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Presumably, conspiracy theorists in the MCU are convinced that it's all a hoax.

I think you may be a little behind... :)

Agreed. Indeed, the trailers for D&DHAT somehow managed to fake out the audience in a different way, by omitting the character right at the heart of things. I'd be tempted to bring only Hugh Grant back - have him discover something in that prison, recruit a team, break out and go be Big Damn...

That sounds like it could be a cool product, though like many of the volumes it may have struggled to fill the pages with interesting monsters. That said, the MC product line is fascinating largely because it is so flawed, and I'm not sure a rearrangement like the one you suggest really touches...

Best guess is that there is almost certainly plentiful life out there, of which a ridiculously tiny percentage is intelligent, but that none of that intelligent life has ever been here, or will be here in my lifetime. Indeed, given out current trajectory, I'm inclined to think no human will...

Spelljammer confirmed!

We're currently at the start of another wave of automation, where technology is going to render entire swathes of jobs redundant. Basically, everyone who works in a supermarket, everyone who drives for a living, everyone in fast food, and a great many others are suddenly going to find that those...

This is a good point - the players should be aware, at least in broad terms, of how long these things take. They do need to be able to make informed choices along the way. That said... I very much like this. I think there is a strong argument of the duration being at least partly random, and...

Indeed. Which makes a lot of sense, except that 5e then makes the odd assumption that characters will face two encounters between short rests (and then introduces a whole bunch of "you can use this X times" short rest powers to compensate). Way back in the days of the BECMI Red Box, the...

Undefined. Or, more accurately, defined by the adventure conditions and/or the DM. I don't think there needs to be a one size fits all answer to this.

That's all really interesting stuff - thanks for the analysis and so much detail!

Roll 6d6-drop-lowest-3 once, 5d6-drop-lowest-2 once, and then 4d6-drop-lowest for the other four stats. (My understanding is that on average adding a dice is reasonably equivalent to a +1 bonus, so that's the equivalent of a +2 and a +1. Obviously, that rule of thumb doesn't work if you keep...

There's a lot of truth in that. That said, I'm surprised nobody has taken the risk on rolling - neither point buy nor array allows for the possibility of starting with an 18, so I'd have thought someone might go for it.

These days I allow each player to make the choice for themselves. Either they use point buy (which is slightly different from the PHB, because the racial ASIs are built in), or a standard array (again, slightly different from the PHB), or random roll (using 6d6 keep 3 once, 5d6 keep 3 once, and...

Psionic magic? Spelljammer Dark Sun confirmed! :)

And that answer is "yes please."

Either that or do a full-on gender-swapped reboot of Episode IV. It would probably be worth it just to see some heads explode. But if doing that, they should get on with it - Helen Mirren is currently perfect for Jane Kenobi, but that won't always be the case.

I'd be inclined to time jump a few centuries forward in time - far enough that the Skywalker name is still known, but the details have become hazy. Drop in a line or two somewhere along the road about the ship designs being "timeless classics", or whatever, and keep on using X-wings and TIEs...

The Sith Lord is Palpatine. It's clones all the way down. More seriously, I'm inclined to suggest that the secret needs to be something that they'll want to keep and use themselves, but that has a horrible price - perhaps it is the classic Sith secret to preventing someone from dying (at the...

Yep, there was a good long time I thought that existed. Likewise auto-failure/success on saving throws with a 1/20.