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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5187794" data-attributes="member: 29398">For clarity, while I presented what is being called the "four-times approach" in its most labour-intensive form (actually writing the module four times) I really don't expect any writers to do it that way...though props to 'em if they do.  But I sure as shootin' expect them to *think* that way and to have that thinking reflected in the finished product.This might be a non-issue, depending how the writer gets paid.  Page count can stay the same, just with more words, less pictures and white space, and less slavish adherence to the delve format...no extra cost there.  I don't know how writers get paid, but if the writer's on contract to produce a module the pay will be the same no matter what gets written as long as it passes inspection; so no extra cost there either.No idea of the mechanics involved, but page counts divisible by 8 seem to be the norm.  That said, you can increase the page count by one or two or three provided the extras are on loose sheets (cough *maps* cough) and not increase the cost very much.The paths do *not* have to be the same difficulty!!!  Why not have a module where there's an easy way to solve it, a hard way to solve it, and a way that won't solve it at all?  And the pacing is entirely up to the DM and group at the table and probably won't ever be the same twice.But you're quite right that it still needs to be easy to read and understand.Good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And, please don't get into an idea of the four-times writing idea producing four different paths through a module.  The intent is to merely account for four (or more) ways a group might logically try to play through it, rather than just one.  The best of modules would see the most successful groups use all kinds of different modes of play during the adventure, at those points where each made sense.The concept of a monster vendomatic is giving me all kinds of evil ideas right now.Scribble, please prepare for my players not to like you very much... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"but does it give back change?"-efan</blockquote>

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