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I wondered at times back in my DM days if you could have an actual medieval type place, if there was a kingdom in a big magic-dead zone; no mages, no spell-wielding clerics, no magical monsters/outer planar critters, etc. It later occurred to me that while peasants would love such a place, the...

I used a similar plot to the GDQ series, but made it lower level and used assorted reptilian critters instead of giants... the PCs basically took on lizardmen, troglodytes, and fire newts, found that a reptilian devil-type monster was behind it all, and took the fight to him in a demi-plane full...

what happened to them? The krakens ate them all. Every single one. Yep. Sad.

kinda depends on what you're running. If it's a 5E campaign with Ghosts of Saltmarsh, there's a lot of prep.... along with the standard plot/NPCs, you've got the new ship rules to integrate. Older modules tend to be a lot shorter one-shot stuff. One thing I'll add to the list: be prepared...

While most of it was execrable, I did like the Island of Unused Monsters, where loads of critters (mostly from the FF) that DMs never used in adventures all lived together, and ate flumphs to get by....

There's another thread on the site where someone relates the story of an NPC who starved to death because he was always lying when asked if he was hungry...

I'd bet he read ERB and HR Haggard as well (one of the Conan stories practically duplicates a scene from one of the Quatermain novels)…

maybe it'll be a recipe book with things like Waterdeep Wings and Greyhawk Goulash. C'mon, you know that if it says 'official D&D product', you know you'll buy it...

probably. Still, the whole backwards AC thing annoyed me the whole time in 1E, and I was hoping to see it changed...

I admit to not being totally satisfied with any edition I've seen. 1E was the classic, of course, but lord... those 'run backwards AC', screwy surprise and initiative rules, poor organization, eventual suffering from too many added on rules books. 2E was an improvement in organization, but...

one of my 2E groups back in the day called themselves the Regulators. They were inspired by the group in Young Guns led by Billy the Kid. After I introduced flintlock pistols into the game, they sorta acted like them too...

I want a new MM with nothing but varieties of giant space hamsters. Truly this would fill a huge demand...

it's about as medieval of LotR…. looks sorta medieval, acts sorta medieval, but some whopping differences. And D&D actually takes a step further away from LotR/medieval by having lotsa pantheons of deities, instead of one big one...

I hope it's about evil squirrels and the players' epic long (lvl 1-12) conflict to stop their nefarious plans. Okay, not really. I'd like to see something along the lines of the Saltmarsh book... revamp a classic campaign, add in some stuff from Dungeon and new stuff, make a campaign out of...

Yes, B4/The Lost City is a good one. Along with the standard 'dungeon crawl down the pyramid levels' (with all those goofy encounters with the natives), there is a whole second 'crawl down the levels below the pyramid' section, and an actual lost city down in a huge cavern, and levels below...

In the first group I was in way back in early 1E days, modules were rife with unnamed NPCs. Our players just tended to call all of them Fred. There was Fred the merchant and Fred the farmer and Fred the guard, etc. In fact, since in our group no one wanted to play the cleric and we had an...

but I don't wanna play the cleric!!

while you can make an argument for 'logical' dungeon layouts... none of that applies to natural caverns. Maps of real cave systems like Carlsbad abound online, and they are way chaotic. Adapting this to a FRPG Underdark is pretty neat. You can assume that the natural cave tunnels have been...

since I didn't get any D&D stuff for Christmas, I decided to use some of the cash I got and buy "Ghosts of Saltmarsh". This was a neat idea that I would like to see more/similar releases. Revamping some classic adventures from 1E/Dungeon, adding some new stuff, and giving kudos to the original...

there already was a light saber in D&D, kinda sorta. Check out the Wand of Force from module WG4