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I would add a least two more: 1. I cannot run a monster from its stat block alone in many cases. I have to look up spells. Nope, not going back to that. 2. Building a new monster or NPC is only marginally less complicated than it was in 3.xE. Nope, not going back to that either. Both of these...

And as I pointed out in another thread, that's patently false. I can make an interesting, tactically-rich short encounter using only minions. If I want to make it difficult, I use minion artillery. If I want to make it last a bit longer, I use over-level minion soldiers. But, basically, I can...

The 4E MM was an abomination on every level, due to choices made by its lead designer. He chose to leave out the interesting bits. He chose to leave out "regular" monsters because he wanted more of a Fiend Folio feel. He also used at least three different iterations of the earlier monster...

Yeah, the links in those posts make that thread particularly worthwhile. Also, anything by Pemerton about skill challenges is worth reading. Ignore the WotC advice; just read his.

I wonder if it might be worth looking at the githyanki-related stuff that accompanied 3.5E's Dungeon 100 and its theme of githyanki invasion? I suspect there's also some ideas to steal from the otherwise lamentable later adventures in the Scales of War pseudo-adventure path. (BTW, it amazes...

Josh Sawyer is a good name to have attached. He did some great work on the BG series and also started a fantastic thread over at RPG.net after the 3E FRCS came out which was page after page of adventure and campaign hooks.

I started in 1981 and went to a "heroic adventure" model from pretty much the first adventure that I ran. The Four Yorkshireman-style of play that a lot of old schoolers prefer just never grabbed me. I wanted something that felt like fantasy fiction or even fantasy cinema, not that there was...

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. I stand corrected.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?407901-ideas-for-infiltrating-or-getting-info-on-a-crime-syndicate

Matt mentioned in his WotC interview something about a top secret project involving WotC. Knowing his affection for the adventure, and my own desire to see a fresh take on it done by someone who has actually run so knows its weak points, I was simply hoping this might be it.

I actually like the Essential classes especially the knight. But the slayer has also proven its worth in play, as has the thief and the berserker. Heck, even the bladesinger worked in our group. I think Essentials was designed to fail. It was a fake revised edition that sold a few products to...

You could be right. I wondered about OotA as well but the best part of Night Below without DM rewriting is the surface part. Anyway, a Pendleton Ward-flavoured Feywild adventure sounds fantastic.

The Book of the Tarrasque could be really interesting.

Yeah, the first run of Conan was a complete publishing disaster but some of the later Conan books, especially those with Vincent Darlarge (sp?) as a writer, were amazing.

I hope you are right. I had the feeling that this would be the year of simply going back to AD&D for ideas and that nothing "different" would pop up until next year at the earliest. (I'm actually expecting Night Below to be remade/reimagined as the next product this year, with possible input...

I'm really excited to see what Keith will eventually put out there. Having his personal take on Eberron, unfiltered by people at WotC who sometimes did not grasp the setting, is going to give his products extra flavour. Sadly, I don't expect we will see anything this year.

Great article. I have read this a few times. I was burnt a few times by bad products from Mongoose - as were many others during the Great d20 Spam Explosion - but Elric of Melnibone seems to be widely praised. Fortunately, I put aside my hardwired dislike of the publisher and grabbed the PDFs...

Sorry, but nothing as clear as that could be called Gygaxian.... ;) Anyway, I am sincerely grateful that WotC came along and rescued the D&D brand from the Gygax-, Blume-, and Williams-imposed doom. And, yes, they're all guilty of appalling mismanagement. Now, back to the topic. I'm running a...

Tell him to rule of cool the whole bloody lot! It's 4E - not 3.5E - so it's basically well-balanced across the whole product line. And if you use the whole product line, you can also use the offline Character Builder, the offline Compendium, and the offline Monster Builder without having to...

Apparently, Gary didn't design the thief - or psionics, or 1E's "idiosyncratic" take on unarmed combat - so he just blamed other people for the mistakes and lack of clarity and moved on. He didn't quite grasp what it meant when your name was on the cover.... And, yeah, Gary's "one true...