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<blockquote data-quote="M.T. Black" data-source="post: 6982521" data-attributes="member: 6782171">I'm always struggling to figure out the best way to describe a D&amp;D encounter in a published adventure. I'm terribly inconsistent in this regards.3e adventures laid down a fairly standard pattern. After a description of the room, you would get a number of bold headings as required - Creatures: Any monsters or NPCs in the locationTactics: How the creatures would respond if combat broke outTraps: Any traps in the locationTreasure: You guessed it - what treasure is thereDevelopment: What would happen in the location after the PCs leaveLater on, I often saw &quot;Tactics&quot; dropped and &quot;Development&quot; expanded to include essentially everything that might happen in the location after the PCs started interacting with it. Flipping through Storm Kings Thunder, it seems the current approach is to describe everything in a chunk of text, and only have a separate heading for Treasure. Anyway, does anyone have strong opinions on this matter? What is your favourite approach and why?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.T. Black, post: 6982521, member: 6782171"] I'm always struggling to figure out the best way to describe a D&D encounter in a published adventure. I'm terribly inconsistent in this regards. 3e adventures laid down a fairly standard pattern. After a description of the room, you would get a number of bold headings as required - Creatures: Any monsters or NPCs in the location Tactics: How the creatures would respond if combat broke out Traps: Any traps in the location Treasure: You guessed it - what treasure is there Development: What would happen in the location after the PCs leave Later on, I often saw "Tactics" dropped and "Development" expanded to include essentially everything that might happen in the location after the PCs started interacting with it. Flipping through Storm Kings Thunder, it seems the current approach is to describe everything in a chunk of text, and only have a separate heading for Treasure. Anyway, does anyone have strong opinions on this matter? What is your favourite approach and why? [/QUOTE]

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