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Another amusing inconsistency between the book and the poster: On the poster, Map 2 is called "Walls of Ravenloft Ravenloft." So neither version is perfect. Anyway, on topic: Perkins and Schley do great work, and they work great together. I hope to see more of this duo!

I agree with the above. If you don't believe in your graphic design ability, why did you get creative with the graphic design on this product? *** So, my unfiltered first impression of this product, and why I don't want to buy it: I am not interested in player options, because these require...

Dex/Con/Wis. Note how each class has proficiency in one of those, and one of the others.

They're not in the core rules, so players probably assume they can't play one unless the DM explicitly allows it. They're not endemic to fantasy, so players probably wouldn't even consider it as an option unless the DM explicitly presents it as such. Many people consider them a little cheesy and...

OK, you asked for it. I believe the traditional adventure format is outdated, inefficient, and not terribly helpful for DMs who actually want to run the adventure. By "format" I mostly mean information design. An adventure module is an intricate tool for a difficult job (help the DM run this...

Working on it. The first one involves an uneasy alliance between hobgoblins and modrons, and it will be 2 pages or less (i.e., one page front and back). Maybe with a page of monster stats, a page of background and story hooks, and maybe even a "long version" appendix for the people who want...

I guess they did the photoshopping on the castle map, since the rest of the maps seems to be 100% Schley from cover to cover (which is awesome--we've come a long way since Hoard of the Dragon Queen). Edit: Confirmed. The poster map lists those two, as well as David Sutherland III, who made the...

OK, there's a difference, but does it really matter? The game will go on regardless, and the players will still come up with ways to do what they want to do. Is one of those possibilities inherently more fun than the other? I don't think so. Certainly not enough to justify adding more text to...

Got my copy. The quality of the artwork blew me away. The format is as obnoxious as ever, but there's a whole internet out there for me to rant about that. This adventure is a huge step up from OotA. It actually has an introduction with an overview and synopsis.

Sure. Let's say you're playing the adventure, and it somehow matters how high the ceiling is. Imagine if that information was not in the book: Player: How high is the ceiling? DM: [thinks about it for a half second] About 10 feet. [play continues as normal] But, since that information is a...

I merely meant that the information didn't need to be in text form, because it could be included on the map (poor information design, especially embarrassing next to the 33-year-old Ravenloft map which does all that and more). In the post you quoted just now, I went on to say that that...

That's just one example of the (terrible) format that WotC and TSR have been using since forever. Write everything in a big wall of text, force the DM to read it all the way through before running it, waste huge amounts of page space to say something that could've been communicated in one...

I'm not damning the entire adventure as copy and paste, just the map. Calling it "the best thing in the book" was a mistake on my part. Obviously, having seen the table of contents, there is some new stuff in the book that we haven't seen yet. To clarify, it's still a great map, and I didn't...

That's what I'm saying. Adventure design has stagnated so much that the best thing in this book is a reprint of a 33-year-old map. They didn't improve it or next-level it in any way; they just hit copy and paste. I appreciate the respect for the original work, but they could've tried to do...

This is by far the most impressive part of CoS we've seen. So innovative! This map is light-years more advanced than anything WotC has produced before! [/actually not sarcasm; it's kinda sad]

It is a remake of a 1e module, not a remake of a 2e campaign setting.

I'll add it to the list. I was considering doing one stat block per subclass per tier (e.g. evocation apprentice, illusion master, acolyte of the sun, high priest of death), maybe with a few legendary ones (along the lines of the Lich in the MM).

There's some modern and futuristic technology in the DMG. Beyond that, I'm not sure what "sword & planet" means. Don't most D&D games take place on a planet?

Here's one, but it's not on DM's Guild: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?471749-One-Stop-Stat-Blocks-for-D-amp-D-5th-Edition Close, but it needs the CR of each creature.

Sounds like your players are minmaxers. This is an out of game problem. As I said to one of my players: "If you try to break the game, the game will break. I don't want to play a broken game." But, for what it's worth, pretty much all encounters in 5e die with just a few hits. That's how the...