Re: 3e SJ races...

In a message dated 12/9/2002 10:11:39 AM, westermeyer.3@???.edu writes:

<< 'Professional' game designers wrote all of TSR's products. How many
of them were truly, truly, awful? In the old days (pre-3e) the
'amateur' written adventures in Dungeon blew away the 'professional'
written TSR adventures (like the Marco Volo series, for example).
Today, of course, no fan adventures get into Dungeon (or so I
understand, I dropped my subscription when 3e came out.)

My point is 'professional' game designers have no particular skill.
It's not a 'profession', really. Some are good, many are not. >>

Depends on just how "old" you're talking about.  Some excellent work was done
just prior to the ceasing of production for 2nd Edition.  I still haul out
old favorites on occasion from the days of Basic and 1st edition.  And there
are a few people who's adventures are usually worth a look simply because
they wrote it.