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I don't know. This is a dungeon I had made for Revenge of the Rat King last year, and I'm not seeing how it would be confusing.

That's pretty good, but I'd argue that 50% of that text can still get chopped, which will make it even easier to use.

If the players can see the monster, I tell them they can see the monster without going on about the silverware and the cooking herbs...

I6 Ravenloft also contains one of my favorite examples of a buried lede in a room description box-text. You enter a room in the...

Thanks - very much appreciated! I've just been reading through another thread about layout discussing "Written to be read" and "Written...

I just checked out the previews for your adventures The Warren and The Pit of Panzar. Those are nicely layed out and look to be good...

For me it is simple... I will always read a module or adventure many time before ever running it, because I need to make sure it fits...

Love it. Or how about "PowerPoint Dungeons"?

"Wall of text" itself is hardly a neutral term. Someone might as well call the style you prefer "bullet-point hell".

So the bold stuff just interrupts my thoughts. Full sentences are there but they are written unnatural ways that just interfere with...

One thing reading this thread presses home for me is just how vastly different people's tastes, preferences and needs are as GMs. I...

That would drive me bonkers. It hurts my head trying to read that just in the short example you've provided it.

Not what you got, though I recognize I'm different. So typically, I find when I have to prep a module it's not condensing or taking...

We spend a lot of time over our layout and presentation. We are going for the look and feel of the classics but with more useful and...

Depends on the group. If mostly murder hobos, the 1-5 play loop is pretty close. If the group wants non combat encounters, you have a...