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Uff, that roller does you no favors, does it? The complication I went with is that Lumrolur has no easy way out of The Blue Clam now without being noticed by half-orc guard Darn Braig, and that one member of the caravan crew (the one in unseasonal sailor's clothes) is now on alert. Both will be...

GM POST The dockside tavern "The Blue Clam" boasts a long hearth with benches full of weary fisherman hunched over spiced chowder. Plenty of wary gazes scan the windows facing the caravan, punctuated by quiet chuckles of muted mirth. The half-orc staring out the window with folded tattooed arms...

@Neurotic I think this is a good place to call for a Deception check, medium DC 15 to get the caravan guards to buy the disguise and go inside The Blue Clam to investigate. You have the disguise self going and you are guising yourself as a NPC who you've correctly identified as being connected...

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Just some questions on your post for clarity... By "guard" are you referring to the other half-orc standing inside The Blue Clam with crossed arms looking at the caravan outside? I am confused by who you mean by "guards" in this context? Are you assuming there are town guards in The Blue...

I always love to help a fellow gamer, but my time for RPGs is extremely limited these days. Even my participation on the forum has dropped off to a sporadic post every now and then. I'm not sure which publishing firm you represent? Doing editing of a sizeable playtest document gratis is beyond...

Mine is a very long list (a lot incorporated into my frankenstein 5e-ish already), but one thing I would love to see is tender loving care and genuine design effort + playtesting put into gray areas of the game. Chase rules (that are actually awesome, not 2014 DMG milquetoast rules) How to...

@Neurotic None of the NPCs in the caravan has grey/white hair. @VLAD the Destroyer @Steve Gorak @Aethmud @TaranTheWanderer Quick recap of what I think everyone is advocating... Delay Torga's Caravan in order to Long Rest, then engage the caravan after rest... question of how to do this...

Good sandboxes use overlapping adventure hooks in intelligent and sometimes unexpected ways. An example of how I'd present your "+1 sword in a monster cave" hook: When the dwarves retreated to the foothills, they sought refuge in a cliffside cavern where they were attacked by winged monsters...

Boxed text has many points of potential failure that lead to that "checking out" @Morrus and other folks mentioned. For example, boxed text can... Assume mode of travel / directionality of PC travel that may be false (e.g. "to your left is a golden archway surrounding impenetrable darkness, to...

I agree with the problems of heavy natural language, especially verbose natural language. However, counterpoint: Abstraction of pure mechanics to the deficit of narrative explanation creates a huge stumbling block of interpretation, aka "WTF is this actually doing in the game story?" I saw this...

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Yes, I'll handle Alma if you want her to do something. Same for Russet and Zeth. At least until we have a narrative moment where I can explain their departure.

I would encourage you – with your own creative works for sale – not to feel beholden to any of the WotC/Hasbro formats. There's a healthy tradition of changing up the mold when it serves the project better. To your greater question, for all the greater clarity that's gained with a mechanistic...

Wow, it's like I'm listening to myself DMing during 4th edition! ;) Every group I've been in kind of matches what you describe – half are invested/rules-savvy, half are casual/no-books, and several struggle with knowing what their characters do (through a combo of badly organized digital...

Convenient link to OOC discussion @Neurotic is leading: [OOC] Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden [closed but waitlist is available]

EDIT: Oops! Just wanted to say love that you're planning. No rush, have fun with it. Btw, I think Alter Self is limited to same size (gnome couldn't look like a human or half-orc sized).

GM POST Fresh snow makes for easy tracking, as Lumrolur follows the deep shuffling boot prints, finally catching up to the lumbering half-orc. A shadow in the bluish gloom, Lumrolur follows at a safe distance like a shadow on the timber and stone buildings sagging under recent snows. You...