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Oh that's another good note, Iglanced through a few of the better recent OSR modules I have and they all lead with the most active and...

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...

That's like a part-time job.

My experience has been that the maps are unusably bad. Bullet points are often OK but pretty generic. It's usable, but it's nowhere near...

Have you read any of the excellent modules in OSR space? They convey dungeons full of interactivity and factions with succinct text and...

When I look at a really good OSR module it has the following: Something actually interesting going on in each room to paint to the...

It's.... fine. It's a great teaching aid for novice GMs, and I would have very much enjoyed it at say 16 for a lot of reasons. The...

This. A lot. If it matters, make use of it. if it doesn't, leave it out.

I don't even bother with the wall-of-text modules anymore. Just not interested. EDIT: Here's the thing...even if I never actually run...

I’ve been looking at a lot of modules lately and something quickly became glaringly obvious. There are two broad categories of modules...

Again, I believe you can have both. You can include all the story and history and context, but still make the thing readily playable...

I'll happily pay for a map and a list of bullet points, if the map is interesting and the stuff in the bullet points compelling! I'm...

You can have annotated maps and bullet points IN ADDITON to walls of text, if one really feels they must write those. It isn't an either...

One man’s trash is another’s treasure. It’s all a matter of preference, really. But for me… I grew up running modules. I did plenty of...

What besides the DG adventures? I still have a weird hankering to run RHoD sometime for some reason.