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Whether traps have tells is an unrelated tangent. Kindly take that elsewhere...

All of this trap and tell discussion is a tangent or red herring kicked off by @Lanefan. @overgeeked -the person who started this thread...

Tension with what I wrote? I don't quite follow.

I should have been more clear about how Rancourt's blog applies to this thread. I didn't introduce it to derail the thread with...

To anyone with any remaining interest, I'd like to point you to Beau Rancourt's blog. He reviews scenarios and does it better than...

I didn't suggest that OP needs to create 15 Dolmenwood-like factions and ten Sandbox Settlements, so not a "ton of work ahead of time."...

Look for the posts on this blog related to prep: Faction Turns, Sandbox Settlements, and Calendar Chronicles. They're all about setting...

That was definitely not intended as an undertone.

"Book jacket teaser text" is a good analogy for what it is and how it reads. For better or worse, RPG scenario designers think of...

I just pre-ordered "Hands of the White Wizard," the latest TOR supplement from Free League. I don't actually play TOR anymore, so I...

Yeah, this is the right idea. (I'd still like to see more game-talk in it, but my memory of Trophy suggests there's not much to the...

This is such a weird criticism. The point of sharing that image was not to suggest that it's a perfect map in every imaginable way, but...

This is great. I think we’re all conditioned to the idea that a module has to be focused on the “internal” of the game world and...

Great idea to put the DC of locked doors directly on the map. I wasn't confused at all because I read the map's key. ;) The Overview...

A lot of what I've written in this thread relates to confidence rather than ease. I'd rather see GMs say that a scenario's presentation...