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I ran two groups through this adventure. I didn't emphasize the orcs in Lee's house to avoid obvious foreshadowing, and assassins on the ship were either killed or escaped, so both groups just knew that Lee disappeared. All NPCs were saying that it is Lee's jobs to control the storm, but he's...

I found that combat is more exciting when the party is one or two levels below the suggested ones. So I had my party go directly to the Monastery skipping the Bresk adventure, and they have been underleveled ever since. They seem to enjoy the challenge.

Ah, thank you!

What would stop the party from using Tiny Hut to I can simply say it won't work there because of wards, but a better reason would be nice.

Oh, I see. He uses Curse of the Stilled Heart with these slots.

I'm getting ready to lead the party to castle Korstull! In the 5e spell list for Thorkrid the Dark, there is an empty line "5th level (2 slots):" but no actual spells. I can fill them in, but I'm curious what was supposed to be there. 4th ed had quickened magic missile and quickened ray of...

Thank you for the answers!

Hi, I see this discussed on the internet, but can't find official advice. When a PC is seeing through familiar's eyes, do they use their own or their familiar's stats for ability checks like Perception or Investigation? Using their own stats seems to make more sense, as these are mental rather...

Right, I see why it makes sense for gameplay, but in-world, if they are such trusty servants, seems like she'd use keep them nearby. I can invent my own explanation, of course, I'm just curious what the original story is.

While we are on this subject, why

Makes sense, thank you. I had Caela come to Seaquen in adventure 3 to oversee the mayhem, where she ran into the party, so I didn't want to involve her too much in the setup for adventure 5. Instead, Longinus asked the party via wind elementals to deal with the situation. I was not sure how to...

Right, I won't let the group die unless there's a good reason for it, but I don't think I fully communicated the danger. Amusing side note: in my second group, which just got to Lyceum in the start of chapter 3, the druid, for no apparent reason, decided to cast Druidcraft to get the weather...

My first group finally went through this battle, and indeed it was quite hard.

Fascinating, thank you for writing this up. This is a completely different direction from what I was imagining, but at least "Wayfaring Stranger" does sound appropriate to me. Meanwhile I found this old post which led me to Hymn of Fayth from Final Fantasy X, and then I stumbled on the Epic of...

My insane players expressed the desire to actually sing the Song of Forms with the seela by composing some music and writing more verses. What real-world works would you recommend to use as a stylistic influence to set the right tone?

I absolutely enjoy adapting the adventure to my campaign. It's such a pleasure to have a wealth of material that I can mix and match. So I'm not so much complaining, but just thinking out loud. My constraint is that both me and my players are fairly new, so we won't be able to handle very...

@Lylandra : very crafty! I'm still new at managing a complex world, so this is good advice. BTW, if you have run episode 4, how did you and your players like it? The military action in the middle part of ep 4 is the only part of WotBS so far I can't get excited about. Also, the intrigue with a...