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To the OP’s point, sure, some cantrips can easily bypass “things”, but I wouldn’t call them “challenges” because they are easily bypassed. The DM knows what the party can do, don’t get mad at what the party can do, it’s old man yelling at clouds. PCs have always been able to open doors, still...

Page 507 in my digital version. Part of appendix D, right after the text section “Example Combat Challenges” and before “Using Elite Monsters”. I recently redownloaded it, guess I don’t know if it was there in the original KS print version.

The table in A5e MM is good for CR encounter building. I mean, it’s essentially the same as 5e. Some of the narrative is off, like the quick guide sidebar saying, “If the total CR equals or exceeds the total party level, the combat may be impossible to win!” Which I think is where your...

I like the lore, but I’m not emotionally attached to it. And I’m real tired of tiptoeing around people who’ve made it part of their identity.

The OP has two very different examples of DM fiat. One is story, one is rules. If you go to the market looking for your long lost sister, and she doesn’t live in that city, DM Fiat, you don’t need to roll, she’s not there. Same with the Feather, if it’s not there, it’s not there. Not...

Everything by Kelsey Dione is designed to be run easy. The Arcane Library. She has a free one on DMs guild. Like the most famous thing on there. Her adventure style is a bit non-traditional though. Is easy to run, just different from other stuff. The best guy for super easy to run...

To make it different than magic and all the magic-like abilities in 5e you need a different mechanic around it. Otherwise it just boils down to an exclusive spell list. Something like, Psionic abilities take a turn to prepare, and then another to unleash. And the result is worth the two turn...

The thing missing in most adventures are the high level good guys. Cause many adventures have a high level BBEG that could break the adventure if he showed up with his mooks on day one. There is rarely an explanation as to why they do not. A sensible adventure sets up a WWI situation where...

Not sure why you think there might a thing a wish spell could not do. So answer is yes and more, wish can realign planets.

The answer is always to “game the system” which is boring and tedious. “If I use this exploit I can be a sorcerer in heavy armor” or whatever. Look, as a charitable DM I’m always willing to trade, you want to be able to do X, ok, what will you give up for it in character creation. One level...

I would say no on that, they’re all about too many cooks, freelancers, on all adventures since. Also Isn’t ToA a very aggressively rehashed mashup of isle of dread and tomb of horrors? Always seemed like the idea to me.

Sci-fi is a favorite fiction and movie/tv genre for me because I like weird mysterious, and it’s a genre where that is very easy to intrigue me. I don’t care for it in TTRPG because I’d probably be the DM, and I’d know the mystery, and the unheimlich, the uncanny aspect, wouldn’t be there for...

The background feats. It’s vaguely reminiscent of race as character. You are what you are. That said, it’s part of the 14&24 being so full of PC abilities, which is the big, to me, deviation from OSR. But adding backgrounds with abilities, could be an interesting tweak.

Were the players in the same place/plane when they were in the teens levels as they were at the start? How did you address high level monsters only showing up for high level PCs? Giving players more increasing challenges makes sense, but did you make it make sense for the world? A reason the...

I don’t have the new books, but didn’t the old ones base all the math parts on XP and also mostly ignore CR as well, CR is the ball parking thing for people who aren’t precise. I’ve never looked at or used any of the rules on encounters. I just attack the party and dial up or dial down...

I see this has moved on from OP, but a couple thoughts. I don’t see this as a problem, think of any movie where someone is disarming a bomb, cutting the blue wire is not a great exciting act, everything around it was though. And not every trap has to be interesting , ok to have some boring...

Negative slope on those keyboards, someone knows their ergonomics, shame those are so hard to find expensive these days.

Even with my gaming group, it’s D&D or that “that other game like D&D” with goblins that die all the time or those monster investigators. We mostly play D&D or board games, so other RPGs are “games like D&D”, as opposed to board games. I guess we don’t play others enough to bother remembering...

I went a few posts back in the conversation prior to my response and you seemed to be not accepting the reality of there being a monsterous amount of great stuff for 2014, and doubting it being available for 2024. And I was just agog at you being willfully blind to all the good stuff, massively...

I’m not sure what your beef is. You’ve played 5 great 3rd party campaigns and are complaining there’s not enough of them? Like, as has been said, there’s so much more, like everything by MT Black, and Kelsey Dionne is s-tier, and while sold as one shots easy to make a campaign. Baldman Games...