Recent content by mamba

that was not my intention, that was not about other DMs at all, it was about the product. You can prefer to not have to come up with something, even if you agree that it would be easy to. That says nothing about you as a DM. The point was that there still is a lot left that you do need to come...

anything is possible ;) I grant you that there are people who find them useful. Do you grant me that I am not the only one to not find them all that useful? My point is more that I do not think that they make the best use of the limited space they have to give us an interesting scenario. They...

not about how it works, but about how accurate it is. Also, it is pretty much the norm that people have to tweak encounters in premade adventures based on their party, or so I am led to believe on this forum, so if I need to do that anyway, WotC offering me what amounts to a random encounter is...

they both were misses, the preserver did not actually preserve anything, they basically cast an illusion that lasted for a short while and then everything reset to normal. If I wanted to actually preserve nature, this is the last thing I would do. Literally anything I would try to help the...

and I agree with that ;) I didn’t say no one would complain

agreed, let’s see what the final product is though. The preserver was a problem altogether, it did not preserve anything. there isn’t really much that is needed. Have 10 pages of additional (not replacement) mechanics if you think they are needed, not counting races and subclasses. 90% can be...

I was fine with maps and a intro paragraph, so we can take these out of the equation. I agree that they are the only value these one-pagers provide. The encounter math is not that hard, what is more it locks the encounter / quest to a level. Leaving that open and instead providing me more...

I am aware, but in sales and reviews it was, and that is what ultimately matters, not one individual’s opinion

I expect it to happen, and it is what should be done no idea how many will, some obviously always do. I like DS and I am fully on board with what I laid out, the details in the fluff are far more of interest to me than the large scale mechanics of DS, so to me the question is more about those...

eh, I see very little difference in the prep work required, they only did the easy part and left most of it to me either way I can run an encounter or two using what they provided with no prep, sure, but that does not an adventure make. Not even a side quest really

yes, TSR did that. Was it needed to create DS? I don’t think so. Change the fluff of the races and classes and keep the mechanics. Keep the standard stat generation. Overlay preserving and defiling on the spellcasters. You will have somewhat different equipment, at least as far as name and...

I was not arguing for full adventures, I was arguing against these lacking side quests. Spend those 50 pages on the setting, not some bare-bones, lackluster side quest skeletons Remove them altogether, include the half page map and a sentence to paragraph about the scenario if you want to. That...

it is, and neither @Superchunk77 nor my taste matter for this, but the aggregate of players. VRG did fine, hence DS would do fine as well, the opinions of some grognards notwithstanding

If the new DS is as good an update as VRG was, then it will be just fine…

no one claimed that people who are unhappy with the products do not exist. The question was how many of them there are, and you have no data on that. It could be 10%, it could be 90%, you would not know either way. Personally I believe it is a lot closer to 10 than to 90