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Given that we now play in a 5e environment that does in fact include those later official books, why would we be constrained to an earlier interpretation of the MM that ignores what has come out later? When the authors of the original books put out more material that demonstrates their thinking...

That's not what the Monster Manual says. It says regional effects go with legendary dragons, but it does not mention legendary when describing lairs or lair actions, it only says "A [colour] Dragon's Lair" and "the dragon takes a lair action". See MM pages 89, 92, 95-6, 99, 102-3, 106, 109, 112...

There is a young dragon with lair actions in Candlekeep Mysteries (not a spoiler, as I'm not saying what kind of dragon or which of the 17 adventures it's in) and it's mentioned that the room it's in counts as its lair so it gets its lair actoins. It doesn't seem to imply that it's special or...

The specific events of "Descent into Avernus" should happen in 1494, being 50 years after the events of 1444. The Baldur's Gate gazetteer chapter is where 1492 is mentioned. As I read the supplement, the gazetteer seems like a separate product, provided for those who want to run their own...

As 77IM described very well, the DMG has rules for providing stats for objects, and magic items are a class of object. The only thing different about them is that they are noted to be more resilient than a regular object of that type, giving them resistance to damage (all kinds, by default). So...

Well, at least it would let them stop paying royalties to Arneson, amirite?

The map on the top of page 314 is used for The Dripping Caves (goblin lair) in Storm King's Thunder. The map on page 311 is a re-do of the map from the sample adventure that appeared in the original AD&D DMG from 1979, so it was created by Gary Gygax (and has been re-drawn here). That book also...

I started playing in B/X and in those rules, skeletons did not have any special damage resistance to blades. I don't find that in the OD&D box set, either. The only special skeletons are the 2 HD version in a room in Arneson's Blackmoor, and in Gygax's Greyhawk, some that are "able to hurl their...

If that were the case for the labyrinth of Daedalus & the Minotaur, then there would have been no need for Ariadne to provide Theseus with the "secret weapon" of a ball of string to find his way out (after beating the big bad) - he would just have to turn around and walk back out. The need for...

So do my feet.

Too bad "number appearing" isn't a thing anymore in the era of CR and balanced encounters. That is just evil enough that I might try it sometime. That's the one thing I used it for back when I was playing in the 80s.

Am I the only one here who actually has a d30? Got it at GenCon in the mid-80s. Only found a game use for it once.

The power of voodoo. Now I just need to magic one onto my bookshelf...

I don't think Ed got screwed on that deal, as it's not like that was all he ever got paid. TSR paid $5G for the initial rights to the Realms, and in particular the contents of that first grey box, but they also kept paying him for new Realms-related product he created, including royalties on the...

It was in the original version of the adventure published in Dungeon Magazine in 2004, as part of the treasure in area 22 (along with the oil of slipperiness, which is useful during the attack). This is just one of several changes from the original versions to the 5E Ghosts product where...