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Hey yo! "Slave Vats of the Yuan-ti" was part of the Mere of Dead Men series so it was set in the Forgotten Realms but Imma big Greyhawk fan so yes, GH's gonzo Barrier Peak vibe leaked through when I wrote it. It can certainly be set there. In my home campaign I've placed it in the Hool Marshes.

What cracks me up about the you-got-dragonborn-in-my-peanut-butter crowd is that Carl Sargent added half-dragons to Greyhawk all the way back in the June 1994 issue of Dragon Magazine: “Oerth is a more cosmopolitan setting than many, its peoples long accustomed to magical displays and unusual...

You could try the Lost Tombs trilogy from 2e, set in Greyhawk and for levels 5-8: The Star Cairns, Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad, and The Doomgrinder. "Tammeraut's Fate" and "The Styes" from Ghosts of Saltmarsh can take them from 9 to 10 if you're using milestone leveling.

Less Robby the Robot and more Maria from Metropolis. This is a reboot I support.

Chapter One: JAKANDOR

When Beyond the Crystal Cave was updated to 4e it was explicitly set in the Feywild, which makes me think this version will consolidate both previous renditions.

Four of these landed on “The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time” list in Dungeon 116 on the game’s thirtieth anniversary in 2004. The Lost City #28 Pharaoh #6 (as part of The Desert of Desolation collection) The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth #22 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks #5 The two UK...

Samesies. I always need more side quests. More NPC stat blocks. More giant snail races like from Wild Beyond the Witchlight. More overgrown elven ruins, lost cities, mysterious uncharted islands, pocket dimensions within wardrobes, and strange isolated villages that harbor dark secrets.

Mystery solved. It was a personal reminiscence rather than a candidate for reprinting.

"The Sunken Shadow" is a weird callout when listing great adventures over the past 50 years. It's not particularly memorable or even a good adventure; it's symptomatic of its time in that it makes many narrative assumptions about how the PCs will act and it can quickly go off the rails if they...

Take it from someone who's been down this road: keep all of it. Your book collection isn't that big, two maybe three file boxes at most. In the early aughts I had a huge collection of 1e and 2e stuff which I sold. I hadn't played in more than ten years and truly believed I would never play...

Also the Savage Tide version of the Isle of Dread (which is set after a band of adventurers have explored it) adds a trading colony called Farshore on one of the southern islands that in the original is home to a hermit. It doesn't bother me but it would definitely make some audiences see red.

Speculation is fun. Wizards likes themed anthologies but I wouldn't assume the uniting theme for this one is Planescape. They really seem to be leaning into their IP these days which is to say any old modules and adventures that name-check proper nouns from D&D's history has a leg up on the...

It's on my to-do list to run a 5e conversion of my chapter, "Slave Vats of the Yuan-ti," with my group but haven't done it yet. Most of the monsters can be swapped for their 5e iterations, although the numbers of enemies in a given encounter probably should be modified. I suspect that once you...