Recent content by delericho

It takes an awful lot more time to run and adventure than to read it. Therefore, the market for easy-to-read adventures is larger than that for easy-to-run ones. (And Paizo, at least, reported for years that far more people bought their adventure paths to be read than ever actually ran them.)...

My very first game was AD&D 1st Edition. My second was kind-of-sort-of Dungeons & Dragons - the school library had a book "What is Dungeons & Dragons" which had a rough synopsis of how the rules sort of worked, and we cobbled something together from that. Third was D&D using the "Red Box"...

Rise of the Drow? I should stress that I haven't run it, or even read it, so am not in a position to give it any sort of endorsement. But it was recommended to me, and it at least sounds like it fits your requirements.

As the OP mentions, "The Iron Throne" is surprisingly good. I'd also second the suggestion of "I, Strahd" (though I wouldn't recommend the sequel). Otherwise, I'm afraid that D&D novels are fairly slim pickings. I keep thinking I'd like to reread the first two Dragonlance trilogies again...

Dungeons feature prominently, assuming you use the more permissive definition of "dungeon" that has always been a feature of D&D. I almost invariably use one encounter with a dragon per campaign - it's probably not the climactic encounter of the campaign, but is one of the big showpiece events...

There are very few years I could actually answer that. Sadly, this is one of them: 0.

Eh, I'm sure that even back in 1977 people were saying D&D only had a couple of decades before disaster.

Medium for me. Though I'm not sure the definitions in the UK quite match those in the OP (and I'm near-certain that they're not in France - basically, move everything one step up). Edit to add: I'm not all that fussy, so if the kitchen sends it out one or twos step 'off' in either direction...

5.0e for me, but mostly by default. If I do find myself running a game for another group, I'll probably update to the 2024 ruleset at that time. Unless the 2034 rules are out by then...

I think it was when Salvatore's "Legacy" was being released in paperback that they advertised this version as having an additional chapter (I think it was actually a preview for the next book in the series). That was my cue to make sure never to buy a novel in hardback from TSR - very effective...

It's probably not a good idea to simply forbid resting until the requisite number of rounds are complete - a few bad rounds could lead to the party desperately needing a rest and not being able to get one. In general, a better approach would be to apply consequences such that taking the rest...

2nd Ed is one of four versions of the game I've played really extensively (with BECMI, 3e, and 5e being the others). In terms of hours of play, it's probably second only to 3e. (In terms of years, it's third - 3e still has the crown, with 5e second.) I had a hell of a lot of fun with that...

As it was in 3e, with first the d20 and then the OGL expanded universes, with 5e I think you have to decide what level of investment you're willing to make, decide what you're interested in, and try to ignore the rest. There's just too much to try to stay abreast of it all, much less purchase it...

If a player leaves in a definitive manner, we'll write the character out in some boring "they're not with us any more" kind of way - they decide to stay at the next settlement for whatever nonsense reason occurs at the time. They're no longer a main character, so no need for a big send-off...

Yep, this is me, too. Disney, as the IP owners, were well within their rights to declare that all that stuff didn't count... but the price was that I exercised my right to ignore all of their secondary material. It's not like they won't hesitate to wipe that away, too, as soon as they find it...