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It's my creative outlet. I have played two 4-hour sessions in 2010... and they were the first time I played since 1985. The entire time I am playing with the ideas the DM is presenting and thinking about how I would use them in one of my own games. I definitely do not think I am the best DM...

Codex of the Infinite Planes. When you can reshape reality, re-order the planes and basically do whatever you want, clearly you're in possession of the most powerful of items.

Al-Qadim is Arabian rather than Egyptian, isn't it?

It's great to see RPG gaming booming.

No, he had a brazilian. I believe there is a difference.

Why not experiment with adding extra monsters in one encounter and up-levelling monsters in another and see which encounter the players enjoy more? (Generally speaking, my players love fighting their way through a big group. We all find it more cinematic.)

I like it. It's a good way to kick off a 4E Waterdeep campaign. You've got the dungeon - obviously - but enough information on NPCs above-ground to run a decent city-based mini-campaign as well. It's also quite portable.

How does "4E is a tactical skirmish game" meet the definition of a non-sequitur? Do you really mean non-sequitur or something else?

@OP: Yes, it is worth the USD70 or so a year for the time it will save you in a month. I'm amazed to report that, yes, it finally uses the correct maths. Of course, updating the old beasties is not an automatic process. You have to fart around quite a bit first.

I'm really pleased with this month's theme... and, as an added bonus, another adventure by Chris Perkins!

Rich Baker was good at adventures. Wait there, he's been sacked.

I prefer to DM as close to 100% of the time as possible... but I like the occasional session of LFR to try out a PC for a few hours. Not too often, but enough to keep my DMing fresh.

I'm definitely staying with 4E. It's my favourite edition so far, it does everything that my players and I want it to, and it's the most fun I have had DMing - both at the table and during my prep time - for about 30 years. I do not believe that the combination of what I have read about 5E so...

That's very much how I feel. If I want to go backwards, as it were, I will go with Pathfinder simply because I love their adventure paths. I don't think WotC is ever going to master adventure design again (especially without Rich Baker on staff).

... and give them immunity or resistance to cold as that was missed by the designers....

I have had similar issues for months and this is what I have found will work: 1. Always sign in using your email address rather than your User ID. 2. Only sign-in on the wizards.com/dnd page. I have never posted/complained about it simply because it is WotC and they don't fix problems related...

Charles Oliver O'Kane was the mayor of Raven's Bluff in 2E and was explicitly called out as coming from Earth. I am sure a search of the City of Raven's Bluff sourcebook will turn up more examples. A lot of other real world stuff crossed over into Raven's Bluff as a result of the less serious...

It's a shame because I am really looking forward to this book and I think it will revitalise my current game. (And I am much more excited about my current game than I am about the next edition of D&D....)

Orcs were chaotic evil in Holmes Basic which predates the AD&D1E Monster Manual.

Great review but I would offer one nitpick. Orcs were originally chaotic evil. They only became LE with the AD&D Monster Manual but they were chaotic evil before that. Emphasising the CHAOTIC side of their alignment is actually a nod to us old timers.... ;)