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So I'm not the only one who is hooked on those! Gah, brings back memories of my copy of the Rules Cyclopedia when I was a kid... I love listening to them on my commute.

My first DMing experiences using a non-homebrew setting were with Planescape, which remains my favorite legacy setting to this day. Despite my handle, I'm not actually a big Realms fan. My two attempts at starting Realms campaigns in college fizzled fast, and I never really know what to do with...

Really what I think WotC should do with settings that they really have no intention of republishing (that is, if they don't), is set up "fan committees" that can be in charge of establishing standard rules, canon, and vetting DMsGuild fan products for the settings. They did something rather like...

This sounds like Star Wars fans, too. You just can't recapture the magic, because a big part of it is the newness, and how it hit you at a certain time in your life. I can't really recreate getting my D&D Black Box and Rules Cyclopedia when I was 9, watching the Star Wars trilogy for the first...

A Magical Medieval Society by Expeditious Retreat Press.

Axe of the Dwarvish Lords 10 Blade of Avernus 14 Eye of Vecna 18 Hand of Vecna 20 A hand? Yeah, I've got one of those, too. What's so special? Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad 23 TAR-DIS! TAR-DIS! TAR-DIS! Orrery of the Wanderer 18 Ring of Winter 9 Staff of the Forgotten One 9 Sword of Kas 22...

Those are good points. I just stick to ones that look interesting and are popular - or preview it on The Trove (though if I'm going to use something in a game that isn't out of print, I always pay hard cash for it). Also I'm a laptop DM, and I can't imagine DMing without one at this point -...

Most of the 3pp stuff is... and the rest is at their sister site, DMs Guild...

Axe of the Dwarvish Lords 12 Blade of Avernus 17 Eye of Vecna 20 Hand of Vecna 21 Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad 21 Orrery of the Wanderer 18 Ring of Winter 13 Staff of the Forgotten One 13 Sword of Kas 22 Wand of Orcus 15 Wyrmskull Throne 15

Here Be Dragons is published by Evil Beagle Games. You can find it on Drive Thru RPG easily - just type in "here be dragons 5e" and it will be the first thing on the list.

Well, that probably just made him even more conservative in his approach...

Though HotDQ + RoT were primarily written by Wolfgang Baur, longtime TSR/WotC designer and writer, so they weren't exactly going far from home. (And given everything else I've ever seen by Baur has been fire, I'm not sure what went wrong there. Perhaps he tried to constrain himself to creating...

Most of the really good 5e monster books have already been mentioned, but let me add a few that might be under your radar: Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos 5e - OMG OMG OMG I can't rave about this book enough. If you like the mythos and run a 5e game that incorporates or is influenced by it, RUN...

Well, being a laptop-using DM I find PDF more convenient - particularly for adventure modules and monster books - I often can't resist the lure of print, either, especially when such beautiful books are being produced today. For my 38th birthday on Sunday, I just treated myself to the print...

I cut my teeth on the Black Box, and one of the things I loved about it was that it taught newbie DMs how to D-I-Y. You'd stock part of your first dungeon... and then you were given a map with almost everything (except the dragon and the treasure hoard) to stock... and then given pages of...

Go to a store for RPG stuff? This is 2020! We have DriveThruRPG.com! It's all right there, man!

NOICE BEAVUH!

Axe of the Dwarvish Lords 21 Blade of Avernus 22 Book of Exalted Deeds 15 Draakhorn 4 Eye of Vecna 22 Hand of Vecna 17 Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad 24 Orrery of the Wanderer 20 Ring of Winter 16 Ruinstone 11 Staff of the Forgotten One 19 Sword of Kas 21 Wand of Orcus 25 Wyrmskull Throne 17

These adventures sound like they'd fit very well with a Midgard Southlands campaign. I'm there, dude.

Ah, okay. I think I see where you're coming from. I usually define anything that long as a "campaign" or "adventure path". In my parliance, an adventure module is anywhere from about 2-32 pages and will usually take anywhere from 1-4 sessions to play through. The monster campaign books that WotC...