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But Eberon is the most supported setting outside of FR and possibly Ravenloft. There is a DMsGuild book with official support. The WotC campaign book (which many consider the best campaign book of the 5e era up until at least the new FR books), and a new WotC book on the way and several setting...

IDK, we play 5e pretty much the same way we played 1e 40 years ago. For me, as the DM, it is a lot easier to run a 5e game than a 1e game and the art is better. I also like design of monsters better in 5e (generally).

Thank you for the response and really glad to hear this part: I can't (though I guess I will have to) wait to see the final product.

That is sacrilege to most Planescape fans, but I generally agree.

Thank you for response! Any chance you can give us more insight on what the original design team thought about "modular" design and how it was implemented in 5e? You may or may not be aware, but that is an often debated subject on these boards. Also, I've been following your Odyssey work and it...

You might be interested in Mike's reply directly below your post: "I'm not sure if those specific rules would've been featured,..."

From another article I read on this topic you play people trying to fight the monster threat. I do agree it is a missed opportunity. I will still check it out to see how it compares to my Godzilla stats: Godzilla (Legendary) Godzilla (Earth)

That will only be part of the US release of the game!

We only know that some people or person wanted it. We do know a major person who expressed those desires left the company to start his own early on during the design process (before the playtest IIRC). So we do don't know how much the overall design team wanted that or how strong they wanted it.

Well I don't know that those are holes people were asking for or talked about much* during the playtest, but those have absolutely been covered by 3PP. However, how to you know they are "holes," aka areas they designed for but never filled in? I believe that is basically what you described in...

I am not sure I agree with your statement, but I am curious. What holes are you talking about? I ask primarily because whatever perceived holes 5e has I feel they have been filled by 3pp (or my own homebrew as no one does armor as DR correctly IMO).

Any DM can kill a PC or get a TPK with trivially little effort. The art of the DM is an making a challenging, interesting, exciting, and engaging encounter that doesn't lead to a TPK.

I am pretty sure I just refluffed the lighting bolt. Same damage (but bludgeoning) & dex save for half. However, that was shortly after Theros came out so it was some time ago!

Now that you asked I am realizing that everyone I play with either learned the game with my back in 1e or learned from me during 4e and 5e (and I treated those games pretty much the same as 1e). So that problem solving mindset was built into our RPG playing DNA. So I don't know how to make...

Suggestion #3: Hazardous Terrain Sometimes the biggest enemy is the environment itself. Make the environment drain resources. This can be traps, environmental effects, magical miasma, etc. This can create the 5e attrition model without stretching it over several encounters. In my games I have...