Recent content by FitzTheRuke

That's Themberchaud, who's a bit of a joke as a Fat Dragon, as seen in the D&D Movie. He was in Gracklestugh in Out of the Abyss. Here he's shown fighting the 80's Cartoon Characters. Or in other words, he's not supposed to look like what dragons normally look like. (That said, they HAVE been...

I don't rely on Dungeons & Dragons as my source for Q1 sales. We don't normally have D&D books to sell before May. Keep in mind that the MM24, which came out in February '25, was supposed to be out in '24 Q4. And Q3 and Q4 D&D books almost always sell better than Q2 ones. There's a reason why...

Believe it or not, TEN. It was ten years ago that Hickman did his Secret Wars!

That will be true if we don't hear anything by the end of February. Otherwise, it's all fine and sensible.

I more than agree. Have you ever read Perkins' 4e update from Dragon Magazine of Against the Giants? It was excellent. It even had a fourth location, the Crag of the Stone Giant Thane. When I heard that adventure line was going into TFtYP, I had hoped to see that one, updated once again...

I don't disagree with your criticism of it, but it has always been a good seller. I don't think they have any motivation to do what you suggest. (I think its success is down to people searching for shorter adventures rather than anything particularly well done about it).

Sounds to me like you move fast. Maybe you're just super efficient? At any rate, if I were you, I'd try to slow down a little (only because a player complained) but otherwise just keep going like others have suggested, and have a post-campaign discussion to see if it still felt too fast to that...

My relatively minor quibbles with both 2014 and 2024 D&D don't have much to do with the UAs or their polls, and yet I think the polling was terrible. I wouldn't go quite as far as @mamba nor near as far as @tetrasodium in my condemnation of the process, but I have to agree with them - the...

The only part about that that I agree with is the idea that they will look at how 4e did it, if only to attempt to use what worked there, and to avoid what did not. Whether they will come up with a successful take or not, I have no idea. But I'm pretty sure that it's coming.

I think doing more of THAT sort of thing (Remaking and Remixing Pre-5e Adventures) would make more sense than going back to 5e-ones. The best idea would be to do a little of all of it - including writing entirely new adventures. It's juggling act.

They can sell, and are selling, the current one to those folks, without any extra work at all.

I mean, it works for that as well, but they've managed to get away with that problem every edition change in history. The thing that makes this one different from all of those is that they still have the 5e Adventures in print and intend to keep selling them. That never happened before. I don't...

That would be why I've variously called it "Thirteenth".

@Whizbang Dustyboots, I can't imagine that they'd spend time updating classic 5e books when the point of "backwards compatibility" was done to avoid that. And if they did, I would expect it to come in the form of remixes, like replacing Lost Mines with Phandelver & Below (though I hope they...

I can and will but I am not back at work until Tuesday! (With one caveat: I will have to check when we last replaced copies of Strahd. They might not be the latest printing).