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Yup, as I said, what I’m looking for are ideas, so something in need of fleshing out is ideal for me.

Castle Amber was excellent, but not easy to run.

The NPCs barely have names, nevermind personalities, motivations and agendas. So there is nothing for the players to interact with. Sure, you can add that (and I don’t doubt it will be in this new version), but there is nothing in the module to suggest that you do. You could add politics, trade...

No it doesn’t. Because there isn’t anything to do apart from kill the humanoids in the caves. The only other option is “this place is boring, let’s go to the nearest city”. And the text does nothing to support that, or even suggest to the DM that it’s a potential option. I can only think you...

Aside from heroes, who regularly kick dragon butt. But the point is to emulate currently popular fiction, something D&D has always tried to do. And you can’t do a dragon rider campaign if you can’t do dragons. So you need weaker dragons.

It’s not just an issue of “power budget”. It an issue of the pet can’t overshadow the master. And I don’t care about “proper” dragon. Lore must be the servant of the game, not the master. Just as an NPC veteran does not need to be the same as a PC fighter, a pet dragon does not need to be the...

I would never ever run an adventure without prep, for a very simple reason: I’m dyslexic and can’t read quickly whilst also doing other things, I need to commit it to working memory. Easy to run isn’t a feature I look for in an adventure in any case. I’ve been DMing for 43 years, I don’t need...

The advantage of the way the PDK did it was it was weak enough that it wouldn’t overshadow the characters, and it automatically progressed with character level. You wouldn’t want to use actual dragon stat blocks or aged based growth.

There isn’t much player agency in KotB. It’s in the middle of nowhere, there is nothing to do apart from go to the caves and murder humanoids. You want agency, do a city.

It’s a bit too powerful for a feat chain.

Yeah, but the PDK was way better. Also, I want dragon rider subclasses for all classes, to do a dragon rider themed campaign.

Fighters aren’t allowed anything to fight good.

Not really my sort of thing, but if you have anything based on Forth Wing (the sex more than the dragons) so I don’t have to wade through the book, then I have a player who would be interested. Edit: it’s just occurred to me that I might be able to repurpose Stryxhaven. Wouldn’t get me out of...

You can write “there is no plot” in a couple of seconds, you wouldn’t need an afternoon.

Maybe that is the origin of the Scottish dwarf trope? It’s a reference to hair colour, and it’s a colour often associated with Scottish and Irish (and it’s well known that Americans can’t tell those accents apart). I Don’t think there are any red haired dwarves in Tolkien. But I think there is...

Maybe we will get the real PDK with the pet in one of the DLCs. One based on Forth Wing if WotC have any commercial sense. Since the people who hate lore change are generally the same people as hate digital content, there won’t be anything to complain about, will there?

So thousands of people have watched it, making it a hit, so we will see more similar stuff.

I can consistently turn out adventures that are a lot better than KotB, or LMoP for that matter. What I can’t always do is come up with interesting ideas that surprise my players. I’ve never come across a published adventure that I could run without giving it a thorough going over, if only to...

Yeah, but why would you spend good money on something so simplistic? If I’m going to buy an adventure, it needs to be something I couldn’t have come up with myself! This starter set, sure, you are paying for the accessories.

Because it's a good example of "how to put together a very basic D&D adventure" for 12 year old newbies. Which is what it was written for in the first place. They couldn't resist the urge to clean up some of the most glaring illogicalities though. They even give the humanoids motivation! So...