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<blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 5015217" data-attributes="member: 1613">I think that there are subtleties to Gygax's and Kuntz's and Jaquays' (among others') map designs that were not noticed, glossed over, or intentionally ignored, during the first years of post-Gygaxian publishing at TSR.&nbsp; Some of that was quite likely intentional, in order to put a different stamp on the game, and some of that was likely the result of a catering to the market that they built:&nbsp; a generation of D&amp;D gamers who were raised on modules rather than on mega-dungeons, and who were taught to purchase designs rather than to create them.&nbsp; (I'm painting in broad strokes here, so no slurs are intended regardless of when you started to play nor whether you never DM'd or played a published module in your entire life).&nbsp; Other good examples of the open-ended design approach from the Gygax era include:&nbsp; B2, D1, D3, G1, G3, I1, L1, S4, T1, and WG5.&nbsp; Each of these modules feature areas for the DM to build further from the module's foundation, and in some cases the modules practically demand that the DM expand the module in order to manage play (B2, D1, D3, S4, and WG5).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grodog, post: 5015217, member: 1613"] I think that there are subtleties to Gygax's and Kuntz's and Jaquays' (among others') map designs that were not noticed, glossed over, or intentionally ignored, during the first years of post-Gygaxian publishing at TSR. Some of that was quite likely intentional, in order to put a different stamp on the game, and some of that was likely the result of a catering to the market that they built: a generation of D&D gamers who were raised on modules rather than on mega-dungeons, and who were taught to purchase designs rather than to create them. (I'm painting in broad strokes here, so no slurs are intended regardless of when you started to play nor whether you never DM'd or played a published module in your entire life). Other good examples of the open-ended design approach from the Gygax era include: B2, D1, D3, G1, G3, I1, L1, S4, T1, and WG5. Each of these modules feature areas for the DM to build further from the module's foundation, and in some cases the modules practically demand that the DM expand the module in order to manage play (B2, D1, D3, S4, and WG5). [/QUOTE]

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