Comments on: Beware the Dangers of Writing an Adventure Entirely for Yourself Instead of Your Game Group http://www.livingdice.com/2597/beware-the-dangers-of-writing-an-adventure-for-yourself-instead-of-your-game-group/ Gaming. It's in the blood... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LiquidWeird http://www.livingdice.com/2597/beware-the-dangers-of-writing-an-adventure-for-yourself-instead-of-your-game-group/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 LiquidWeird Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:06:38 +0000 http://www.livingdice.com/?p=2597#comment-1477 Yeah, you wrote a ten-percenter game. That would be like an episode of the Simpsons where the only humor was the obscure references. Hilarious for a very few, boring for everyone else. Sad to say, when you write modules for the masses, you've got to target the droolingest, brain-deadest, F'eye-Tor playingist basement troglodyte you can imagine, then drop it back a few notches. Throw in some one percenter jokes to keep from going too crazy. Seriously though, I fall into this, too, moreso when I was in college, though, running the game I wanted to play rather than the one my players wanted. They weren't dumb, but they didn't much care for deep arcane secrets, they wanted a horror-action thriller, not a horror-occult psychodrama. Yeah, you wrote a ten-percenter game. That would be like an episode of the Simpsons where the only humor was the obscure references. Hilarious for a very few, boring for everyone else.

Sad to say, when you write modules for the masses, you’ve got to target the droolingest, brain-deadest, F’eye-Tor playingist basement troglodyte you can imagine, then drop it back a few notches. Throw in some one percenter jokes to keep from going too crazy.

Seriously though, I fall into this, too, moreso when I was in college, though, running the game I wanted to play rather than the one my players wanted. They weren’t dumb, but they didn’t much care for deep arcane secrets, they wanted a horror-action thriller, not a horror-occult psychodrama.

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