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Sigh. Because of course. Here's a [+] thread for people who want to actually talk about good information design in modules. https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-practices-for-easy-to-run-modules.716252/

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the already tired arguments about preferences and this style of module. This thread is for people who like this style of information design and want to talk about it. There are plenty of other threads to hate on things you don’t like. Branching...

Yeah. And people really, really don't want dialog in movies or TV shows to match how real people in the real world actually speak. If you don't believe me, record a conversation. Wait a day or two, then play it back. Now transcribe the thing exactly as spoken, be sure to include all the UMs...

I prefer pundits to social media, and yes, ENWorld is social media. With pundits I can go to their site or blog or YouTube channel and get what they think about a topic without all the noise of social media. I can also simply not engage with the pundits I disagree with, unlike on social media...

It applies equally to anywhere humans share opinions. Unfortunately, most people care more about being right and somehow proving their rightness to others than anything remotely resembling a conversation. There are a few pockets here and there, of course. But not for lack of trying by the...

It got north of 1.5 million views while it was up.

I think we'd have that conversation before. To me it's that genres are defined by different things. Some are plot based, others setting based, others tone based, etc. You can mix and match them easily when the different genres cover different aspects, such as a Western Romance. It makes...

Yeah. That's what set me off initially. I'm generally more familiar with OSR-style easy-to-run modules and in a fit of nostalgia started looking over some of my Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu modules. They are the epitome of walls of text you have to dig and dig and dig through to get...

Horror is also an incredibly broad genre. It’s not all gore or gross out. You also have thrills, psychological horror, gothic, zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc. Not liking slashers, for example, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t eat up zombie apocalypse books or gothic horror or supernatural horror...

Of course. To me that's a referee buying a module. Even if they're in training. Yeah. That's also one of the other big reasons I don't generally use modules.

I would argue that the power over life and death remains, it's just obscured slightly.

It’s weird interacting with someone who has such monumentally bad takes on just about everything. And yet others call you out as someone to listen to on exactly those topics you have such bad takes on. Maybe they’re getting a more curated version of you while the rest of us are drinking from the...

He’s listed in the credits for Nott. So it’s most likely him. It sounds like they digitally altered his voice. Maybe he just can’t do that voice anymore.

Exactly. That’s one of the main points here. Consciously making it easier to run games by making an effort to present modules in an easy-to-run way. The easier it is to run games the better it is for everyone. It’s such a weird gatekeepy stance to say it should be harder than necessary and far...

This makes a lot of really bad assumptions about the content being fundamentally different when the main difference is presentation. The ready-to-run module also has lore, can also be mined for ideas and inspiration, etc. The only reason players would be buying modules is to cheat. So if WotC...

Yeah. I think CR leads the charge of 5E feeling like fantasy superheroes in a fantasy superhero world. Is it me or is Sam’s Nott voice different? I’d imagine he doesn’t want to keep doing that gnarly voice he used in the live play. Especially after the throat cancer. Jester makes everything...

Information density as in more information per page, right? That’s an argument for bullet points and clipped descriptions rather than large paragraphs you have to dig through to get to the buried tidbits. Consider a 250-page module for $50 that could be easily summarized and converted to a...

Our priorities are dramatically different in this regard.

This touches on another thing I’m finding a lot of in modules, overly wordy descriptions of motives and justifications, plots and schemes, etc. Give me a terse explanation of what the baddies are up to and why. Tell me what they’re going to do if the PCs do not intervene. And give me some...

Present it twice and have a good editor. Page count is irrelevant in digital forms. If you’re dealing with printed material, you can simply provide a digital download free to those who already purchased the print version. Simple problem, simple solution.