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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3525799" data-attributes="member: 1106">Because arguably, with the exception of roleplaying talk to NPCs and PCs, the game doesn't really exist until you're interacting with something low level.&nbsp; Disarming a trap, fighting a monster, quelling a riot, chasing a thief, navigating a dungeon, puzzling over a mystery.&nbsp; Goggling at the DM's cool world isn't playing D&amp;D, it's just decoration to the main event.You can't avoid the specifics unless your campaign is a vacuum, as many a worldbuilder's campaign seems to be because they're painted in such broad macro strokes rather than the down and dirty meat of the game, the specifics of adventure.&nbsp; As I mentioned earlier in the thread, there's a lot more play straight off the bat with no more prep needed using Age of Worms plus a 32 page setting like Thunder Rift than there is with the FRCS plus a 32 page module like Sunless Citadel.&nbsp; As far as running a game now goes, rather than the possibility of a campaign sometime in the future, the former is, yes, a lot more useful than the latter.&nbsp; If you don't want to play, now, then that's not the case, but that just points out that your priorities are not about actually playing the game - they're about worldbuilding fetishism (and if that weren't the case you'd be more interested in making your own homebrew adventure campaign arc equivalent if Age of Worms didn't do it for you, but no, you're too busy making a &quot;world&quot;).&nbsp; But we already knew that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3525799, member: 1106"] Because arguably, with the exception of roleplaying talk to NPCs and PCs, the game doesn't really exist until you're interacting with something low level. Disarming a trap, fighting a monster, quelling a riot, chasing a thief, navigating a dungeon, puzzling over a mystery. Goggling at the DM's cool world isn't playing D&D, it's just decoration to the main event. You can't avoid the specifics unless your campaign is a vacuum, as many a worldbuilder's campaign seems to be because they're painted in such broad macro strokes rather than the down and dirty meat of the game, the specifics of adventure. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, there's a lot more play straight off the bat with no more prep needed using Age of Worms plus a 32 page setting like Thunder Rift than there is with the FRCS plus a 32 page module like Sunless Citadel. As far as running a game now goes, rather than the possibility of a campaign sometime in the future, the former is, yes, a lot more useful than the latter. If you don't want to play, now, then that's not the case, but that just points out that your priorities are not about actually playing the game - they're about worldbuilding fetishism (and if that weren't the case you'd be more interested in making your own homebrew adventure campaign arc equivalent if Age of Worms didn't do it for you, but no, you're too busy making a "world"). But we already knew that. [/QUOTE]

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