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Interesting. By coincidence, our original 5e campaign pretty much worked that way (based around an adventurer's guild, different lineups every time, downtime development for inactive characters). It had its upsides and downsides. But neat to know the idea is older than we thought!

I suspect Wizards actually sees the D&D Beyond exclusive products (like the Eve of Ruin prequel adventure) as filling the "web enhancement" niche.

This is actually more player-friendly than the original boxed set, where the referee (not DM, the term didn't exist yet) rolls dice for everything except combat. Searching for secret doors? The ref rolls the dice. Listening at the door? The ref rolls the dice. Break down a door? Yep, still done...

One of the surprises when prepping my OD&D one-shot was that monster alignment was originally more varied. While many monsters still followed only one of the three alignments (law, chaos, and neutrality), many were listed under more than one. Per page 9 of Book I in the OD&D boxed set: Men...

I mean, this is pretty much the real answer. 5e Krynn officially isn't the same as any of the versions without werewolves (2e, 3e, etc.). Yup, it could easily be seen as a fun mystery to explain, rather than a continuity error. (Though that doesn't seem to be the official intent, or they would...

Picture I saw phrases it as "A companion to the fifth edition Player's Handbook (2024) and Monster Manual (2025)." Which is consistent with their messaging that this is still the same edition.

Finished For a Few Gold Pieces More, short story collection by Richard White. Basically a more modern take on pulp fantasy like Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, with a subplot of the nameless protagonist trying to hunt down the villain who made him an outlaw. Fairly solid overall: the best stories...

OD&D, Book II, page 31: So you were close - magic bows only provide a +1 to hit, but magic arrows have both +1 to damage and to hit. EDIT: This was also still the case in 1977 (Holmes) Basic:

That would be an excellent question for the designers of 5e Ravenloft and 5e Spelljammer!

Per Wizards: D&D Canon | D&D Studio Blog | Dungeons & Dragons So the canon for Eve of Ruin definitely includes itself and the latest version of the 2014 core rulebooks. (In several months it will include the 2024-2025 versions, and not the 2014 ones.) It might include Shadow of the Dragon...

While I do think they could have at least gotten the 3e SRDs out there by now, I doubt they would have mentioned the older editions again if they were hoping people would forget. It's obviously not a priority, though.

As mentioned upthread, DCC adventures port very easily into other D&D-esque systems - I ran three of them for our 5e campaign (Sailors on the Starless Sea, The One Who Watches From Below, and Tower of the Black Pearl - though the latter two were very heavily modified to fit our campaign). My...

Clearly this person is upset. The solution must be to make them more upset!

And as I noted upthread, the author explicitly created the new Valachan as an evolution of the old, not a reboot from scratch. These goals - continuing from the previous version of a world and updating it for modern sensibilities - aren't mutually exclusive.

True! I was thinking of official TSR adventures, not third-party works.