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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8621698" data-attributes="member: 29398">A writer doesn't and can't know what any given player or group of players is going to find to be fun.&nbsp; However, a writer does know, or can be told, what a typical DM will find useful.That's just it, though - what to you is a snoozefest may to others be an excellent adventure module.Your own players, yes.&nbsp; Everyone else out there?&nbsp; Much less likely.Curious - which ones do you consider standouts?Gygax wrote two modules back in the 1e days, doubtless because he thought players would find them to be cool and-or fun.&nbsp; The presentation/layout/etc. of these modules was neither better nor worse than many others of the era, so that aspect is a wash.These two modules turned out to be among the least popular of the 1e era, and remain so today, because he guessed wrong: players did not find them fun.&nbsp; Nor, from all I can tell, did DMs.And for those few who haven't yet figured out which modules I'm referring to, they're EX1 Dungeonland and EX2 Beyond the Magic Mirror.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8621698, member: 29398"] A writer doesn't and can't know what any given player or group of players is going to find to be fun. However, a writer does know, or can be told, what a typical DM will find useful. That's just it, though - what to you is a snoozefest may to others be an excellent adventure module. Your own players, yes. Everyone else out there? Much less likely. Curious - which ones do you consider standouts? Gygax wrote two modules back in the 1e days, doubtless because he thought players would find them to be cool and-or fun. The presentation/layout/etc. of these modules was neither better nor worse than many others of the era, so that aspect is a wash. These two modules turned out to be among the least popular of the 1e era, and remain so today, because he guessed wrong: players did not find them fun. Nor, from all I can tell, did DMs. And for those few who haven't yet figured out which modules I'm referring to, they're EX1 Dungeonland and EX2 Beyond the Magic Mirror. [/QUOTE]

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