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If the bad guys see a hut they don't need to see what's inside. In most cases the characters have already caused disruption and had other fights, the enemy is likely already in high alert. If they weren't in a hostile environment there is little reason to cast the spell. If a glowing dome...

Since this isn't about weather effects and LTH I thought I'd move my response over here. I mentioned that if someone sets up a hut in an area that the antagonists are going to detect it (and if not then the hut wasn't necessary), they will take an intelligent approach in response. I had a...

I didn't understand the question and I may not have time to respond before my game. But the responses should be appropriate to the enemy.

Following the chain back the only thing I see is your response to Umbran where you highlight environmental effects. Which, to a certain degree is true but even with a hurricane it's not that simple. Hurricanes cause all sorts of destruction, depending on where they put the hut you could have...

Your "easier and more approachable" was tried and it didn't exactly lead to stellar success. In 3e they tried to define details for a lot of things but it was always a facade and all it really accomplished was that if you brought up some scenario on the fly someone would say "Hold on, there's a...

As one of those people who have no issue with it, I don't change the spell. I just have the antagonists take an intelligent approach in response to it. Unless it's a zombie horde of course, in which case be prepared to be buried in rotting corpses. :)

D&D has been "throwing GMs to to the wolves" since Gygax and Arneson created the game. A lot of GMs run things straight with no tweaking or house rules at all. There is no way the rules can cover everything the players might attempt, all they can do is give general guidelines on how to handle...

I don't really use dungeons in the traditional sense although of course sometimes encounters happen in ancient ruins or caverns. The whole insane wizard constructed dungeon never felt particularly compelling to me, I'd rather build my campaigns around factions and enemies. A lot of my games...

Then it's good that @pumasleeve didn't say that, they said "could almost be considered".

All of which just acknowledges what DMs have always done. Are they not supposed to say it out loud?

If I refused to purchase a rulebook that had anything in it I disagreed with, I would never buy a rulebook. Meanwhile over decades of play across multiple editions, I don't recall LTH ever causing a significant disruption in the game. For that matter, I rarely see it cast. If it did cause an...

Superhero movies would be boring if there were no supervillains.

While I have the utmost respect for the senior developers that have moved on from WOTC, I sometimes wonder if some of the old guard leaving was a good thing. I'm sure most of the projects we're seeing today were planned months and months ago but the people actually working on it are new(er) and...

I wasn't speaking of anyone in particular, but I do think some people want change for the sake of change or in the hopes that the change will be exactly what they personally want. I'm just not personally a big fan of Monday morning quarterbacking, it's always easy to say it could have been done...

I'm in the same boat. Some of the options sounded interesting but I run a homebrew campaign so based on @SlyFlourish's response it's probably a pass.

The target audience and consumers of D&D are not static. Some people keep playing, some stop playing, others pick it up. With 5e the number that they retained and gained grew for years on end which broke a pattern that had been established for multiple editions. There are many reasons for...

Control spells are primarily an issue if you think solo boss monsters are a good idea and have ever worked well in D&D. Yes legendary resistance is a patch but the game is full of them.

I don't really do random encounters, but I do try to run enemies as intelligent. Let's say the characters are invading a hobgoblin keep. If they notice a hut, what are they going to do? Shrug and go on with their day or gather everyone around to figure out what to do with the intruders...

It wasn't until 2016 according to a quick search.

I've only seen it used a few times, it was never particularly disruptive or game changing. Casting it in an area where it can be noticed is just giving the enemy time to prepare or implement countermeasures.