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Yeah. I think CR leads the charge of 5E feeling like fantasy superheroes in a fantasy superhero world. Is it me or is Sam’s Nott voice different? I’d imagine he doesn’t want to keep doing that gnarly voice he used in the live play. Especially after the throat cancer. Jester makes everything...

Information density as in more information per page, right? That’s an argument for bullet points and clipped descriptions rather than large paragraphs you have to dig through to get to the buried tidbits. Consider a 250-page module for $50 that could be easily summarized and converted to a...

Our priorities are dramatically different in this regard.

This touches on another thing I’m finding a lot of in modules, overly wordy descriptions of motives and justifications, plots and schemes, etc. Give me a terse explanation of what the baddies are up to and why. Tell me what they’re going to do if the PCs do not intervene. And give me some...

Present it twice and have a good editor. Page count is irrelevant in digital forms. If you’re dealing with printed material, you can simply provide a digital download free to those who already purchased the print version. Simple problem, simple solution.

The pointlessness of talking with some people in two parts. Part 1. "It's great that the industry is catering to your tastes. It would be great if more than like six people in the industry catered to my tastes." Part 2. "How dare you attack me like that?! If they make anything for you that...

There's a game for that. Kobolds Ate My Baby! First edition came out in 1999.

For anyone curious, the terribly bland intro music should be this banger of a song instead. Massive spoiler after the 1 minute mark.

I know librarians still mad about the Library of Alexandria burning.

But it is how prose writers present room descriptions. It is also how a lot of directors, especially horror directors, will present things in a movie. Long, lingering shots on the table and food only to slowly pan up to reveal Dracula.

Bizarrely, WotC might have partially lead the way here with some 4E modules. The one I remember most for this was Dungeon Delve, an adventure anthology. The layout and information design was focused on ease of use at the table. Open the book, take 5-10 minutes to read the setup, gather...

Yes, that’s true. However, the core of the problem is that the referee controls what spells the wizard has access to in those older games where the problem originates (TSR-era D&D). So without the referee handing out spells like candy, there is no LFQW.

Check out the OSR/NSR modules then. Most by Necrotic Gnome fit that bill. As does Waking of Willowby Hall.

I’ve been looking at a lot of modules lately and something quickly became glaringly obvious. There are two broad categories of modules: those meant to be read and those meant to be run. Now, of course, those meant to be read are also eventually meant to be run by some fraction of buyers, but...

Yeah. Even within geek spaces there are, unfortunately, ridiculous hierarchies. Raiders look down on regular pve players. Pvp teams look down on pvp battleground players. Etc.

It’s one of those things that I like the results but hate tedious paperwork involved to get there. I like that encumbrance rules can maybe eventually push hard choices about what to keep and what to toss in dire circumstances. That can be tense and fun. All the paperwork required to maybe...

Linear fighter, quadratic wizard. It’s what people call Monty Haul refereeing when specifically applied to handing out wizard spells like candy.

I wonder if MMO players give people who play single-player games the same kind of side eye that group RPG players give solo RPG players.

Every damned time.