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<blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 7672752" data-attributes="member: 22260">[hq][Promoted Thread][/hq] As a supporter of &quot;Dungeons and Dragons&quot; a documentary, I was sent a link to an interview with Bruce Nesmith, who worked at TSR back in the day and is now at Bethesda Software.&nbsp; The interview is password protected, but I thought it was worth sharing this bit: [hq]&quot;Under Jim Ward's supervision, the rule was that in 1 month, you would write 1 32 pg module. If it was 64 pgs, then you got two months. A box set, 5 months. This rule was followed assiduously, and in 12 months you would do 12 module equivalents.&quot;[/hq][PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]I think explains the quality of much of the output in the 2E era. And it gets better. He gave an example where someone else wrote the description and title of the adventure, the cover art was done, then he had to write it. Out of whole cloth. He was told to do &quot;War Rafts of Kron&quot; and he did it, in a month, not really knowing what a War Raft was or Kron was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerraDave, post: 7672752, member: 22260"] [hq][Promoted Thread][/hq] As a supporter of "Dungeons and Dragons" a documentary, I was sent a link to an interview with Bruce Nesmith, who worked at TSR back in the day and is now at Bethesda Software. The interview is password protected, but I thought it was worth sharing this bit: [hq]"Under Jim Ward's supervision, the rule was that in 1 month, you would write 1 32 pg module. If it was 64 pgs, then you got two months. A box set, 5 months. This rule was followed assiduously, and in 12 months you would do 12 module equivalents."[/hq] [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] I think explains the quality of much of the output in the 2E era. And it gets better. He gave an example where someone else wrote the description and title of the adventure, the cover art was done, then he had to write it. Out of whole cloth. He was told to do "War Rafts of Kron" and he did it, in a month, not really knowing what a War Raft was or Kron was. [/QUOTE]

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