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A little more info: the Oni knows that the party has just taken a small dragon horde, which the Oni saw and can reasonably guess contained at least 10,000 gp (more like 12000, but he has to estimate). Would demanding 10,000 be fair? Sent from my SGH-M919 using EN World mobile app

How would the Oni curse the book? They don't have any curse abilities that I'm aware of. Sent from my SGH-M919 using EN World mobile app

Lol! Yes, you might say the wizard is in a hurry to get his only spellbook back! Close to absolute panic! And oh yes, you'd better believe the PCs will try to kill this guy rather than pay if they can. But this Oni is pretty slippery, so he might just get away with it. For now. Sent from my...

The book does have some unusual and unique spells in it. However, the thief hasn't opened it, and probably won't for fear of magical traps and such. All he really knows is that it belonged to a reasonably powerful wizard. The thief is an Oni, if that helps, so he's got some inate spellcasting...

One of my players, a 13th level wizard, has just had his spellbook stolen. It's a long story and I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say, the thief has more use for gold than the book, and is willing to ransom it back to the wizard. I'm wondering how much he should ask for. I...

There's lots of good ideas throughout this thread. Thanks to everyone for their input. The above is probably closest to what I'll be doing, with some minor revisions. A question though: Is there any good reason not to bump her hit dice to a d10?

Cool! That is very close to what I have in mind. Thanks! Sent from my SGH-M919 using EN World mobile app

The drama will come, but first she has to last long enough for the party to develop an attachment to her. They just leveled to 13,and while I don't want her to be comparable to a 13th level PC, she ought to have some chance of survival and be able to pull her own weight. Currently I've got one...

Some good ideas here. Thanks. She's not a sacrificial cow. Potentially she could be around for a game year and I'd like to give her a fighting chance. Still, I worry about giving her extra abilities because I've already got plenty on my plate. I was thinking of giving her some of the more...

The party I'm currently DMing has recently procured the services of an elvish Knight (MM 347) who has pledged her sword to them for one year. I'm awarding her a portion of XP and I'm thinking, for simplicity sake, to have her level up whenever the party levels up, but I'm not sure what that...

I'd like to create a spell that locks down a dead creature's soul, making it incapable of being resurrected. I think the basic spell description would look something like this: Once cast upon the body of a deceased creature, that creature's soul becomes trapped; out of reach of any resurrection...

As an aside, I hope you drop an update here from time to time. I'm very interested to hear how this adventure goes for other DM's.

I'm also currently running AtG. It sounds like I'm only slightly ahead of you. My players just finished their first session in the upper lair of the frost giants tonight. Chief Nosnra also escaped in my game, and as others have said, I'm having him flee to the fire giant lair, but not before...

I quite like this idea.

I've decided to abandon the idea of a con point cost from the caster. It's just too much. Talking it over with the players, they're more comfortable with a loss of a con point from the resurrected creature, ala D&D rules from olden days. But honestly, I'm not crazy about that either. Here's...

I quite like this rule, but how do you account for the possibility of a natural 20 roll that might give the character back a hit point? If you didn't roll until someone came to his aide, he/she might have rolled that nat 20 and got up to take an action.

Yep, played that way for years.

Currently the only penalty is RAW, so, none, really. But so far there has only been a couple of close calls. One PC is currently playing his own clone, and later on he was saved by a Revivify. The party is 12th level and all of them are quite attached to their characters. I highly doubt any of...

Sure, these are all good suggestions, and I've done some of them in one form or another. I'm just suggesting a mechanical function that jump starts role playing and inter party drama that feeds itself rather than me having to force them on some potentially lengthy side quest. It's very common...

I like that, but perhaps a bit darker than I was going for. lol