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This is kind of the white whale. I don't know that 1e and 2e really mean that much any more, because fans have long since done retroclones of both using the 3e OGL. 4e is the only iteration of D&D where people can't really get under the hood and tinker with it. It would be fascinating to see...

That change was clearly intentional, although I don't like it either. But being intentional, it won't see errata any time soon, if ever.

It's made out of WotC's Dungeon Tiles, which they were pushing hard at the time. There was only one outdoor city set, so that was by gawd what a Dark Sun town square was going to look like. Just like a lot of insane evil cults building their underground shrines suddenly got really obsessed with...

Did you hear what happened to that D&D player when her thief, named Black Leaf, failed to find a poison trap?

Because you're a god among men?? I'm only kidding a little. How? How did you do that in this day and age? I was really proud that I held a group together long enough to run all of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, which took about two years. I'm still proud, but 2 is a lot less...

My first reaction is that this is cool. I might feel differently if I'd paid a lot of money for an expensive coffee-table book of D&D art that already had all this stuff in it, but I didn't. So this seems pretty nifty. Is it filler? I think I'd actually need to see the book to determine that...

All that is true, but that's not the only knock against it. Popular D&D blogger The Alexandrian, in his popular series on making good dungeon maps, literally uses Keep on the Shadowfell as his all-time example of bad dungeon layout. It had editing errors and contradictions. Overall it wasn't...

Posters here be like: "If they didn't staple an actual red dragon in the book, I'm not interested".

Completely untrue. They can play any edition, as long as they sculpt the dice out of jasper.

I think it's time you learned to really cast spells. You have the personality for it, now. ( Why yes I do intend to flog this joke to death) Out of curiosity, converted it to what? And why? Keep on the Shadowfell is widely regarded as mediocre at best, so I'm surprised someone would want to run...

Lanefan, get out of here. YOU'RE DEAD! You don't exist any more.

These are clever observations, and I tip my hat to you. But I think in every case you mentioned, there's some other factor that would argue against them counting as "humanoid" for the purpose of Hold Person. A lich certainly has a human-like form, but it's also obviously something else. And if...

In Skerples's magnificent book The Monster Overhaul, he has something really insightful to say about orcs. Quoting, but edited: I think that's brilliant, and very true. The only thing I would add is that either way Orcs are "humanoid" because literally just look up that damn word AUGHHH

I really loved their hip clothing stores in the 80s.

Seriously. Having goblins not count as "humanoid" offends me not just as a player, but as an English teacher. Goblins are the epitome of the concept! If they aren't humanoid, that word has no meaning. And this is not a trivial issue, because the Hold Person spell is now borked. It no longer...

I mean, have you ever seen Crawford and Jack the Ripper in the same place?

This bothers me too. Goblins are obviously humanoid by the dictionary definition of the term, never mind 50 years of D&D tradition. So they're fey instead? Fine, but why not both? How are those concepts mutually exclusive?

4e runs like a dream on Foundry. It's smooth as silk. Seeing it be so perfect on a modern VTT is a little bittersweet. 4e was meant to be run that way from the beginning, but by the time technology caught up to that vision, the edition was already kaput. What a shame.

In fairness, I seem to remember that huge map being very cool. Better than the actual adventure, which wasn't generally well-received.

So they own the right to your submission even if you don't win a prize? Am I understanding that correctly? That's just ick. I can maybe deal with the pay being a pittance -- you're still being paid, even if it's nominal. But if they're going to own my submission forever and possibly not pay me a...