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I voted other for Hollow World. To me it's a different flavour to Mystara. I would like to see a new setting, perhaps inspired by the Three Musketeers, but not set in this worlds history. It would also easily cover pirates.

Edition wars remind the of the furore that is created when a food or drink manufacturer change the recipe of a product. Really whatever edition of D&D you are playing is the right one for you if you are enjoying it.

I am a DM for one game, and a player in another. Both games allow feats. The game I DM is for mainly very experienced players who are at 2nd level. There is one variant human with a feat. It will be interesting to see what happens when they hit fourth level who takes a feat, a who takes stat...

As both a player and a DM I see people trying to exploit the rules to their characters advantage. I am also guilty of this. However, especially with DM's hat on, I always bear in mind what a character can do in exploiting the rules, then NPC's can use that also. Therefore if you go into the...

In 3.5 Eberron you could be a dinosaur riding Halfling. A 5E barbarian Halfling riding into battle on the back of a carnivorous dinosaur could cause morale failures in their opponents. Better still a horde of them.

It also says at DM's option. As a DM I would not allow this feat to be applied to a natural or manufactured weapon. I would allow it to be used on things such as tankards, chairs and other items that are not normally weapons, but being improvised as such. I believe that this is the intent of...

In text heavy books it would be surprising if there wasn't a typo or two. The DM screen though is another matter.

Roll a fumble and then disadvantage on the next turn. Great idea, will put it to the group.

I don't have my books in front of me but my feeling is that a potion of flying once imbibed does not need concentration for it to work as per the answer by Nebulous. Therefore you are free to cast another spell whilst flying even if you need concentration. Casting the spell with concentration...

To me that brings longswords in line with how it was used in medieval times. Maces and battleaxes were often preferred in battle.

Hope that every game you play this year is enjoyable.

Pretty much the same, pets and pack animals are ignored in combat unless the situation calls for it.

Because a magic item is in the DMG doesn't mean that it has to come into play. A DM should have complete control over the items in their campaign. If you want to keep bounded accuracy at 20 then it is easy to do so.

The trouble of course is that no matter how hard we try to simulate a non-human race, we can't. We are human and think human.

A characters knowledge of monsters may not be complete, or indeed accurate. I don't think that there is a hard and fast rule on this, just take into account the characters background, class, and ability's, and how common the creature is. Under a stressful situation such as combat you could ask...

There is a lot of interesting speculation. I think it will be a players guide to the elemental planes, and a primer for the associated adventure similar to the players primers that Paizo do for their AP's. However, as it appears to be a hardback book I think it will possibly have new races...

I have DM'd Mystara, Forgotten Realms, and Greyhawk. I can see why people think they are similar, they are. However each has their own flavours also. Forgotten Realms is probably the best known setting, so it does make sense for WOTC to use that setting. Whichever setting I have used...

I have always tried to use rational tactics depending on the creatures personality, wisdom and intelligence. Most creatures would rather run to fight another day. However, in 3.5, I have not hesitated to use coup-de-grace if it was a reasonable tactic by the opponent.

I believe that errata is more likely to cover errata and typo's rather than be about rules per se. It seems about the only rule that is firm is roll a d20 and the higher you roll the better. Even then ice rolling is discouraged unless the outcome is in doubt such as in combat.

Always look up when entering a room. If its an ambush - charge.