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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3291181" data-attributes="member: 4937">It warms my heart to see a thread like this.It gets me irritated when someone starts a thread along the lines of 'such and such pubished writer is so stupid, inept, incompotent, etc.' because he did X, especially when X is not such a bad thing, the writer is widely admired by many people, and the module in question one of the most famous and beloved ever published.If you don't like the module, fine, don't like it.  But I don't want to hear how you think the writer is stupid, because writing modules is alot of work and if you haven't tried to produce a module of professional publishable quality you don't really have a clue just how hard it is.  Not only do you have to produce a good adventure, but you have to produce a good adventure which someone else can easily understand and run and fit it into an incredible harsh limit on the number of words you can use.  To fit the adventure in a limited number of pages, and make it understandable to a wide audience which may or may not have alot of experience and which in fact probably on the whole doesn't (since alot of the point of a module is to help a new DM understand how to design an adventure and run through sessions), forces you to write things which you wouldn't write if you had more space.  You have to write what looks like railroading, because you can't explain what happens in all the cases where you leave the path.  You have to write what looks linear, because you can only really pay alot of attention to what happens if the simpliest path is followed.  And so forth.I have a great deal of respect for anyone that has done it, and alot of respect for anyone who has done it well.</blockquote>

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