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I was actually under the impression that these days it was a whole six sessions long. I haven't been able to find a reputable source of that, though - but there was some discussion of it here. It is possible, however, that the "6 month" figure is for "successful" campaigns, while the 6 sessions...

Obviously, nothing could ever top his work on "Fiddler on the Roof"... :D

The single best piece of advice I saw was in the BECMI Red Box: "Be fair." The single best book was that "Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide" @Malmuria mentioned. In terms of sheer volume of good advice, either 1st or 2nd Ed probably wins, by virtue of Dragon magazine. The problem being...

I'm genuinely surprised by that. And impressed!

I thought the new books were $60, compared to $50 for the old? Has that changed while I've not noticed? (I should note that I'm making no complaint here - the core rules for an RPG you're actually going to play are absurdly good value at almost any price. I'm just surprised.)

As it happens, I've decided against moving to the 2024 revision. However the way we've handled these things in the past (including the 3.0 -> 3.5 change, which appears to be the closest equivalent this time) is that we've wrapped up an existing campaign and then started the new one with the new...

"The Bad Batch" has the best ending I remember seeing recently. "Heroes" of course has a perfect final episode, and then ruined it by doing a second (and subsequent) season.

2nd Edition wasn't a golden age for adventure design, either. There's a reason those "best adventures of all time" are overwhelmingly dominated by adventures from 1st Ed and older - for all of their flaws, that's as good as it gets. Each edition since has had one or two classics (which were...

I think they missed a trick here - earlier in the episode there was a comment about walking away and leaving a shoe behind (one shoe, but never mind...) Given that the trap worked by some sort of molecular bonding, all they needed to do was establish that Ruby was wearing some sort of slip-on...

Oh, it absolutely is. If you stick strictly to the core rulebooks. Pretty much as soon as you move beyond those you're accumulating material that you'll never use, and the value proposition drops sharply. Regarding the quality of the adventures: I think what hurts me the most is not that...

I don't know if there's an image, but the 2nd Ed "Book of Artifacts" describes it as a 5 foot long, black, unadorned pole.

Depends on the campaign. If it's a campaign I'm creating myself, then ideally I'll know at least something of those characters and their motivations ahead of time, and can write the campaign around those things that the players are interested in. If for whatever reason I don't know the...

Quite right.

I actually try not to have a default - to mix up the campaigns to make them distinctive. Indeed, for each campaign I try to introduce a unique "side dish" (to go with the Orc&Pie) - something to hopefully engage the players in the Social and/or Exploration pillars of the game. One campaign might...

Of the six covers, the only one I don't care for is the default MM - the PHB and DMG are both great, but I really like the clean look of these three books - in all three cases I prefer the alternate to the default.

Almost exactly this - I would take 3.5e, and then lament all that was lost.

For D&D specifically, 15 - the ones in the 2014 PHB plus Assassin, Warlord, and some sort of Mageblade class. That is, all the classes that have been in a (first) PHB of any edition of the game to date (where the Mageblade is the old "Elf" class from BECMI). For a non-D&D game filling the same...

I'd expect that every time they write an adventure they attempt to make it the best they've ever done. Unfortunately, wanting that is easy; achieving it, not so much.

I don't think I've ever consciously left D&D, though there have been times I haven't played it for a while - when I was at university Vampire was the game we played, there was a while we were stuck on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and there was a fairly long Star Wars holiday. We came back because...

Because the only thing worse than living forever is dying horribly?