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This is the conclusion I'm drawing from this discussion. Seems like the sidebar on Challenge Rating (DMG, p. 82) may contain the best advice in the encounter building section: look at monster statistics and abilities, gauge them against your PCs (and players, I'd add), use your judgement. Same...

5E brings a new angle to groups of casters - circles, colleges, covens, et cetera - if you consider that the ability of an individual to maintain concentration on a spell can be thought of as a resource. I've been thinking about whether this kind of thing will become (if it hasn't already) a...

The Isle awaits! Will you be able to find the lost plateau and discover the secrets of - the Isle of Infinite Improbability? For character levels 3-undefined.

I don't think you missed anything - from what I recall it was in Mystara, south of the land mass that Karameikos was on. In the elemental planes illustration in the 5E DMG the shape of the Isle of Dread does look very similar to the map from X1 so I assume it's intended to be the same one...

If I were to pick one it would be the OGL, in a form that allows WotC to concentrate on their core competencies while third parties fill the gaps. In particular, I'm thinking they could open up electronic tool development somewhat under the licence, allowing multiple developers to have a crack...

I had the same plan, but after skimming the DMG, and having had a decent look at the PHB and MM prior to that, I liked enough of what I saw to buy in without waiting for a possible box set.

So, to get the cards you are, in effect, ripping the hearts out of these little guys? Well played, WotC - I approve.

A githyanki, a quaggoth, and a rhinoceros walk into a bar...

I don't think there is a definitive answer because blindsight comes from different sources for different creatures. It seems fair to say a bat could not see through a pane of glass with blindsight: from a basic understanding of echolocation it would detect a flat surface. But what about a...

Thanks. I adopted this approach from choose your own adventure books as a means to brainstorm alternative outcomes for scenarios and adventures. This was a response to the players in one of my early role playing groups complaining (constructively) that the game felt a bit linear and was...

Dungeons and Dragons players: spotting loopholes in the rules since '74. Jokes aside, I spent a few years working in the education sector and the experience was an eye opener - not in a good way, either. Good on you for trying to improve things.

That last sentence sounds pretty cool. I'm also a fan of running a lower magic game from time to time - nice change of pace and style.

Knowing that it may well be trivial for the PCs to figure out that the succubus or incubus is present, and knowing that the succubus or incubus itself will possibly expect this and plan for it, what does that lead to? It may just be the beginning of the dance as they seek to figure out who the...

These would all probably involve a bit of a twist on your original idea, but you might be able to use something from them. This first idea would be about on par as a challenge for your group and would be an open and shut plot. Haunted depths A ghost has a wrong to right in an underground...

I think I'd play it somewhere between the two sides being argued, a bit like Bilbo and Smaug. From the outset the dragon knows there is a creature nearby because of blindsight; if stealth is attempted and beats the dragon's perception, the dragon still knows there is something nearby but not...

Thinking the same thing here. From my understanding, if the dragon was using lair actions then it was a legendary creature; that makes the dragon an adult; as a white dragon that makes it CR 13 (10,000XP). Looking at the encounter section in the DMG, for a party of five 8th level characters the...

Yes to both of the questions in the original post. Started with BECMI in the 80s, then 1E and 2E in the 90s, 3E 2000-2005 (finished when our 4 year campaign hit the low teens and it started to feel like mechanics were getting in the way of the game too often), after a few years off gave 4E a...

There's some good material in Ray Winninger's Dungeoncraft articles.

A party of adventures pushes deeper into a series of underground caves, their faces resolute but their movements tinged with trepidation. They've been here before and things did not end well: after facing a number of perils they stumbled upon a pair of orcs, one of them a warrior and the other a...

I see that I didn't quite answer the original question so here is an addendum to my last post. For the game that has seen a few deaths here are the details: 1. At level 1, the rogue made a stealth check blunder and was quickly mauled by a pack of undead. 2. At level 2, while fighting a young...