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If you want Mystara in 5E, this fan-created guide is very thorough...

There are some Mystara products that TSR/WOTC released for free years ago at the below link. Previous Edition Dungeons & Dragons Downloads

Okay, but good by what standard? Good by the standards of 2e or 3e? Or good by the standards of 5e? The time limit in Tomb of...

Interesting abilities are more valuable to me than +1 to Hit or Damage, like adamantine weapons that are great at going through objects...

To be fair, anything that taxes the PCs hit points and/or causes them to spend limited resources equivalent to what they would...

A reminder that the guidelines say 6-8 encounters, not 6-8 combats. Anything that potentially uses some limited resources (such as spell...

With the fragmentation of the market after the OGL debacle, I think you'll be seeing the number of 5E products taper off, at least somewhat.

You're not wrong. Best way around this I can think of is to make the boss inaccessible or impossible to damage until some other...

Most of the "badwrongfun" arguments I've seen on this forum since 2014 have been complaining about 5E.

I’d argue that for those folks it isn’t a better game experience. These things are subjective.

The brilliant thing about 5E is.that it works both ways...push the party as the written Adventures tend to, and it works like a charm...

And not infrequently also inflicting the poisoned condition. I know I've run monsters like that quite recently, though admittedly I...

Not sure what you mean by this. Poisons in both the 2014 and 2024 version of 5E frequently inflict the poisoned condition, which means...

And for those people, the 2014 DMG offered the (admittedly poorly named) “gritty realism” variant resting rules. Short rests take 24...

Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...