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Not always. They produced a couple of boxed sets for AD&D 2nd edition and changed a few things e.g. the Grand Duke started calling himself King. (Of course, changes, contradictions and ret-cons are business-as-usual for Mystara.)

Paizo's (3.5 edition) adventure Endless Night is set in a Drow city. (Part 4 of the Second Darkness adventure path.) The PCs tasks are mostly very campaign specific, but did include: *a drider hunt; however I'm not sure how that would fit in 5e - I seem to remember D&D drider lore was changed...

For something like Pathfinder, where there is a ton of material available with a click of the mouse, I find it difficult to get "group buy-in" (for want of a better term) to the concept of restricting things. Even restrictions that are self-evident to me have to be justified by argument, with...

Not me, I'm a compulsive multi-classer, so that rule wouldn't suit me at all. What was the reason for that rule? None of my multi-classed monstrosities are anywhere near as powerful as most single-classed characters would be, and if simplicity is the aim I'd ban prestige classes as well.

Yes, it did. It's still a dodge bonus, so do you still notice it sometimes i.e. when you don't get it.

Just echoing this. The Paizo forums' GM threads are extremely useful for GMs planning to run adventure paths. (Massive spoilers for players, obviously.) I find they do an excellent job of identifying potential problems in advance, which gives me plenty of time to do something about them. You...

Ok, let's be less generic. It seems to me to be staggeringly unlikely that Paizo staff did not even look at the current version of Dungeons and Dragons. Why on earth would I want to do that? I'm perfectly happy to take your word for it.

I thought one of the advantages of the bounded accuracy approach was that you could use (say) 12 CR 3 monsters to challenge a high level party. A band of CR 3 monsters doesn't need a world-shaking agenda (although they will presumably be doing more than stealing cows). I've no idea if it works...

It seems staggeringly unlikely to me that professional game designers who specialise in d20 products did not even look at the current version of Dungeons and Dragons. I appreciate that you find it difficult to comprehend how Paizo could look at the same situation as you did and not come to the...

Now you've got me wondering how I could run MotDS in an Eberron campaign, and actually get some use out of the darn thing, so thank you.

That's how I feel as well, although in my case I'm not sure the extent to which I am biased by how much I appreciate Keith's sheer enthusiasm for the setting. Having said that, the lack of an overriding canon is one of my favourite parts of the setting. I change stuff all the time, and none of...

There's a place for all sorts of reviews. If people only reviewed what they had run, there'd be far less reviews. And the tenfootpole review site would not exist, which would make me sad (or not, I suppose, since I wouldn't know about it anyway). To take an extreme example, there's no way I'm...

Traitor is one of my favourite Star Wars books. It was even worth reading the 12 previous books for, and that is high praise indeed!

I'd be happy with all of that. However, given a choice I'd rather see Gates of Firestorm peak re-done for Eberron.

Whereas to this day I still struggle to spell words like "manoeuvre" and "artefact" because my brain wants to default to the American spelling that is much more familiar.

You might find Robert Conley's guide to making a fantasy sandbox useful. (Won't be any help with BPs and the like, of course.) How to make a Fantasy Sandbox

Hopefully in the last 7 years the OP has managed to come up with something that works for them.

The Orient Express is still running, and still very expensive.

I used to take a peverse pride in my low-level status - I mean, only gaining a level every year or so is so old school, right? - but I had a notification last week someone had given me some XP, but the site went down before I could find out who it was, and what it was for. And that makes me a...

Do you get XP for selling items looted from the bodies of your dead comrades? (Assume, for the sake of argument, that they died during the adventure; I'm not suggesting you killed them yourself ...)