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agreed, but you still need to base a review on ‘what is there’ and not on what a DM can hypothetically turn it into (good or bad)

I am ok with beating a dungeon as the mission, but the dungeon still needs to be plausible and not just a pile of random monsters and traps.

they decided to lean into it, not sure how much ‘leaning out’ they could have done, but going the opposite direction was their choice

eh, some things are a matter of taste, and some are basically always worse than others, no matter your taste Traps that you have no way to detect and just randomly stumble into are worse than ones that you can detect and maybe disarm / avoid. Nonsense settings with no rhyme or reason are worse...

Can have tails, can have wings, do not have a fly speed, but can break a fall with their wings

not being able to be all things to all people does not excuse creating a bare bones highly improbable / nonsensical scenario with no intrinsic motivations however.

guess the adventure is perfectly adequate for that style of play, it’s just not what I was looking for even back then

it does, my point was more that the amount of topics that need addressing is the same. If you only have a few seconds for each as they pop up during play, you obviously spend less overall time on doing so compared to addressing them in advance when you could spend hours doing so, if you want to

this does not change the amount much at all, only the timing and how much time the DM can spend on it not sure such a DM would use KotB as a starting point, that might actually be more work than starting fresh… I don’t need singular consistency, just a semblance of a sensible setting, and the...

and yet they look like regular bird wings and not like this dragon. The difference is predominantly in the shoulder socket nope, that wing simply is nonsensical

I thought it is in either of the FR books

I would have preferred they’d have fixed it instead of leaning into it

which ones are those? https://www.dmsguild.com/product/409414/DDAL07-Tomb-of-Annihilation-Complete-Adventure-Bundle-BUNDLE Going by the numbering, the second one is for levels 5-10 already, so that cannot be it…

it’s inclusion in a set that introduced more people to D&D than anything before or up to LMoP.

I definitely expect a completely rewritten adventure, I just do not think the desire to do so / fix the original was the reason they chose KotB for the new starter set

I have no idea, wondered about that too when they announced it… to me it represents everything modern D&D is not, so it does not even work as a good introduction (assuming they did not make drastic changes to it). I can see two reasons, they finally want to fix this adventure (unlikely), they...

the monster hotel approach, just having everyone live next to each other with no rhyme or reason, the lack of more of a storyline. A mediocre random dungeon generator could have created that one

eh, it’s more my example for what not to do in an adventure, never liked it… it is nowhere near the best adventures, quite the opposite. There is a reason why new adventures are not anything like it, and it is not that they cannot manage to match its greatness…

the second group is the one making up their own worlds though, isn’t it? The complaint to me sounded more like there is little lore for an existing world, even the adventures are written to be picked apart and slotted into your home game rather than to be for a specific setting and expanding on...

Do I understand it correctly that Roll20 offers the DLCs for free? “Dungeonmasters Guild has a bonus if you pre-order the Forgotten Realms Guide Bundle. You’ll not only get the Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Gaerun and Adventures in Faerun for Roll20, but you’ll also unlock not one, not two, but...