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Who else is running some of Baldman's new content at Origins? I volunteered expecting to run Suits in the Mist, but ended up on the hook for two sessions of CORE 1-1 A Scream in the Night.

"I think you're drifting into another sketch, sir" got a laugh out of me.

Indeed -- I have a 6th-level Eldritch Knight with a 10 Int. He mostly uses his slots for shield and magic missile.

So? Seriously, so what? He's getting treated like the rest of them and being attacked in combat. He knew the risks when he bought the ticket. Why would his complaint that monsters attacked his character get taken seriously at all? It's D&D -- this is the sort of thing that tends to happen to...

FWIW, I've noticed that a number of season 4 adventures have put more of an emphasis on skill use.

OR start your next six characters at 2nd level!

"From the desk of" got a LOL out of me. Also! I did something similar, but found a different seal.

Well, it does say "can feature" -- you can choose not to include it.

Speaking of bonuses, are there any DM rewards from the AL for running CoS in-store this season? No folios or certs, right?

You could die in 4-1 before entering Barovia and still get a faction raise. (This very thing happened to one of my players when we playtested it, in fact.)

FWIW, Strategicon also hosted the season 3 Epic back in September, and we've been told that in May (there are three Strategicon conventions a year) they'll have the season 4 Epic as well. So yeah, it's on. I ran a Tier 1 table of EP3 at the con last weekend, and it's my understanding we had 30...

A straight reading of the Cutting Words text in the PHB makes it clear, in my view, that it can't cancel a natural 20 on an attack. The player has to use Cutting Words after the roll but before the DM has said whether it's a hit or miss. A natural 20 always hits; as soon as you see the result of...

I playtested 4-1 last Friday, and while I don't want to spoil anything, I can confirm that Barovia definitely appears to not be in the Realms.

I do kinda like the idea of needing to find a way out, but I'd hate it if I didn't have the opportunity to play that adventure(s) that provided that. And it's entirely likely that that might happen. So I'd include one or two exits per tier, and then also allow for the option of spending...

The Harpers are explicitly secretive. I often see Zhentarim members play their faction affiliation as, if not secret, then not something they want to be overt about. They're not guilds so much as... well, factions who want to advance different agenda. "Guild" implies a professional organization...

Well! That's... aggressive. I don't need to be an employee of one of these five companies to get work. I work freelance. Sometimes I pick up a job because I have an associate who is an employee of one of those five companies, and sometimes someone from one of those five companies approaches me...

A playable race with a flight speed would warp all organized-play adventures like a gravity well. Every adventure would have to take into account whether flying PCs could totally derail it. They're not afraid; they're just being responsible. Also, it would've been pretty nonsensically...

It's more than I expected. It's also exactly what I wanted re: winged tieflings. Yay, consistency! Excited that my rogue 1/fighter 8 can take the swashbuckler rogue archetype two levels from now. And I may -- may -- respec my 9th-level bard as a bladesinger.

I'm in the former and sent in a submission to be the latter! I'm doing all I can! Actually, speaking of being a playtester, while I wasn't able to playtest Shackles, I did submit a fairly detailed review wherein I brought up all of these (what I perceived to be) problems, but it doesn't look...