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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 4759361" data-attributes="member: 518">Bingo. XP awarded.I don't see any &quot;Roleplay rules&quot; in my LBBS, nor my Holmes book, Moldvay/Cook/Marsh, etc. 1E DMG provided lots of &quot;advice&quot;. And imagine that, so does the 4E DMG! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I'm def not one who feels &quot;craft skills&quot; lead to more roleplay, but I guess some folks miss that stuff.I do feel that the style of adventures (say the mentioned T1) way back when provided much more inspiration for the DMs just because of the skillful but minimalist writing- Not just Gary, but certainly he was the &quot;master&quot;- T1, B2, etc had so much POTENTIAL in those small page counts - Like the &quot;chapel&quot;&nbsp; in the Caves of Chaos- Or the evil cleric at the Keep.&nbsp; I don't know about anyone else, but little idea nuggets like that were rampant and I took off with many of them. We didnt have any names of the Gods, or 50 pages of background for each God, etc- just a small nugget to build off of.&nbsp; I think thats something that is totally ignored/forgotten today where adventures and APs are detailed to death- and provide little to no nuggets to build off of.But maybe I'm getting way OT.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 4759361, member: 518"] Bingo. XP awarded. I don't see any "Roleplay rules" in my LBBS, nor my Holmes book, Moldvay/Cook/Marsh, etc. 1E DMG provided lots of "advice". And imagine that, so does the 4E DMG! :p I'm def not one who feels "craft skills" lead to more roleplay, but I guess some folks miss that stuff. I do feel that the style of adventures (say the mentioned T1) way back when provided much more inspiration for the DMs just because of the skillful but minimalist writing- Not just Gary, but certainly he was the "master"- T1, B2, etc had so much POTENTIAL in those small page counts - Like the "chapel" in the Caves of Chaos- Or the evil cleric at the Keep. I don't know about anyone else, but little idea nuggets like that were rampant and I took off with many of them. We didnt have any names of the Gods, or 50 pages of background for each God, etc- just a small nugget to build off of. I think thats something that is totally ignored/forgotten today where adventures and APs are detailed to death- and provide little to no nuggets to build off of. But maybe I'm getting way OT. [/QUOTE]

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