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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8125147" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Yup. My theory: It's because they are writing for an &quot;audience&quot;, in stead of writing for &quot;themselves&quot;. To look at the majority of the B/X adventures, or the 1e adventures. They were written by DM's...who just happen to work for TSR. The adventures were very often just a DM, scribbling stuff down, drawing most of a map, then sort of 'filling in all the blanks' as they played. Or they were short, 'one shot' adventures for use in a tournament somewhere.But, alas, RPG's are not quite so much of a &quot;niche&quot; thing, and now everything is so corporatized and micro-managed that every little potentially interesting (re: 'bad', 'offensive', 'uncaring', 'risqué', etc) is weeded out or watered down. Any and all plot hooks are painted with bright neon colours so that even the most unobservant of players can follow the bread crumbs to the next set-piece encounter. That makes it boring for the folks who have...uh...lets just say a &quot;different expectation of skill and commitment&quot; to the game.It's why I MUCH prefer older &quot;modules&quot;; they are significantly more bare-bones, with not so much &quot;plots and sub-plots&quot; as &quot;base story of stuff going on&quot;. The later allows the DM to just sort of pick it up and run with it, using as needed to run a great game.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8125147, member: 45197"] Hiya! Yup. My theory: It's because they are writing for an "audience", in stead of writing for "themselves". To look at the majority of the B/X adventures, or the 1e adventures. They were written by DM's...who just happen to work for TSR. The adventures were very often just a DM, scribbling stuff down, drawing most of a map, then sort of 'filling in all the blanks' as they played. Or they were short, 'one shot' adventures for use in a tournament somewhere. But, alas, RPG's are not quite so much of a "niche" thing, and now everything is so corporatized and micro-managed that every little potentially interesting (re: 'bad', 'offensive', 'uncaring', 'risqué', etc) is weeded out or watered down. Any and all plot hooks are painted with bright neon colours so that even the most unobservant of players can follow the bread crumbs to the next set-piece encounter. That makes it boring for the folks who have...uh...lets just say a "different expectation of skill and commitment" to the game. It's why I MUCH prefer older "modules"; they are significantly more bare-bones, with not so much "plots and sub-plots" as "base story of stuff going on". The later allows the DM to just sort of pick it up and run with it, using as needed to run a great game. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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