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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 1544202" data-attributes="member: 13637">Well, I don't expect to find a book publisher writing a promo for their new book touting it as "This book is for lazy GMs and dumb players with too much money." Somehow I don't think that would be a big seller <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I know that I never meant anything negative in reference to DMs who use published materials. And I certainly don't think it is "lazy" for a time-crunched GM to do so. I think the reality is that most adults, especially married, gainfully employed adults, have less time to devote to creating a game world, adventures, house rules, etc., than those without such time commitments. And anyone who would GM a game, putting in the extra effort for his friends' and players' enjoyment could hardly be lazy, no matter what they did or didn't read beforehand.As for the "players with more money than sense" theme, I admit that was a less-than-kind comment. But I have seen books that make me wonder, "Who exactly will be purchasing this?" and the corrolary "Why would somebody spend $xx for THIS?" But surely someone is spending money on it. And just as surely someone is looking at the things I have spent money on and saying the same thing. It is all a matter of taste, and there was no real reason for me to get snarky about it.Does anybody deliberately put out a sub-par product? No, certainly not. Is anybody deliberately aiming at the non-discriminating consumer? Not intentionally, no.  But there are a lot of factors that can combine to make a project that seemed like a good idea around the conference table look like a dud on the game store shelf. And when a small company has put important capital into creating something, they can hardly be expected to scrap a product, just because it does not live up to their expectations.</blockquote>

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