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From: Glenn Robb <GLENNROBB@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Least Favorite Adventure
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:11:52 -0700
My least favorite adventures are those published ones that have you
railroad your players through a storyline. Want a long-winded version of
that? It's called contrivance.

— Elton Robb

David Buehrer wrote:

> To date my least favorite adventure is Divided Assets.
>
> It was just plain boring. Halfway through the run I started adding
> to it with whatever my brain could come up with. By the end I had
> re-written the climax. My players had fun, but they came away pretty
> confused as to what the point of the adventure was. I decided that
> the point was to introduce the characters to the invae so that when
> all hell breaks loose in Chicago they'll have good reason to be
> afraid <EGMG>.
>
> -David
> --
> "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
> Art is knowing which ones to keep."
> --
> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm

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