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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8488162" data-attributes="member: 18">I have to say, when I started running RPGs, indeed for the first few years, I found descriptions like that incredibly unhelpful, even counter-helpful.A lot of monsters deserve a pretty thorough description, especially the weirder ones. You can't expect everybody to be on the same page from a couple of sentences, and you're kneecapping a lot of DMs with that kind of vagueness, even if you're empowering a few (mostly experienced) ones. And I don't think it's actually helpful to have people on entirely different pages about how monsters basically work, especially as in my experience it tends to promote some degree of strife.I'd say that's been very clearly going on since 2E. I don't see how you can suggest it's novel. 2E feels like it was very much aimed at teenagers. I admit 1E does not feel that way at all. 1E seems to be aimed at maybe mid-20-somethings, but it was barely &quot;aimed&quot; at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8488162, member: 18"] I have to say, when I started running RPGs, indeed for the first few years, I found descriptions like that incredibly unhelpful, even counter-helpful. A lot of monsters deserve a pretty thorough description, especially the weirder ones. You can't expect everybody to be on the same page from a couple of sentences, and you're kneecapping a lot of DMs with that kind of vagueness, even if you're empowering a few (mostly experienced) ones. And I don't think it's actually helpful to have people on entirely different pages about how monsters basically work, especially as in my experience it tends to promote some degree of strife. I'd say that's been very clearly going on since 2E. I don't see how you can suggest it's novel. 2E feels like it was very much aimed at teenagers. I admit 1E does not feel that way at all. 1E seems to be aimed at maybe mid-20-somethings, but it was barely "aimed" at all. [/QUOTE]

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