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Brainer.

"The Orc and the Pie"

We marooned one players character on an island because the player was annoying us. To this day I don't remember what they did. But I do remember we weren't sad when the player quit instead of making a new character. And to put it in context ... EVERYONE in that group, myself included, was sort...

What does 5E do best? It is much easier to level up a character than 4E, 3xE, or 2E. Fewer books to look through, fewer moving parts that change, less analysis paralysis of "I have a hundred choices, what if I don't pick the perfect one? There must be a better choice in one of these other...

Pigeonloft. Ruled over by the DelightLord Strahd von Funovich!

Sage Advice, Making flawless calls since the beginning. You fill in the blank.

"And yet, assuming they aren't lying to me to keep me consuming something I am not enjoying" You foolishly underestimate the reach and deviousness of the Cannolimati.

Thank you Snarf! That is a great explanation of the only good way to play D&D and why the other ways are bad.

I think it's Chaotic Lawful. Because it's a very confused and inconsistent attempt to apply inflexible rules and categories.

This trap was clearly built as someones entry into the annual "Faeruns Got Traps!" competition. After the party sets it off - one way or the other - the ethereal judging team should phase in and begin critiquing it.

A combination of "working crew" and "paid to be there". So unpaid robots, synthetics and plain old slaves - even if they are working members of the crew -would not qualify.

Dwarves. They get surprisingly tender if you stew them long enough.

"It isn’t a retcon though. It’s a new, separate continuity." Reboots that don't explicitly address what happened to the previous version are retcons. (The change being NONE of it happened. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!)

We may be narrowing in on the essence of our disagreement, Charlaquin. I feel a retcon is not just a newer version. It is an ex cathedra disavowal by the company of what came before, a pronunciation that "That thing didn't happen, and you are wrong if you continue to think it does." It's...

"Nobody is destroying anything. The old ones still exist. Play them if you prefer them. Or take your favorite bits from each version and make it your own." Or...just ignore the parts out of the old one that you don't like? Things are what they are. The evolution of ideas should lie in new...

"WotC absolutely should retcon the setting where necessarily in order to create a setting palatable to the bulk of their customers." And that's where we disagree. No. They should leave it alone, or they should make a brand new setting. As you say, younger players don't have the same...

"Some of the purists would be upset, but what else is new?" Canon and continuity have a non-zero positive value. Retcons are always a mistake, regardless of how good the intentions behind them are.* If they can't update the setting with a starting point of "Everything from before is the same...

"The new Ravenloft has been designed with the goal you can adapt your favorite franchises from videogames or movies." So... Domains of Dread are isolated places where the inhabitants can never enact change and are doomed forever to enact the same plots, from which they can never escape? Ruled...

If fighting Strahd doesn't frustrate the hell out of you (the player) because he always seems to be one step ahead of you (the character), then your DM is doing a sub-par job of playing him.