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I've looked at those guidelines but not sure how accurate they are in practice. By the math there are lots of deadly, and beyond deadly encounters in hotdq by default.

How'd you handle scaling it up for the larger party size?

Glad they finally responded to something. They haven't responded to the people asking the same questions on their facebook page for a couple weeks.

While the massive damage rules are a joke, I've had characters die due to failed death saves even with a cleric in the group. It's actually not that hard to die that way if you're players aren't smart enough to immediately rush to them and get them up. Especially if you have more than 1...

A paladin by itself won't be enough for most adventures. You'd most likely need to tweek them to lessen the need for healing or add other ways for the party to heal themselves. A bard or druid should be able to fill that role if they're willing to step out of their usual role. Add a paladin to...

There is one thing you may want to point out to your player. Strapping a shield on takes an actual action, you can't ready it as part of another action like you can with weapons. So if they get caught unprepared, they won't be able to cast until they take the time to strap it on.

Holy symbol in the equipment chapter already has this actually. It's listed as holy symbol emblem, and has the same cost but no weight. It's intended to be used for shields, but weapons would make sense if you're OK with that.

I've been running a regular Saturday game for the past several years and am looking to change things up a bit and play for once. My work schedule doesn't give me time to game during the week so I am looking for something on Sundays, doesn't have to be every week, once or twice a month is fine...

Lore is interchangeable. If you don't like what they're doing with it, change it.

I'd find the most secure tomb of a king or saint or some other high goody goody that will never have his casket opened stash it in there. Bury it somewhere random and in a few hundred years some town or farm may spring up there and it can end up being dug up as someone digs their basement.

This is pretty normal, it should flatten out with age and wear.

I'm kind of disappointed that the Pit Fiend isn't legendary. They're the top dogs in Baator, not counting the Arch-Devils. It makes sense that they would be legendary. And this most likely means that Balors are also not legendary. I'm not as bothered by the incubus/succubus change as a lot of...

Has anyone seen recordings of any of the 5e GenCon panels online yet? I wasn't able to go but would still like to know what kind of stuff they talked about.

I really like this idea although I would prefer they go about it a little different. I'd prefer they do basically a "Forgotten Realms Compendium" in multiple volumes. All system agnostic with no crunch, just detailed setting info with accurate time lines etc. It would be really nice to have...

This is just personal speculation and wishing on my part, but I really hope that the yearly adventure paths they produce will each take place in a different setting. That would be a really interesting way to introduce setting material without going the splat book route that they've said they...

It actually is a different company. But the guy who runs Void Star Studios knows the original creators and acquired the rights to produce them. These are actually a little bit nicer than the originals also, the originals only support dry erase markers, where these support both dry and wet erase...

Here's an easy solution. Just say that divine spells are taught by the player's church or order, and that by default they only know the spells in the PHB. If they want to learn a spell from another book they need to learn it just like wizards do.

While I like the idea, I don't think every setting ever published is feasible. For one, a lot of them were licensed and they no longer have the rights. But more importantly trying to put 40 years of settings into one book would be a massive undertaking, not to mention a massive book. Now a book...

My choice was taken away from me when my local store sold out before I got there. :mad: However they did have a copy of Hoard of the Dragon Queen so I went ahead and picked that up so I could start reading and preparing to run it.

I picked up the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding. Kobold Press has several good books that can make you a better DM or help with creating custom games/settings.