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Prior to 5E, I made up my own adventures 90% of the time and very rarely used pre-written ones (and can’t remember liking any of the ones I did use.) In the 5E era, I use pre-written adventures probably 80-85% of the time. I generally find 5E adventures (official and third party) to be vastly...

This doesn't bother me really because there is an entire generation of players for whom Vecna is the creature in Stranger Things and MAYBE the BBEG in Critical Role campaign 1 (which ended 7 years ago). It's not a character the vast majority of today's players have ever encountered in-game.

Staircase. I enjoy the Vecna preview adventure very much, but my faith in WotC's longer adventures is quite shaken right now by Turn of Fortune's Wheel and Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk (especially the former, which is one of the very worst official 5E adventures imo). I'm quite...

Of the three you mentioned, Curse of Strahd is far and away the one that most fits this description, and it’s an improvement over the original adventure in every way.

I have run Curse of Strahd and Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden twice each, and highly recommend both. Curse of Strahd works better "out of the box" and has no real plot holes. Frostmaiden's overarching plot is a bit of a mess but it has so many great locations, characters, and ideas and...

Not saying that you're wrong, but there is zero chance that Cocks in that NPR interview would have admitted any damage from OGLGate, regardless of whether there was any or not.

OGLGate was actually a huge deal and became a PR nightmare for WotC; in January 2023 it was so bad that they had to go completely silent for weeks on all media channels when they should have been promoting the Dragonlance book, Keys from the Golden Vault, and the movie. If the outcry wasn't so...

What do you mean by the "loss" of those companies? You can now buy Kobold Press products on DNDBeyond. That's how far they're running away from WotC.

It could be. It's certainly a shot you might call if you were a more or less total outsider with a background in protecting corporate IP, and no real knowledge or understanding of how and why D&D didn't die in 1998-2000 and eventually flourished into the renaissance years of 5E.

That was Ray Winninger.

They’ve pitch-shifted his voice to make it lower.

Animation is cool, voice acting is cool, dialogue is basically one cliche after another strung together.

Article on front page of DNDBeyond: Play the Prequel Adventure to Vecna: Eve of Ruin Today

Their suggestion is more like playing the prelude, then doing a “one year later” time jump and advancing the characters to level 10, with the players and DM narrating the intervening period as a sort of montage.

Really good level 3 dungeon! Nice variety of encounters and a couple of new spins on skill mechanics in places. Feels a little on the easy side for level 3 maybe. Also, I don’t see many groups finishing this in 2-3 hours as advertised; feels more like 4 hours to me. Maps are great.

They haven't officially announced it yet, but it's here if you pre-ordered: Vecna: Eve of Ruin Digital Preorder

Yes, if you pre-ordered the main adventure. WotC is on West Coast U.S. time, so likely not for a few more hours.

Thanks very much!

Death and danger await in Toymaker Hall! PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon Part 8, presented by Cast Party and EN Publishing, is now available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon Part 8: Toymaker Hall

I enjoyed eps 4 & 5 much more than 1-3.