There’s a difference between an adventure with a dungeon, and a Dungeon Crawl

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I think most current D&D players started with 5E and so don't have robust language for talking about all the different styles of play D&D has been used for.

Like…are folks aware that there's a difference between an adventure with a dungeon, and a Dungeon Crawl?

— Matt Colville? (@mattcolville) June 18, 2021

TBH I started play with Ad&D (but mostly 3E) and I don’t think I’ve ever done a traditional dungeon crawl. I wonder when the play style changed – or maybe I’d read too much Dragonlance? Against The Cult of the Reptile God marks the beginning of the shift away from Dungeon Crawls and toward adventures with stories that happen to feature a dungeon.

But even then, the dungeon in AtCotRG is a Dungeon Crawl, because the game was a Dungeon Crawling game.

— Matt Colville? (@mattcolville) June 18, 2021

Are you meticulously tracking ammunition and food rations? Is running out of torches and therefore light an important part of the game?

— Matt Colville? (@mattcolville) June 18, 2021

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Terror by night! The village of Orlane is dying. Once a small and thriving community, Orlane has become a maze of locked doors and frightened faces. Strangers are shunned, trade has withered. Rumors flourish, growing wilder with each retelling. Terrified peasants flee their homes, abandoning their farms with no explanation. Others simply disappear. . .
This adventure is designed for 4 to 7 characters of 1st through 3rd levels. It includes a map of the village and a description of its buildings and occupants, an overland journey to a challenging underground adventure for especially brave (or foolhardy. . .) characters, and a list of pre-rolled 1st-level characters.

Waterdeep: are there any other notable members of House Roaringhorn?

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TheEdVerse
I have a 3 part question about House Roaringhorn in Waterdeep as of 1492 DR. Aside from Lord Zelraun, are there any other notable members of the House? What is the state of their interests and affairs? Who are their closest allies and enemies? 1)
A lot of NDAs remain in force, I fear, as the Roaringhorns are busy, important folk with their ring-adorned fingers in a lot of pies.
So, aside from Lord Zelraun, notable Roaringhorns based in Waterdeep as of 1492 DR include:#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

2)
Tassembra, a sometime adventurer and Lord Zelraun’s favourite daughter. She’s a free-spirited maverick with a high public profile, lots of lovers, and great personal wealth, all invested in urban properties up and down the…)
…Sword Coast, and in caravan costers.
Yathanthra, the quiet daughter, who has adopted the wardrobe, dignified mannerisms, and seclusion of her namesake, a favorite, now-dead aunt. She’s notable because she recently revealed…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

4)
…hidden depths when a band of assassins tried to end the lives of two other nobles at a revel—and she chased and fought them, killing two in a nose-to-nose knife fight ere a third, sorely wounded, fled. Recently, rumors have… 6)
…father for some recent misadventures involving too-public lovemaking with certain guildmasters, she’s responded by becoming one of the family’s most active traveling trade envoys, making many deals in Baldur’s Gate, …)
…arisen that she’s ended the lives of so many alley agents of the Xanathar that the beholder crime lord is “seeking a settlement” with her.
Jezsmrele is the youngest daughter, impish and pert and flirtatious. Told off by her…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

7)
…Athkatla, and Scornubel.
Eltarr Roaringhorn has purchased a Waterdhavian home and is spending less and less time in Neverwinter, as the inventors and crafters he’s increasingly interested in sponsoring and working with are…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

8)
…based in the City of Splendors. Notable innovations so far: scissor-springs for wagons and coaches, that ‘bounce’ and so cushion the ride for passengers and cargo; VERY popular and starting to get copied more and more widely.
Eltarr’s always interested in new ideas, new trends, new fashions and vintages and items.
Roglaer Roaringhorn, called “Old Uncle” by the family and increasingly by everyone else. A retired adventurer and winking rake who sports…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

9)
Eltarr’s always interested in new ideas, new trends, new fashions and vintages and items.
Roglaer Roaringhorn, called “Old Uncle” by the family and increasingly by everyone else. A retired adventurer and winking rake who sports…
…a magnificent, huge swept-back snow-white moustache, is a font of colourful adventuring stories, owns a magnificent wine cellar and samples from it frequently, and owns a flask and flagon and wineskin-making concern with…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

