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I think Dragonlance could work really well as a movie trilogy. Focus on the main story arc, and accept that change would be essential to make it palatable as a movie series. It's certainly got plenty of epic moments, and a lot of heart.

I hate all instances of "before the result is announced", so I always let players use these powers after the event if necessary.

"While new products will continue to be released fears of economic instability, terrorism, and the like will see sales in Europe decline" We're scared of terrorists, so we're not going to buy the latest D&D adventure?? ;)

I've just started a new campaign in a new campaign world: a kingdom of giants that has been devastated by a great deluge. It's basically "Waterworld" meets "Against the Giants".

I'm with Paraxis here; if a player wants their character to be a monster knowledge specialist, I'd encourage them and allow for knowledge rolls. In a world inhabited by weird monsters, survival knowledge is going to spread among the learned (just like most people in our world are at least...

To the original poster: I've found that house-rules are easily integrated into 5e to create a stronger 4e feel. You can shift short rests to 5 minutes, require certain types of healing to use hit dice (and maximize hit dice when spent), add action points and milestones, and so on. With...

As I player, I'd prefer a rule that gave me a less effective attack with no chance of accidental death. Accidentally killing the person you're trying to subdue feels a little punitive. Disadvantage is pretty severe. If I wanted to introduce a penalty, I'd probably go for something like...

Parlainth, mentioned previously, is a great ruined city setting. It solves the "where do we spend our loot?" problem by featuring a section of the outer ruins that has been taken over by adventurers - a sort of gold rush town with gambling dens, taverns, and the like. I've run a few homebrew...

I too would *love* to see that. I don't hold out a tremendous amount of hope in the short term though!

Planescape is indeed the meaty pudding that would hold the whole smorgasbord together. But each adventure would be designed to showcase the very best of its setting as quickly as possible - and in isolation, in a way. Sure, you wouldn't have time to get fully immersed in the setting, but you'd...

I once had a player fly back to the UK from India, interrupting their round-the-world holiday, so that they wouldn't miss an important session :) Flying *you* to them, though... I salute you!

True, such an idea would be a problem if everything is supposed to tie in with the AL. I'd like to see it in a relaunched Dungeon mag though :)

5th edition has been variously described as the "edition to rule them all". Now it's out, wouldn't it be cool if Wizards released not one but *all* of their most iconic campaign settings in a single, worlds-spanning adventure path: "one campaign to rule them all"? Each chapter would take our...

When I was living in Japan in the 80s, we visited the local school where my mum was teaching English. Every single kid in the class, boys and girls, pulled out copies of Tunnels & Trolls at lunch break and played solidly until classes began again. It was awesome to see. I think Tunnels and...

I often include allied NPCs, either as plot devices, comedy relief, backup, or just someone else for the players talk to. I generally repurpose a "monster" instead of running a full character, so I don't have to faff around with making power/spell choices.

Does anything from the official sources cause characters to temporarily lose hit dice? A number of monsters from 4e cause healing surge drain, and I was just wondering if there was any equivalent in 5th? I haven't seen any yet, but I've not been through everything.

Well, the game went pretty well! If anybody is interested, I've posted the pixie pregens up in the fan creations section: here. I skipped Background traits as they didn't have much context for a one-off.

I have just uploaded 5th Edition Pixie Party (3rd Level) to the downloads area. A home-brewed party of six pixie adventurers for my conversion of "Glitterdust" (Dungeon 211). All 3rd level: 2 fighters (Champion & Battlemaster), 2 rangers (Hunter & Beastmaster), a warlock (archfey, pact of the...

A home-brewed party of six pixie adventurers for my conversion of "Glitterdust" (Dungeon 211). All 3rd level: 2 fighters (Champion & Battlemaster), 2 rangers (Hunter & Beastmaster), a warlock (archfey, pact of the blade), and a bard (college of lore). Uses 9Bit's rather nice landscape...

A home-brewed party of six pixie adventurers for my conversion of "Glitterdust" (Dungeon 211). All 3rd level: 2 fighters (Champion & Battlemaster), 2 rangers (Hunter & Beastmaster), a warlock (archfey, pact of the blade), and a bard (college of lore). Uses 9Bit's rather nice landscape...