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It isn’t. It’s very limited in its ability to track plot variables. Which made The attempt to make a sand box in lost valley so bad. But the campaign in the second expansion is a little better than the original campaign.

Again, a reflection of reality, not something that was imagined in fiction then copied. Aside from leisure, before modern job interviews, the pub was where most people would go to find a job.

Is "meeting in a tavern" actually traceable to the Gygaxian game, or did it just emerge spontaneously in many home games (where people, as in my case, were meeting in a pub to play D&D)?

Long before the 1970s! You are aware that “Roman times” was before the 7th century? My understanding is that in 1st century Rome, most food and drink vendors served to the streets, so if you wanted a more private meeting the bath house would be the place to go. Societies have always had...

Sure there is, it's between The Ranger's Tale and the Sorcerer's Tale.

"Order of" or "Rule of" would fit a westernised monk.

Yup. This was the first piece of 5e cover art that I actually liked. And probably the 1st D&D art I've liked since 2e. Not only is it an art style I hate, it's a deliberate imitation of an art style I hate, not even original.

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.