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I’ll give my opinions on your questions (for what its worth, every table is different, others would rule differently, etc.): 1. No. I mean, it’s a 10’ pole designed to poke things, open doors from a distance, tap on floors/walls. It wasn’t necessarily designed of materials that would...

Love it. My son actually fought the bandits, befriended the kobolds (the ones further inside, not the guards), and is cautiously neutral with the cleric. I did play it off as people were using the castle in passing, but I like your idea even better!

Yes. Some in google drive, some on my laptop hard drive, some on an external hard drive, some on my ipad in the pdf reader... its sort of a major organizational block that I have going when it comes to pdf's. I blame it on age... LoL.

I usually have the players have a couple of characters ready before play even begins, in the event that there are deaths. During the game, they can usually either run a hireling or other NPC (or have that become their character), have them encounter the new character in the adventure...

I am currently running Castle Caldwell for my son using OSE Advanced as a "drop in" adventure in Greyhawk, and depending on your DM and table style, it could really need a lot of work for it to make "sense" for the party investigating it - lots of empty rooms, rooms with closed doors with...

I had multiple 6-shelf bookcases packed with RPG's, supplements, Dragon mags, novels (11 boxes of fantasy novels off to the used book store), etc. from 40+ years of playing. Then warhammer and tabletop gaming, then... over a couple of moves, and a general purging, I'm down to two bookcases, and...

I picked up DM'ing for the (thinks about it) second time in 40 some years playing - another player was the forever DM. It was also after a long time not playing, right before Covid hit, so the game went right onto VTT play. I picked up DM'ing after one DM finished off his 5e Tiamat campaign...

After 40 years, we still struggle with this, although there is only one player I know who will actually use all the meta knowledge, or pull up the monster stat block while we're playing... I handle it in a few ways: 1) In my Greyhawk campaign, the players are in Sterich. Anything that ends...

I really love OSE Advanced and was a patreon supporter of Dolmenwood for a time, and liked a lot of it, but I’m mining it for home use, and would be unlikely to run Dolmenwood as a campaign itself. I do like the changes referenced above as well. I’m still waiting for Carcass Crawler #3. I...

In my games, it would depend on how you found out about the necromancer’s tower (info would be seeded there) or who sent you on this quest/adventure; who in town or nearby did you ask about said tower or it’s inhabitant; and once some info is gained about the tower or it’s inhabitant, was there...

Yes, this. What I want from an adventure/module is a clear "story" that is internally consistent, externally consistent (within its game world or framework), and has a clear purpose: what is the party being asked to do/volunteering to do. Within that clear purpose and stated goal, then it...

So, I tried to run a 5e game using my own version of gritty rules, including 1e/2e overnight healing, slow HD recovery rates, use of HD for primary healing, and a modified exhaustion mechanic that still used 6 levels, but had graduated minuses that affected all classes (including spellcasters)...

@Lanefan Thanks for the write up. And while there are 12 languages in my campaign ‘so far’, that is in the two starting countries where each of the parties are. As they move further afield, if they do, then they will be exposed to and have to deal with other languages, some which might have...

Each of our characters has the same 3-5 as yours does, with "common" and their native tongue as the first two. For the Int spellcasters, while not optimal, Linguist bumps Int and give 3 languages just like that (no one ever accused me of being an optimiser). The party can always speak to each...

I wish things like Comprehend Languages and similar "non-combat" spells were used more in our 5e games. Most often in 5e, everyone has so many languages available to them via race, etc., that they're often saying "well, I'll just take language x for the heck of it". And in a party of 4 or 5...

In an old campaign we played in, one of our players gained a "Negative Material" sword. It was made entirely of material from the negative material plane. Of course, we then had to track down a "Positive Material" sword as a counterbalance. Trust me, it made more sense in the actual...

None. I wish they’d leave the old stuff alone, and do a new setting, or something actually “new”. And please, please for the love of all things, leave Greyhawk alone…

Couldn’t really answer the poll because I’m not sure where I fit. I use 3PP materials, but only bits and pieces in my homebrew sandbox. I don’t use whole settings, rarely use classes, sometimes modded monsters, sometimes a specific location. I use them for inspiration, but don’t depend on them.

Savage Worlds/Deadlands sounds like it would fit rather nicely. It might require some reconceptualizing or skinning to get some of those characters represented, but I think its possible. (I have not played much, but read the rules).

They may be out there, but they’re fewer and farther between. Fortunately for me (or not, depending on perspective), I’m pretty inured to this whole debacle, after going through these types of antics already with Games Workshop. I don’t engage with GW anymore, and won’t with WOTC…