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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2944317" data-attributes="member: 22779">That's an interesting point.  Should a module be a skeleton or a full corpse?If it's a skeleton, you have to do the work of putting the clothes on yourself.  The means that the DM has to spend more time prepping and hopefully it works out well.If it's a full corpse, then the DM doesn't have to spend a lot of time on the prep, but you are at the mercy of the designers for making it work out well.To me, I'd rather have a full corpse that I can apply some makeup to and then bury it.  ((Ok, enough with this metaphor))  Really, when I buy something, I don't expect to have to spend dozens of hours reworking it and massaging it into my game.  I want to read it, maybe tweak this or that, and then pretty much run it as is.In other words, I buy modules to save me time.  To me, the sign of good design means that I don't have to do any work to use it.  I open it up, read it and play it would be the best designed adventure, for me.  So, for me, KotB, isn't a particularly fantastically designed module because of my criteria for good design.  That doesn't make it a bad module, just not a great module for me.  For those who like doing the extra work, it would be a fantastic design.YMMV and all that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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