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I would like to make it, but my schedule is not my own. I definitely cannot be there Saturday night, but Friday night is a possibility. If you set up something and it turns out I can make it, I will be there.

Thanks Merric! I hope you find some stuff in there that you can use as well. And I really haven't been suffering all that long . . . ;-) I understand what you are saying, Tom. I think I have had the opposite experience, but it just might be where I was in my life during each edition. I found...

I tried to cover some of that in my Design and Development article about designing the adventures in Halls of Undermountain. Or as much as I could cover in my proscribed word count. ;-) Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (My Year in Undermountain)

Alas, it was GOING TO BE a boxed set. But if you read the last line of the article, you will see that complications arose. Hopefully Matt Sernett's follow-up article will be up soon to finish the story.

Great article, Teos. It took me back to AD&D when many monsters, including dragons, were treasure in and of themselves: dragon scale armor, dragon eggs, wyvern stingers, etc. I'm looking forward to more of your great work in DDI and beyond.

It is definitely a 4e adventure. It should have enough content for DMs to run many, many play sessions with little prep needed, and there are avenues that help a DM expand the adventure if so desired.

Some of these "classic" (non-Living) events are still being run at various places. PAX East is running one called "The Sun Never Rises" where the pre-gen characters that are provided are a part of the story. As Dave and Kevin say, people have voted with their feet in the "classic" vs. "Living"...

Lifting this from another thread: I think there are many kinds of exploration. Since DDXP, and the seminars and playtests that took place there, I have been meditating on what sorts of exploration have been supported by the different versions of D&D--and more importantly how those exploration...

I think there are many kinds of exploration. Since DDXP, and the seminars and playtests that took place there, I have been meditating on what sorts of exploration have been supported by the different versions of D&D--and more importantly how those exploration bits have been supported. I put my...

I hear what you are saying. I didn't mean to sound overly sensitive, but I probably am. Having been on the business end of some hostility (including honest-to-goodness threats of physical violence) from people when changes were made to their favorite campaigns, I might be hyper-aware of these...

Great thread. Thanks for starting it. I have a bit of experience with several different "Living" campaigns, and "improve" is a tough concept, because one person's improvement is another's rant-inducing, flame-provoking cry of "you killed my campaign." I would say that rather than thinking of...

Interestingly, GOING LAST podcast just put up a blog post on Living Campaigns: What is a Living Campaign The Going Last gaming podcast Also, Alphastream on these forums created a helpful thread that answers some questions about current Living campaigns...

I'll be there DMing whatever I am told to DM, and going to whatever seminars draw my interest. For the record, Baldman Games is also running any edition of D&D that a DM wants to run.

I've played every edition of D&D since 1979, and I enjoy 4e very much. I love being able to DM without having to keep 3 books open around me. I love how easy it is to reskin and retool monsters. I love not having one character be able to overwhelm every encounter by itself at high levels. I like...

Thank you, Alphastream, for bringing some much needed perspective to this topic. I have interviewed twice to work at WotC as a game designer/editor. Then I stopped applying for jobs there because of the uncertainty of the industry as a whole--I couldn't leave a good job and uproot my family...

For those who plan to use the Moonshae Isles as a setting, make sure you check out the hi-res maps that just went up. They do better justice to Mike Schley's work than the maps in the article itself: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Dungeon 196)

Thanks to everyone for sharing that they have enjoyed both the Backdrop article and Matt's as well. I've always loved the Moonshae Isles as a setting, so it was really a great privilege to be able to be a part of this setting. I'd love to hear people's experiences as they run games there...

Anything for you, Merric! :-D

The tricky part of trying to pin down a template or format is that you are often trying to hit a moving target. Chances are that the current adventure format from Dungeon or from one of the published adventures is already "obsolete" by the time it is published. Lead time between writing and...

For info on LFR adventures, here is another site to peruse: LFR Compendium