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This is very true, but it seems that there may be a large contingent of new DMs out there who not only resist this, but feel like failures if they cannot design a rich detailed setting. I'm not exaggerating. There was an interesting post by the Angry GM about his patrons expressing exactly this...

This is a nice comment. I'll highlight two points: This is why it's very handy to have tables ready to procedurally generate settlement content and encounters. A couple important features should be placed per settlement, but otherwise generate as you go. You can't be infinitely creative, and...

I don't think it hurts other games, but for a different reason than has already been mentioned. I wonder if a lot of the new 5e players are not traditional hobbyist game players like the majority on this board (I assume). That they got into D&D not because it's the biggest TTRPG, but that they...

I did not see any rule against posting about Kickstarters. If that is against the rules, let me know and I will delete or the mods can delete. Thanks Disclosure: I have nothing to do with this Kickstarter except that I am backing it. However, this Kickstarter for a new 5e supplement seems to...

I'm working on a "Refit" of the 1st Edition rules: cleaning up ambiguities, pre-ruling common actions, and greatly resequencing combat to clarify what actions are possible and when. None of this is directly related to the OP. However, one conclusion of the Refit is that certain classes are...

Answering the campaign part of the original question: Yes indeed! Any mainly subterranean race will eat all manner of subterranean creatures. This includes dwarves and gnomes, and of course most Underdark races. In my 1e campaign, dwarves are almost completely subterranean, with gnomes their...

OK then!

I'm sorry, but who is this person? Jim Ward is still around. How did this person get Jim's manuscript? None of this is explained.

It might be because OD&D only had fighting-men, magic-users, and clerics, whose primary stats were Str, Int, and Wis. The remaining stats followed from these. Who knows where Dex would have fallen had thieves been introduced earlier.

My campaign is 1e, but it strongly incorporates the Fae. The Fae were sidelined over 1000 years ago and have been trying to work their way back into normal reality ever since. Civilized forces have kept them at bay with menhir and dolmen constructs, which are slowly decaying. Most people are...

Don't stress yourself out. If you have the tables, consider complete procedural generation of the whole adventure. But with each encounter, parley, trap, trick, or puzzle, always stress to your players that they may interact with the encounter any way they want. Be as descriptive as you want and...

Nice!

As I'm sure others must have pointed out in this long thread, 5e alignment is less useful because it is badly implemented. It is little more than flavor text. I disagree with those that don't want alignment to have a mechanic effect like it used to. In some other threads, there is considerable...

42 or 69 of course! Or just listen to Shiroiken.

Nice implementation!

Thanks for this! I don't know how far back your Dragon magazine knowledge goes, but if you have not read issue #17, you might want to...

Uh, no. No, they don't.

And don't forget "Doc" Smith's Lensmen! The war between Civilization and Boskone was an epic Law-Chaos fight on some Prime Material Plane.

As these comments suggest, I think a lot of people are giving the original Law-Chaos axis a positive reassessment. That's not the scope of the original post, but that's fine and it's an interesting result.

I'm a huge Gamma World fanboy, so I love this.