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Listening to the Gamehole Con panel with Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins, one of the things I noticed was that they said all the current and future releases had been foreshadowed in the core books. So I started looking for hints in the Monster Manual that might have pointed to the...

Just picking from the 1e hardbacks, what would you like to see revised by WotC for a 5e release? Consider similar tone & content for the monster books, and supply any clarifications in the comments.

I ran the second session in my Princes of the Apocalypse game today. In the previous session the PCs had gone through the Haunted Tomb and Necromancer's Cave adventures. This gave them a view of the dangers in Red Larch and they killed the "Lord of Lance Rock," Oreioth. They had leads on the...

I ran my first session of Princes of the Apocalypse starting at level 1 in Red Larch yesterday. We used new PCs: initially a half-orc barbarian, half-orc monk, Earth Genasi Druid, dwarf Druid, human bard, and human ranger. The Druids and barbarian are Emerald Enclave, and the ranger is secretly...

I have Princes of the Apocalypse and I'm really, really happy with the book. I'm so enthused with the way that the module uses factions and the Realms setting (and with its adventure design)that I'm going to start running it next week, with fresh characters in Red Larch, playing through "trouble...

The single thing that made the biggest impression on me when I was getting into the 5e books was the way that so many parts of the "crunch" in the game allow it to be re-configured and tweaked. It immediately made me realize that 5e is a great platform for defining a setting, because there are a...

I ran the third session in my 5e campaign last night, and it went really well. I decided that I'm incorporating a few items from the optional rules in the DMG so far. One is players awarding Inspiration. This has gone over well and helped with an area that I felt I was neglecting. Each player...

Looking at the list of conditions in the PHB suggests some great traps to me. Here's some preliminary brainstorming with this idea, more is appreciated. Blinded. Traps that emit an extremely bright light can blind victims who fail a saving throw. Deafened. Extremely loud noises can temporarily...