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Always be careful in love. You might get burned. You have all your various fire traps to choose from... flaming pits, pressure-plate triggers fiery blast etc. Enchained elemental guardians. I like old paintings as gates to pocket dimensions for a wizard's tower. Curses and poisons. Mirror maze...

In an old Dragon magazine (#42), James Ward published an adventure insert called _The Mansion Of Mad Professor Ludlow_. I have not payed nor can I attest to the quality. It is a haunted house-type adventure with modern teens as the PC's.

This PDF has some good ideas for city adventure hooks... and currently on sale (not associated w/ author). http://www.rpgnow.com/product/202572/CASTLE-OLDSKULL--City-State-Encounters

One of my more well received creative environments was simply a moon castle. My fantasy moon and the castle had a spongy, rock-like surface. I had it inhabited by the Great Race of Yith, but that had little to do with the environment. The trick was that you got there simply by climbing a...

A more light-hearted swamp adventure might be the ticket. Old Man Katan and the Mushroom Band (Dungeon #41). After Old Man, I might transition away from the swamp as the adventures can be overly claustrophobic if multiple swamp adventures are run sequentially.

Same as other characters… treasure + party monster kills + besting other challenges + role-playing bonuses. (Except for role-playing, xp was split evenly evenly… regardless of contribution… like in the old days.) He wasn't a pacifist, but he was hard to motivate into violence. Violence needed...

No. However, I did play a character… a ranger… that had a strange religious conversion. He went from a paranoid, borderline psychotic to a serene, holy warrior in a very short span. Not a pacifist, but really sought to avoid violence after his conversion experience. The other PC's were a...

Dragon magazine #120 had a 1st edition Charlatan class… thief, beguile, poison, disguise, potions, read magic and cantrips. While not the intent, the cantrip effects could be non-magical.

Here is a 5e conversion for B11: The King's Festival… https://entirepartykilled.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/b11-kings-festival-adaptation-for-5e/ I have run it with older versions of D&D. It played very well. It was not nearly as massive as B10, but it is a good product for novice players… or...

I did run Pharaoh of the DoD series before Isle of Dread once in much the manner not-so-newguy suggests. I ran it set in Ylaruam. I ran it in the late-1980's before the Nithian connection had been fully formed in Mystara. It worked well. My map to the Isle of Dread was from a priest's personal...

Two that have been converted to 5e come to mind… Keep on the Borderlands and B11: The King's Festival. I would consider either to run before B10. Like B10, they take place in Mystara's country of Karameikos. Bridging B10 and X1 is tougher. I would consider L2: The Assassin's Knot before X1. I...

I use a path-system with B/X… essentially at 4th level the character class allows specialization like 2nd Edition kits. Luck is a path available to thieves rather than an attribute. Re-roll once per play session so long as it is not a life-or-death roll. Also +20% for games of chance or other...

I largely agree with others. Retiring characters after the old college try is an expected part of the game. Suicide conflicts with the presumed self-interest of the character. Only through extended role-playing after tragedy would suicide be within the spirit of the game. The "good faith"...

I would agree with Celebrim on all points save a need for too many answers up front. I start with common RPG tropes and practical stuff. Nature of dragons. Nature of goblin-kind. Non-human nations. Nature of Elves and similarity to Tolkien's version. Gates and portals... how they work and how...

One way of doing this is to consider Time as two elements. A 5-E system could be Light, Dark, Blue, Was and Will Be. Blue... or a better name... would constitute vapors, air, water, liquids, etc. A sort of binding element. Fire could be a manifestation of light. Earth could be a manifestation...

As others, I feel the proposed logic problem is much too demanding... and I often game with science PhD's. Two things to consider. 1) You are solving the riddle in your quiet office without distractions. Games tend to be much more difficult to focus during. 2) Traditional riddling was less...

Some ideas were recently discussed here... http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=71288&sid=a19872a0733d6b899248ac4f1c48c75e

I would say Skaven. Skaven are both an open threat... marshaling large field armies... and a secretive threat to other cultures in Warhammer. While my Drow familiarity ends with 1st Ed. AD&D modules and the early Forgotten Realms campaign, the Drow seem to operate subversively and never openly.

@Garchomp... I like the mimic idea quite a bit. I too thought of a boat race encounter... arrogant sea elves drinking cognac. I can't believe I forgot the classic stowaway. (Perhaps a female/doppleganger/deposed prince.) The rats on the ship are intelligent. They are very Animal Farm and...

This seems like a very difficult challenge. It's a non-trivial math problem nested in a riddle intertwined with metaphors. Test your riddles beforehand. They are very hard to make challenging while not impossible. I rarely require more than two puzzle clues to solve the larger puzzle. I want...