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You’d need to change the numerical values for some things, but all of the non-math stuff would be usable in 5e. From what I’ve seen so far at least; I’m kind of waiting for the physical book to really dive into it.

Indeed - dtrpg link. It aims to be a 'practical bestiary': the entry for Minotaur includes a sample labyrinth and Sphinx includes two pages of riddles, as examples. It also includes a table for nearly every entry that describes what happens if you eat the monster after defeating it, which... I...

I admit I was really impressed with how useful I found Fizban’s - I only hesitated on Bigby’s because I’ve never found giants terribly compelling as adversaries. A book that could make them compelling would be very cool, actually.

Every day since ordering a copy, I've been giving the mailman increasingly dirty looks each time they come to my door and fail to deliver it to me.

Huh - it’s really that good? I spent my RPG budget this month on a print copy of ‘The Monster Overhaul’ instead of Bigbys, but now you have me wondering if I should pick it up in the future.

I'm digging around in my old posts for verification, but didn't the Bookscan data show Spelljammer had a huge initial spike in sales and a precipitous dropoff?

I’m personally holding a candle for “N1 - Against the Cult of the Reptile God”, but they definitely haven’t run dry on classic modules. I’m excited to see what they do with “Caverns of Thracia”.

I have to admit, I really just sort of assumed faction membership would be a 'fourth thing' for characters, along the lines of dragonmarks in Eberron or dark gifts in Ravenloft.

Professor DM’s video was why I was looking for it!

OAR #4: The Lost City also appears to have - naturally, as it was the one I was shopping for - vanished from Amazon. The others are still there, at least. edit: link. I actually noticed this yesterday; with a bit of searching around, people have apparently speculating about this for awhile now.

I’m also curious, as mention of the other volumes seem to have vanished from the Goodman Games website.

I may be misrepresenting my position - I don't mean to argue that old settings can't be changed; for every gem of an old TSR product, there's at minimum an equal number of duds. Which doesn't preclude pulling a diamond in the rough, of course. If I really had a bone to pick, it's with what...

Which is, also, completely fair. I suppose what I bristle at is the tone of, "Are you over 30? Your opinion is meaningless, and it is virtuous that it is meaningless." If nothing else, I'd enjoy showing the next generation all the cool nonsense my friends and I enjoyed back in the day.

That’s a fair and measured take.

Speaking as someone who bought the Planescape box set in the 90s and adored it - am I wrong to take this as a profoundly nihilistic take?

Absolutely - but there very much was a period where “Is D&D going to have alignment anymore?” was an open question, I think. While it’s somewhat surprising to me to admit it, I do agree that Ravenloft probably needs alignment the least of the old school settings - even in 2e, detect alignment...

I mean, it's not like they were advertising the books as "Now without Alignment!" You'd have to be looking carefully at the statblocks to notice.

Alignment is specifically absent in Candlekeep Mysteries and Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft - I remember Crawford referring to it in a YouTube video as a “time out period”.

I imagine that’s the Us. Edit: Or it could be Many-As-One. Forgot about them for a minute.

I mean, both Perkins and Crawford have referred to this as an “evergreen edition”. It wouldn’t surprise me if that was a design goal from on high - the rules of games Hasbro owns don’t typically change.