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Not if worldbuilding and strong focus on setting is your goal, no.

Fair enough. For one thing, however, adventures often include a great deal of setting info, so you can easily do both. Also, just...

It is IMO if you are telling people who don't share your preferences to do something else with their time other than engaging with the...

So, Ben, the 'bold, keywords, and bullet points' guy, surveyed his audience and found they want to run mods with bolding, keywords, and...

This is a business reason to appreciate art in RPGs. Unless you're a publisher, I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.

Art is not very important to me, but it can be influential. That sounds contradictory, but a picture sometimes has a huge influence on...

I do the same with art and like to use it as a reference for my players to actually show them where they are or what they're encountering.

I don't care about art beyond it being a good representation of what it's trying to depict. To me, art in RPGs is far more about showing...

Worldbuilding is a different experience than just writing a story. It focuses on setting rather than plot or character. I really wish...

Ben's criticism that many people purchase DCC products "just to read them" - I'm not sure if that is uncommon for other publishers. I...

That it does, but as the text is presented it's playable enough for me and mine, and very enjoyable to read.

yes, there definitely is a part of the hobby that enjoys just reading the stuff. Ben’s argument of 50% of sales are not to run the...

Maybe that's why I find it easy. I didn't grow up TSR. (I would have liked to, but I grew up during the Satanic Panic; and Toys'R'Us...

One could also argue that a quality of richness, gravity, and history can be lost in that march of "progress". I know I enjoy reading...

I would be interested in seeing what they [Necrotic Gnome] do differently. As I haven't used their products, I don't currently have an...