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I'll second Into the Unknown. I've had great fun just using Book 4: Running the Game. For $5.99 you get both the pdf and a digest sized print copy.

I agree with this, and I'm getting ready to start a new campaign set in the 1983 Boxed Set Greyhawk. I've come around on this. I'm a grognard that sees unlimited use in that box. I don't like everything in From the Ashes, but do I pick out bits and pieces that I like ala carte for my Greyhawk...

Are any of the Greyhawk wikis out there faithful to the Folio or the 1983 Box Set?

I've been using a variant that I adapted from an old Dragon Magazine called Magic Focusing. The TL: DR is that a spellcaster uses his own spell slots to power the item. Non spellcasters use hit dice. https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/magic-focusing-variant-for-charged-magic-items/

I like From the Ashes, but not all together. Like you said, a framework. I've used pieces of it in my games. They each provide a possible path for each region, just not all at once. Agreed here. The broad strokes gives a DM a lot of freedom. I haven't run a game in Greyhawk in ages. Been...

I ran campaigns for many, many years using nothing more than the 1983 Boxed Set. I would occasionally mix in bits of From the Ashes, but did not have the Greyhawk Wars happen whole cloth. I think what makes the 1983 Boxed Set a near perfect setting is what the OP mentioned, it's a collection...

Looks good! A pretty minor fix that I would appreciate is a table of contents for the main PDF. Nothing too detailed, just the different chapter breaks.

That's all that published adventures are. A bunch of ideas that you get to choose what works for you. Pick and choose, and add random bits from other places. I getting ready to run Ghosts of Saltmarsh with the Slavers series mixed in. Probably going to add in the city of Stormhaven from...

Sounds very interesting.

Last time I ran it I did exactly that, with bits from Hackmaster's Little Keep on the Borderlands thrown in as well.

The Medieval Melodies blog has a complete system and breakdown of what you can harvest from every monster in the MM, Volo's and MToF. http://medievalmelodies.blogspot.com/2017/06/creature-loot-intro.html

Gamma World has a bit of a different flavor than Fallout, but pretty close. It's been awhile since I looked at it, but I remember thinking Gamma Five had some promise when it came out in '15. Gamma World using D&D 5e rules...

I use note cards and my laptop myself. I made myself a page of useful links. https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/for-dungeon-masters/dms-screen/

Are you playing AL? Then thems the rules. Playing anywhere else? You do what you want.

Announcing: our D&D Round Table panel lineup! Not only do you get to see an amazing show tonight, you get to hear these lovely guests in a panel following the show! Remember to get your free tickets for today (Sunday)’s show! https://www.facebook.com/UPstages

Full disclosure, my wife works for Pitt Stages. Just trying to help spread the word. The live stream Sunday at 7:30pm is free and you can get tickets by going to https://www.play.pitt.edu/ After that they'll have it on Vimeo for 2 weeks for $1 a view. Please feel free to share! They just...

The University of Pittsburgh Stages is putting on a virtual production of She Kills Monsters. The livestream is a free event, but requires you get a ticket. The NY Times is even getting into the act, if you want to know more about the play, and how they are adapting it for virtual...

I knew about that one but couldn't find it! Thanks!

Excellent review! Thanks! It's something I'd like to see, something that I've been looking for/trying to build for quite some time. I'm coming to the same conclusion that WotC has. Just pour on the flavor. The rules don't port over. Every thing I've tried/seen is clunky at best. One thought I...

I'm looking into using the five colors as an alignment chart, as opposed to nine axis alignment, the good/neutral/chaos trinity or 4e's five alignment sliding scale. It's an idea I've tinkered with in my head, but never had a chance to implement. Plane Shift: Ixalan was the thing that really...