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Winter Fantasy, Origins, etc. are, in my experience, far better environments to play D&D and speak with the R&D team than Gen Con--which I think is what you'd want from a D&D experience. At those conventions (especially Winter Fantasy) people are there to play D&D and go to D&D Q&A events. The...

Hard choices are what interest me about role-playing. Siege of Gardmore Abbey is an adventure about hard choices; moreso if you play with the pregens.

Yes, provided the players and DM make choices in those directions. In 5e fashion, the adventure encourages those choices without enforcing them. Multiple ways to overcome obstacles.

CRs are estimates and they can't accurately account for the full effects of spells and special abilities that don't deal direct damage (i.e. her schtick). Also, bounded accuracy, and the way an encounter is written. As with Tucker's Kobolds: lower CR, ruthless strategy. From a purely physical...

Sasquatch is Rich Baker, David Noonan, and Stephen Schubert. Rich began at TSR in the early '90s and worked at Wizards until recently. Dave and Steve S. worked on D&D at Wizards for much of 3e/3.5 on many books and adventures, and Stephen Schubert led D&D Miniatures for the second half of its...

As DM I let go of the impulse to please and impress the players and instead ran the kind of session I enjoy running--interaction, character development, role-playing, intrigue, world-building, and some really great scene-work on the part of the players. There was no combat (although there...

WAAAAAAAAAAAAANT! My preciousssss.....

He's just big-boned!

Since each azer is imbued with a portion of the crafter's inner flame, perhaps the first azer was the flame itself, which crafted a shape for itself and began The Great Work. Or perhaps a spark from Moradin's anvil. Or perhaps something else entirely...

During the playtest I ran B1, B3, and L1 unmodified and it worked fine. If I were to do it today I might just keep the Building Encounters section of the DMG or Basic Rules handy and adjust the number of monsters. I'd also tone down magic items to my own taste. That would be about it.

This has been my experience. Just as the characters the players create take the story of the campaign in interesting directions, suggestions that come from outside the DM's head push us to consider characters we wouldn't have come up with on our own. I'll usually do this for about 5 NPCs to have...

Was running Dwellers of the Forbidden City via Dungeon World last year, but due to schedule conflicts we weren't able to get far. I really want to try it again in D&D5. Give your goblins spears, nets, and advantage on climbing and you have tasloi.

The 4e ecology informed the 5e MM. That ecology strived to bring the succubus/incubus closer to its roots in mythology and folklore while reconciling the conflict in its demon/devil background in D&D (very challenging). I had the opportunity to do the 4e incubus (Demonomicon) and 4e succubus...

No problem! I'm so glad you checked it out. I think it might have been more attractive as a hardcover, and gets dismissed as a paperback in shrinkwrap... however, I truly love the design idea behind that one. It's like a sandbox campaign in a monster book, with suggestive descriptions to get...

ENWorld should bronze this post and nail it to the front page forever because Kamikaze Midget is telling the truth. -Steve Townshend

I'm trying to remember whether I ever actually owned Planescape. I don't think I did, or if I did it was only briefly. High school and early college, I had to buy books used and sell/trade for stuff that contributed immediately to my campaign. That said, Torment is one of my favorite electronic...

That's cool, DMZ! I think my favorite boxed sets I ever owned were Ravenloft and Masque of the Red Death. The key points for me in those sets were Ravenloft's breakdown of gothic horror and how to run a horror game, and all the world and historical information given in Masque; since the setting...

A couple comments while I'm procrastinating. You can sample entries from Monster Vault Threats to the Nentir Vale on this page in the related articles section. The Wandering Tower, Boggle, Penanggalan, Hound of Ill Omen, and Mages of Saruun entries were a few of mine, which you can DOWNLOAD...

Bedrockgames, this was my feeling precisely. There are 2nd Edition books that (imo) have never been surpassed in the amount of practical information they held between their covers. The first Arms & Equipment Guide, for example. You got illustrations of virtually every item in the book; you got...

I'll certainly agree that Paizo is incredibly, wonderfully open. I worked on Ultimate Campaign for Paizo and I was tremendously impressed with the way they took care of me insofar as giving me all the materials I could possibly want to complete my assignment, and paying me extra for the...