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he compared GG and OSE / Necrotic Gnome. For GG he got 50% play, for OSE 70%, so no, it is not uncommon. The question simply is which of the two you should go for as a designer (and maybe why you do not write a novel instead when you go for the reader-audience)

yes, I believe they are in conflict at least. Up to a point you can satisfy both, but you won’t be great at both. So at some point one will have to take precedence, but you clearly can have adventures that are bad at both ;)

yes, there definitely is a part of the hobby that enjoys just reading the stuff. Ben’s argument of 50% of sales are not to run the module is bad falls apart when you do not care whether you got the sale because someone wants to run it or not, as long as they just buy the damn thing. I am not...

Clearly they did, but it is also not just them being a complete outlier, I have looked at dozens of kickstarters per year, and 3 years or so ago x 2.5 the first two days was a good approximation of the end result. This factor has been gradually decreasing and is now basically x 2 to x 2.1. This...

They definitely mimic the TSR style, whether that is a good thing is another matter. One could argue that it is intentionally ignoring 40 or so years of progress in usability

yeah, the Kobolds also had (/have ?) that issue, probably esp. in the long adventures rather than their adventure collections. Good thing they only have two long ones :D

it is only somewhat ahead of a trend that has been going on for years. As I said, I now use 2x the first two days, this one did 55% in them, so not too far off in relative terms.

I have no problem with it being on a per case basis, but at a minimum I see it as a universal approach, not one subclass for defilers, one for preservers, and all the others do whatever they also do in FR and Eberron

So, Critical Role on Amazon?

The flow may be better, but finding the thing you need in the moment while running the game, not so much.. That is the advantage Ben saw in the OSE approach, that it presents the information in a way that is easy to look up rather than as a novel with interspersed stat blocks I agree that...

neither am I My understanding is you either preserve or you defile, there is no third choice, and that is true for all casters, so not just one subclass each. If the new DS breaks with this and has one subclass for each, then to me it is a failure just for that

the trend of ever stronger frontloading has been going on for a while, I started at 2.5 times the first two days and am now at 2 times the first two days, ands this one still was more frontloaded than that

I certainly see a benefit in having some kind of visual divider over everything just flowing together in one long text. The monsters do not really stand out much either, which was one of Ben's complaints, along with having the same stat block four times on about as many consecutive pages. He...

correct, that still makes the UA one a failure