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I've heard that Lost Mines of Phandelver is a very good introductory adventure. Comes with the starter set.

To expand on what Sacrosanct said... A departure from tradition is not necessarily bad. Even 5E departs from it in areas. Sometimes, it works out and you get a very good ruleset... sometimes, it doesn't. Whichever resulted from 4E's departure is not my place to say; 4E didn't die just because...

Cleric: "Huh, I see some sneaking shadow over by them..." Fighter: "They must have a rogue! Fireball him before our's gets too close!" Wizard: "Casting Maximized Doom-Enhanced Fireball." DM: "Rogue, you take 618 points of damage." Cleric, Fighter, Wizard: "Oops!" Yeah, never again... Just...

"And the little girl who refused to clean her bedroom woke up to six displacer beasts standing around her bed..."

Genius Ditzomancer You're not necessarily the wisest person around, but you've got talent! You've got amazing talent! Sadly, that talent is for raising the dead, which gets a lot of people side-eyeing you and edging away. You don't mean to do it! It's just the affinity comes naturally to you...

One of the reward options is to grant them a title and some land to rule over... That alone is going to take a lot of money from them to get functional and keep running.

5E is not designed with the idea of a low-damage frontline defender being viable. It can be done, but the character is probably going to die a lot; the character defends better by both being in the way and dealing a lot of damage quickly. Plus, the high monster HPs in this edition make a...

4E was a bit of an aberration where it comes to DnD; it tried to enforce a few roles that, realistically, had not existed before. Other roles were forced to act in ways that sometimes did not quite match to DnD norm. Realistically? You need martial damage-dealers, arcane users, divine users...

I don't think there's a contradiction in terms. Basically, it's saying that anyone who can read a language can read magical script... but, also, that scrolls are written in ciphers that reflect certain ways magic works; that's why a scroll not on your class list is unintelligible (you're...

Technically, it wasn't dangerous or edgy at the time; it was following an established art style. The hints of nudity also worked in that case because of the subject matter being dealt with. Which doesn't mean the nudity you are going for is a bad idea; done right, it serves the subject matter...

I have heard stories of a club of healing, so I decided to create a 5E version of it. Club of Healing Weapon (club), rare You can use this as a normal club. Whenever it deals damage, it also does 1d6 points of healing to the person/monster it hit. The healing effect only activates when the club...

I do it and don't change anything once it's on the paper. But, then, I'm drawing on graph paper using a pencil and referencing a set of references for quick generation of an area, and what I produce definitely is not art :P

I can honestly say that how the game handles cantrips seems to be the middle ground between Pathfinder and 4E, and I honestly think 5E benefits from it. If anything, in my honest opinion it is superior to both in that area. Otherwise, I'll agree a lot of the differences seem to be stylistic...

Go for it!

Then you're not producing a game. You're producing an art book. Seriously, even in DnD books, the depictions of violence do serve a purpose; they help highlight the high-fantasy kind of fighting your characters can be doing, and in some cases help highlight what things would actually look like...

Basically? Passive Perception is what your character notices without making that much effort. Or when the GM wants to make a secret roll. They just compare the difficulty of noticing something to your Passive Perception to see if you notice it.

So very true! I also have no problem with nudes in RPG books as long as they serve a purpose that actually aids the book. In the books, not on the cover, just to keep people from screaming about it.

I like Passive Perception. When I get a chance to DM 5E games, it'll give me a chance to say to some party members that they spotted a secret door (or trap) they didn't even think to look for. It'll make some dungeons go a lot faster.

Last I checked, Eyes Wide Shut was also in the bargain bin at my local stores. I've noticed a lot of movies past a certain age tend to end up there, no matter how artistic they are; I could pick up all of Hitchcock's works for $20 with ease.

Schindler's List isn't a game. Eyes Wide Shut isn't a game. Those examples are irrelevant. Quality does win every time. I'm telling you that you are mistaken as to what a quality RPG actually is. Also, if "no one keeps playing schlock over and over," then why does DnD have a 31-year...