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Tomes from Curse of Strahd are not tradeable. No such restrictions exist for tomes from anywhere else. There is at least one other place you can get a Leadership Tome besides SKT. This is not really relevant as tomes and manuals have a rarity of very rare from the DMG. The ones from SKT are...

1. Barring an ability that says otherwise, Dispel Magic only works on spells. The insect cloud is not a spell. Ergo, it can't be dispelled. (Though in response to your example, Dispel Magic can end conjuration spells just as it can any other spell, so you can dispel an elemental summoned by...

Keep in mind, you can trade for a Tome, or use Dedicated DM if you gave one out from SKT, so it's not that hard to get both Dark Gift and Tome if you try hard enough. Maze Engine is, of course, a whole nother issue. Out of the Abyss ends at level 15. CoS usually ends at 9 or 10.

It's a good solution. The alternative rewards are good, and Wave and Blackrazor really are too powerful to have around (Whelm can go cry in a corner).

With Dominate effects, and controlling charm effects (like succubus, but not vampire which doesn't establish control), you can absolutely force players to fight to the best of their abilities as they would normally fight. You shouldn't permanently penalize players by forcing them to cast Wish...

Sounds like this event is pretty badly managed, to be honest. Most of the time, tickets and time-slots are very important; as long as you show up on time, tickets/pre-reg ensures that you get to play, and time slots are rigorously enforced. Specifically the ability to trade it to Fai Chen for...

It went quite well when I ran it. Everyone knew what they were doing, and I did what I could to make things run smoothly. The fights need some tuning up (especially 5-18), but the adventures are really cool and enjoyable still.

As much as I like The Artifact, running season 4 can be problematic because of the whole Barovia thing. Characters can spend downtime days to get out, but it can still be off-putting to players if they're going into Barovia for just one adventure. Some of my favorite old adventures: DDEX2-14...

I'm of the philosophy that character death should generally be the result of very poor decision making, or climactic fights against very tough enemies. Intellect Devourers are not supposed to be very tough enemies (hence CR 2), and they can kill you with very little decision-making on your part...

Driftglobe is a glorified torch, and the Daylight spell is one of the worst 3rd level spells in the game, being relevant once in a blue moon. I'm speaking from experience as I have multiple Adventurer's League characters with Driftglobe or Daylight (Light cleric), and the times that spell has...

Intellect Devourers are easily the worst designed monsters in 5e, with multiple save-or-die abilities that don't allow Raise Dead on a supposed CR 2. My advice: replace them with more appropriate monsters that aren't quite so ridiculous.

If it's Adventurer's League, then you are not allowed to create characters higher than level one (which includes using a pregen).

Most cons probably have 1st level pre-gens available, but to be safe, you should just make a 1st level character and bring it (or print an AL-legal pre-gen and bring it). To date, all AL epics have included a tier 1 (level 1-4) track, so you can always play a pre-gen or new character in an epic...

It lets you combine the +bonus of a weapon, with the abilities of another weapon, and the form of a third. So you can sacrifice a +3 spear, a flametongue longsword, and a glaive of warning and create a +3 flametongue glaive. I like it a lot. It makes Pact of the Blade actually useful, instead...

I know that CCC doesn't count towards DM Quests that require DD-series adventures. What about former DDAOs?

Don't forget that players who play hardcovers often have opportunities to earn ridiculous sums of gold that far outstrip their XP award. And that never really causes any problems because gold doesn't do anything. They get to buy more healing potions, oh well. Having 50% of XP rewards turn into...

I'm not opposed to having specific anti-immunity effects written into an adventure or monster when the situation really warrants it. If it's really a once-in-a-millennium elder god arising type of situation, and fear is an important element of its design, then sure, having "this even affects...

One of the major selling points of playing high level is that you get to use all these awesome abilities that you spent so long building up on your character. It's just awful to have a DM arbitrarily negate those hard-earned features. DMs who say "no" to clear-cut character abilities like that...

That FAQ is currently wrong about a lot of things. Better just to ignore it until they update it.

Can you consider doing that before next season? It's going to be very relevant when the tier 4 adventures finally release this season, and it's even more important to have those tier 4 games fire when every DM who wants to complete this season's quests needs to run those adventures.