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Proper color contrast; neon yellow text on a white background is hard to read; be aware of color blindness pitfalls too (Mork Borg gets...

The black border core books were the same text as the blue books, just different (worse) art and layout. The Players/DMs option books...

To me that screams out for something like fronts from PbtA games. The villain has a plan, which is what will happen if the PCs don’t...

3E was the first edition to have detailed magic item crafting rules in the core book. "Crafting" in TSR editions was essentially all GM...

I'm not. People tend to only desirevstuff new that day personally want. . D&D as a comedy community on a whole it's full of a group of...

You seem overly focused on this. Do you think Eberron was without theme or story? That is just silly. Of those, only Radiant Citadel...

5E never got its own setting. 5.5 is the current version of the game. WotC should make a setting for 5E -- now that is 5.5E.

Why wouldn't it? As I stated up thread, the shift away from species to background as more important for characters, and the reduction...

The math isn't different between 5.0 and 5.5, but there are differences in play based on what they changed and how they shifted things...

I am a little surprised at how new-setting averse folks here are. No wonder WotC won't ever do anything new.

If the background of your BBEG does not actually impact play, it might as well not exist at all. It's just self indulgent would be...

Another thing you can do is integrate that background into actual information the PCs can learn and/or access otherwise. it could be as...

How about: Put a very brief history/backstory at the beginning of the adventure that only has the essential information the GM will...

There were two soft cover 4E books with PC mechanical options and lore material, one for dragonborn and one for tieflings.

I think it is pretty cvlear that what we are talking about here are things like Sword and Fist. Only 3.0 did that.