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i am so glad i always alter the coinage system in official settings ( would be silver for FR) The "paid 5g for rumors" made me cringe. Translated to modern RL this would be like: "You give the drunkard that tells you that there might be a crocodile in the sewer 1000$ for sharing his insights ."

Still it is a survival horror correct me if i interpret to much into the module. For me that means the common people are in a desperate situation, with very little clerical support, if at all, fleeing isn't an option aka the possible escape route is to cold or blocked by snow masses. The PCs are...

sure, if iwd happen to be in eberron it could stay shock frozen for a century without probs, but that's not exactly survival horror to be resolved by the pcs, don't ya think?v

haven't read it but from the forums so far: Either you go with a solution akin to OP s suggestion or you run it a bit different, which is how i would eventually do it: Take the given preconditions and depopulate the area drastically, have the party meet the last survivors in half empty towns...

Do you roll or average on lvlup?

Now i am curious, will this be resolved within the story hour? Is there some part of lore which goes much further than the many things we read so far?

D&D 5e is difficult for horror, as how posters above already wrote, it is to abstract. The most innerving lingering "debuff" is the exhaustion mechanic. A good way to reinforce horror elements is, to introduce a little house rule and make some beasts needing special material or magic weapons to...

try to get a hold on Bakshis 80s version of this scene, it is even better.

You might be right, but by theory it should still be a playable char, eventually a bit weaker but still able to be run with single class of the same total level. Or do i read to much into 5e s principles?

Thank you for this thorough analysis, it makes me reconsider using a sorcerer approach instead. I am glad i did this thread now, because i was really convinced that this UA would be the thing.

Oh please, elaborate a bit more, what campaign is it? I asumed that it might be pretty powerfulespecially against single targets but i haven't tried out yet.

If you are not of the absolute power gamer fraction you can easily go 1level at a time, consistent with the MC rules as they are, finishing with a lvl 10/10 fighter mage, and still be quite on par with your group. Your homebrew has several imbalances, especially when it comes to max spellevel...

A general recommendation here by me: If i want to introduce gunpowder aka firearms or at least cannons into the setting, then "both sides" will have it, e.g. some organized hobgoblin troops have also cannons. That way you also have more stuff you can blow up.

Some wrote they hide when e.g.rolling for invis.mobs. But is it, that your players always can interpret your rolls? Just roll in front of them, even if you need some npc decision randomized. Just roll sometimes without purpose, they will never figure it out, don't you think?

good approach that takes elements from both worlds. But some minor criticism: Main stat should really be Int. Wisdom is associated with will, but wisdom is also experience, and while the first is associated with psionics, the second isn't. Also many psionic abilities should target Int as an (so...

Btw did you know in late Renaissance Europe there was a travelling clerk of the king named the "Salpeterer" (Salpeter is an old name for chemical KNO3, and a main ingredient for black powder). So this Salpeterer had nearly unlimited power in collecting Salpeter, because it got rare and was in...

Giving you a like because you have got a point here. I have got very mature players, but some of them can really snap if you take away a beloved magic item of their characters by e.g. theft. I kind of tried to point this out by adding the "boring" in paranthesis to the bullets in my original...

Now do the Gnarf and the Dwuman!

Well as i posted in some other thread, i sometimes give that power to the PCs (Ending/apocalypting not the universe but the game world). When they get soem high powered artefacts in their hand which could solve a major problem, but as well cause a much bigger one. I love these scenarios :P

Oh i can see someone even got more creative than me : "..As a bag of holding has a capacity of 500 lbs..." Yesss here is the excuse for the dimensional rift sending the PCs into that other dimension!