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I like both and find the right tool for the right job. Just becasue a context first experience may not be long enduring as a game...

"Wall of text" itself is hardly a neutral term. Someone might as well call the style you prefer "bullet-point hell".

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...

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

Particularly for lower-level play, you're pretty close to the mark overall here. Our games tend to be fairly lethal at low levels to...

It is the approach some old school gamers, and current games, take. That the character is more of an avatar than anything. Doesn't...

Oh, sure. What's different, perhaps, between my view and that of the general community is that I'm usually fine with so-called...

I wonder if your way of thinking on this goes hand-in-hand with what I've gathered about the way your table runs and plays from reading...

For my part, it's just...I have seen so, so, so many instances of "but it's what my character would do!!!!" as a crap-awful excuse for...

Absolutely. But that's where the meta issue comes in, where the players don't do things they think their PCs would do because "out of...

Yes, and if that's what the other characters would have done then IMO they should bloody well have done it long since. Just because a...

And isn't new: the OG AD&D PHb was like $48 adjusted, as opposed to $28 for White Plume Mountain...$28 for the 12 page version.

Kobold Press doesn't sell at that price because they can... they sell at that price because they have to. Few people would buy the...

As I was reading through the thread, this was exactly my thought and I'm glad to see someone else had the same idea! Pretty much...

Having done the comparative math on the physical versus digital prices for other books, $14.99 suggests that this would retail for ~$25...