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As I wrote it, no, you cannot.

If we're going to see anymore fiends as main villains, what I want is Anthraxus and daem--uh, yugoloths. Give them the spotlight for a change. (And give us some decent stats while we're at it. The ones in the MM don't remotely stand up to their demon and devil counterparts.) I mean, I'd be...

Ack. If I never, ever see Lolth as the main villain of anything again, ever, I'll be a happy gamer. I'm not one who has complained about revisiting past material, or new stuff inspired by past material--I often enjoy it--but enough with Lolth, already. :p

Heh. No worries. I still often forget that things I made--this house rule, or that monster background--aren't standard. Or maybe I just blot that fact out because I want them to be. ;)

That may have been true when Tomb of Horrors was first written, but it hasn't been true in a long time. Bruce Cordell's Return to the Tomb of Horrors changed all that, and the 4E Tomb of Horrors (which, yes, full disclosure, I worked on) ran with it. If you want to complain about things...

Ath-kethin, While I haven't seen the final draft, so I don't know how it might have changed in development, when I wrote that stunt, it increased your place in an initiative order that had already been established. Since (by the core rules), you only roll init once, there was no roll to apply...

I'll just once again add my voice to those who really want to see knight and samurai polished and made official, in addition to, or even instead of, the cavalier as it currently stands. I know I'm not likely to get that wish, but... There it is.

I'd love for the intro to the adventure to make no mention of Acererak's past as a demi-lich. And then, at the end, for the PCs to damage his phylactery or otherwise make it impossible for him to feed it souls, thus forcing him to become a demi-lich and revealing that ToA is actually a stealth...

They did. The Celestial pact is the Undying Light renamed.

Oh, I know. Trust me. I've been around long enough that I basically blame the D&D community for everything. ;)

I don't know why people are doubting Ed's claim. Lots of kids write stories. And he never claimed the ones he wrote at eight were any good, merely that they were the first in the setting he continued to develop. I mean, the games I ran at 10, and the stories I wrote starting at around 12, all...

That hurts, Henry. That's hurtful. :.-( :p

So, basically... No. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not break the "no politics" rule. I will not...

Sigh. So disappointed in the cavalier. I want a cavalier class for 5E. I really do. But I hate this interpretation. I hate that it's just a more limited battlemaster, for the most part. And I'm going to be especially disappointed if this means we don't get the knight and samurai, which I...

"Fluff" has become an acceptable term for "non-crunch" in games, and I despise it. It implies a level of unimportance that is utterly at odds with what an RPG should be. I far prefer the term "flavor." AFAIAC--and I recognize this is a personal quirk, and I'm alone fighting on this hill--it's...

Honestly, looking at RC, even that was more complicated than I wanted. I want something that disappears into the background 95% of the time, and requires little bookkeeping. I wound up just whipping up a page of modifiers for things that can raise or lower an Economic Might score and a Military...

The cavalier? Huh. I love the idea. I've wanted a 5E cavalier for a while. But I hope it's drastically changed from what we got in UA. I really wasn't taken with that one. :(

I like these, but I want to take it a step further. What about an adventure where it's about what the mind flayers are trying to accomplish? The idea of one or two trying to survive, or a McGuffin hunt in a hive, are both cool (and I'm definitely adding them to my file), but what about an...

It's a weird problem to have, but I find I have difficulty using certain monsters on an "adventure" level. What I mean is... Well, let's use mind flayers, which I love, as an example. I have no difficulty figuring out plot ideas using mind flayers that are meant to drive a whole campaign, or at...

These books should have a large amount of flavor (what others improperly call "fluff"). If a D&D book--any D&D book--doesn't give the reader cool story, character, and world ideas from sources other than mechanics, it has failed. If it isn't interesting to read, in addition to being useful in...