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You made a claim about 'continuing sales', but when I called you on it, you were not able to support it. So, I will take a page from Christopher Hitchens and say, “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” If you can't back up your arguments, then we...

Where are you getting the stats for continued sales? Take a look at the various rankings of 5e adventures, whether on RPG sites like this one or on youtube, and you will find Tyranny of Dragons near or on the bottom of almost every one of them. It is literally the worst reviewed 5e adventure...

For future reference: each All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every). quotations ▼ make sure you wash each bowl well; the sun comes up each morning and sets each night Every one; every thing. I'm...

It is badly reviewed. Argue about sales all you want (especially since for long this was literally the only WotC adventure purchasable for 5e), but it is objectively the worst reviewed 5e DnD adventure ever. big sigh Then try getting the phrase 'Each arguments you make' past an editor, and see...

I'd agree with that. I actually didn't have too much of a problem with the story (though again, my first experience with it was as a player, and I think our DM did a good job of making it interesting). I did not like the way our group was railroaded into heading towards a dragon at level 1...

Then why has the module been so badly reviewed? The poor balancing of the module was one of the main lines of criticism. Then why is the sentence, 'Each arguments you make is wrong' grammatically incorrect?

'Each' is singular, so it is grammatically incorrect to use a plural adjective to modify it: 'To each their own.' I know that colloquially, the singular 'they' is often used (even Magic: The Gathering recently began using it), but it makes our language less precise, so I persist in what is...

Yes, and changing a Guard (CR 1/8) to a Veteran (CR 3) now, as they do in another part NewbieDM identifies, makes for yet another much harder encounter. It really doesn't seem like they have learned their lesson at all. It's almost as if they are trolling us.

I personally don't find that at all. I find the 5e modules to be needlessly complicated, overly derivative, badly balanced, and poorly presented in wall-of-text fashion. But to each his/her own.

I did have a problem with the article. Not only does it describe the modules as 'fan favorites', which they are clearly not (at least from an aggregate of reviews), but it describes things in so favorable a fashion as to be misleading. It seems more like a collection of marketing taglines...

LOL, I thought exactly the same thing. 'Fan favorites'? They are the worst reviewed 5e modules of all time. She got the 'for a reason' part right though.

I don't think it makes that much sense to make Gondor so much greener than everywhere else.

It may not be super, but like it much better than the 'placeholder'.

Here's a much better source that gives a history of ICE: A Brief History of Game #8: ICE, Part One: 1980-1992 - RPGnet It is much better sourced as the author talked to the ICE people themselves, who included Monte Cook (yes, that Monte Cook-- he was an ICE editor in the 80s, and wrote the...

"The company [ICE] enjoyed a sudden jump in status when it acquired the license to produce an official fantasy RPG based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, which would come to be known as MERP ("Middle-earth Role Playing"). According to some interpretations, at the time of its...

MERP was quite popular, and all the MERP books also gave stats for Rolemaster, which was also quite popular. I don't have any sales figures, but having lived through and played lots of games during that time, I would say that ICE was one of the bigger companies at the time. The LOTR wiki...

Xanthar's Guide to Everything.

Yes, well said. I find the 5e Fighter much more boring -- at least the 4e version had some interesting powers. Doing basic attacks all day long, like the 5e fighter, gets boring faster for me at least. As to the Ranger, I liked what 4e did because I like the concept of a purely Martial...

I've run quite a few groups through different editions of DnD for the first time, and I still think 4e is the best for new players. It gives everyone a moment in the spotlight and is remarkably easy to pick up. I also liked the way it made martial characters fun to play (Warlord and Fighter in...

I would honestly like to hear an answer to that too. I've played quite a bit of the Realms and find it a pretty good setting. I played some Greyhawk way back in the day, but I honestly couldn't tell you any major difference between them. So if anyone can explain why they prefer one to the other...