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So the bold stuff just interrupts my thoughts. Full sentences are there but they are written unnatural ways that just interfere with...

One thing reading this thread presses home for me is just how vastly different people's tastes, preferences and needs are as GMs. I...

That would drive me bonkers. It hurts my head trying to read that just in the short example you've provided it.

I'm one who actually prefers the longer-written style of modules and adventures because it gives me more narrative flow and more...

I agree, wall-of-text is a big turn-off. However, many modules go too far in the other direction. When everything is just keywords...

Not what you got, though I recognize I'm different. So typically, I find when I have to prep a module it's not condensing or taking...

I don't think age has anything to do with play, and in particular if we just confine ourselves to Caillois's theory about play: It is...

Starting from the main floor, you have 5 stairs down and 7 stairs up. Although the PC's don't know it, they probably want to find...

I find them beautiful and elegant. I can't think of another map that better gives me the DM the shape of something, especially...

I really hate that. It appears often enough in published works I have to rewrite it. And I will also say that boxed text is awesome...

I think burying the lede is ok as long as the GM lets the players then act as if their character had absorbed the information in a...

I3 is also really good, though I do think I6 is the more sophisticated of the two. I think the big problem with I3 is it's not intended...

I3 Pharaoh is fantastic. The layout is entirely designed for being run at a table and not an adventure that's organized to be an...

My choice was I3 Pharaoh. I don't think it's a coincidence that both were written by Tracey and Laura Hickman. As to boxed text...

So there is a lot to unpack here. First, I don't think people usually do a lot of roleplay when making a sand castle. The thing I...