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pukunui The adventure has never made it clear why Strahd allows the Burgomasters to 'rule' their towns/villages - does he fear the collective capabilities of an organised town, or does he need someone to keep the 'common folk' in a nice central place for him to feed on? Answer that, and I think...

I dunno, attempting to put myself in Strahd's shoes, I'd say the PC's latest moves are quite interesting, he'd like to see just how murderous and hence 'evil' these guys can be; they killed a burgomaster because ... what ... he was a bit weird? Because it's D&D and you kill things and take...

My players nailed Death House in just under 4 hours, it certainly covers the "three pillars" especially exploration, and to be honest you should probably start them at 1st as they can quickly progress to 2nd level and even 3rd just before the end (I let mine get to 3rd once the defeated the...

I agree that the Conan I read in REH's books, was a Fighter not a Barbarian. The "thief" piece, as well as any "nature" affinity, is probably just from a Background, as far as 5e goes. If you go all the way back to AD&D, the Fighter there fits perfectly fine, especially the good saves Fighters...

pukunui, sounds like Strahd definitely needs to congratulate the PC's on their murderous ways, and invite them (collectively, or individually) to be part of the new leadership group...

"You determine what spells you know and can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class." - PHB pg 164. "At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. [...] At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six...

Orcs trashed Phandelver a few hundred years ago, and it was a ghost-town until pretty recently, just home to a few monsters, as it's quite far away from any decent-sized 'civilisation' to help look after it. Traditionally in Faerun, there's always another hoard of Orcs descending from the...

You are correct - the "code names" do not generally bear much relation to the actual product, except maybe in hindsight, so using the code-name to guess what it's about? Unlikely. Dust was released to beta-testers late last year; the next one has yet to get that far (as far as I know).

Magic and Psionics need to be "pretty much the same", or way too much stuff gets broken / abused. WotC figured this out around 3.5, and it needs to be the same in 5e. Simple example: wizard should be able to Dispel Magic / Counterspell vs Psionics, and visa versa. You totally missed the huge...

texastoast, I think letting your group split into two parts is fine, especially as it feels like you've got a huge set of NPC's tagging along (a common problem). Personally I had a couple of sessions along those lines, due to players being away - one night, we actually only had one PC, and...

Confusing Gaze isn't an Action for the Umber Hulk, it happens at the start of every PC's turn, unless they are over 30 feet away or they can't see it. Sounds like single monsters are not a great threat, which is not unusual, that's the way it goes. And giving them very high CR single opponents...

Yeah, if the player is going to always want to play an evil PC, what about the other players, is that fun for them too? Sounds like the other players will quickly realise that this player is always going to be working at cross-purposes to them... I struggle to see how that's a fun long-term...

Personally I've made that the point where the PC becomes an NPC, and the player and I work out how they can run a new PC. The initial plotting, and betrayal, can be fun, but once the other PC's are onto them, that evil PC should be marked for death as per all the other evil NPCs they encounter...

Single monsters don't make good "boss" fights, especially with 5 PC's. Try a pair of Ogres, or something similar, even two monsters isn't really enough, but CR2+ is in the ball-park of tough in numbers - could make sense, more so than the Nothic. Same for other encounters - if you think it's...

Ah yes, Strahd charmed one of the Baron's man-servants, got an invite in, and you eventually kicked his butt back out again... but that was nothing to do with Lady Wachter... As for your group, I'd say whatever 'threat' Lady Wachter might have presented, is well and truly dead. Not every...

Unfotunately 5e is very heavily skewed towards the 'bottom tier', as far as adventures go, and also the balance of the rules (no edition ever does well at the top-end, as published). Also, from my one time DMing players to 20th and beyond in 5e, it gets harder and harder to find anything...

I think he spell is pretty clear, and concise, as long as you can get your head around gravity 'going up' in the area. You can't realistically grab the ground, and grabbing anything with your legs depends on DM judgement. If you do grab something, you are in reverse gravity so you are...

Don't forget there's always additional info at the end of each chapter, "Special Events". For example (pg 124) it says that if Lady Wachter realises the characters are her enemies, she hands Ernst a bag of gold and instructs him to deliver it to the Vistani camp outside town, along with a...

I've been playing a "v2" Mystic for a while now; one problem is they don't give us enough time to really play-test it in real life. At first glance, this looks great, but there are a couple of glaring problems that have not been fixed: 1) multi-classing is pure speculation - personally, my PC...

Personally, in my campaign so far, I've run it as follows: Started in Nightstone, up to the point where the PC's free it from goblin occupation. But the back-story is completely changed: the place was initially attacked by Hill Giants, then hobgoblins etc ambushed the place killing a few...