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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gimby" data-source="post: 4925487" data-attributes="member: 49875">I think that's Hussar/Fifth Element's point.  Perhaps, at the time, you did find that article offensive - that it mentions the one detail of content (slimes not dropping treasure) that you remember suggests that it may well be the article you were thinking of.  Reading again in retrospect can produce a different impression.Its certainly possible to take it in a bad light as it seems to suggest that randomised treasure is inherently a net bad and was bad for dilligent (ie good) DMs.  Or that the amounts of treasure *should* be well known over a level rather than a suprise (or solely the purview of the DM's whims).I'll agree that this is (or at least can be seen as) poor marketing as the first reading of an article should be positive, not re-reading it years later.  Just that its not, objectively, ragging on 3e.  As an aside to anyone interested in the edition wars, check out whats happening over the 3rd edition of WHFRP - not only is it another war but its almost the same war.   Same complaints about the crunch (boardgame! MMO!), same complaints about the fluff (the designers don't understant WHFRP)</blockquote>