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I liked the three column, expanded article format. Might just be because I'm using a live-feed to access the site (so I know when something's new and have easy navigation back to the old anyway). I'm sure I'd get used to whatever you choose, but that extra click to expand the article does...

(Sorry to derail the thread, OP! Not my intent :)) Keterys, that's my fault; using imprecise language. You are correct and that's the way we've been using it (for the most part--those first few levels I was not paying enough attention to the wizard's castings). In the first case (with the...

That's not a bad idea; in truth this ruling of one-roll-for-all was developed in earlier editions, and I am starting to re-think it for 5e. In 4e, there were a million "kinds" of mobs, and there it wasn't usually an issue because I was still rolling for four or five kinds of mob per AoE spell...

The 15 foot cube is centered on the caster, a rather daring elf lass in this case. Zombies are clumsy, stupid, and hungry; I ruled that as the turns rolled on they pressed closer and closer into the party, cutting them off. (I think there were a total of 13-15 of them, and they had the party...

Some live experience may be useful here: I'm DM'ing for a party going through LMoP and they've just started fussing their way through Wave Echo Cave. (Some minor spoilers for those of you doing LMoP!) In one encounter, they were ambushed by a swarm of stirges; they were surrounded. The wizard...

Just a brief update: my players decided to investigate every nook and cranny around Phandalin before diving into Wave Echo Cave, so they spent a fair amount of time in Thundertree. In an odd turn of events, the wizard was taken hostage by the Cultists, and was (with her excellent elf hearing)...

I'm a somewhat conservative DM in that I always try to think of how widening a class feature might unbalance the game in a way that would make it un-fun for other players. The Eldritch Knight is a fighter derivative focused on damage-dealing/preventing. All of its abilities/class features...

One other avenue to consider might be that the Redbrands might be the next active agency; they might go looking for anyone "new to town" who would have the gall to burn down their favorite tavern--with some of their henchmen inside it. I don't think Glastaff would take kindly to such meddling. A...

I like the idea of Psionics, but in the last few editions it was either just "Spellcasting that can avoid anti-magic fields" or else it was super-powerful without any real trade off. I can still remember my wife's psion heart-stopping a super-villain the first time they met; it was a slight...

As usual, I'm hoping for a mix of all things new and old. With the current style of play, I am expecting a whole slew of new "splat books" (if I'm using the term correctly) that are focused on new class paths/archetypes as alternatives to prestige classes. Given the "under-developed" number of...

That absolutely makes sense. Idiosyncratically, my players have done just about all of the side quests LMoP except that they have yet to investigate Thundertree. Since there are both dragon(s) AND dragon cultists there, an opportunity may just fall into my lap to have the cultists...

You're absolutely right; I hadn't considered the "time skip" option! Just got my copy of HotDQ in the mail today, so I'm rather looking forward to sitting down with it and seeing which of the options I'm going to use.

I think my first thoughts run along these lines: Premise: The PCs "know" that they're near Neverwinter, along the Sword Coast. Half of them don't have a clue where that is, the other half have read somewhat widely in the FR universe and are aware of the implications of being in that region...

Thank you everyone for the very thoughtful replies! It sounds like I have a lot more options than just "shoehorning." I'm very psyched to try it all out, now. Can't wait to get my copy of HotDQ. In the meantime, it sounds like I need to start working on the geography problem.

Ah, fair enough Mercule. I didn't necessarily mean I was going to upscale the adventure, but rather find out where (roughly) my PCs could take part and shoehorn them in at that point. What I'm curious about is if anyone has done that already, and what issues they have run into!

My apologies if this has already come up somewhere on the forums, but I feel like someone must have already considered this and come up with a smooth transition and I'm just inept at finding it! I'm loving the new 5e rules, having DM'd for various campaigns from 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. I'm running...