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Nope, now you are inventing fluff to justify your decision. Nowehere is it said or even implied that grappling means contact between a specific hand and the grappled target. That is something you are deciding all on your own. Since the rules don't imply it, and it is very easy to conceive of a...

If it is everyone's first time, you can probably stop your reading of the adventure after the goblin caves, perhaps with a brief overview of the town of Phandalin. Unless you play a marathon session or your players are lightning fast, it is unlikely they will get farther in one session.

I didn't call anyone a rules lawyer, I said that sounds like a rules lawyer approach. It's no different than your implication that what I am doing is mere "fluff". Understanding the rules doesn't make one a rules lawyer. Trying to inisist that the wording of the rules must have a particular...

That sounds like a rules lawyer approach, imho. It's not fluff. It is applying real world knowledge and common sense to achieve verisimilitude in the game world. The rules are a means to achieve that, but they are not the final arbiters.

Not at all. It is pretty easy to picture a caster having grappled someone (perhaps with one arm around the neck) while the grappled person still has enough range of movement to hold the grappler's magic hand at bay. After all, grappled opponents can still hit people with swords and such; they...

Hardly.

Nobody likes a rules lawyer. Play it however it makes sense to you. I like things to make sense in my worlds and suggesting that someone who has an active spell going on their hand can't reach out and hit someone because of some arbitrary --- yes I said arbitrary --- wording, is silly. Just...

Where's that from? I don't recall reading that anywhere. Pretty sure Dragonlance's concept of the 'Abyss' is actually the Nine Hells too. After all in D&D, Takhisis is Tiamat despite initial claims that she wasn't.

This is the only thing that matters to me. Can I picture a wizard with vampiric touch already active reaching out and touching a retreating orc? Sure. Thus, you can do it. Arguments over what is an action, or a melee attack or a spell attack, or what the specific wording on some random page...

That very canon is a nebulous thing, full of vague descriptions, incompatible ideas, and more. It is incapable of being completely reified - and I would add: That is a good thing. While there might be a city called Waterdeep, it probably doesn't look the same in any two games. Are we talking...

This. A thousand times, this. Pick what you like. Toss the rest. There is no "standard" Realms to compare your campaign to.

I've read in many times over the years that true clerics are to be considered rare. Most followers of a faith, even higher-ups in temples and whatnot, generally have no power whatsoever.

What they don't tell you about the Wall:

Dunno. It's probably like herding cats*. I don't think it would work, as if it did you could just travel to an appropriate outer plane to rescue dead souls and bring them back with you. * Actually, anyone who says herding cats is difficult has never run past a group of cats dragging a long...

If you've read one of the Shannara books, you've essentially read them all.

I think the current system can be pretty lethal as is. Reduced to zero HP you fall unconscious. This means any further melee attacks will: a) Have advantage. b) Autocrit if they hit, causing two death saving throw failures. Any lack of lethality is likely due to DMs choosing to have attackers...

Notice I said he was doing something about it...just more subtly, as befits someone hopelessly outnumbered. He's presumably not stupid and realizes how everyone around him feels about heretics. Maybe in the end he accomplishes nothing, or perhaps he manages to secure an escape from the wall for...

Oh yeah that's right, it was called BADD. We spent a lot of time together working on cars. While he didn't physically try to stop me from playing he made it very clear what his opinion was, as did I. I don't know if he did any campaigning to ban it or anything like that. He may have for all I...

That wasn't really directed at you. Just a general statment about what playing D&D in the 80's could be like. He brought it up occasionally. There were some heated discussions. I don't know if he joined MADD, but I wouldn't have been surprised. Pretty sure his whole church was vocal about...