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The XP tables and XP maths, including monster CR numbers, are weird, and were NOT play-tested as written now. They may well have got feedback as per above, but they never gave us tables of numbers to actually comment on or test at our tables; they gave us 'combat encounters' to test, and the MM...

Yeah, I think it's a good expansion, but to make it work you probably want to focus not just on what to Add, but also what to Take Away, given all those bits are for levels 1-4 as written. Personally, I spent a fair bit of spare time thinking about how to alter LMoP, so it blends nicely into...

I've been a player in an all-evil campaign, and the only thing we struggled with was ongoing Motivation... Mostly, as players we were all really into it, as an experiment on a different kind of play style. No-one actually got especially "evil" in terms of behaviour, more just various different...

I dunno what you guys are on, but in my games Cities are pretty much always pretty civilised, even the LE ones don't have PC's or NPC's just going around killing people because they exist, in fact violence in general isn't something you do in public view. I guess it starts with the DM, and ends...

Another interesting Urban adventure is "Murder in Baldur's Gate. It was written for the 5e playtest, so you'd need to tweak some stuff including the stat blocks (most are in the 5e MM), and it probably works a lot better for 2nd or 3rd level PC's as not 1st. The best parts of the adventure...

This is the main one I try and use, in preference to the PC-Game style, "talk to NPC, get Quest". When we say NPC, it could be people, organisations, monsters, or whatever - the key point being there's one or more sources of Conflict, which the PC's i.e. Players feel motivated to do Something...

The Age of Worms did an interesting job with Alhaster, basically a LE city that the PC's spend some time in a couple of times through the adventure path / campaign, definitely at the high-level end. It mixed up some twisted intrigue with the ruler and various other high-fliers, with more...

Do dragons have opposeable thumbs in your world? I mean, in my experience that's where animal companions generally fall down - they can't interact with objects like humanoids can. Also, their ability to Fly greatly surpasses that of any other PC race. To be honest, I really don't know why...

Totally agree - if dumped into a foreign environment, with savage beasts chasing them, I think most players would figure "fight now" is the best option, rather than bother trying to run away in a land they don't even know, then you'll be trying to force them to run away with no real choices for...

Unfortunately this reminds me of a 3.5 campaign I was running once, well mostly it was a certain player because the same "style" came up from time to time in later games including my first go at 4e, at which point he finally stopped playing (I should have really nixed it earlier). The problem...

Hopefully you know what level your PC should be ;-) Honestly, that's all you need to know... If you are joining an existing group, just pick whatever takes your fancy from the PHB. There are no truly terrible choices in there, and you'd have to assume that the group already has some sort of...

D&D is notoriously 'unrealistic' in how it handles ranged combat in general, e.g. moving and shooting vs taking time to line up a good shot, shooting up or down vs 'flat', 'point blank' shots, etc. But the whole combat system is very abstract. So keep it simple - you measure distance exactly...

At the risk of derailing... this is basically like me saying to a player "Yeah, I know our next campaign is Storm King's Thunder, but I'm not comfortable that your PC knows how to speak Giant, knows spells like Suggestion that can take them out easily, Fireball that will kill all their mooks...

I loved GH, not just because it represents all the old-school D&D philosophies (which are not necessarily an asset these days), but primarily because when I read the AD&D DMG, and the original Greyhawk Boxed Set, it all made sense, not just the present world, but the (limited) back-story that...

There's nothing wrong with making your campaign Episodic, i.e. short adventures which are not connected, except they happen to involve the PC's. However, you might like to have a go at making it a bit more like the X-Files, where most adventures are self-contained, but some have recurring...

Greyhawk comes from a day when *everything* that was in D&D, was in Greyhawk. It was the implied setting in PHB and DMG, then the only published setting. Heck, I still remember buying the original Forgotten Realms box set (AD&D days), having loved and DM'd Greyhawk for years; FR was different...

Was there a question in here? I'll give some comments... Tieflings are not a distinct race in Greyhawk but rather the descendents of demons (usually cambions) or humans transformed by some kind of curse or pact. As such, it's hard to justify a PC Tiefling IMO, but YMMV. Drow are CE, there is...

I'm not seeing what Patron this Warlock has chosen; it's a mechanical thing that has to be chosen at 1st level as it grants spells and a power. To me, that's a big deal. For example, I like the idea of Vol being the Patron, but for me it doesn't make sense for her to be a Great Old One, or a...

I've DM'd 3.5 to level 23, 4e to level 30+, and 5e to level 22 or thereabouts, i.e. every one of them I've run up to the top-end of the chart, maybe a little over with Epic add-ons. I certainly never got anywhere near that in my AD&D or 2E days. Anything is possible. But it's not easy, the...

Some great advice here, I'll just add a couple of things. 1) what seems obvious to the DM (and us reading this) is probably not very obvious at all to players. The players only really ever pick up on what you can help them understand, and often leaping to conclusions is difficult for most...