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This is probably your best bet. Having run the last boss fight, it was tough for the party, but I also didn’t play as cunning as I ought to have. So even running as per the book might be enough. If you were to change the difficulty simply making the Atropal hit harder and more often could do the...

Keep on the Borderland conversion by Goodman Games is the quintessential version of what you’re looking for. Am running this and having a blast. It can also be plopped into any world.

I ran Tomb of Annihilation, and only 1 died. Currently I’m running Keep on the Borderlands, and have come close several times, even with a party full of fighters (3 out of 5).

A lot of people are overthinking this. PC on cart has to ready his action to wait for PC wanting to use cart as cover. If the cover using guy wants/needs to dash, he can move UP TO 60 ft (or whatever their dash speed is). They don’t need to move the entirety of their dash speed. If I have a...

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/360-using-abstract-maps I believe this may be what you’re referring to.

I am running this and it is as straight forward as D&D gets. There’s a keep to use as a home base, and several adventuring sites including a cave system full of monsters. Quintessential D&D.

I also usually have 7 players at the table. Half of which have trouble focusing on the game. I figured giving them a bit more control of the game might help them focus on what was happening. Essentially I got tired of every round having to remind people it was their turn, then waiting for them...

This is genius. I use something very similar where I call out ranges of numbers (+20, 16-20, 11-15, 6-10, 1-5) and any character that has an initiative in the range called out gets to have their turn in whatever order. Bad guys get to go before the characters of the specific range. But...

My players are almost through the tomb. List of things to consider: 1. If there’s a ranger in the party, the whole surviving in the jungle thing gets easy and relatively pointless, as the ranger just finds food and water without having to try. The only downside for the ranger was that they had...

Why would WotC spend time doing this when they know most tables are going to make house rules anyway? It's not worth their time. And I guarantee that if they did make changes, a good portion of us wouldn't care for the changes made and stick to the original rules or the house rule. I'm going...

There's a player at my table who is always asking for the dimensions of objects and for no apparent reason. I could describe a room with a bed, the size of which does not matter one bit, but he needs to know. And it's never connected to any in game element. It's slightly annoying. I usually just...

It's been said but it bears repeating: D&D is, at its core, designed primarily for a group of adventurers to beat the piss outta monsters. Can you do the whole court drama thing? Sure. But the game promotes more combat than social. Heck, if I had to break it down I'd say 60% combat, 25%...

The map leads the party to a trap filled murder dungeon designed by the gambler, who likes to watch people die because he's a maniac. If the party survives, they kill the gambler and take a pile of loot collected from previous victims. You could include monsters that the gambler captured and...

Feats are great for optimizing a single aspect of your character. Want to be an Indiana Jones style tomb raider? Dungeon Delver is your answer. Are you a barbarian with a great axe that cares only to crush your enemies and see them driven before you? Boom: GWM. I don't think they break the...

Sounds like the player should roll a new character. Having your brain turned to mush is a cool way to go. He should be thankful for such a gnarly and grisly death instead of, "The kobold hits you with a spear and you bleed out." I would also bring the intellect devoured back into the adventure...

My group has been playing through ToA. They just entered the Tomb. It's taken awhile as that adventure has a lot going on. After this though we're jumping into Dragon Heist. We're all kinda excited about it. I'd say your first point rings true, in that people are still busy with other adventures.

Here's what I would do: Let the party fight the dragon. If they win, they feel like badasses and rightfully so. However, as soon as one of them goes down to zero HP, have the dragon pin the downed PC and bargain with the rest of the party. They get to leave, but the unconscious PC becomes the...

The table I run has 7 players on a full night. Asking them for initiative scores and plugging them into order takes too long. So what I did last session, and I plan on using this from now on, was have the players roll and remember their scores. I then call out the following ranges of die rolls...

I can appreciate that you might have planned for the players to traverse on foot, but I feel that shooting this idea down could lessen the fun for your players. I don't know your table. If people care about the intricacies of encumbrance and how much a fictional giant vulture could carry, then...

For those who care: The PC's cared little for rescuing the poor petrified party member. And despite my nudging, they refused to head back to Port Nyanzaru, instead opting to press on to Omu (the bird people of Kit Sabaal had given them the location, and handy directions). The party consists of...