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I would wager that you'd have a better path to an end point were you to randomly select a handful of the 32-page modules from 1e, the 3.0 Sunless Citadel series of modules, or the old DCC 3e modules. The 5e sandbox adventures are just too "something" - by the time the I got done reading them, I...

Stealing elements of a your own homebrew or published module to throw the changeup in a different published module? Sure - do it all day long. Taking a published module and completely changing it, (especially certain "everybody knows" published modules)? Why even bother - that DM should just...

The only "danger" with this is adding so much of your own spice that it becomes totally unrecognizable - e.g. running the Slavelords modules without any of the Slavelords actually making an appearance...

Have a list of all of the environmentals for each indoor location - what are the walls, floor and ceiling made of, temperature, visibility, light sources, etc.

In this regard, HARP might be a better choice than MERP. Since the magic system in HARP is spells are learned skills, the GM can limit it as he sees fit, but it supposedly streamlines the Rolemaster rules even more and takes some design cues from d20 so it may be easier to grok.

I'm looking forward to this, but they need to really improve whatever it is they plan for the raising an army part of the game. The kingmaker game was great overall but the kingdom management really was lacking unless you used mods.

Go pick up Harn.

You aren't accounting for the possibility that it was just less crappy than the others rather than actually being worth the cover price...

Fair enough. That having been said, how many of those pre-order colors are going to be opened once and then sit on a shelf never to be opened again. I've a ton of product spanning multiple different RPGs going back to the early 80s. 95% of it was bought on a whim and never used. more if it...

Amazon preorders aren't actual sales. I've got like 50 items in my Amazon cart right now. When I actually complete the transaction probably 90% or more of those items won't be subsequently on their way to my house...

Show me the Venn diagram of people who watch their show vs those who actually play vs those who buy more than the core books. It's not 11.4 million worth who will actually buy this book.

Their stream is free. That doesn't translate into book sales 1:1. Mark my words. Free views on twitch and YouTube don't translate into book sales. This will come out, sell for a few weeks, and then disappear. 20-somethings may be the target audience. They also have no attention span to...

Currently popular? I never heard of it before now. Why would anyone possibly think this would sell? How many players or DMs actually watch critical role as compared to the whole playerbase? Of those, how many are in the hunt for a new vanilla campaign setting? Popular amongst fans of...

Twilight:2013. Period.

Take a look at the map key for interior maps made in the Harn style. Everything you want is likely in there. It's free on drivethrurpg.

The voting choice of "not fun" shouldn't have been included in this vote. Whether or not something is fun is (1) completely subjective and (2) not necessarily a problem because, usually when someone says that something is making the game not fun, it's really because either the designers or...

Oh, I didn't say ressurection would be really available. You might get stuck with a raise dead without the regeneration of missing limbs (leading to having to trudge to the big city to seek out services), or get reincarnated as a kobold. Players also tended to have a posse of hirelings and...

Every challenge can be deadly, if your party is stupid (or even not stupid). Players need to be allowed to fail. They need to understand the appropriate response to having half the team go down in the first 2 rounds is to drag their bodies with them as they run away, not "This DM is unfair...

And this is where I think lack of player imagination amongst younger players expecting to "reload their save" comes into play. Back in ye oldey times, if we weren't playing it as ruthless mercenaries, we'd save the village at the cost of the PC. A good DM would turn a death into an opportunity...

Concur. The "easy" way to do this is to use initiative with an action cost "tick" mechanic, with weapon bulk affecting initiative. Your init is also how many ticks' work of actions you can take per round. Have actions resolve at the "end" of their initiative. When casting a spell, AD&D used...