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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7375525" data-attributes="member: 996">Especially during encounters.  Encounters adventures were these little magazine format things, like old modules, and dead easy to run.  You could read the intro, read the 2-4 pages of a given encounter, and not even need to worry too much about what was between or coming up.  Very linear, simplistic, scenarios.   Brand-new players would sometimes step into the DM slot after only a season of play.  But easy has it's downside, too.  I did not run nearly as good game sessions when I was phoning it in after a long day at work or having run a different scenario for a different table for two hours already, right before, as I do when running 5e and having to pay attention to what I'm doing...... and, having gotten back into the swing of Empowered DMing with 5e, the 4e campaign I'm finishing out through Epic levels has also benefited from better DMing.No, it really doesn't.  Trees must die for my entertainment!Seriously, though: We can't all go prospecting in the slush pile.   ...yeah... I'm not so sure about that.  Sometimes it's just an undercurrent of "back in my day..." given a little spin and a bit of polish.  For instance, back during the playtest, Mike made a comment about wanting to make the game more accessible to new players, and it was something along the lines of looking/thinking back to when we were new players and what made the game appeal to us.  Because, obviously the same thing that appealed to cynical Gen-Xers listening to Pink Floyd on the new Walkman in the 80s will totally appeal to politically engaged Millennials immersed in social media on their phones, today.  yep... still cynical.  ;(</blockquote>

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