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Sorry, I don't want a game organized around optimizers and tryhards. I want a relaxed game that can't be "solved" and is more interested in giving me the tools to tell a fun and interesting story. A mix of mechanics and not-mechanics that aid those stories, not "keeping players in line".

I suppose it comes down to "are you more a TV person or Movie person?" TV glosses over the differences in languages. Movies generally don't. As for Nothics speaking only Undercommon, I attribute it to them become like hermits in the dark underground, listening to and answering the strange...

It takes experience, familiarity - and most of all, not getting stung or frustrated. I'll admit, I gave up after my encounters with high level in 2nd and most especially 3rd and have no desire to repeat the experience. There's certainly individual people able to do it and have fun with it. I...

The ones I'm aware of are: Q1 - Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1E) (and the GDQ series that could be used overall) City of the Spider Queen (FR, 3E) Expedition to the Demonweb Pits (3E) I've run Q1, and I'd say it's pretty bad and unfocused, but it can be fun if you're willing to expand the alt...

From the adventures I've seen them publish over the ages, they never had the experience in the first place. 1E - "High level is dumb. We'll make all the character's high level abilities not work so the adventure won't be a cakewalk" (Bloodstone series) 2E - "Let's not talk about it. We have to...

If I had my way, it'd be boxed set instead of slipcases anyways :P

Back in 1E they did do a paper copy of Pool of Radiance, and I seem to remember something similar for PoR 2:Myth Drannor for 2E. Personally, I'd do a "parallel" story - something that runs in the same area and has similar story beats but complements the video game without duplicating it. Have...

They could bundle them together (for the DM) in a slipcase set (maybe with a DM's screen) like they did with the three-book format for Spelljammer and Planescape. They could still sell them seperately for those who don't want the slipcase set. I just hated for Spelljammer & Planescape set that...

I think you should try modrons of other shapes too - certainly the "all-seeing pyramid" seems likes it'd be a good fit, as would an octrahedron and certainly our 12-sided (die) friends. Also, I think that's a great thought on beholders - Modrons perhaps tainted by the Realm of Madness or...

I think one of the bigger problems is troupe play starts to break down at 10th+ level. Honestly, at these levels heroes start to be one-off's and adventures would make more sense if it was one high level adventurer and a group of lesser heroes. But no one is going to want to play...

You've gotten 898 views on this, so I think there's more than two people tuned in - others are probably lurking, waiting to see how this gets fleshed out or cribbing notes. One of the things I've been thinking about is a Fire Rift; we have the other three, could there be a Fire one, perhaps...

Ironically, the 2013 Premium Edition reprint of Unearthed Arcana incorporates that errata. Just a tad late...

Expanding on Birthright: DM Book 1) About 25 "big picture" adventures, covering the likes of Flood, Earthquake, Rebellion, Rampaging Beast and the like that would be things to handle at a domain level. About 25 "personal" quests - seeking an Artifact, dealing with a diplomat, investigating an...

I think Birthright would be fun. Especially if it had a section in it for Domain Management that could be translated to other campaigns. They really ought to do a Spelljammer set of books as well to add in the stuff we all feel was left out of the original 5E release (such as a system for...

Looking about, it seems a lot of the issue is inexperience. High level is rarely reached by designers, so they're unfamiliar with writing good adventures for those levels - they're used to writing adventures for the earlier part of the game that are more familiar and easier to account for...

Philadelphia Experiment was a whole different thing, attempting to make a naval ship invisible and instead teleporting it or something equally weird. Supposedly a real event, though no one is really sure of what actually happened. The aircraft movie was The Final Countdown, and is of course...

Having played a lot of Battletech* in the day, I've done component breakouts for a few creatures - most recently a Gargantua for a one-shot in Ravinca where it was attacking the city and the PCs had to find a way to stop it. One of the things they found they could do is focus fire on an arm...

And then you have things like this, and you go WTF is this - I want to play in that! Which is from March 1989, BTW.

It waxes and wanes, and there's been traces of it all the way back to 1E, if not before. I mean, Spelljammer was created back in 2E. Barrier Mountains was 1E. Tale of the Comet was 2E. The Blackmoor series for Basic were in the 80's/90's. Urban Arcana was in the 3E era. Beyond these...