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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 9378439" data-attributes="member: 86051">Absolutely true. Born out necessity, of course, but probably also because of how folks thought of and played D&D way back in the 70s. The lack of rules (compared to later D&D editions) left a lot of room for improvising and, since everybody came to the game from their own wargaming and/or history- or fantasy-loving background, that is exactly what happened. I've been running a Wilderlands hex-crawl for some time and I've started doing exactly the same - lots of improvising, lots of on-the-spot decision-making, lots of impromptu building on the decidedly weird sites & situations the various original JG publications provide, which I've found to be quite liberating.Also, having only summary data to use makes much of each session a surprise even for the DM. I mean, what do you do when the text springs "Nine blue-leafed trees connected by an old rusty chain that is spiked into the trees encircling a phosphorescent orange sphere" on you? Loving it.Thing is, though, I wanted to give the map a "Darlene" look, which has consequences. So I'm not overly bothered by a hex or two not entirely conforming to what an original says (although it still nags), especially since mismatched texts in original publications already forced me to do so on occasion.What I do find a pity is that I can't get the JG10 map to match the later maps, coz that would really be something. But I guess it is what it is.</blockquote>

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