RPG tip: Clarify what decisions lead to what types of gameplay to your players. One route leads to a dungeon crawl. One route leads to a roleplay session. #dnd #ttrpg

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Yes, and let the players make the choice out of character. Sometimes the players want something different from what their characters want. “Not dungeon-crawl duty again!”

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This is undoubtedly true. The other thing that's undoubtedly true is, the prevailing prose style before Campbell became editor at Astounding was ever so much worse than it was afterwards.

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"The Golden Age of SF" was also editorially mono-polar, in that writers tried to sell to John W. Campbell and Astounding/Analog and then would submit elsewhere when he passed, so even other magazines could have Campbell's feel/tone to their stories. It was the "default" style of the entire era.

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Me, still expecting adventure games to commonly categorize shields as weapons rather than armour parts.

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