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How about: Put a very brief history/backstory at the beginning of the adventure that only has the essential information the GM will...

Gumshoe does these a lot. The Conspyramid, Cthulu 1-to-1.

Quiet on the Set-Up! A Kiss-Kiss Crisis. Hollywood! A cast of hundreds is on set for the pivotal slave revolt scene of Atlas’s newest...

It's a little cleaner in the actual layout, and yeah not everybody vibes with Necrotic Gnome's house style - but it gives you a very...

You seem to be making the case that information can only be presented one way, which is obviously false. If a module (for example) has...

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...

I think you're maybe not familiar with the newer (by like a general "length of TTRPGs existing" newer) modules that I think many of us...

Bizarrely, WotC might have partially lead the way here with some 4E modules. The one I remember most for this was Dungeon Delve, an...

I feel like Kobold Press has a nice middle spot with their adventures (at least the ones written for Tales of the Valiant). Let's say...

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 assume with early White Dwarf the main issue was taking up as little space as possible in the magazine. Even then, some of their...

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...

As an aside, the “meant to be read” phenomena isn’t restricted to modern trends. Was reading D&D, Runequest and WFRP modules in a 1982...