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Absolutely! I am big on these things as well and think they help, but they do increase length and complexity as well - still a good...

As a reader, I really appreciate thoughtfulness when someone takes what is dense and attempts through the choices they make in...

If I were to run this room, my questions are: Who assigned the skeletons these tasks, to what end? (This could be elsewhere like in an...

Absolutely, I think it would take a lot of prep to run Arden Vul no matter what. Even if the keys were streamlined in whatever one's...

No - they tend on the longer side for what they are - very late TSR - but that one is exceptional. To some degree I have to forgive...

I tend to agree the difficulty is 1) keying complex rooms and 2) Keying simple rooms in less standard spaces. E.G. "4 orcs arguing about...

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Content is more important than format for sure. Simple rooms are easy to run regardless of format. If a room is complex enough that the...

Gus, ty for the link as well as past thoughts on your blog; your writing along w/ others have been influential in terms of how I prep...

I generally provide a sentence or two about the room and what it was and is now follower by some box text. I find the box text...

I've been thinking a lot about keying again... perhaps it's my day job moving into highly restricted forms of informational writing...

I don't own the MM 2024. I do own the 1st Monstrous Menagerie for A5E. I use my hardcover most often during prep, and depending on how I...

Yeah it's an odd omission that they didn't include page numbers in all of the indices at the back. However, the entire book IS...

Yeah, this was an area where the, "D&D is now mostly just for new players who aren't used to any other way to organize this stuff"...

I use DDB for all of my prep, and that has a zillion options for sorting monsters, so I hadn’t really appreciated this issue at first...