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Ha. Good one. You're a smart enough guy to know both that I can't prove you wrong (as it were...) and that my failure to do so would...

I don't really think any of the old two column TSR modules can be described as having great layout or presentation. Art tends to be...

For the players, it doesn’t need to simplify it. As a DM, I’m glad that a flat map simplifies it. I’m just saying, as a person who...

Oh, yep, I did miss that, from the explanation being tucked in the unkeyed entry that I would need to cross-reference from its reference...

Agreed. That map is super clear.

Credit goes to Michael Sean Piper, who did it. He does a lot of maps like this.

That map is a lot less tangled up than Castle Ravenloft is, though. You did a great job making it clear and usable.

That's pretty good, but I'd argue that 50% of that text can still get chopped, which will make it even easier to use.

What's the example that proves your assertion correct? 1) Yes, but we are looking for both readability (for which prose paragraphs are...

Yes! I couldn't wait to bring Wyvern Songs to the table. It does delight and no sense of being weighed down. Hole in the Oak from...

Then let me retract that phrasing and replace it with the objective statement that many companies including Wizards will pay writers...

I think we’re looking at a bit of a pendulum here. Back in the days of early D&D, descriptions were brief and mostly mechanical...

a reminder that many game designers wish they were Tolkien. And the lesson they learned from reading Tolkien is that his books used a...

I think you're conflating quantity of content vs. presentation. As an example of what I want, take that four page history of a...

The richest gameplay we've been seeing is coming from the OSR scene like Shadowdark's Cursed Scrolls, Gavin Norman and Brad Kerr, to...