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It was an interesting thought experiment that took 5 minutes to put together. To truly get an AD&D 1e advancement rable that completely mirrors 1e you would have to recalculate XP for foes (and also convert CR to AD&D 1e XP guidelines) and then recreate treasure tables to flesh out the rest of...

3.5e and AD&D 1e level at roughly the same pace as while monsters give less XP in 1e, XP for treasure compensated for that. 3.5e levels at a rate of 3.33 at CR monsters. Ergo to get AD&D 1e levelling at the same pace as 3.5e up to name level it must also face the same number of foes.

I am not ignoring the fact the bulk of the XP comes from treasure, but am assuming 4/5ths or 3/4s of the XP is coming from it. Divide 15 orcs by 5 and you get 3 orcs which matches the analysis that until around 8th level 3.5 and AD&D advance at the same rate.

Nope. Nor have I taken into account assumptions on how 3.5e adventures are being populated. When 3e first came out adventures had lots of low level monsters with few at level or higher than at level monsters. By the end of 3.5e Paizo were optimising their adventures to such a degree that they...

Yes, that's right. If you look at how many "at level" monsters are required to be defeated to attain a new level in the PHB and DMG you'll see that from levels 1-20 it is consistently 10 at level monsters per PC = +1 level. HOWEVER here is a potential flaw. I'm using the "standard" monster XP...

Looking at how much XP you got for "encounters" or "monsters" across the editions, I thought it interesting to translate those XP advancement tables to 5th edition. Here's the guidelines I've used: AD&D (1e and 2e): roughly assumed each PC fought 3.33 "at level" monsters per level until around...

I read that post and read everything except "by the terms of the DMs guild". Don't mind me.

Once Season 4 ends and WotC is ready to publish the next adventure (in a non-Ravenloft setting) they very well could add Ravenloft to the list of IPs people can use via DM's Guild. I think that's what people are suggesting could happen (seems pretty likely to me. Once WotC has stopped supporting...

Kickstarters typically work with the premise "Give me your money and if enough people give me their money I will give them X, Y and Z." For RPG products typically one of the things backer's get is the product they are funding. DM's Guild material cannot be disseminated outside of the DM's Guild...

I know of no reason that it would be necessary to make it so text cannot be copy and pasted on an iPad.

Man. I'm really cranky on WotC tonight. I think I'm going to just go get some fresh air. That said I stand by my comments (except for the lack of value. There certainly is value in the effort someone went to in creating the adventure which I'm sure is a good adventure. Unfortunately Dragon+ has...

In summary: WotC tried to treat their customers like thieves who would steal this precious IP* and disseminate it via illegal means and failed. *Anything of value could not actually be found in Dragon+. It is assumed WotC has a -10 in their appraise skill.

Variant tieflings after we get some in SCAG and some spells? Colour me disappointed.

You know what's more useful to me as a DM of 5th edition? Any single issue of Dragon, even the 4th edition ones. I'll be passing on Dragon+.

I've run two sessions straight from obsidian portal with my iPad. Without similar functionality I don't know how useful this would be to me (then again, I don't know how useful obsidian portal will be to me longterm. I've just recovered my old wiki I had on my PC so I'm inclined to just use that...

Oh it gets better. Eldritch knight no action drop his sword. Casts a spell and then using his free interaction picks up the dropped sword. Technically allowed if you follow the "dropping stuff doesn't count as your free interaction" rule. I also love the "throw a weapon, free interaction draw...

So is this a meant to be a roll20 replacement or an obsidian portal replacement?

I interpreted your original post as saying "I really want books like this from 2nd ed". I was wondering if there was a reason you couldn't simply use the 2nd ed resource with 5th edition for this very specific example.

I'm using the rules in Volo's Guide to All Things Magical (2e resource) for creating magical items with 5e. What's stopping you from using The Castle Guide?

Faiths and Avatars and Volo's Guide to Cormyr.