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They created a completely new hobby and have inspired countless movies, comics, novels, etc. I don't think you're being fair to the creators of version 1.0 of something as grand as D&D. The entire game, with all its warts and flaws, was an original idea that opened up worlds and a cultural...

Good insights on why Greyhawk has such appeal. There is obviously more than one reason, and even though I was never a fan I wouldn't mind seeing support for it. It's a very "mineable" setting, if they write it up correctly. So even if you don't run a Greyhawk campaign, you can easily take...

Lies. This is what the inside of WotC really looks like.

Flanking brings to mind three things to me. The first is from the "real" world. I put that in quotes because this is just from my limited experience. I haven't been in a real fight since high school. I'm not an expert martial artist, but I've been taking kung fu for the last two years...

Started Birthright. I love the style of the setting and it's easy to convert to 5e (some fan conversions already out there for much of it). It's sort of a bonus that it probably won't see any official support anytime soon because I can develop my campaign however I want without fear of...

I would. Thanks for the work, that's a good list.

Some enjoy it, but I've always found the "preparing camp" thing to be as tedious as getting out the 10 ft poles and checking every square inch of dungeon corridor mentality. It's not always the player's fault these things happen of course, it's mostly adventure design and DM's. In a dungeon...

Because I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. I like reading fluff and crunch of RPGs because it interests me, even if I have no intention of actually using it. When I read something that I dislike, I complain on the Internet because sometimes designers read those comments and I'm hopeful...

Magic missile automagically hits.

I used to buy all my gaming books from Waldenbooks, and for one reason: That's where my parents took me. OP has a point, especially about younger people trying to figure out what to buy.

raises hand I was 16. She did not like the pictures of demons and devils in the 1E AD&D books. Moved out soon after. I still consider myself Christian, but that, among other events, taught me to embrace the philosophy of Christianity (one word sums it up: kindness) and to ignore the dogma.

I dropped Greenest into my Birthright campaign in the realm of Coeranys, and my two player characters are nearly at the end of the first section; They did a couple of encounters on the way to the keep, the tunnel, mill, sally port and temple missions successfully, passed on one to rest, bravely...

There are a lot of little things I'm hoping will be in the book, but what I'm really hoping for is options. I want this DMG, in addition to giving us rules that we need to run the game, to be the answer to the question of "Where is 5e's modularity?" When they first started designing this...

Since HotDQ came out the same time as the PHB, I'd say it's understandable why the final boss doesn't have legendary actions and saves, but ideally he should have them. Regardless of whether you think it's OP or not, the nature of spells like polymorph causing anticlimactic fights is why...

Yep, execution of the idea wasn't well done. Better materials these days fixes the main issue. As far as alphabetical order, yeah, it's an issue, but not a big one. One solution that comes to mind is something people want for all the books: PDF distribution in addition to the printed...

My only quibble is that I still miss the three ring binder form factor of the 2e Monstrous Compendium. It was modular, customizable, expandable, and laid flat on the table during the game. It's a nitpick though, I really love this book.

If they add value like with leather covers, and some additional content, perhaps an extra appendix or two (new spell lists, etc) I would buy them and even pay more. If it's just errata, I don't want to pay just for that, a PDF works fine.

I'm running a Birthright campaign, and in the original rules I noticed that spells like raise dead and resurrection were "discouraged". The setting features rules for letting PC's be regents of domains, rulers of kingdoms, and it made sense in that when a ruler is killed, bringing them back is...

Very impressive work here, thank you for posting; I believe someone else referred me to it on rpg.net. I'm going to work on the domain rules, as I anticipate using them. Fortunately they don't need much work to convert. This helps a lot on the adventuring side, though I will probably tweak...