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<blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 2895273" data-attributes="member: 1613">Aside:&nbsp; one of the many things I miss about the industry moving away from publishing convention tourneys is that running a module as an AD&amp;D Open would provide you with hundreds of playtesters, which would really put an adventure through its paces.&nbsp; This would help to catch lots of bad design elements that would then be corrected before a module was published.&nbsp; Playtesting in general seems to be far less common for most published modules (as well as many game systems additions, like new feats, spells, magic items, etc.), and even the ones that are tested more thoroughly still lack the full-treatment that a major tourney would provide (a la the A-series modules).&nbsp; This doesn't really apply to the G-D modules, since EGG worte them and the tourney DMs ran them from the modules (which just means that they were published after being tested on the smaller scale of the Greyhawk campaign's usual 30-50 participants vs. a tourneys hundreds).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grodog, post: 2895273, member: 1613"] Aside: one of the many things I miss about the industry moving away from publishing convention tourneys is that running a module as an AD&D Open would provide you with hundreds of playtesters, which would really put an adventure through its paces. This would help to catch lots of bad design elements that would then be corrected before a module was published. Playtesting in general seems to be far less common for most published modules (as well as many game systems additions, like new feats, spells, magic items, etc.), and even the ones that are tested more thoroughly still lack the full-treatment that a major tourney would provide (a la the A-series modules). This doesn't really apply to the G-D modules, since EGG worte them and the tourney DMs ran them from the modules (which just means that they were published after being tested on the smaller scale of the Greyhawk campaign's usual 30-50 participants vs. a tourneys hundreds). [/QUOTE]

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