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If the players can see the monster, I tell them they can see the monster without going on about the silverware and the cooking herbs...

I6 Ravenloft also contains one of my favorite examples of a buried lede in a room description box-text. You enter a room in the...

When I look at a really good OSR module it has the following: Something actually interesting going on in each room to paint to the...

I just ran this last year and I really disagree. Maybe great for that era, but just really not very usable by modern standards. If the...

Kelsey Dionne's The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse is a great example. ...and apparently free?

That's too bad. I don't mind them using an existing Logos map, but then write to THAT.

While I favor published modules and adventures that keep an eye to presentation and information design in mind, I feel like there is...

actual layout. Directly conflicting with the text of the adventure as written. Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble, an official...

cough Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble cough

At least this way you know at a glance what is in the rooms, which helps easily adjudicate things like "did the monsters next door hear...

Agreed. I wish DM Maps had the names of rooms instead of (or in addition to) "B63" . The players open the door, I want to be able to...

Also, for 5e, Kelsey Dionne's The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse...now free at DriveThruRPG.

I expect that the people in this thread have heard of it, but if not, I suggest looking at the Arcane Library for adventures that are...

I think there's a difference between "meant to be read" and "not well-designed for use". I don't think anybody deliberately makes an...

I feel like sometimes the author had an interesting idea for a story and they got so wrapped up in the telling of it that they almost...