Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Shrug. Could have been longer ago. Not sure it matters. I was talking about "someone who worked on" a hypothetical reworking. Which, let's be honest, isn't likely to happen, and it was only ever used in this thread as an example of a possible adventure that has yet to be updated, but...

Like I said - I'm not a fan of the original. I tried to run it once twenty years ago or something, and I felt that it was everything that I don't like about dungeons. And yet, I'd be happy to see a new version, in particular if someone who worked on it was able to show what they feel is good...

No idea. Never liked it myself, but I am aware that some folks remember it fondly. No skin in this game, me.

Uhh... I like Gygax as much as the next guy, but I think you're wrong here.

Ideally, they do both (and in this case, they do!): They update some classics, and they write some new stuff. It's one of the few ways we get to experience the best of both worlds.

That's Themberchaud, who's a bit of a joke as a Fat Dragon, as seen in the D&D Movie. He was in Gracklestugh in Out of the Abyss. Here he's shown fighting the 80's Cartoon Characters. Or in other words, he's not supposed to look like what dragons normally look like. (That said, they HAVE been...

I don't rely on Dungeons & Dragons as my source for Q1 sales. We don't normally have D&D books to sell before May. Keep in mind that the MM24, which came out in February '25, was supposed to be out in '24 Q4. And Q3 and Q4 D&D books almost always sell better than Q2 ones. There's a reason why...

Believe it or not, TEN. It was ten years ago that Hickman did his Secret Wars!

That will be true if we don't hear anything by the end of February. Otherwise, it's all fine and sensible.

I more than agree. Have you ever read Perkins' 4e update from Dragon Magazine of Against the Giants? It was excellent. It even had a fourth location, the Crag of the Stone Giant Thane. When I heard that adventure line was going into TFtYP, I had hoped to see that one, updated once again...

I don't disagree with your criticism of it, but it has always been a good seller. I don't think they have any motivation to do what you suggest. (I think its success is down to people searching for shorter adventures rather than anything particularly well done about it).

Sounds to me like you move fast. Maybe you're just super efficient? At any rate, if I were you, I'd try to slow down a little (only because a player complained) but otherwise just keep going like others have suggested, and have a post-campaign discussion to see if it still felt too fast to that...

My relatively minor quibbles with both 2014 and 2024 D&D don't have much to do with the UAs or their polls, and yet I think the polling was terrible. I wouldn't go quite as far as @mamba nor near as far as @tetrasodium in my condemnation of the process, but I have to agree with them - the...

The only part about that that I agree with is the idea that they will look at how 4e did it, if only to attempt to use what worked there, and to avoid what did not. Whether they will come up with a successful take or not, I have no idea. But I'm pretty sure that it's coming.

I think doing more of THAT sort of thing (Remaking and Remixing Pre-5e Adventures) would make more sense than going back to 5e-ones. The best idea would be to do a little of all of it - including writing entirely new adventures. It's juggling act.