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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 3839067" data-attributes="member: 10095">You keep saying that new DMs should have to buy another product. A Basic set, or a module, or a new DM book, or whatever. "Maybe such a guide could guide you to a store where you could buy a module."The more things you make someone buy in order to learn something, the less likely you are to get new people to do it.So, you have trouble making sense of "I expect a book that has a section on generating towns to provide an example which can be used, as-is." because of what? I was lacking that comma before as-is in the original post?Yeah, you've made it clear you don't want a generic example town that can be dropped into any setting or campaign to help a new DM because you don't need that sort of thing. We get it.Extremely. It's got people who sell weapons, armor, adventuring supplies. It's got important NPCs that might have missions for the players (mayor, etc). It's got a tavern for that traditional "You all start in a tavern..." hook. It's got everything the players need when then go to and fro during their adventures.Instead of having to come up with a dungeon AND a nearby town, only the dungeon needs to be made, because the town is covered. That reduces a new DM's workload.Uh, plenty, since it won't be built around being in a module. It will be built around being a generic example town that just happens to be an iconic one, a springboard for any adventure that needs a small town, but doesn't provide one.Pretty interesting, given some of the most interesting adventures from the early days of D&D started small (a town and surrounding area) and grew into bigger things with later products. If you can't perceive of anyone having the ability to make a single town interesting without having to describe the entire campaign world to you, that's just a personal limitation.</blockquote>

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