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Plenty of people on these forums write and publish adventures. And I’m pretty sure they would be quite happy to collaborate with someone so clever that they can do something that the professionals and WotC can’t. Licence to print money, surely?

If these people are doing it so successfully, then why aren’t they publishing their adventures so everyone can play them and see how it should be done?

Why would the players care what the princess gets up to? Unless you have built up those relationships in previous adventures. The noble human families work better, the players might at least feel a little guilty about blasting some zero level nobles into bite-sized meaty chunks, whereas...

Boredom is the usual response if they don't care about the situation and don't find the challenges challenging. But most players are too polite to say (and also, because even a boring DM is preferable to having to do it themselves). And if "just about any sort of module will do" then it doesn't...

I know how to run them, you have to design the content around your players and PCs. And never ever try to run an off the peg adventure.

You need to know the PCs, no matter what. It's no good threating the city if the players bring a bunch of shadowdruids and allies to the table. You need to threaten the forest instead.

This is a direct reference to a scene from HAT, just replacing that party with the party from the cartoon.

It's not the PCs who need to care, its the players. And they are not going to start caring about NPCs they have only just met because the scenario tells them they should. They need relationships that they have built up over time.

Something a lot of people do find crazy hard is small talk. D&D is an excellent substitute for that. Say that when you have been kicked out of as many choirs as I have!

You can do a role play heavy high level game if you know what the PCs care about and threaten it. What you can’t do is write it and publish it, because you don’t know some other table’s PCs. It’s like writing a Superman story. Superman is only threatened if you know what he cares about and his...

Yes it is a different campaign - but it’s the only thing that works. If you don’t want to play that, restart. Pre-written adventures simply do not work. The players are more powerful than any rails you might try to put them on.

There really aught to be better rules for how far you can see a target in "bright light". As it stands you have to depend on real world knowledge. And is should depend on size! For example, the text for the spy glass item unhelpfully reads "Objects viewed through a Spyglass are magnified to...

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and Queen of the Demonweb Pits were considered high level in their day - indeed the whole arc starting with Against the Giants was. But anything over level 9 was high level back then.

This wouldn't seem off to someone born in 1948 though, whereas skimpy clothing would. A slight digression, but I find it more surprising to come across it in the Critical Role animated-series-masquerading-as-a-game Dispatch, which gives you a choice between blonde (okay this is subverted a...

Okay, here is what you need to know about running D&D at high level. Don't write adventures. Because the PCs have hundreds of ways to break any pre-written plot. Create a world and let the PCs play with it. Gygax had this right 40 years ago. High level characters are not jobbing adventurers...

Amber. Just a minute whist I create a new universe.

That’s why he might be looking for a job.

So, crass stupidity then. I would be more interested in low magic gritty realism. But if you are talking about 3PP stuff, there are literally hundreds of generic fantasy settings. Some are probably almost as good as one I create myself, but no one has used them and so are useless as a point of...

There were no feats in 1st or 2nd edition.

I don’t think either Robin of Sherwood was quite that charismatic, but this is a bit of the Sheriff acts everyone else off the screen show. Maybe they could replace Rob with Liam Hemsworth? Did anyone else find the cgi animals a bit jarring? I know it’s kinder, but did we really need such an...