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Yeah. I’ve been looking at a lot of modules lately and the amount of note taking, rewriting, reading, and re-reading you’d need to do to...

I mean I’m thinking of adventures that not only need prep due to bad organization and missing bits, but are also a railroad as written...

If we count campaign prep/world building, then I spend a lot of time prepping. But that's so that, once it's done, I can do minimal...

The criticism is generally “I thought I was paying for something I could open and run” and it rarely is that in most mainline products...

As someone who has run a ton of published adventures over the years, I would certainly say that as time has passed, the idea that...

I’m going to discount “setting up the..setting” prep. As far as focused time thinking and sketching ideas : play, at least 1 : 6. Eg...

One of the things that irritates me about Netheril, is it's sort of presented like this big legendary culture of the distant past...but...

I liked the slot based encumbrance that Dolmenwood's version of OSE (not sure if it's in base OSE as well?) and HMTW used. Easy enough...

I felt the same way about encumbrance -- ooh, quick, let's all track weights at the table, that'll be fun! -- but I like slot-based...

It's kinda fun how when you switch your entire frame of reference for your campaign to modern fantasy stuff, you don't have to worry...

I ended up ordering two d12s from Chessex. Not flashy, but the green and blue dice I got don't look like the rest of my collection, so I...

Some familiar faces in this thread, heh. How portable do folks think Fabula and Ultima points are to other systems? In principle it...

Arden Vul running Cairn; Cairn running Arden Vul; and Arden Vul - done.

Looking forward to the oncoming threads: "What campaign should I use for a non-D&D focused dungeon," "what D&D should I use for a...

No-ish. Gold extends Dark’s rules for longer form dungeon crawling play and removes the inability to fight “monsters.”