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It is an intelligent sword, so there's no demon bound to it as far as I know. It's neutral evil and devoted to blind destruction. It's got Intelligence and Charisma 11, Wisdom 10. Yea, I just gave you the short version. The players knew the sword was intelligent and evil. They acquired it at...

The scabbard was delivered during last night session. I warned the player that the sword would have considered that an insult, but the player did not put it in the scabbard right away. We'll see how it plays out...

Wow, a lot of good stuff here. Thanks a lot guys! Yea, that's probably more in keeping with the rules. I'll have the artisan start bargaining at 1000-1200 gp for his margin. That's what the paladin character was trying to do before the sword tried to get them killed. Personally I don't think...

The players in my Tiranny of Dragons campaign acquired the intelligent sword Hazirawn and decided to use it. The sword is evil and it is currently held by a paladin, so it has been unable to charm him, but it started to complain and speak out in very bad moments. For example, it got the party...

It's about the DM making very clear to the players what kind of style and level of adherence to the rules he's going to be using. Most DMs that fudge die rolls won't tell you, and that creates problems and mistrust. Like you say, it's all about getting people on the same page. Incidentally...

Yep, but that's not the issue here, at all. It's a matter of what style and feel you want for your game. Do you tell your players you're glossing over 1 or 2 hp, or that you're making a little exception to a rule to have a more epic story? If you do and they're ok with that, then it's all good...

Because I'm playing a tactical game of problem solving and resource management, and the epic moments have value only if they emerge naturally.

Yea, that's what I planning to do. The fact that there were some clarifications about the giants that were cut from the book explains a lot.

Ok, but what if the characters did not acquire the castle but just liberated it from the Cult of the Dragon? The fact is that the cloud giant's plans and motivations don't make much sense to me.

My players defeated the dragon and befriended the giant, but now I'm not quite sure on what the consequences are for the rest of the campaing. Rise Of Tiamat seems to assume that the party either destroyed or conquered the flying castle. For my game, I'm going to assume that what the characters...

I wouldn't say it's a problem, and I'm perfectly happy with the players making their own choices. My players are fairly experienced, so in the end they explored the cave with the eggs, they went into the castle, and I'm delighted they found an alternative way to deal with the bullywughs. I just...

My players actually ended up strinking a deal with the bullywug chief... long story. They never talked to Snapjaw because they killed on the spot the troglodytes in both patrols they met before reaching the castle. In describing the castle I tried to point out the incompetence of the defenders...

Well, I wasn't talking about "reporting back" specifically, just about the vagueness of most of the task the PCs are given. My players didn't feel they had a valid reason of going into the cave in chapter 3 for example. They might have decided to go back to Greenest to tell Nighthill and Leosin...

That's a problem with most of HotDQ: the NPCs are always giving these vague missions that should just point the party to the next dungeon, but if the players take them at face value they might derail the adventure by actually doing the sensible thing.

I absolutely agree. What I really liked about Mystara was that you could pick any Gazetteer and you had a pseudo-historical campaign setting, and the character could travel to the next kingdom and basically find themselves into another historical period. Of course I understand that commercially...

So basically no one cares about the Known World/Mystara anymore? That's disappointing.

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I searched the forum and couldn't find anything. Does Web works with the careful spell trait? And if so, does the metamagic prevents the chosen allies from getting stuck in the web (by automatically succeeding in the saving throw) until the spell...

Rezmir sleeps in the third floor apartments in the south-east tower. Borngray's rooms are on the second floor of central tower. During the day they are around the castle apparently, doing stuff.

I think "rulings not rules" is really given too much attention, both by fans and critics of 5ed. The system is simple, but not that loose. Once you accept that adjudicating most situations involves someone gaining/losing advantage/disadvantage, you don't need to make all these rulings if you...

I believe these story arcs WotC is releasing are meant to be canonic to each other and to the Forgotten Realms setting. It's just unlikely to come into play if you run them as written: the bad guys are defeated and the status quo ante is reestabilshed, ready for the next epic to be played out.