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In anything almost 50 years old, you're going to have both good and bad, so obviously D&D isn't going to be an exception to this. As a business, WotC would be stupid to avoid selling a product people might want (especially in a digital or print-on-demand format that requires zero upfront cost)...

Modern, but get rid of the idiot legacy that makes Con, Dex, Wis the most common. If you spread out the saves across all abilities, everyone has a weakness somewhere and you can overall lower the difficulty to address this fact. I don't care for the fact that the difficulty increases while...

Especially when dealing with a mediocre product most people have never even heard of.

Usually the key to this is player expectations. During a teaching game of Lost Mines of Phandelver, one player convinced the group to take on the green dragon... at level 2. He used the 4E mentality of "they wouldn't put it in if we couldn't beat it" (his words), and the obvious TPK happened...

It depends on the situation, edition, and level, but if there's an absent PC (missing player), they usually take over control of them. In case of perma-death, where the character can't/won't be revived, the player will normally spend the time making a new character (this is particularly common...

I tried to setup a 2.5 ft grid before, in order to setup greater nuance in battle. Once the players got used to the change it worked out fairly well, but the mental shift required was too much effort to be enjoyable.

So did the adolescent boys

You can draw rectangles on a hex grid fairly easily if you know the trick, but it's obviously not as easy as on a square grid. Most people don't consider the extra work to be worth the effort, which I get. When I played IRL I'd use a hex grid, but Roll20 doesn't snap the correct way on a hex...

Overall I like the concepts, but I still disagree with Flanking. Rather than creating a dynamic combat, it always creates a static combat, where people form a conga line to always have advantage. Are the hero points (#5) and minions (#10) the same as the options in the DMG (although minions are...

I liked the general concept, but it was poorly implemented. For creatures that were primarily ranged attackers, such as artillery and controllers, it made absolutely zero sense for them to run into melee. It would have made far more sense to simply require everyone affected to target the...

I'm afraid I can't do that @Snarf Zagyg AI isn't going to be harmful for D&D, especially considering that the VAST majority of it is done IRL. Like almost everything else, it will become a tool for online play or DMs to do research. The situations where AI ruins TTRPGs are the same ones that...

How did you miss Pholtus?!? He's quite literally the Christian/Catholic analog for Greyhawk.

While not perfect, and definitely not for everyone, 5E is by far the best chassis for D&D we've had in a while. It has broad appeal, and is simple enough for new players to jump in with minimal teaching time. From what we've seen in the playtest, 1D&D is going to be mostly an update, cleaning up...

I agree the concept has problems, but the OP has asked us to accept that concept for this thread, as noted by the [+] request. If you accept the premise of "morally correct" solution(s), you open the can of worms about which morality is superior. The only way to avoid this would be to use the...

Until 4E, mutliple levels of play was pretty much assumed. In OD&D, BCEMI, and AD&D different classes were balanced around different XP charts for leveling, so it was very common to have a rogue 2-3 levels higher than the magic-user/mage. In 3E there were lots of level draining effects, plus XP...

Same, but I understand the popularity. In the moment, players really tend to hate moral dilemmas. This is my thought as well. An author that puts forward a "best" outcome had truly make sure players will consider that the best outcome! Putting them in the perspective of alignment is probably...

Probably Boccob, the Uncaring. It's a religion devoted to the archmage of the gods, knowing that he has little interest in the affairs of mortals. The only time he actually takes notice of a worshiper is when they create a new spell or magic item. Honorable mentions, mostly because I DM, rather...

Sadly, no. I copied them into a Word document forever ago. I'm pretty sure the magazines themselves have been lost in a move.

Here's a bunch from old issues of The Dragon I've saved. Some are clearly better than others, and a couple didn't age particularly well. Upon drinking a Philter of Love, An Elf suffered effects thereof. As his head started reeling, He looked to the ceiling. Now he’s wedded a Lurker...

Being backwards compatible doesn't mean reprinting all older options. A character with a +X weapon can still use it in 1D&D, while the DMG doesn't offer it as an item. That said, I know +X items won't go away because they're simple and most people like them.