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I briefly tried to implement lighting in my Underdark campaign but forgot so much that I just gave the one player without darkivison goggles of night. It never came up again until I set a battle on a long bridge where the enemies all had superior darkvision, allowing them to attack from outside...

Got my copy last night and skimmed through the first three adventures this morning. The first two are definitely interesting, open-ended heists with details on security features, secret doors, various points of interest, and lists of abbreviated NPC info. The first adventure lists the name...

How has the ending been received? IMO it seems tonally inconsistent with the rest of the adventure so I'm considering changing it, but I'm curious to see if it's gone over well for others.

I figured I'd just make up new cliffhangers as appropriate and get rid of some (the one with the githyanki knight on a red dragon approaching only for the next section to begin with her just asking "seen any mindflayers?" before leaving is just baffling; I'd rather the githyanki actually be...

I'm planning to run Light of Xaryxis. I'm already aware of several issues with the adventure and have been planning modifications (which I would have done anyway), but I'm curious to see others' experiences either playing in or running the adventure.

I never played it myself, but I heard a lot of good things about the 4E adventure Lord of the White Field, an adventure that has the party infiltrating a town where nearly everyone has become a ghoul due to a cursed object from Ghoul King Doresain's White Kingdom.

Even after the campaign the Mighty Nein are essentially unknowns, with only a few people in positions of power knowing what they did. Contrast this with Vox Machina, who got public recognition early on in their career that only kept building.

You're insisting 3PPs would do such a scenario differently when as far as I'm aware there are a lot of 3PPs and people writing for them. I know you're not going to find an identical example, but I'd like to know specific examples of 3PP products and/or designers who you do think would have done...

Could you provide more concrete examples of ways specific 3PP adventures do these sorts of encounters better? Personally I pretty much never run a combat encounter as written anymore. I design them with the abilities of my players' PCs in mind as depending on party composition a static...

No, but Inam curious why you say that.

I guess if you really don't want the PCs to have a flying carpet chase you could implement all the things you mentioned... EDIT: I think the writers generally write with the assumption that the players aren't masters of the game system, which is why monsters are generally fairly easy and why I...

Watched the first three episodes of season two last night.

If they were to announce moving away from D&D (which I doubt), I'd rather them support one of the ones already announced rather than make yet another D&D-like. I know Matt Colville is a friend of Matt Mercer's and is working on his own RPG now; let the Matts team up, maybe with Darrington Press...

The group I'm in is starting Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen this Saturday.

I'm not happy with certain decisions being ruminated upon, but I will admit I'm surprised that people are this outraged over the OGL situation when I'm more concerned with other potential ideas to monetize D&D. I just bought the Aspect of Tiamat miniature (the smaller one, not the plastic...

I need to learn to word polls to better reflect what I meant...

The only time I use unofficial content is when I homebrew it myself, usually inspired by 4E design sensibilities.

I've never used 3rd-party material and honestly have always thought the OGL was absurdly generous on WotC's part to the point of foolishness (even before Paizo used it to make D&D's most significant competitor) so that's a no from me.

Don't get me wrong, I like Critical Role, but I'm not certain how good they are at actual game design. For example, they keep making blood magic spells and class features that don't work on a lot of common monsters (Blood Hunter, Blood Domain Cleric, School of Blood Magic Wizard; the latter of...

Seconded. I'm honestly a bit surprised and confused that people care so much.