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My homebrew for AD&D 2E used this kind of system. Certain actions had action point values that you added to your initiative roll to determine when your next action was along the track. Movement was usually considered to be part of the action if you wanted it - you determined where you were...

When it comes to dwarven cities you can't beat Milby's Brazenthrone. They're maps, not adventures, but they are fully labelled in a way that makes running them easy.

There's Aka5hic Mysteries which brings Dreamscarred Press' Akashic Mysteries from PF1 to 5e. (Akashic Mysteries bring 3.5's Magic of Incarnum to PF1 but more balanced.)

Mystara IS Earth's past. Just look at Mystara's world map. Our complete lack of magic is due to overuse of the Nucleus of the Spheres.

I've always considered this more of a setting book. I'd recommend using your chosen system's exploration and survival rules (in this case Shadowdark) and use the random generation tables and setting from Wyrd & Wild. They work well enough.

Out of curiosity, how do you all organize your Dyson maps collection, if at all?

It mentions Lost Mine but not Dragon of Icespire Peak?

Please refer to items #2 and #3 in the first post. In item #2 Bargle is seen to have a long, white flowing beard. However in item #3 the culprit clearly has a somewhat shorter black beard. Why we are trusting the spell-addled mind of a simple fighter over visual evidence is a mystery to me...

Sadly, there used to be a massive version of this map but I can only find the version for ants, now.

I don't have it with me at the moment to reference but it had all sorts of advice on scene structure, combat structure, adventure structure and campaign structure. It also talked about practical matters like player types, preferences and goals. This was on top of all the 4e specific information...

It IS possible to write a DMG that teaches you how to run the game AND is still useful to experienced GMs. The 4e DMG is an example of this. I had been a DM for over 20 years when I picked it up and it was still a great read.

Anyone brought up Thunder Rift yet? A setting for people using the free SRD documents only?

Controller used to be a primary role in WoW that was effectively eliminated after an expansion or two. Probably for the same reasons.

This one by Crooked Staff Publishing has always inspired me to create settings within it. If you look at where there are ruins, where there are clusters of civilization, where the terrain is - it all suggests a story that can be told many different ways.