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I think all the starter sets have been designed this way, post Holmes. Certainly, B/X and BECMI were; I was around 12-13 when those came out myself. The original 5E strikes me as a bit "college level" but it's variants (Rick & Morty, Stranger Things) and the two follow-on seem aimed for...

I am curious about the replayability they mentioned. Sounds like it will have some sandbox elements instead a straight-shot A-B-C adventure.

I'm sure it's a remix more along the lines of Tomb of Annihilation being a remix of Isle of Dread/Tomb of Horrors/Dwellers in the Forbidden City and less along the lines of the "reprints" in Tales from Yawning Portal or Quests from the Infinite Staircase. Still, I'd like to see more. If...

Yep, that's them. I see now what the problem is - the WW1/WW2 planes I've been hunting are only being sold in Europe for some reason. sigh. Thanks for the link though.

Ares? They also make Wings of Glory/War don't they? If so, it's been really frustrating picking up some of their plane packs that are supposed to be being reissued I can't figure out if they're in business or not. Anyways, Traps was another one I passed on as I had the old Grimtooth books but...

I myself now have #1 - Into the Borderlands, #2 - The Isle of Dread, #4 - The Lost City and #5 - Castle Amber. Expedition to Barrier Peaks just never ending up clicking with me, though now that I think about it, it might be appropriate for Mutant Crawl Chronicles...and I've never liked Temple...

Bloodied, and I've taken to the Baldur's Gate III weapon abilities over the 2024 weapon special properties - but I like a bit more complexity and choices, myself.

Here's the Paladin from the BECMI Rules Cyclopedia for comparison (note, these abilities kick in at 9th level, but if you want it from the start, it shouldn't be difficult to change the level the effects kick in): Paladins A Lawful traveling fighter may be known as a paladin if he meets the...

Most of my influences for D&D have been movies, not so much books. My exposure to Conan for the longest time was the movie versions and Marvel comic (Conan the Barbarian and some of Savage Sword of Conan). I never started reading the actual stories until just last year, but Conan has always...

yeah, Lost Mines of Phandelver is a classic to me, but the follow-on Shattered Obelisk is a swing-and-a-miss - I may actually sell my copy. I'd like to root for Tomb having read through it now (the starting city itself is fascinating), but the way our DM ran it, I would have put it in worst...

Disco Wizard? Is this a real thing or just a "Disco is dead" reference?

These days my books tend to stay on the shelves a lot more than they used to, and I use Beyond for all my DM and play needs - even though I'm stubbornly clinging onto playing 2014. I will be sad the day the 2014 content is no longer available in this form*, but I will use the hell out of it...

Back in the 80s, the goal was to get to 20th, 30th or as high a level as you could possibly get players. It had been drilled into me you had to get to these levels as a rite of passage and prove your salt as a DM. If you didn't have games that regularly went to 20th level and beyond, you were...

I keep the basic rules as is. Bonus actions can be used for certain (custom) spells that affect weapon damage, so keeping basic 2-weapon fighting using a bonus actions keeps them from being stacked normally. Certain (custom) subclasses and feats can change it from a bonus action to just being...

1) Yes, he'll move 10 ft (flying) though. Dashing though, would probably break Stealth though I can't find any specifics about this. 2) Because of the invisibility, he can't be detected by sight. A mist is water vapor in the air, so he might possibly make a faint sound (like a faint "hissing...

Should have made this a poll, with the ability to select multiple levels :D For me, mid-level would be about 3-5.

I cannot recall the last time I played without minis in D&D. I've done mini-less in many other RPGs, but D&D for some reason is just not one I'd want to try without some sort of map & markers when any sort of significant combat breaks out.

NOT using it to buy magic items. Somehow shifting it for extra XP (as in training expenses) or actually having something worth spending it on (again, NOT magic items) would be the direction I would go. And, as others have stated, just giving out less of it so it is more significant would be smart.

Heh, though you could use a 1E PC in a 2E game, so 2014/2024 is closer to the changes in 1E -> 2E than 2E -> 3E. :)

Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with even real-world herbs, so Wolvesbane & Garlic is really the only one I tend to think of. There's a 3E era book by Bastion Press called Alchemy & Herbalists that had a great treatise about herbs and such, but it never quite caught on with me. It has a...