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You proved that when you insinuated I was a trust fund baby. If you are going to dish it out, make sure you can also take it.

It's kept the industry in business for 50 years thus far. Heck, in the decades before people could make, sell or buy PDFs that were 4 page bullet-point modules (if that)... almost all modules one could buy were 16 to 32 pages full of very minute type, writing out paragraphs upon paragraphs of...

If you don't have 6 extra minutes in your entire week to read a couple paragraphs for preparation rather than a handful of bullet points... you have more things to deal with in your life that you probably shouldn't be wasting a bunch of it Dungeon Mastering. If you are going to DM... make sure...

Are you reading it, or are you scanning it? To me they are two different things and it is obvious to me while playing when the DM is doing one versus the other. Scanning a module to remind yourself of information you already have a familiarity with takes a lot less time and usually can be done...

Yes.

I would suggest they are not "nothing" like the same thing, but are more "somewhat" like the same thing. Because in both cases neither DM is spending any time right before the game going over the adventure they have in front of them to actually be prepared to run the game. Both of them are...

I would say that is true... in that they usually are Adventurer's League modules and thus are your prototypical D&D-styled written adventures. But even though that might be true... I still have little to no faith than a person who tries to run an adventure "off-the-page" is actually going to be...

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 into the world and area the characters are in, and makes sense as a stop on the narrative the characters are creating and journeying on. So there will never be a...

I'm one who actually prefers the longer-written style of modules and adventures because it gives me more narrative flow and more description amongst characters, locations, attitudes, atmosphere and the like. Thus when I run it and improvise my descriptions or areas and the attitudes and voices...

I wonder if your way of thinking on this goes hand-in-hand with what I've gathered about the way your table runs and plays from reading your posts over the years? Wherein it seems (to me) that your campaigns tend to appear much less about specific characters and more so on the experiences of...

Absolutely. But that's where the meta issue comes in, where the players don't do things they think their PCs would do because "out of game" they are trying to be nice or keep the peace. And I don't blame them necessarily for that, because group dynamics can be very tricky things.

Kobold Press doesn't sell at that price because they can... they sell at that price because they have to. Few people would buy the products otherwise because that's just the reality for most non-WotC 3rd party sellers. All of these companies sell their product at the price for which the market...

As I was reading through the thread, this was exactly my thought and I'm glad to see someone else had the same idea! Pretty much everything ever sold 'a la carte' on DDB was way more expensive individually than it "should" have been if one divided up the full-price item into its constituent...

A lot of my issues when people use the "that's what my character would do!" reasoning is that while it might work for that one specific instance when they do something counter to the desires of the rest of the group... that reasoning when taken to its logical conclusion means the character...

You're right... there's no reason why "some" RPG couldn't be designed like that. But that RPG is not 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which of course is the edition everyone is talking about in this thread about boss monsters and control spells ending fights against those boss monsters early...

If providing a simple fix via house rule was all this thread was meant to be about, it would have ended back on page 1 when it was rightly pointed out to do just that. But "finding solutions" is never what these threads are actually about. They're almost always about people wanting to just...

It also includes about four to six multiclasses as well, a la the glory days of the 3E prestige class smorgasbord. If you haven't multiclassed your PC into a completely incomprehensible narrative you haven't truly optimized. :D

Yeah, but I got my opinion out first, so mine wins. That's the rules of message boards. :D

I do! It's all the people who had demanded Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and Planescape but then hated the results they were given that are the evidence of my point. But whatever! Everyone can believe what they want. :D

WHAT?!? OPINION?!? ONLY MY OPINION?!? How do you know that? Where's your proof that it was only my opinion?!? Huh? HUH?!? I think that's only your opinion that it was only my opinion! Which means that both opinions cancel each other out and thus my post becomes irrefutable fact! REFUTATION...