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OK...now Non-Stop is basically your campaign! You should also track down Metamorphosis Alpha stuff too if you can.

This sounds really similar to the plot of Brian Aldiss's classic sci-fi novel Non-Stop (aka Starship), which was one of the primary influences on Metamorphosis Alpha.

The DMG is done; Mike Mearls tweeted a picture of it the other day.

It says "can use..." which implies that this is only one option (and some people really like this approach). Note that NPCs in the officially published adventures aren't built exactly like PCs even if they have some PC-like abilities.

Personally, I find the ideas/attitudes regarding homebrew materials expressed by the OP insulting, but in addition to the Starter Set adventure, HotDQ, and the Rise of Tiamat adventure coming out this month (see there's an entire AP between the two!), plenty of 3PP publishers are already...

The tactical encounter format wasn't my favorite and I wasn't exactly sad to see it go (I think it's a definite reason why 4e Dungeon really improved from 2011-2013); that said, even with the restrictions of that format and 4e's tendency towards set piece combat encounters, a lot of writers put...

They're PDF; if you sign up for a month-long subscription, you can download them all, which is a pretty good deal.

I'm familiar with all the eras of Dungeon magazine. Here are some good to great 4e adventures from before 2011: Last Breaths of Ashenport (Dungeon 156) Siege of Bordrin's Watch (Dungeon 157) Haven of the Bitter Glass (Dungeon 164) Remains of the Empire (Dungeon 165) Storm Tower (Dungeon 166)...

I'm not going to dispute that maps created from Dungeon Tiles aren't that attractive, but there are plenty of good adventures, especially after WotC abandoned the tactical encounter format.

As a writer for 4e Dungeon I have to disagree; while I think there was a bit of an initial dip, by 2009-2010 the magazine was regularly producing high quality adventures.

Definitely. There's hundreds of good adventures within it's pages and even if you don't want to adapt them, they're filled with tons of great stuff you can yoink for your own game.

There hasn't been an announcement yet.

I don't think that the 5e MM is the best ever, but I think it is very, very good and perhaps the best monster book released by WotC. While I think that the 4e Monster Vault and Monster Vault 2 are also very good - they have the best overall lore IMO - the 5e MM has fairly evocative lore of...

I think you should remove turn resistance - which I think was the consensus even before your CR change. I'd keep the other two since the Spawn has traditionally had both. However, even though I'd keep regeneration I'd get rid of the resistance to non-magical weapons. I don't have the 3e or...

I've been toying with ideas on how to convert spawn/son of kyuss's after reading this thread and I have some thoughts. Here are some of my ideas: 1. For a CR5 creature, 4HD is way, way too low. Glancing at the MM, most CR5 monsters have between 8-12 HD (some like the night hag have much...

My dad thought that RPGs were a big waste of money (and probably still does based on his reactions whenever I bring the subject up) but he never forbade me from buying or playing anything - and I remember my mom defending me to another mom after I brought a Dungeon magazine to read at my...

I thought that the vine blight was a renamed vine horror.

Only 10, hmmm, this is going to be hard. Let's see (I'm going to cheat a bit on some of them): Derro Elemental Grues Hordelings Ju-Ju Zombies Kech Leucrotta Quicklings Spawn of Kyuss Vampire Rose Yellow Musk Creeper/Yellow Musk Zombies

That would be a step up!

The monk was part of the open playtest and this particular subclass was definitely part of the F&F playtest - which was considerably large. However, in any case, there's nothing actually wrong with it. As for the ki-fueled spellcasting, it's designed to mimic the maximum spell slot that a...