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And also allows you to hold a weapon and a shield.

Yeah, pretty awesome for a special Halloween module! You can even repeat the experience several times with your players throughout the years, as the adventure encounters can be shuffled and mixed by the Tarokka, see how far they can advance. You can even add their previous characters' names to...

Booming blade was mentioned several times, and it is good to point out that this spell also punishes your enemy from trying to move away from you, so it is an added feature to help you tank. I was thinking, you could actually build a funny variant human barbarian 1 / rogue 4 (str 14 dex 16 con...

Alternatively, you can go mountain dwarf, starting with 17 str & con and 14 dex, increasing str & con to 18 with the 4th level ABI. Or you can even dump str, taking the gauntlet, and going hill dwarf with starting 15 dex and 17 con, going 16 dex and 18 con at 4th level. The second option gives...

One could also interpret the situation as at the moment they are pushed off the ledge they are no longer at the hold of the spell, as they slip down. In this case, a check could be called for, maybe even at the expense of the affected creature's reaction, to simulate an attempt to hold oneself...

It is just easier to optimize for such lower levels by having that extra first level feat. But some other tank setups would welcome different races. Hill dwarves add a nice amount of HPs to any option, while mountain dwarves add some armor proficiencies (if you would play a class that has no...

Really? This got me legitimately curious.

Some other fun options: for low level, heavy armor master is really nice. Combined with warlock's armor of Agathys, you may be absorbing a lot of punishment while retaliating with cold damage. In this case, you could start off as variant human fighter with the feat and then choose between 4...

You can also go the classic moon druid. Your own stats won't matter that much, as you will be absorbing damage with your wildshapes. You can cast barkskin before wildshaping to increase your beast AC. Also... as you can easily spare a 13 str, you could multiclass barbarian for raging wildshapes...

Just to clarify the objective: is it all you want to do to be able to withstand the maximum amount of punishment on your own, regardless of any other contribution you could give? Also, do you want to accomplish this only through a combination of AC, HP, temp HP and damage mitigation/reduction...

Elder dragons with spells and lair actions? Maybe the solar? Kraken, Olympian, the Tarrasque, I guess they could all last at least three rounds. I like the sphinx, specially with lair powers, but I guess it does not have enough staying power.

Do you have a good dex or str? With a +2 dagger I would be tempted to grab booming blade.

You did notice you would be making the fighting style redundant, right?

Someone for the killing blow? The One Eyed hungers!

To answer your question directly, as others already pointed out, it seems there isn't anything in the rules you missed. Anyway, good ruling on your part. If you felt like it would be too cheap to just let the golem fall and let it roll a dex save, or an acrobatics check, or whatever would make...

Going by RAW alone, one could point that the classic "rogue sneaking past a guard's back" is impossible because there is no facing. Just saying...

I get this, but it seems the classes are affected in strangely asymmetrical ways. A high level fighter will lose much more of their offensive power than a rogue, or even a cleric that readies an attack, and will be behind a paladin after 11th level. I just fail to see a reason for that.

Goblins 11 Orcs 15 For the One Eyed!

Not a riddle. The module itself suggests how Strahd was planned to be played. I think it all goes down to expectations. If one expects him to be a brute or a straight-up front-line solo, then he is really disappointing. Not only by the stats, but by the description given to him in the module...