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I want it to be so obviously bad I have no desire to see it and be disappointed. I would find that to be a good service. Or they can call the maguffin in the film the Gygax.

I'm a D&D player so clearly I'm an orphan with no family of any kind and was raised by a tribe of forest gnomes whose entire village burned down in an orc attack. Mother's house? Pshaw.

Definite benefit of stuff at pandius like the overview I linked above is that's it's all free. The organization of the website leaves something to be desired but if you with for it you can find almost anything. The overview may be fan-written but it's all summarized from official sources and...

The 10 second rule. Maybe the players don't outright enjoy it but it does work. I think combat takes too long and my wife, one of my players, doesn't really like it. It's her least favorite pillar. So on their turn players have to declare their action within 10 seconds or they Dodge, instead...

The lore is good in Guide to Monsters and Tome of Foes. Lots of good stuff to make you think and stuff you can add to a game. The stat blocks are just secondary, anyway. There's nothing in Monsters of the Multiverse that would compel me to buy it.

Maybe they should just set base movement to 25 feet. Then no one has a negative! Instead of humans having 30 feet of movement they have "your base move increases by 5 feet".

This is something I've wanted since the first moment I saw Background in the free rules - even before the PHB came out. I can't see WotC ever doing this. "33 New Races!!!!" is what sells. Not "33 New Backgrounds". I can't see WotC ever doing that, though. To me, a PC's race isn't nearly as...

Yup. WotC eliminated culture from character creation and replaced it with... nothing. I honestly don't think the designers have the skill or ability to do something interesting with it. Level Up stripped it out of race and made it an additional part of character creation. It works well and is a...

With the low-mediocre quality of recent official material I see no reason to give what WotC publishes more weight than other material.

I get the feeling the people who did the heavy lifting making D&D a good core system aren't the people working on D&D now.

My negative, cynical take is that you'll eventually get to the point where there's no "type" to play against. It's like Drizzt, but for every race in the book (except humans, whom WotC will continue to make boring). When everyone is special then no one is really special. Also this from Crimson...

Module Code. Though if they are BECMI modules they go in that order and not alphabetical.

It's why I used a question mark. Maybe it's just coincidental. I don't have kids and have no idea what a modern 12-year old would like. I know what 12-year old me would like, but that was a few decades ago.

Fey are cool and humans, dwarves, and halflings are boring. I think it's simply that. Personally, I hate fey this and fey that. Wild Beyond the Witchlight was an easy pass. Making more and more things fey is just going to get me to pass on whatever WotC is pushing. Maybe the idea WotC is...

There really isn't one from an official source. Module X1 has very, very brief descriptions. The best best bet is something from a fan site like pandius.com, which has documents that provide a good overview. Try this link: The Newbie's Guide to Mystara

To expand on my above post: I bought Level Up sight unseen. I didn't follow the development at all. I bought it solely because I trusted Morrus et. al. to make something interesting. Got my PDFs and was blown away by the chargen section. Lineage+Culture+Background (I think I have the terms...

I don't mind the ability score thing so much. Since 2015 I've allowed PCs to take one +1 from an ability score with a +2 bonus and put it anywhere else to a maximum of +2 and regular humans can take one +1 and put that anywhere else for a maximum of +2. Xanathar's was fine but slight enough...

No sale. Easy pass. Haven't purchased a 5e WotC product since November 2018. I've purchased lots of 5e 3rd party stuff, though. And other RPG stuff. I just don't think I'm WotC's marketing target.

Well, The Smiths for sure.

I have no idea about Marid. As for Dao, I assume the word is derived from Persian, but I don't know Persian.