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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8105510" data-attributes="member: 6879661">I think we can all do better adventures. Every time I run a published adventure I spot a dozen things I’d have done differently. I always mean to run a campaign again with a different group but there are so many damn good campaigns I want to run I can never justify it.However I don’t see that as WOC’s fault. You can’t create something as variable as a published campaign for groups as varied as roleplaying tables and be all things to all of them.I’m all for criticism in a literary sense, it’s constructive and leads to better products. I’m the first to get annoyed by Storm Kings Thunder’s sloppy plot and poor treatment of the North, or the endless grind of Princes of the Apocalypse. What isn’t much use is the dismissive, counting coppers, entitlement and criticism (personal) that products and writers get when releasing what are overwhelmingly well received products for a very reasonable price.It’s exactly the kind of things that Owen K C Stephens was describing about the industry that makes people sad. A lot of people called this out as a sloppy mistake, oversight, or poorly researched work. Rather than assuming it was an editorial choice as it seems from the decision not to change it. Disagree with the two year winter or the temperatures or not... it is entirely in your decision to change or not and so easy to do. Change a line on the page, you don’t even have to break a sweat! Or take 30minutes to do some thinking/read a thread so you don’t need to. The OP did exactly that in their first post - changed what they didn’t like and justified what they did! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙈" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f648.png" title="See-no-evil monkey    :see_no_evil:" data-shortname=":see_no_evil:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Attacking writers and products in the way it has been done in this thread will always generate a pushback. If you go through the thread and look at the really nasty stuff that was said, very little came from defense of the product. I won’t quote it, as it’s not constructive but it’s there in black and white.“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”– Jean de La Bruyère Let’s all be better critics.</blockquote>

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