Recent content by Cadriel

The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga (both an artifact in the 1e DMG, a classic Dragon adventure, and a 2e adventure module) has a pretty good provenance, it relates to hags which got featured in Volo's Guide, and in 4e it was related directly to the Feywild. I think that's the "in" if they choose to do...

Listening to the Gamehole Con panel with Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins, one of the things I noticed was that they said all the current and future releases had been foreshadowed in the core books. So I started looking for hints in the Monster Manual that might have pointed to the...

One of the big negatives with the 256-page tome style of book is that the monsters are always conveniently located in the back of the book. So when you run a combat, you often have to save your previous spot and turn to the back of the hardcover, use the monster, and then flip back to your...

Kender should be retconned out of existence. Like, "Oh hey, they're actually completely normal halflings, who consider 'kender' a racial slur. Tasslehoff Burrfoot is actually insane and was only ever tolerated because he was a really, really good thief. If you play a PC like that, a red dragon...

Yeah, and beyond that there's just a lot of description, to the point where it's hard to tell the sort of "ornamental" detail from the critical game points. With the material published so far, I really think that a lot of it would be better if cut out from the overarching plotline. Out of the...

It's challenging to run the APs as written because of the poor organization of information. All of them are overwritten and actually running an area usually means flipping back and forth between 3 or 4 places in the module to get all the information you'd want to use as a DM. WotC is bad at...

I'm not Sacrosanct but I do have the book, and basically: the format is, after the "you're captured by Drow" introduction, there is about 100 pages of Underdark hexcrawl. This includes a drow outpost, general hexcrawl encounters, four set-piece encounters in the "wilderness", and four locations...

No, the only appendices in Out of the Abyss are Backgrounds (1 page of Features and Bonds), Magic Items, Creatures and Demon Lords.

I see WotC as being very focused on D&D being "iconic," and I think particularly the 1e hardbacks that had equivalents in 3e and/or 4e (Deities & Demigods, Fiend Folio, Monster Manual II, Oriental Adventures, Manual of the Planes, Unearthed Arcana) are both somewhat iconic names, and concepts...

I was thinking more of the "spirit" in setting up the poll - just like they currently call the sets of rules options they're trotting out online "Unearthed Arcana." Especially since obviously bits of the manuals are already in the core.

Just picking from the 1e hardbacks, what would you like to see revised by WotC for a 5e release? Consider similar tone & content for the monster books, and supply any clarifications in the comments.

I'm going to say yes, although I wouldn't spend the full $50 unless you plan to run it as-is. It's worth buying on Amazon for $33 or so. You could easily reskin 4 or 5 adventures from this between some very cool dungeons (I really like the design in the water dungeon) and locations like the...

I pre-ordered the hardcover, because The Spire of Iron and Crystal is a great, inventive module. I wish they had done Matt Finch's Tomb of the Iron God as well but it's a decent collection of stand-alone adventures, the kind of thing we need more of in 5e.

D&D 5e deserves a magazine that includes content like Dragon magazine used to have. It doesn't, and we are the poorer for it. Dragon+ is harmless puff interviews and previews for upcoming products, but in a way it's worse than how White Dwarf has fallen from a top-notch gaming magazine to a...

I haven't. In the first session, I had one of the PCs (aligned with the Zhentarim) get some information from Mangobarl about goblins in the Haunted Tomb adventure that turned out to be wrong, but I haven't used any of the hooks. The PCs started out having come from a caravan into Red Larch. I'm...