D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

here is no stipulation of monsters always attacking, except in specific cases such as zombies.

Except that ~20 of the encounters in KotB explicitly tell the GM to attack the party immediately...

Gary's instructions in this adventure do go directly against the best-practice wisdom of using reaction rolls and letting players negotiate and not get immediately betrayed

KotB works best when you ignore all of the bad advice contained inside, which brings me back to my original point: you're only going to get a great adventure out of it if your DM does a ton of extra work and basically rewrites the whole thing.

 

[Mannahnin]

KotB works best when you ignore all of the bad advice contained inside, which brings me back to my original point: you're only going to get a great adventure out of it if your DM does a ton of extra work and basically rewrites the whole thing.

Eh. I agree that there's some work required. "A ton" here feels pretty subjective. Changing up some to most of the "always attack" encounters to regular reaction rolls goes a long way with pretty light effort.

 

[Parmandur]

The whole multiverse echoes thing also gives WotC a get out of jail free card on retcons.

Literally everyone wins.