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It was pretty vague. For example, here is how the descriptions kind of go in the different editions: 1e/2e: Here is the town, described for 4 pages. The local mage is 16th level, and carries a Wand of the War Mage +2 and a Robe of the Archmagi. The Zhentarim operate here, doing XYZ. The local...

I myself like the class, and I think that it offers a fun and interesting range of character types, and also slots into a useful place in a lot of settings; but I also totally agree with the above. Vicious Mockery is a nightmare of a spell, since it requires the player to come up with something...

I laughed with this line.

I wonder if having a Greyhawk UA is a sign that we may get a Castle Greyhawk adventure at some point, complete with 40-pages of setting information and a 5-page rules adjustment? I mean, that sort of product certainly sounds feasible; but is a UA anything more than 'here's some nice rules stuff...

I have to disagree with the idea that a player getting bored and stabbing the innkeeper is a sign of poor pacing. You're putting the blame for the player's action onto the DM! I would say that when this happens, it is often because a player is bored of not being the centre of attention...

I try to be generous with the group stealth rules to avoid that issue, simply because it kills me inside to see one character in heavy armour (which they will naturally refuse to take off, ever) prevent the nimble characters from doing interesting stealth stuff. I'm a really big fan of that...

I had a player do this in Princes of the Apocalypse, a module where there is definitely a lot of room for a clever Rogue to move ahead and set up ambushes. However, this Assassin character simply walked along with the group, then asked "do I get to do my assassin abilities this fight", I'd...

I think that they deeply regret the century jump, and would have undone it if they could. Having a world as close to 2e as possible is apparently the next best thing, even if it means no new shops have opened in a century :)

I'm really hoping for a Dark Sun adventure, myself; not because I am all that excited for the setting, but because some of my players are desperate for it. I read the first book in the Prism Pentand, and looked at a map of the setting, and it seemed like a sufficiently small setting that an AP...

I guess it comes from the heavy metaplot that used to exist, and which they are apparently not doing anymore. The fans were used to a constantly updating story of the setting; to that mindset, a century jump demands a whole lot of metaplot to explain!

I'm forever delving into 2e books when writing my games - Forgotten Realms setting stuff, Planescape Guides for planar adventures - and I agree that the quality of writing and ideas could be very high indeed. Like 3e it also tended to have a lot of really tedious rules stuff sprinkled in, down...

I think that the low budget really showed in the plot - a whole episode spent at the Amish disco certainly saved them from the costs of either showing the characters returning from the epic quest, or having the 'Demon Army sieges the Elven city' plot actually exist beyond some dialogue and a...

Fantasy TV shows will always struggle with budget, I think. The Shannara TV show looked desperately cheap at times, no matter how many times they reused the same helicopter shot of the Elven city. Not seen past season one of Game of Thrones, so I'm not sure how they handle it, but it is also...

More important question: the sphere is weightless, but appears not to confer that status on the person inside, so it's as heavy as the person, but they don't wriggle. How far can a Storm Giant toss that, and what's the most amusing thing that could happen as a result?I'm thinking that it'd...

Care to provide a different sample, one in which your views are more represented?

When it's always the same two-four people complaining about how the edition is terrible and how the release rate isn't good enough, I tend to suspect that they don't represent a real ground-swell of popular feeling. It's fairly obvious from all other indicators that 5e is working and selling...

I had wondered about that number - it seemed extraordinarily high!

I really like this one, and might have it happen while the players are waiting in Baldur's Gate. That would nicely foreshadow Xonthal's Tower, which is, well, not that near Baldur's Gate - but it should be easy enough to suggest that the cultist was hoping to get a boat to Daggerford and then...

Thanks so much for the commentary, everyone. It sounds like my worry was correct -that MiBG is just a bit too much, too long, for use as a sidequest. The app has some weird side effects. I noticed when doing my constant Volo's Guide updates that it doesn't show Bold and Italics correctly. It...

The Metallic dragons can get away with being not as well done as the Chromatics simply by dint of not turning up that much. Let's be honest, unless you are running Dragonlance or Tyranny of Dragons, you'll likely have 0-1 Metallic turn up in your campaign. At that point, having them be a bit...