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Dog. Realistically, I'm going to die in short order. But she probably doubles my chances.

IMO, one of the big issues with row is that elves are too benign. Going back to the source materials, though, and especially moving beyond Tolkien, and they're much more ambiguous or even outright malevolent. (Also, all elven societies should be matriarchal, but that's a slightly different...

Two issues with that: If I'm the DM, I have a serious shortage of time. I'd ideally love to run an entirely homebrewed set of adventures in an entirely homebrewed setting. But I simply don't have time. So I'll outsource what I must so I can pick my battles. If I'm not the DM, I don't get to...

Thinking on it, I wonder if this was an adventure calling out for a treatment like "Return to the Tomb of Horrors"? That is, produce it as a boxed set that includes a reprint of the original adventure, a booklet giving a guide for the wider region, and then one or more adventure books providing...

In fairness, I said "a bit more", rather than "they should have imposed an inflexible straightjacket, with absolutely no exceptions allowed". I apologise that the distinction wasn't clear.

That explains a great deal, not least why they kept appearing in early adventures but basically didn't do anything but give five different reasons for the PCs to finish the adventure. That said, I do (mostly) like the faction idea - one of the things I wish they'd leaned into a bit more was the...

The comments in which this was discussed appear to have been deleted so I can't cite, but I think you have the order reversed here - I think the request to remove the deadname came first (and was actioned), and then the request to add the S made later. This latter, it seems, wasn't actioned, and...

It does cover a much wider area, most of it not in the Triboar area. But, unless I'm misremembering entirely, there are at least a few bits overlapping with the LMoP/DoIP map.

With the exception of the expensive ones, spell components aren't really a balancing factor. They're a nod, not to realism (as is the case with things like encumbrance), but to flavour. Unfortunately, because pretty much everyone uses either a focus or, less often, a spell component pouch, the...

There's some material in "Storm King's Thunder" that is potentially worth considering, too.

Heh. When organizing our DVDs a number of years ago, I wasn't sure what to do about films with numbers in the title. I eventually settled on treating the number as though it was a word, and shelving that way - so "300" went next to "Three Musketeers, The". Which was great, until I came to my...

This. As for 'xandering', I very much doubt that term will gain traction. I guess we'll see what term eventually wins out. (Frankly, my best guess to the answer to that one is the very term we've been asked not to use. I think the genie is probably out of the bottle on that one, despite the...

I know. It wasn't an entirely serious post. :)

You need to account for the modern grading schemes for reviews: A+: This is genuinely a great product. A: It's good. A-: It's okay. B+: This is worth the money that the reviewer personally paid for it, and not a penny more. B: Badly flawed, but with some salvageable content. B-: It sucks. C...

Any of the above. I tend not to like linear dungeons, but sometimes (for a final showdown at the end of an adventure) they're just the thing. But otherwise, I'll be happy with a well-designed dungeon of any sort.

Alternatively, I'd be inclined to question whether there really should be lots of 'similar' challenges in there in the first place. Surely it's not a problem if Cutter gets better at fighting, provided (a) not ever challenge is defeated simply by fighting, but more importantly (b) you need to be...

Possibly of interest here: back when I ran LMoP for the second time, for family reasons I had to drop out for a while and one of the players took over running the thing. He was a first-time DM. Anyway, one of the things that he expressed to me when I got back was that he didn't feel that the...

Indeed. And if anyone does, I'd definitely be interested.

It's academic, for exactly that reason - they're just not going to go near those problematic areas. In theory, they could set up an arm's-length "mature themes" imprint to deal with it or, marginally more likely, license it out to someone else. But the odds of either of those are about as close...

Indeed. And for a very long time, D&D did indeed cater to them. With 5e the model has shifted significantly - sell fewer different items, but sell way more copies of each. Overall, that's working well for them. In the new model, Whales are catered to with DM's Guild, and especially with those...