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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6547109" data-attributes="member: 18">You are indeed being an &quot;in-my-day curmudgeon&quot;, as you put in, unquestionably.Certainly since 2E, and realistically, long before, there's been an appetite for pre-made content. The fact that pre-made content is often of superior quality to homebrew stuff (for non-experts, anyway) only reinforces this desire.So, no, DMs are not &quot;getting lazy&quot;. That's really the end of the discussion.(If you want to go further, a compounding factor is that the average DM now is probably 30+, with an SO, maybe kids, likely a fairly demanding job, etc. whereas &quot;back-in-the-day&quot;, he or she was probably a teen or twenty-something with much lighter relationship and job commitments, if any. Speaking from personal experience, when I was 16 or even 22, I could sit around all day writing up rules and coming up with stuff - at 36, however, I am lucky if I have enough time to write adventures, let alone anything else - I can come up with the stuff - I still have the skill - but I sure as hell don't have the time).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6547109, member: 18"] You are indeed being an "in-my-day curmudgeon", as you put in, unquestionably. Certainly since 2E, and realistically, long before, there's been an appetite for pre-made content. The fact that pre-made content is often of superior quality to homebrew stuff (for non-experts, anyway) only reinforces this desire. So, no, DMs are not "getting lazy". That's really the end of the discussion. (If you want to go further, a compounding factor is that the average DM now is probably 30+, with an SO, maybe kids, likely a fairly demanding job, etc. whereas "back-in-the-day", he or she was probably a teen or twenty-something with much lighter relationship and job commitments, if any. Speaking from personal experience, when I was 16 or even 22, I could sit around all day writing up rules and coming up with stuff - at 36, however, I am lucky if I have enough time to write adventures, let alone anything else - I can come up with the stuff - I still have the skill - but I sure as hell don't have the time). [/QUOTE]

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