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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3835288" data-attributes="member: 1288">To follow up a bit on what I said above...For the game to grow, it can't just be easy for new players to get involved. It has to be easy for new DMs to get involved. (This isn't just my theory. A "DM shortage" is something that companies have actually tried to address, and have actually discussed.)Anything that makes it easier for a newbie to be a DM--not just to start DMing, but to stick with it--is a good thing. And the sort of examples under discussion, such as a full-fledged "starting town," are the safest best.After all, with very few exceptions, nobody who would have bought the first DMG is going to decide not to due to a few pages devoted to a sample town. So if even a small number of people are able to make use of such a tool, and stick with DMing--and thus go on to buy future adventures and future DMGs, when they otherwise would not have--it's more than proven itself valuable. And if it fails? Well, neither the company nor the game has really lost anything for the trying.</blockquote>