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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9375498" data-attributes="member: 7045072">I never found ToSK especially pretentious or more boring then many adventures. I think it has two significant flaws that prevent it from meeting its goal as an introduction to OSR/Dungeon Crawl style games.  1) Its description tends to be rather generalized. That isn't to say they are bland exactly, but they offer general description that makes it hard to describe, visualize and ultimately interact with the environment. Doors are "wooden" rather then "oak spongey with damp and time", that sort of thing - generalized environments require more work for referees and offer fewer details that draw players into thinking about and using the environment.  They make it hard to run traps, puzzles and such as things that the players find through clues and deduction. It's a common problem.2) ToSK's advice is rather simple usually and doesn't really get into the details of how to run older style dungeon adventures. It's fine, but it doesn't do much to explain WHY things are done the way they are done, or even how to run them.I think both of these issues may be a product of ToSK being one of Skerpal's earliest forays into writing an OSR offering. It was one of the first blog posts from him, and shows a lot of enthusiasm for OSR games, but maybe not as much experience as he has now. Yes it's been expanded a bit and tuned up from the first rough dungeon, but the work is still quite old.  I think back to my own earliest posted dungeons and while I like bits they would need a total rewrite to meet my modern standards.  ToSK is I suspect the same for Skerpals.</blockquote>

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