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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6742189" data-attributes="member: 12377">To each his own, and all that, but if making the adventure more readable makes it less playable, that's a huge fail.I recently read Out of the Abyss cover-to-cover, and I enjoyed reading it, but most of my enjoyment came from imagining how much fun it would be to play it. And much though I like that adventure, I think there are numerous places where the text would have benefitted greatly from being more structured and action-oriented (by &quot;action&quot; I mean &quot;Hey DM, here are the actions you should take&quot;). An example of something they got really, really right is the [SPOILER]12 ingredients to defeat the demons -- they just list them all out, and explain a brief &quot;why&quot; for each one, and tell the DM where the ingredient can possibly by found[/SPOILER].Structured TextIt doesn't just mean bulleted lists; ample use of headings, subheadings, and sections can also speed up readability.Entry Headers. Fifth edition gets a lot of milage out of putting bold-italic &quot;entry headers&quot; at the start of a paragraph. I am not sure what the proper term for this kind of header is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 6742189, member: 12377"] To each his own, and all that, but if making the adventure more readable makes it less playable, that's a huge fail. I recently read [I]Out of the Abyss[/I] cover-to-cover, and I enjoyed reading it, but most of my enjoyment came from imagining how much fun it would be to [I]play[/I] it. And much though I like that adventure, I think there are numerous places where the text would have benefitted greatly from being more structured and action-oriented (by "action" I mean "Hey DM, here are the actions you should take"). An example of something they got really, really right is the [SPOILER]12 ingredients to defeat the demons -- they just list them all out, and explain a brief "why" for each one, and tell the DM where the ingredient can possibly by found[/SPOILER]. [SIZE=4][B]Structured Text[/B][/SIZE] It doesn't just mean bulleted lists; ample use of headings, subheadings, and sections can also speed up readability. [B][I]Entry Headers.[/I][/B] Fifth edition gets a lot of milage out of putting bold-italic "entry headers" at the start of a paragraph. I am not sure what the proper term for this kind of header is. [/QUOTE]

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