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My pitch is brief: 5e it's not the same game as 4e, but you can try it out for free and see if you like it. Perhaps you'll dig it, perhaps not, but trying out 5e certainly doesn't mean giving up on 4e, or vice-versa.

So, I'm starting a new 5e game on January and I'd like players to choose which setting we're gonna game in, and I think Primeval Thule is the kind of setting that'll appeal to most of them. I'm planning to get a PDF copy soon, but I'd like to know which version is easier to convert to 5e- PF...

Yes, as long as I have the necessary space and guarantee nobody will spill their drink or whatever on it. About half of the time, one or both of these conditions aren't fulfilled, though!

My villains are almost invariably intelligent creatures (humanoid or otherwise), or at least very charismatic creatures who like think of themselves as intelligent. The most nuanced villain I've ran so far was a refluffed Simbul for a FR 3.5 campaign, in which she was a somewhat despotic...

I confess I'm not a big fan of DMGs and, honestly I could've run most of my 3e and 4e era games without one. 5e's DMG is, IMHO, stellar. It has made me a much better DM than I was about a week ago, so I'll go with option 1.

<25%, meaning "I avoid it unless the party is really small or lacking in some capability it definitely needs to succeed in the adventure".

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide D&D 5e's DMG is a top-notch work of art, both beautiful and useful to tailor your campaign according to your favorite playstyles. It may be not as packed of "optional modules" as some people expected, but to me this is one of the best...

I'll probably have to wait til December the 15th - 17th. I haven't finished the MM yet, though, so it's not like I'll be able to read it any sooner than that!

I don't know if someone mentioned this so far, but a while ago on twitter someone asked Mike Mearls if losing Improved Darkvision would be an acceptable tradeoff to get rid of Sunlight Sensitivity, to which he answered "yes". This would follow the Drizzt logic of "I spent so many years on the...

4 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual I love 5e MM, especially when it comes down to its inspiring fluff, though in my opinion the new statblock format could be better and some of the same-species monsters (such as dragons and giants) could've been streamlined a lot without...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook As someone who started gaming with AD&D 2e, the 5e PHB is my favorite D&D corebook since the 1995 edition. To me, 5e is a rather streamlined successor of AD&D that, while learning a lot from the two past editions, stays true to 2e in...

It matters little to me, since I never ran a campaign with level 20 characters. However, it would be nice to have balanced-ish capstone features. The Druid is pretty OP, though it's easy to fix IMO: just subtract the lost hit points from wild shape from his actual hit points.

Ditto. Shield counts as armor IMO.

Sure, but that's what the was OP asking- if ToD will become metaplot for the Realms. Any published adventure whose events aren't referenced in future material doesn't "really happen".

There's no official word on this, but I suspect every big story arc will exist in a "parallel" version of the Realms or whatever setting it takes place in.

4 out of 5 rating for The Rise of Tiamat While I had some pretty legitimate beefs with Hoard of the Dragon Queen, The Rise of Tiamat highlights everything I like about high level campaigns: heroic situations, proactive enemies and political alliances.

That would be extremely cool, I hope every class gets something new and cool to play with!

I really, really like the philosophy of design behind the Adamantine Armor- that is, you can have a +X armor or a magical armor that does something different. Hope we get more items like that!

They don't have any of these things revoked- they're presented as a subrace of Elves, so they get everything the rest of the Elvish races get. They're basically the same as High Elves with Misty Step in lieu of a Cantrip and an extra Language.

Yeah, I'm not sure the Sundering was the best way to handle it- that said, 4e FR's setting changes were terribly handled, IMO. Did't like the post-apocalyptic vibe and the hundred years time jump. I'd personally make a big retcon to reboot the setting back to pre-4e instead of going forward in...