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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 3801666" data-attributes="member: 37250">Detail-rich adventures like ATfL (which I've not read, sadly) give a DM the chance to directly shape major aspects of the living world which (if the details are made available!) could and should ripple through other games and influence character backgrounds.If the bonus summary credits for a highly detailed adventure happen to be the same as those for one that merely establishes that there are bears in the woods near Orussus, well, the metacreation is a reward in itself, and surely a bigger one than a few bonus XP for a DM's own character.  So I don't think there's a need to develop some complex formula to cover all contingencies and corner-cases.  It all evens out in one way or another.  And surely summary credits won't ever be the deciding factor for a DM to run or not run a particular type of adventure??</blockquote>