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The game is on a bit of a pause due to everyone's schedules this month. Will hopefully pick back up in March.

This week has been so busy I didn't even realize that Saturday had come and gone until just now. Haven't had any time to write recently, but hopefully things will slow down a bit soon!

9. The Prancing Rosebush Ewan didn’t want to depart Onoln without discovering whether his homestead was safe, but after their experience in the forest he had to admit that to make another go at returning home would be folly. They had managed to escape largely unscarred mostly through luck, and...

Special Bonus Post: Now that the final character has been introduced (Althea's Drakewarden companion), here is our campaign art! Huge thanks to the artist AJ Colum (@captaincolum) for the beautiful work.

8. The Forest is a Dangerous Place Althea was dizzy and felt like vomiting. A spiderlike creature the size of a small cart had leapt onto her from the canopy above, knocking the wind out of her. She was fairly certain that several of her bones were broken, and it now gripped her in one of its...

7. Ewan's Homestead “To get to Xey we’d have to pass through Onoln, right?” Ewan asked. In the month since Callista had returned to her home, Ewan had exchanged letters with his mother and she had reported some disturbing signs around the village that aligned with what Ewan had told her about...

Also on that note, could you cast Steel Wind Strike from within a Wall of Force? The spell sort of implies that you're teleporting between each attack.

That's an interesting thought on Conjuration spells though... would something like Tidal Wave work? You're conjuring the wave outside the Wall of Force & the spell doesn't require concentration.

That's always the most interesting kind of challenge to me - not what do they do, but what should they do.

But can't you do the same thing with combat that you can do with ability checks? Instead of fighting a Phoenix you're fighting a Fire Elemental and suddenly it's a tier 2 challenge instead of tier 3. Anything that requires in-game statistics to resolve is inherently level-related.

Getting "wilderness lost" is, in my opinion, never fun. The players are all adventurers... it should be assumed that they know how to use a compass and a map (which presumably they have, since even uncharted wilderness on the Material Plane is typically at least sketched into the map in a rough...

I'm confused - I don't think I have enough 3.5 knowledge to understand what you mean by this.

Aasimar 12 Dragonborn, Chromatic 9 Dragonborn, Gem 9 Dwarf, Duergar 8 Dwarf, Hill 11 Dwarf, Mountain 16 Elf, Wood 14 Genasi, Air 10 Genasi, Earth 10 Genasi, Fire 11 Genasi, Water 11 + 1 = 12 Gith, Githyanki 13 Gith, Githzerai 13 Gnome, Forest 13 Gnome, Mark of Scribing 10 Gnome, Rock 8 Goblin 13...

That's a good point. I am definitely interested in the "more specific skills" aspect of 3.5e/Pathfinder. I feel like they tried to add some of that into 5e with the various tool/kit proficiencies in Xanathar's but it doesn't have quite the same integration & I've rarely seen anyone actually use...

The classic is the Kobayashi Maru test from Star Trek. Although I don't love putting "unwinnable" situations into my games since those are, by nature, un-fun, so usually I'll do more of a "tricky" situation than an "impossible" one.

One of my favorites is a sort of "morality test." I once had an NPC instruct the players to go pick a flower from the Tree of Law and bring it back to her to help prevent a catastrophe. I described the tree as one of the most beautiful, delicate, perfectly balanced natural phenomena they had...

This is a great list - thank you!

Aasimar 11 Dragonborn, Chromatic 10 Dragonborn, Gem 10 Dwarf, Duergar 10 Dwarf, Hill 11 Dwarf, Mark of Warding 1 Dwarf, Mountain 17 Elf, Wood 15 Genasi, Air 10 Genasi, Earth 10 Genasi, Fire 11 Genasi, Water 10 + 1 = 11 Gith, Githyanki 13 Gith, Githzerai 12 Gnome, Forest 13 Gnome, Mark of...

Thanks all! Those are very helpful & exactly what I am looking for.