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My first west marches game went great: IRL game, 2+yrs 'til COVID, about a dozen players, half of which were into the stronghold-building aspect.. and 2-3 players that played basically every session. My second and third attempts, online games (some with the same people that were IRL), fell...

It is so. I think the common wisdom is "people that're going to buy it, will buy it. People that're going to pirate it weren't going to be customers anyway." IMO by refusing PDFs they're just making it less convenient for their customers, they're not really losing out $$ from illicit sources...

With WotC I doubt it but, unless they drastically change their stance on PDFs but I suppose hope springs eternal 😅

I've read that the "best" version is Hackmaster's Little Keep on the Borderlands:

Notably, tremorsense specifically says that it doesn't count as sight.

Could a blinded creature, or targeting someone in a fog cloud etc. target another creature with a spell like Hold Person? In 5e, unless a creature is deliberately hiding via using an action to stealth, you can still hear the creature and know its whereabouts to attack it. But A5E's target says...

I resolved to not buy anything else on DDB for a few reasons, which makes it painful re: Cthulhu by Torchlight, but I shall check those out!

Ooo, I have not heard of that one!

Esper Genesis has a full monster book ?Threats Database?, and Monte Cooke has a good amount sprinkled through their 5e content, but Arcana of the Ancients is a great single-source. I know there are others, but those are off the top o' my head. OH how could I forget, EN recently released their...

I never touched Red Rocks in my game, I expanded on ?Baron Trask's? town a bit instead- but yours is a great recommendation!

It does. West Marches works quite well in 5e, I ran it for years- characters within 3-4 levels of one-another works fine.

Consider the passage of time, yes, with regards to how long it takes to build stuff, or how long it takes to combat opposing realms, etc. But it sounds like you're looking for domain events specifically, which I'd recommend looking around online for.. there are a fair number of supplements with...

Stick a river through Phandalin, call it Drellin's Ferry and it can get burned down :'D I ran the party levels 1-5 through some little adventures in and around helping out Drellin's Ferry.. which is destroyed pretty quickly once you start RHoD. Really made them hate the Red Hand, and got them...