11)
…branches in Secomber, Silverymoon, and Riatavin. Said to be very good friends with Jahanna Snowdar, an independent lady of a certain age in North Ward whom some say is a song dragon.
#Realmslore)
Randarl Roaringhorn, the grandson of the Randarl who married Loene of the Company of Crazed Venturers more than a century ago. This Randarl is handsome, agile, well-spoken, dagger, and wealthy, having inherited much of…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

13)
…the Crazed Venturers’ Waterdhavian properties and managed them capably as a landlord ever since (including rebuilding a down-at-heel row of homes in Sea Ward into modern luxury suites for wealthy, rising local citizens).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2021

Wildshaped Druid, keep prof bonus to attack or use beast’s stats unmodified?

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@calebrus44 Debate resolution. Druid in wildshape. Keep prof bonus to attack or use beast’s stats unmodified? A druid in beast form uses his or her proficiencies, except when the beast has the same proficiency with a higher bonus.

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 21, 2015

@calebrus44That doesn’t answer the Q. Druid is not prof in claw/bite. Black bear form, +3 for bear, or prof+2 for druid w/ bear str? The intent is that the druid uses the bonus in the beast's stat block for any proficiency the druid lacks.

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 22, 2015

Golden Rule 10

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“@EthanClow: would rolling a 1 on a spell save count as a critical hit for the attacker? #DnD” Your game, your rules! (Just be consistent.)

— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) January 19, 2015

Does metamagic Quickened Spell allow a Sorcerer to cast two regular spells a round?

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@bjrollet @mikemearlsDoes Quicken allow a sorc. to cast 2 reg. spells a round or is the second spell cantrip only, as on pg 202 PHB? A spell affected by Quickened Spell follows the normal rules for a bonus action spell (PH, pg. 202).

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) November 15, 2014

@JeremyECrawford OK so does that mean it has to only be a cantrip or can it be a leveled spell for the quickened.

— Harold Houck (@HHouckFamily) May 15, 2017

Quickened Spell turns a 1-action spell of any level into a bonus action. Want to cast another spell? See "Bonus Action" (PH, 202). #DnD https://t.co/o61DDyKYn3

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2017

@HHouckFamilyOK so Cantrip only For the second spell, yes.

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2017

“The old mansion is dark and empty; only rats creep”

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Even famed adventurer, with time enough, grows weak and frail
And ever more susceptible to nostalgia, and change-brought shock
There will come a day when he shall fail
And death forever still his indignant squawk

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 21, 2021

They fought for us, but now are dead
Daughter, stop your weeping and get a grip
Go and plow what’s left into the melon bed
No tears for losers; let not our standards slip

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 23, 2021

The old mansion is dark and empty; only rats creep
To disturb the long, long cold sleep
Of the family dead
In crypt and high turret (in bed)
And as Imelda’s nightgowned ghost fluttering past doth gleep
The family monster stirs in cellars deep

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 25, 2021

“The queen still sat primly on her favourite throne”

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Lying alone, the old gray book opens itself
And SOMETHING drifts up from the pages
Causing the other books to shiver on the shelf
As what’s unseen rises up, and darkly rages

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 26, 2021

The queen still sat primly on her favourite throne
Not realizing she was dead, and little more than bone

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 27, 2021

The sword that when drawn does darkly moan
Is the blade your brightest fooXX heroes are going to bring home

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 28, 2021

He was sentenced to death because the king he vexed
Yet the custom here is to employ the noose on some politer pretext
And so he lived yet, the next morning. And the next.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2021

Fizban Treasury of Dragons pre-release, Index revealed!

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I am looking through the pre-release book now. We will have a review up soon. Thank you @Wizards_DnD @tribalityrpg https://t.co/9o0T3cEsek #dnd #dnd5th #rpg #advertisment pic.twitter.com/WYLAFBTEBA

— mike was a sailor… 🏳️‍🌈 (@mrlong78) October 10, 2021