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Never played the game, but I loooooove the comic.

That robs the DM of the opportunity to act tactically. The party scatters, and now the dragon can only hit one target with its breath. That's absolutely not to my taste. Same problem, but in reverse. I prefer an "imprecise aim" rule; for example, instead of targeting a square with an area of...

I don't think it needed rectification. The lack of details was a feature, not a bug; Nentir Vale was a "points of light" setting, with a few detailed areas of civilization separated by swaths of darkness. By the end of 4e, it had had a lot of development (mostly via adventures, but also through...

IIRC 1e was 20 silver to the gold.

I don't have it front of me, but there was also the 4e version of Tomb of Horrors, which was basically a sequel to 2e's Return to the Tomb of Horrors. I don't recall specifically if it was set in Greyhawk, setting-agnostic, or imported into the default Nentir Vale setting, though.

I don't, but I tend to pay attention to what everyone else is doing. Also, I often have some kind of off turn reaction option that I want to use, so I watch for the right moment.

Yeah, but that would be an adventure, since it's illegal. And bear in mind that you could only spend the marks in the one city, so you are getting rich in one location at the expense of not having any money usable elsewhere!

I love seeing other peoples' weird currencies. Does anyone else have multiple different coinages in their games? I have a thing where there is the "imperial" coinage (the standard gp, ep, sp, etc) from the fallen empire whose ruins the current world is built on. And one city tried to impose a...

I don't really see the ep as a half-gold as a problem. If you are big on encumbrance, it seems to me that making it easy to carry more loot is... well, why? You already have platinum for that. As a player, I appreciate the lack of a straight 10:1 exchange in all cases. But I'm probably a little...

A magic item no one in the party wants is an opportunity to make allies by gifting it; an opportunity to make money by selling it; an opportunity to get something of value by trading it; etc. Just because you don't have a cleric doesn't mean there is not a cleric willing to promise a free...

That's one perspective. Another is that you end up with items that encourage creative use and interesting options for pcs that wouldn't otherwise have them. It's potent when your fighter has a magic weapon and armor and shield, sure, but it's cool when they have a set of boots of speed, a rope...

That is absolutely not satisfying when you're trying to make a new and unique monster. Not even a little satisfying. It might work for some dms, but not for those who like to add new stuff to the game that isn't the same as the old stuff. EDIT: Also, not everyone uses dndbeyond, and the game...

How much of the lore in the glossary actually matters for your game? How much of it improves the game? Don't get me wrong, I like the lore glossary, but versus actual useful content, it doesn't measure up.

Perhaps reduce the size of the margins on the left and right by 1/8". That would create a good number of pages. It's hard to say what content I'd cut; I haven't had the chance to read the whole thing yet, just bits and pieces.

Well, there weren't rules for it, but it was certainly expected that dms would homebrew monsters. That's why the first Monstrous Compendium volume had a blank monster sheet in it.

I could, but this is such a basic component of dming that I feel like the designers really ought to include it. It's different in early editions, where there really is no math behind monster creation, but since 3e, there have very clearly been guidelines or rules that the designers use. Keeping...

If that's what it takes, fine. Monster creation is one of the major aspects of DMing. It should be covered in enough detail for a novice dm to make a monster that holds up to scrutiny.

I've seen this mentioned a couple times. As I understand it, this is from some interview or online video, right? If it's not in the books, you can't expect people to know this. I certainly didn't, and hadn't heard of it for the vast majority of the time 5e is out. "We told you in a video on...

Or tune it up to make it more enjoyable. Again, taking away all the beverages you serve because some people complain that a few of them are bad is poorly considered, to put it mildly.

It certainly shouldn't be. If the DMG doesn't tell DMs how to do it themselves- "doing it" including crafting their own monsters- it's not much of a guide for DMs at all. (With the caveat that if those specific rules are in the MM, that's probably okay.)