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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5585227" data-attributes="member: 18280">This assumes (1) that the presentation is negligible when determining emphasis and approach to material, and (2) Bullgrit's presentation/summary of the module doesn't constitute a &quot;change of content&quot; as to what is actually in the module.&nbsp; Remove those two assumptions, and Bullgrit's point is not demonstrated.....although his assumptions may be demonstrated.You can modify White Plume Mountain to make it run as a &quot;new school&quot; adventure, and you can modify &quot;Trollhaunt Warrens&quot; to make it run as an &quot;old school&quot; adventure.&nbsp; This doesn't mean that the content has not changed!&nbsp; Rather the opposite -- one changes the content to meet the new requirements, either ahead of time or (depending upon the complexity of the system being changed to) on the fly.If the point is that a module touted as a classic from &quot;old school&quot; days apparently can be made to look like a &quot;new school&quot; adventure through nothing more than tricksy word play, then I agree....and I agreed already upthread.Likewise, with tricksy word play, an Edsel can be made to seem like a Winnebago, a Volkswagon Beetle to seem like a jet airliner, and a lemon to seem like the Skydome in Toronto.I fail to see what that demonstrates, apart from &quot;language is imprecise&quot; or &quot;people can be gullable&quot;.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 5585227, member: 18280"] This assumes (1) that the presentation is negligible when determining emphasis and approach to material, and (2) Bullgrit's presentation/summary of the module doesn't constitute a "change of content" as to what is actually in the module. Remove those two assumptions, and Bullgrit's point is not demonstrated.....although his assumptions [B][I]may be[/I][/B] demonstrated. You can modify White Plume Mountain to make it run as a "new school" adventure, and you can modify "Trollhaunt Warrens" to make it run as an "old school" adventure. This doesn't mean that the content has not changed! Rather the opposite -- one changes the content to meet the new requirements, either ahead of time or (depending upon the complexity of the system being changed to) on the fly. If the point is that a module touted as a classic from "old school" days apparently can be made to look like a "new school" adventure through nothing more than tricksy word play, then I agree....and I agreed already upthread. Likewise, with tricksy word play, an Edsel can be made to seem like a Winnebago, a Volkswagon Beetle to seem like a jet airliner, and a lemon to seem like the Skydome in Toronto. I fail to see what that demonstrates, apart from "language is imprecise" or "people can be gullable". RC [/QUOTE]

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