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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2423228" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I think there's a genre issue - HoMP is very much in the Gygaxian genre of puns, puzzles and Xagig messing around with the poor PCs (& players!) for his own amusement.  It's a long way out of the current D&D mainstream, as evidenced by Thundershot's reaction - I'd say the current D&D mainstream was largely determined by Monte Cook in his DMG advice and later work, which very much does emphasize reliance on PCs' powers rather than the powers of the players themselves.  Also WoTC's general policy has been to emphasize "character building" as a goal for players - and by that I mean "building" in the sense that players of the Magic: The Gathering card game 'build' decks of cards.  HoMP is very clearly in a very different vein.</p></blockquote><p></p>