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Every campaign world made by WOTC might be derived from the First World, or some other random bit of lore that someone thought would be fun or make some money for some splatbook. Every campaign that I run would have zero, zilch, nada, no impact from whatever WOTC says about the First World...

If you want to try CoS, which I could understand might be tough, I’d suggest playing through some of the early modules from the original Ravenloft lineup. Night of the Walking Dead is and can include waves of zombies (that’s where the plot ends up), plus a zombie lord BBEG who is no slouch...

Thanks for the reminder about Dungeon Crawl Classics. I have that, and often mine it for ideas. On the one hand, in one campaign I am running, there is an Assassin character who is looking to collect and potentially use poisons, though I think he has forgotten about it :-) The other is on...

Hello, I was hoping to get some additional brainpower on the issue of Poisons in old school gaming, particularly OSE and B/X style games. The main rules for poisons tended to live in monster stat blocks, with the majority of them being "save or die" mechanics with either a penalty, bonus, or no...

I don't think they have to advertise anything, really. All they have to do is release "NEW" PHB, DMG, and MM, and people will buy it. Its been 10 or so years since 5e came out. Many people, including new players, will happily take a flyer on the new books, just to see what is going on. And...

As a cleric, you select your deity and then worship them, not that that means anything in DnD anymore. As a Warlock, you don’t pick your patron, usually, you either stumble upon them, they find you, or maybe you do get to pick. I see Warlocks as much more random, especially what you might...

You're probably looking then at either "optional" material from the new DMG, much like the optional stuff in the current DMG, or 3PP material. The "more complexity" era of DnD is pretty much gone. 5e was a huge success, and they're not going to mess with the magic sauce of simplicity, since...

But this, and as @Snarf Zagyg points out, we are going to most likely see a continuation with variation of 5e. 5e is the largest RPG in the world, makes the most money, now has a movie coming out, etc., any company that wants to make money will be "5e adjacent". People flocked to Pathfinder...

I voted Moderate, as I know my players see rules as having some 'control' over 'winning' the game. So any game we tried to play would need more than light rules. I also know I like to tweak rules, remove and add things, and having moderate levels would allow me to add and remove things without...

I’ll give my opinions on your questions (for what its worth, every table is different, others would rule differently, etc.): 1. No. I mean, it’s a 10’ pole designed to poke things, open doors from a distance, tap on floors/walls. It wasn’t necessarily designed of materials that would...

Love it. My son actually fought the bandits, befriended the kobolds (the ones further inside, not the guards), and is cautiously neutral with the cleric. I did play it off as people were using the castle in passing, but I like your idea even better!

Yes. Some in google drive, some on my laptop hard drive, some on an external hard drive, some on my ipad in the pdf reader... its sort of a major organizational block that I have going when it comes to pdf's. I blame it on age... LoL.

I usually have the players have a couple of characters ready before play even begins, in the event that there are deaths. During the game, they can usually either run a hireling or other NPC (or have that become their character), have them encounter the new character in the adventure...

I am currently running Castle Caldwell for my son using OSE Advanced as a "drop in" adventure in Greyhawk, and depending on your DM and table style, it could really need a lot of work for it to make "sense" for the party investigating it - lots of empty rooms, rooms with closed doors with...

I had multiple 6-shelf bookcases packed with RPG's, supplements, Dragon mags, novels (11 boxes of fantasy novels off to the used book store), etc. from 40+ years of playing. Then warhammer and tabletop gaming, then... over a couple of moves, and a general purging, I'm down to two bookcases, and...

I picked up DM'ing for the (thinks about it) second time in 40 some years playing - another player was the forever DM. It was also after a long time not playing, right before Covid hit, so the game went right onto VTT play. I picked up DM'ing after one DM finished off his 5e Tiamat campaign...

After 40 years, we still struggle with this, although there is only one player I know who will actually use all the meta knowledge, or pull up the monster stat block while we're playing... I handle it in a few ways: 1) In my Greyhawk campaign, the players are in Sterich. Anything that ends...

I really love OSE Advanced and was a patreon supporter of Dolmenwood for a time, and liked a lot of it, but I’m mining it for home use, and would be unlikely to run Dolmenwood as a campaign itself. I do like the changes referenced above as well. I’m still waiting for Carcass Crawler #3. I...

In my games, it would depend on how you found out about the necromancer’s tower (info would be seeded there) or who sent you on this quest/adventure; who in town or nearby did you ask about said tower or it’s inhabitant; and once some info is gained about the tower or it’s inhabitant, was there...

Yes, this. What I want from an adventure/module is a clear "story" that is internally consistent, externally consistent (within its game world or framework), and has a clear purpose: what is the party being asked to do/volunteering to do. Within that clear purpose and stated goal, then it...