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<blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 7898865" data-attributes="member: 4601"><p>I cut my teeth on the Black Box, and one of the things I loved about it was that it taught newbie DMs how to D-I-Y. You'd stock part of your first dungeon... and then you were given a map with almost everything (except the dragon and the treasure hoard) to stock... and then given pages of directions on how to brew your own.</p><p></p><p>I've been doing the same since with everything. I have yet to meet an RPG system I haven't wanted to hack in some way... to me that's as much fun as actually playing the game. And with 28 years experience and a background in stats, probability, writing and publishing, I consider myself as "qualified" as anyone at TSR/WotC to create my own materials. Maybe someday I'll make something for publication.</p><p></p><p>Some third-party materials are as good or better than WotC. Kobold Press - run by ex-WotC/TSR guys - is a mark of quality above WotC in my book. Sandy Petersen's 5e Cthulhu Mythos book is a masterpiece. Several others I could name too.</p><p></p><p>Darn kids! You want everything handed to you in a shiny book! Don't you realize that making it up - or at least editing it, combining it, messing around with it to see what happens - is all part of the fun?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tyler Do'Urden, post: 7898865, member: 4601"] I cut my teeth on the Black Box, and one of the things I loved about it was that it taught newbie DMs how to D-I-Y. You'd stock part of your first dungeon... and then you were given a map with almost everything (except the dragon and the treasure hoard) to stock... and then given pages of directions on how to brew your own. I've been doing the same since with everything. I have yet to meet an RPG system I haven't wanted to hack in some way... to me that's as much fun as actually playing the game. And with 28 years experience and a background in stats, probability, writing and publishing, I consider myself as "qualified" as anyone at TSR/WotC to create my own materials. Maybe someday I'll make something for publication. Some third-party materials are as good or better than WotC. Kobold Press - run by ex-WotC/TSR guys - is a mark of quality above WotC in my book. Sandy Petersen's 5e Cthulhu Mythos book is a masterpiece. Several others I could name too. Darn kids! You want everything handed to you in a shiny book! Don't you realize that making it up - or at least editing it, combining it, messing around with it to see what happens - is all part of the fun? [/QUOTE]
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