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<blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 7775082" data-attributes="member: 17913">Definitely not a fan. My biggest issue with most adventures is that they are too wordy (I'm guilty of this myself): running this thing at the table should be fast and easy. WOTC -- like Paizo's Dungeon adventures and then their own adventure paths -- is trying to serve too many masters by making these things (in Chris' words) &quot;gorgeous&quot; and &quot;fun to read.&quot; That's wonderful, and I get why they're making those goals equal to &quot;thoughtfully organized&quot; but no, none of this makes it &quot;easy&quot; for most DMs to run, I'd argue. Reading an book and running and adventure are two different things. But there's a HUGE audience that buys this stuff just to read it, or to pull it apart in a manner that does require the reading part to be good because they aren't really running the adventure as it is presented; it's more a sourcebook.Here's hoping smaller publishers and adventures, as well as DMsGuild authors don't follow this structure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="timbannock, post: 7775082, member: 17913"] Definitely not a fan. My biggest issue with most adventures is that they are too wordy (I'm guilty of this myself): running this thing at the table should be fast and easy. WOTC -- like Paizo's Dungeon adventures and then their own adventure paths -- is trying to serve too many masters by making these things (in Chris' words) "gorgeous" and "fun to read." That's wonderful, and I get why they're making those goals equal to "thoughtfully organized" but no, none of this makes it "easy" for most DMs to run, I'd argue. Reading an book and running and adventure are two different things. But there's a HUGE audience that buys this stuff just to read it, or to pull it apart in a manner that does require the reading part to be good because they aren't really running the adventure as it is presented; it's more a sourcebook. Here's hoping smaller publishers and adventures, as well as DMsGuild authors don't follow this structure. [/QUOTE]

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