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Another little thing: if the author wants to convey their idea of a situation (a room, an environment, a moment), give us 3 senses of...

To me it’s not about tough fits, you can make most combos work. It’s more about easier vs harder to explain what you mean by a given...

I'm not sure I'd go so far in this direction either. Noah Baumbach puts a lot of those into dialogue, and those movies generally work...

Sure. To each their own. I'd rather err on the side of unnatural but well-written dialog. The snappy patter of film noir and hard-boiled...

Yeah, something simple and consistent is nice. For a more narrative side, I like how Carved from Brindlewood stuff tends to format the...

This is where I think the two-page per area format I suggested upthread...ideally in a spiral bounding book that lays flat...would rock...

I really like NPCs following a standard format (for that adventure) with a couple of key features per entry. E.g: Appearance: purple...

I like having the monster stats in with the encounter to prevent flipping back and forth or worse, bringing more books to the game. I...

Updated Oath of Conquest or riot! Actually I think I need to make that in Shadowdark.

Sigh. Because of course. Here's a [+] thread for people who want to actually talk about good information design in modules...

After more thought: even if I have no intention of running an adventure, or using a setting, and am only reading it to enjoy imagining...

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the already tired arguments about preferences and this style of module. This thread is...

Conversely, there's a "skill" to reading graphical presentations. But I don't prefer that language because it suggests people are...

Yeah. And people really, really don't want dialog in movies or TV shows to match how real people in the real world actually speak. If...

Dialogue not feeling natural is imo a criticism that gets painted with too broad a brush. There are definitely movies/shows where it's...