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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3375043" data-attributes="member: 3586">It is interesting to see what Mike writes because he currently works for Wizards. His insights will often directly impact future products.T.Foster's experience with Steading seems atypical. Your job is to kill the giants. I don't recommend a frontal assault, but at some point you *are* going to have to fight all the giants in the great hall... and there's a lot of them. See reports in early Dragon magazines of how the finalists did it at the original convention it debuted.The primary focus of D&D is combat. It is also what is most popular about the game. You might not have it so much in your game - and that's fine - but Wizards do need to design to the market.With Barrow of the Forgotten King and other products, there's a definite emphasis on role-playing, puzzlesolving and other non-combat situations, but not at the expense of a non-combat adventure. It's still mostly combat.Mike Mearls review of Keep is a classic though. I still don't know his reasoning behind it. (I regard Keep itself as a classic, great adventure though... designed as a good introductory adventure with lots of fun combat.)Cheers!</blockquote>