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<blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 5862359" data-attributes="member: 17551">The quote that stuck out to me the most:&quot;Adventure Design Guidelines: Stuff such as XP budgets, treasure tables, encounter charts, and so on are there to make it easier to create adventures and build your campaign. If you are a veteran DM, it's quite likely you won't use any of this stuff.&quot;I've been playing D&amp;D since 1981.&nbsp; So I probably qualify as veteran.&nbsp; I use treasure tables and encounter charts ALL THE FREAKING TIME.&nbsp; There's really nothing like a cool random chart to give you a spark of an idea and spice up your encounters and dungeons with things you might not have thought to use otherwise.I think that assuming stuff like that is for &quot;NOOBS&quot; completely misses why products like the 1e DMG and Judges Guild's Ready Ref Sheets maintain a fairly high reputation as useful products these many years later.&nbsp; Cool random charts are also a possible hook to get those who might not be sold on the rules to take a look at the new edition for usable bits in their own edition of choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rogueattorney, post: 5862359, member: 17551"] The quote that stuck out to me the most: "Adventure Design Guidelines: Stuff such as XP budgets, treasure tables, encounter charts, and so on are there to make it easier to create adventures and build your campaign. If you are a veteran DM, it's quite likely you won't use any of this stuff." I've been playing D&D since 1981. So I probably qualify as veteran. I use treasure tables and encounter charts ALL THE FREAKING TIME. There's really nothing like a cool random chart to give you a spark of an idea and spice up your encounters and dungeons with things you might not have thought to use otherwise. I think that assuming stuff like that is for "NOOBS" completely misses why products like the 1e DMG and Judges Guild's Ready Ref Sheets maintain a fairly high reputation as useful products these many years later. Cool random charts are also a possible hook to get those who might not be sold on the rules to take a look at the new edition for usable bits in their own edition of choice. [/QUOTE]

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