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There were some great classic adventures. But Keep on the Boarderlands was not amongst them. Its just BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS. It took no skill to write whatsoever. And it is full of nonsensical stuff - the NPCs are all ridiculously high level, and have no need of the pathetic PCs. The caves are far...

They don’t read it. To employ people to read through and analyse all the text responses would be much much more expensive than looking at the basic numbers.

Or you could just write it yourself. You don’t need a professional writer if you like your D&D bare bones simplistic.

Any 12 year old could write it in an afternoon. Professional writers don’t get paid for doing that.

BBC did pretty much the same for British regional accents at around the same time, and is pretty much responsible for how Americans think the British speak. The BBC still has a habit of subtitling Scottish accents.

Plan 10 from Outer Space. For when Plan 9 just ain’t bad enough.

This is absolutely true. Typical D&D approach to religion is Christianity but with multiple deities. You see temples depicted with pews and pulpits and hierarchical clergy and rules to follow and antipathy to other deities. I'm sure Ed knows a lot about real world polytheism and uses that in his...

Nope, generally when you discover something, you get to give it a name. So someone could observe any new phenomena whatsoever, and decide to name it “ghost”. Or “fairy”, or whatever. And from then on, it’s true, because those things were previously undefined. Science advances by failing to...

So how do you know a fire isn’t a ghost? Since you cannot say what it is, there is nothing to say that a ghost isn’t fire.

But unless you already know what a ghost is and what a fairy is, then there is no way to tell which was the cause. What you need to do is describe a thing, call it a ghost, and then try and fail to prove that thing is not real.

Of course it matters, what a strange question. You can't answer the question "are ghosts real" if the thing you are studying is a fairy!

You still haven't said what a ghost is. If we don't know what it is, we cannot say if it's reliably appearing. How do you tell the difference between a ghost, a fairy and a UFO? Sure, people use things without understanding them all the time. But we aren't talking about using ghosts. I'm...

If you don't know what it is, how would you know if you had observed it?

I’ve seen the occasional PC dwarf over my 43 years of playing, mostly because it’s me playing them, but I don’t think anyone would really miss them if they weren’t there. Only the people who always come out and say “how dare you change ANYTHING!!!” would object to their absence. I’m pretty sure...

Never seen that as a thing for D&D elves. Superior and arrogant is more on brand. Dwarves have never been all that popular, and I don't see what's depressing about it. Who would choose to be short and angry if they had a choice!?

I don’t consider “it’s in the PHB” as meaning something is automatically available. Of course it’s something to discuss with the players, and I will generally work with them to let them play what they want, but the PHB has no special status.

I would define it as not a mammalian humanoid. So Thi-Kreen, Centaurs, Dragonborn, plasmoids, warforged, lizard folk, etc I associate "long lifespan" with elves. They definitely aint ethereal, and as for supporters, that depends on the age and culture of your players, Pillar of what exactly...

Why those? And what do you mean by "out there"?

The Banneret is so boring that no one will ever play it. It's a pointless waste of space. Battlemaster is flat better and can fill exactly the same RP role. Champion all fits the role if you want something simpler. You know what role we don't have a fighter subclass for: dragon rider (or any...

Order of the Garter: 677 years and still going. It's done it by changing it's role to suit the times though.