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Splitting information about specific NPCs and their role in the story, and where they might be encountered is an issue with many WotC adventures. It's a big problem in Vecna. That information should all be together in one place.

"Modular" design also leads to structural flaws, especially when it comes to sandboxy content. CoS is a good example of "what chapter is that location in, and why?", the climactic dungeon being in chapter 4 if I remember correctly. And then you get repetition, and clashes of style, since WotC...

People in that age range are generally very busy with RL stuff like careers and family. I didn't have much time for gaming when I was that age, and certainly not GMing.

One thing interesting, Kingsley was in Coronation Street, from 1966-1967, so there aren’t a great many people around likely to remember him from it. Trevor would appear to be around 20-30 years younger than Kingsley, but Coronation Street has been running since forever, so mentioning it doesn’t...

The Mandarin is Trevor’s Ghandi.

He is relatively unknown, that isn’t changed. A small part in Coronation Street, some regional theatre. Enough to collect some anecdotes, but not enough to make him recognisable in the US under a shaggy beard.

I don’t think that would work. Whenever you have a major university in a small town it completely dominates all aspects of that town. See Cambridge, Durham or St. Andrews. An American style university would be off brand for the Radiant Citadel in any case. Sigil would work.

It should work fine with the right players, but you would need to create about double the number of incidents. I would borrow heavily from Forth Wing, down to the addition of consensual adult content. The big problem though is the lack of any feel of the world outside of the campus. I would move...

He is the guy who was largely responsible for the poor quality of WotC adventures over the last 10 years or so. The game was OPEN ENDED - ergo level 20 was no more "complete" than any other level.

Nothing to indicate that in the terminology. It's basically a euphemism for railroad.

Sure. I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying it's bad because it was cut to death (and the MtG lets-save-on-the-art-budget tie in was a stupid decision), not because it was made without effort, which the word "slop" implies. Given the sort of thing you look for it might be worth picking it up if...

The idea that for a campaign to be “complete” it has to start at first level and end at some arbitrary cap is a silly one.

So what? It's still an extended campaign with about 7 chapters. Nothing special about starting at first level. It was actually pretty rare to start at first level in 1st edition days. Even Dragonlance started at level 3. Levelling was much much slower of course, so it would take longer to gain 5...

Shouldn't that be BR?

The day being Jonny-come-lately day.

Stryxhaven is far from slop. It's bad, but that's because WotC abandoned it and cut it down from a boxed set to a short book, leaving essential material out. But a heck of a lot of work went into it. Is bad, and horribly organised, but has a bunch of pretty good dungeons that can be repurposed.

The concept that the game ran from levels 1-20 was new. 1st and 2nd edition were open ended. And 3rd edition had epic levels, so didn't really end at 20 either. So "1" and "20" are just numbers, without any particular significance.

Er, no. Paizo invented the term, but the concept has been around since Against the Giants, Against the Slave Lords, and Dragonlance. Paizo found a way to milk it by combining it with a serialised magazine format.

Why ever would you need someone to write a generic plot for you?! If you can't do it yourself you could lift one from pretty much anywhere!

Their skill sets suggest they are. They are world builders and story tellers, not mechanics people. Whist a Radiant Citadel 2 anthology would be possible, it seems more natural that they would want to move on to something bigger. Which might be an adventure path, possibly using an RC setting, or...