distinct categories of adventure "To be run" and "to be read"...

I definitely get the resistance to a bare-bones, even anodyne adventure. I find such things bloodless and cold and I often have to work...

I admit to liking that as a short note better than I like the stuff written with multiple fonts and parenthetical asides and out of...

So can I! Just like @BruceWright though I don't want to have to read very fast at the table, I want to read the bare minimum to...

Sure, this is a You thing. That's valid, but I have a way easier time running NG's products then anything I've ever touched that does...

I think it’s clear by now that we all like what we like and don’t like what we don’t. Most of my prep time is spent reading something...

It's a little cleaner in the actual layout, and yeah not everybody vibes with Necrotic Gnome's house style - but it gives you a very...

Again: you can do both. You can write the module with all the depth and lore and heavy prose you like. AND you can include tools that...

I’ve seen way more “oh holy crap why did I never think of that” creativity in OSR-esque stuff then anything written in long form prose...

Here you go: 5E Adventures I have run three of these without reading them ahead of time and they all ran great.

You seem to be making the case that information can only be presented one way, which is obviously false. If a module (for example) has...