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Look, all I'm saying is that I don't think it's hugely important for the DM to be completely conversant in events that are going to take place at level 8 (approximately 6 months of weekly sessions from now) so that they can run the events that take place at level 1. Should they have the general...

Sure, I'm more than willing to admit that OotA is not a pure sandbox. WotC doesn't do that. They craft an overall storyline for their various properties and the big adventure is designed to fit into that storyline. There are elements of them (especially in OotA) where the players have more...

Yes. The AL stand alone adventures are typically designed to be run in 4 or 8 hour convention time slots (with each season also getting an intro adventure that contains 5 1 hour mini quests).

OotA is a sandbox adventure with an overarching plot running through it. There are various events that are going to happen, and the players can jump from place to place in the sandbox with relative freedom until they pick up on what's happening (and then end up on their quest to solve the...

They do so because they're willing to produce them at razor thin profit margins. Few of those companies are actually anybody's day job. Heck, the BFRPG stuff you reference is literally free. Nobody's saying it's impossible to produce short adventures, just that it's not typically cost effective...

That's certainly fair. Outside of North America things get harder.

There's no reason it necessarily needs to be pay to play for these. They make a great incentive for people to DM tables, for example, or as prizes for some contest. Or you can just let people sign up for them like any other event. And inviting an admin doesn't just get you this, it also gets you...

Yeah, I guess I wasn't saying anything you didn't say, I just wanted to elaborate a bit because I think people overlook this aspect of 5e a lot. PCs and non-PCs use different rules. The fact that you can't use a particular PC race or background or feat or whatever means virtually nothing...

I can't imagine that they're really making any decisions based on a 24 hour poll on twitter. If anything it'll just be one data point in among a huge pile of market research. Agreed about the high level AP though, it's probably Planescape, or it would have been on this poll with the other usual...

Note that there's a lot of play in the term "use" here. Can you reproduce the exact PC subrace rules that WotC uses? Almost certainly not. Can you refer to a character as a Drow with no stats included? Sure. The term Drow is mentioned in the SRD a bunch. There are even stats for it in the...

FWIW, I played the Tier 2 version of Alan's module (Window to the Past) at TotalCon this weekend and it was a blast at that level as well. At one point my 5th level Vengeance Paladin had a maximum hit points of 5 after 1 round of combat. That was scary! I hadn't thought of the Alien/Nostromo...

Wow, I can't imagine a world in which Death House takes 12-16 hours, and I can't imagine playing it weekly in two hour chunks for 6-8 weeks. That's like the very definition of not a fun way to play the game IMO. 4 hours to get to the point where you hit level 2, 4 more hours to get out of the...

This is precisely what I'd like to see. There's no fundamentally different amount of effort that goes into running a season 1 4 hour level 1-4 adventure relative to a season 3 4 hour level 1-4 adventure. It's about the same prep time and it's exactly the same game time. The rewards should be the...

This, exactly this. The season 1-3 adventures are super cool, let's not penalize people who want to run them, especially now that they've become more easily accessible via DMs Guild.

You are conflating the SRD (under the OGL) and the DM's Guild. They have little to do with each other, and the contents of the SRD (and the OGL) are not relevant for producing content for the DM's Guild. In either case though, as long as you follow the relevant license (the OGL for something...

Well that's awkward, I mistook yours for a different github repo that was doing something similar (github.com/5srd/5srd.github.io). Perhaps it's worth looking at joining forces on that one...

Page 197 is Appendix C, The Planes of Existence. I don't know if it's in-depth enough for your needs, but it is there.

I'd pay good money for an OGL martial handbook that replaces the Battlemaster entirely with a far more elaborate maneuver system.

This is also common for the D&D Adventurers' League adventures, at least the few that I've run.

I expect that anything in the AP that requires the Tarokka deck will be possible to do with an ordinary deck of cards.