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You're assuming. I modify, customize and edit when necessary or desired. And if doing so, can easily do so for further down the line. Oh noes, you killed off an important NPC. Well now you know, pick an appropriate other NPC and substitute. A synopsis is by no means required to improvise, edit...

Well, the world doesn't revolve around you. The fact that you don't care for reasons why these things might have been withheld does not delegitimize the reasons. I read the thread, i understand the conversation that is going on. And no, the DM does not need the information to run the adventure...

Eh, not my fault you didn't read the thread Actually my example was with me getting spoiled while not having read the adventure or having an interest in finding out what was going to happen. This is the second time you have ignored text in the post you were quoting. Stop doing it. Read the...

More ad hominem. A question. You realize that I am saying the information is valuable to DM's, right? Its that the argument that says there is no difference between spoiling the next adventure and spoiling the entire adventure relies on the statement "outlines provide valuable information to...

This is untrue. There is foreshadowing in the first SoW module.[the note, the portal, the information on the Rivenroars] This is a terribly naive view of the situation. I have neither played nor read Keep on the Shadowfell, but i know enough about the module just from off hand comments from...

Now lets really define this by using some examples and then tying them into the classic DnD fantasy tropes. In many Japanese cartoons there are characters who are able to achieve radically crazy feats by simply training a long time and really hard. It gets to the point where these people can...

Given that there is a very significant difference between a spoiler one month in advance when there is likely to already be foreshadowing in play and and a spoiler months[or years in advance when players need to be acting under an entirely different set of assumptions your argument that their...

No. All of these things are "supernatural". They are "magic by any other name". His "mundane skills" are anything but. And we know this because these heroes with their honest, salt-of-the earth courage, skill and luck consistently do things that are supernatural. a "real world example" What...

Uhh, no he didn't. Not until they were prepping for screening the next one. Rumor is that Hamil didn't know the Vader reveal until they were actually shooting it[that or it was he never knew because he wasn't playing with the final script, as Jones was doing voice overs] And even then there is...

It is physically impossible that budgets within the same company do not impact each other. The money had to come from somewhere.

No. I never said "they just don't have it all ready" i said "a published outline sets the path in stone". They say they have an outline and there is no reason to doubt them. Its just this "they are terrible and/or incompetent and my proof is that they didn't release the overview" is ridiculous...

Hit points do not represent physical damage. It simply represents the otherworldly ability of the hero to turn what otherwise would be a deadly wound into one that is non-threatening. When non monsters/heroes are met with deadly force they die. When challenges are met with deadly force, they...

NP. The point is there is no reasonable way to restrict the information once its out there and releasing it limits their options to change the path on the fly as necessary Its not some horrible slight against the DnD community.

How so? I didn't get my special DM password that lets me get all the DM only material. When did they hand you yours?

A better way to say it would be "if you knew Vader was Lukes father while watching A New Hope" it won't have the same impact. Because that is what we are talking about. Players may know information that materially affects the game long before a point where it could even be considered to be...

That is the trick. You can always just strip the name and flavor from something and use something else. Part of the power sources and racial function is to give players are baseline of what they can expect. Everyone is already free to simply strip that away and make what they want with it. So...

Not in 3e. Since fighters had no ability to actually keep those monsters from moving around them and smashing the wizard(who was likely better defended anyway). It required DM's purposefully playing their intelligent monsters like fools in order to give fighters value. And even then, the Wizard...

Pretty well, the glasses help. How is that acute lack of context working out for you?

Frankly, the less DFE things are, the harder i have "visualizing" things, since i end up spending so much time working through more and more arcane rules which don't have an end result. Its not hard to visualize "the wizard throws a fireball that explodes terribly, scorching a number of the...

You don't need to roll every attack for an NPC to fall into the trap that you fell into. You only need to believe that the NPC must be statted to deal with whatever he is supposed to have done and not statted to deal with the Players when they engage him. E.G. if i wanted to have an...