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And that makes it easier to convert to other systems.

I wouldn’t know. I’ve never written in any book I’ve ever owned. Notebooks, sure. Book books, never. Highlighters? In textbooks, sure. My old staple-bound books are falling apart from 40+ years of reading and use.

Exactly the same here. My ideal monster stat block would be all the flavor and descriptions with markers for higher or lower stats in given areas so you can scale them at will. And the great thing about having the ability to scale the monsters if you want is the people who don’t want to can...

Sorry. If it’s going to be expensive the thing better damned well last a long time. I’d rather get a pad of tear-off sheets to use up with the hardback. Or a box with good glue-bound books plus cards and other bits. Dry-erase sheets or cards would split the difference. I have shelves of old...

“Now I’m going to go home and sleep with my wife.”

“Badges? Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” “Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!” “It’s only a flesh wound.” “Some call me…Tim.” “Run, runaway, flee.” “I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.” “The infamous El Guapo. The in-famous!” “He’s not the messiah. He’s a...

This is a side complaint of mine. I think having set stats for monsters is terrible game design. Something like you see in video games, dynamic difficulty, would be so much better from a game design perspective. But then I also love me some OSR-style universal monster stat blocks. Yeah. There...

Make them softcover, staple or coil bound, sans art, black & white, printed on low-quality paper, and dirt cheap. Then people might treat them like workbooks. Though I’d much rather have a nice hardbound book with free downloads of printable worksheets.

Along those lines, clearly mark what’s obvious and what’s obscure. Like clues in a mystery scenario. Something like a TN or a time requirement listed on finding things. I’m not a fan of listed TNs either, but a lot of people do use them.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.” “Yes, it’s true. This man has no d—.” “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all outta bubblegum.” “Game over, man. Game over!” “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s...

I’ve worked in layout and design for book publishing. You really don’t need to do that. Pick one good font that works for both.

Likely because it’s easier for most people who aren’t graphic designers or information professionals to visualize bolded text and bullet lists. Great list by the way. Nice use of nested bullet points.

Did you forget some of the “promoted” article(s) on here about just that? The one I remember is someone tried to argue you could cast something like six eight spells in a round. I’m not sure what the right phrase is for posts that are “promoted” to articles on the site, but that post was made...

Agreed. The more I’m thinking about this the more I seem to want any descriptions in exactly that kind of barebones, stripped down, “Just the facts, ma’am” style. The module should provide the facts. I’ll provide the flourishes.

To me that screams out for something like fronts from PbtA games. The villain has a plan, which is what will happen if the PCs don’t intervene. But the PCs inevitably will, so giving specific ways the villain could react to having their plan interrupted seems like an obvious must. “If...

We have the actual sales data that disproves this claim. Over here. https://www.enworld.org/threads/all-basic-b-x-and-becmi-and-rules-cyclopedia-set-sales-from-ben-riggs.690259/

Yeah. I do the same. It seems to come in waves. Fiction for a time then non-fiction. Forcing things almost never works out well for me. I just end up hating the things I normally love.

Exactly. Supernatural Thriller, not horror. The protagonist is a badass monster hunter, not a scream queen who happens to barely survive.

Not really. Neither is a Western in any real genre sense. They each have one character from the Old West in Victorian England in a Gothic Horror story, but in no real way does the presence of that single character change the genre of the whole. Especially in Dracula where the cowboy is a...