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Ha ha ha ha ha. If you make this assumption, it is almost certain not to be true. :) Again with that assumption thing. Surely in a part of the city overgrown with jungle and filled with ruins, there will be more than one place to go. Are the players necessarily going to go to a tower just...

You're right, I exaggerate. Actually, my experience in a game with a pacifist cleric was that he took far from a support role. Plus, he was a quotation machine: Pacifist: "I've been researching a new prayer: Create Nerf Weapon. It gets the stress out." PC: "I hit him with an ESP" Pacifist...

If I were to run this, it would not add up to much. But it wouldn't be nothing, either -- the reward should be proportional to the effort. For a series of "brief encounters," I would probably turn it into comic relief: Have a baby vomit on the Paladin, and a thousand years later, the PCs can...

I can see the claws being useful if there's a caster and detailed tracking of hands going on. No need to drop or pick up or whatever -- you can easily handle components with your "weapon hand."

[/INDENT] I thought not having a crafting domain was a big oversight in the PHB. How could they say with a straight face that Moradin was a god of Knowledge? Are Dwarves really supposed to be the race of divine librarians? So yeah, I'm all over the Forge option. (And love the quote above...

I don't think it especially matters whether the numbers are "realistic," but it matters a lot more whether the PCs can influence them. That said, Wikipedia says a rowboat can go 3-4 mph, up to double that for specially crafted speed rowboats (but you gotta figure a medieval version isn't so...

I want to play in YOUR game. (Because, see, I'd get to try out a lot of different character concepts in a relatively short while... :)

The other factor is that a number of the prisoners are effectively higher-level to begin with. It also seems like everyone picks a different subset of the Drow staff for the PCs to deal with on their way out. If the PCs are at or near level 1, and fighting Quaggoths and Elite Drow and...

It seems right for the first wave(s) to be coming from outside the walls and generally handled with ranged attacks/power/spells/etc. Perhaps even let the PCs organize some defenses -- give them a fixed set of bows and magical attacks to distribute to townsfolk and then the PCs can just...

So I see two things in your favor: The half-elf you're trying to save is a Champion of King Oberon. Unless King Oberon is feeling pretty ruthless, you would think it was in his best interest to save one of his champions. So really, you're not so much asking for King Oberon's help, as offering...

A list of professions (Mayor, Innkeeper, Alchemist, Farmer, Caravan Master, ...) with a bunch of 1-2 line entries for each with a name and some unique feature/desire/etc. Maybe a further subset slightly expanded with a side quest hook. A list of town locations (Inn, Smithy, Temple, etc.) that...

So where are the Orcs and Goblins in the Realms? I gather they once swept down from the tundra to demolish some of the far northern Dwarven cities, but I don't see them all living in the glaciers now that they've been driven off.

Even when I'm not using a battle mat, I sketch out a combat (on a whiteboard, a piece of paper, some electronic tool, whatever). If the relevant parts of the encounter span 450', it's really hard to reflect the 5' distances between allies or combatants or a character's 20-40' move and keep it...

I envisioned it being fairly stilted, perhaps with different words in a sentence in different people's voices or accents. And not so long-lasting that they didn't have to work a little to get their meaning across other than in well-trodden situations. So, "watch out, ambush!" sure, but "don't...

In my current games I'm using cities as "factions". I'm not sure to what extent I buy into sprawling organizations with coordination and influence throughout villages, towns, and city-states, like the factions described in the Forgotten Realms material. OK, to be more accurate, I don't buy...

So, I won't answer this exactly as asked, but I will contribute this: I'm am involved in a weekend-long RPG convention that is likely to use all 5e this year (for the first time). We are trying to stick close to the PHB rules, because it sort of defeats the purpose of adopting a well-known...

Yeah, you keep coming back to that. :)

I'm not clear on that. In character, do you get to ask your patron for a boon? Or does your patron grant whatever/whenever on their own schedule? Because if you (the character) do get any influence, I think you'd definitely consider asking for things that you couldn't get any other way. Not...

Out of the Abyss did a brilliant job of bringing the underdark to life for me. If I was going to send a party there, I could use any of the locations without fussing with the demon lord plot. And SKT has huge swaths of content that can be mined for other plot lines. I can't say I got as much...

I know, I know! It's just that there are THIRTY-TWO Eldritch Invocations, of which in a reasonable campaign you may get what, like six or eight to play with? Is the magical weightless force field going to be one of them or not? There's no gear for "see through magical Darkness" or "read all...