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De : noway (at) *nospam* nochance.com (JAB)
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Date : 13. Jul 2024, 09:45:12
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On 11/07/2024 16:23, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:31:05 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
 
On 10/07/2024 12:22, Zaghadka wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:28:12 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
wrote:
>
Another one of my pet peeves, monsters that just inhabit rooms waiting
to be killed by some passing adventurers. Do they never eat, sleep, work?
>
Ah, the Gygax approach. Yeah, that's why 2e introduced this whole novel
concept called "ecology." That and the idea that creatures - that should
be mortal enemies - are just hanging out in one room, never leaving,
while the other group they hate hangs out in another is silliness.
>
>
That chimes with my experience of playing AD&D 'back in the day'. We
used to run pre-written modules mixed with homebrew ones and naturally
the 'formula' of the former was the basis for the latter. Get to
dungeon, kill everything and grab the loot. We even had a DM that
dispensed with all the faff of finding the dungeon and just placed you
at the entrance.
  In fairness, while the conceit of the dungeon-crawl was fairly basic
in the day, even the early modules had the expectation of a more
robust and reactive world. But the modules were rarely written with
that intention stated outright, almost never giving out specific
alternatives and details on what to do should the players stray from
the expected path. It was left unsaid, and so many DMs -sticking to
the text- played the game exactly as written, which led to a lot of
very static dungeons where you COULD rest at will, with enemy NPCs
(who were little more than hit-points and stat-blocks) that cheerfully
remained cloistered in their assigned rooms until the players stumbled
upon them.
 Worse, this behavior became self-reinforcing to a point where players
played the game and then expected that's what D&D was about, and so
created their own modules that were loot-heavy combat-focused
dungeon-crawls. But I don't really see that as the intent of TSR and
Gygax. It was just a result of the style of writing; of creating a
fairly bland 'sand-box' setting that expected the DM and players to
give it life without providing much in the way of assistance on how to
do that.
 That D&D -and the hobby- was so new was partly to blame, of course. It
wasn't really known what sort of assistance players would need in this
area. Especially since -at the start- TSR couldn't even /imagine/
adventure modules would be a thing; surely, they thought, everyone
would just make their own adventures rather than buy a pre-build
adventure!
 And TSR's own format hampered them as well; early modules were quite
short in page count (24pp) but expansive in territory. They often
included multiple cities and dungeons, and there was only so much
detail and advice they could squeeze into every booklet. Later
adventures became smaller in scope, longer in page count, and a lot of
this extra space was generally used to enliven the settings beyond
just listing the inhabitants and contents of each room... because the
authors learned that players /needed/ that extra detail if they were
going to do anything beyond a brain-dead dungeon-crawl.
 (In fact, I've read that the world's most famous dungeon crawl module,
"Tomb of Horrors", was written as a take-down of this sort of
gameplay. 'So this is the sort of dungeon crawl you want? Well, here,
delve into this and watch your characters suffer and die.' I guess the
hope was players would bash their heads against the ruthless
difficulty of Acererak's dungeon and learn to play smarter ;-)
 The TL;DR is that while a lot of D&D modules come across as fairly
uninspired dungeon-crawls (and undeniably that is how most of them
actually /were/ played), I don't get the impression that's how the
writers EXPECTED them to be played.
 
Is that's really what they thought I haven't seen any real evidence of it and they did an awful job of saying that's how the game was supposed to be played which is what I would have expected at least somewhere.
There really is almost nothing in the official written material that pushed forward that's how the game was supposed to be played.
For Tomb of Horrors my understanding is that it was a Gygax 'special' designed for tournament play and to really tax the players brains.

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