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Hmmm.... I like the idea of the other adventuring party. The PCs only found this place because they were following clues from a partial map that was inscribed on the side of a drinking mug they found in another treasure. I can see the other party possessing a similar artifact... there might be a...

Yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking. The "upper" floor of the map that I'm using is a temple, so I have a mess of crawling claws and other skeletal undead (orc origin) on the stairs, whose purpose is to keep the creatures that are still "up there" away from the orcs. Actually, I don't...

Okay, my PCs took a turn into left field, left the track I had been working on for them, and chose to follow up another lead. They're now investigating a 400+ year abandoned dwarven town/outpost. 450 or so years ago, before the fall of the human empire, this was a semi-secret dwarven town, where...

Don't vampire spawn become free-willed if their creator dies? So maybe he's a spawn that survived his master/mistress destruction, but has not yet become a full vampire. And if you don't want to give him cleric levels, instead, maybe he uses keoghtum's ointment or something similar to heal his...

As a YA librarian, I feel like suggesting some more titles: Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series, and the Brotherband Chronicles. Good adventures and world building. Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series. So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane. Find the originals, not the more recent...

I'd have told him " no, you quit already. It's over." You can't waffle with him. And I am a super nice person.

Start by giving the item a minor power, not a + to hit at all. When it is time to improve it, have it seem to "wake up" after a significant fight. The weapon subtly changes, and it gains a +1. Later, add another special ability. Each thing can be tailored to what is happening in the campaign at...

Darn, I didn't realize my post from yesterday went through - my computer seemed to eat it, and I missed seeing it until after I reposted. Ignore this thread...

I'm looking for short, simple adventures that are set in a desert/wasteland - things I can drop in on my party, who are following another group across the wastes of a magically barren landscape. This was once a rich empire's heartland, but first a war raged across it, and then it was magically...

If you have two fairly inexperienced players, I would have them each run a pc and a henchman who is a stripped down pc or maybe a champion 1 or 2 levels lower. Not two full pcs. You'll find that while you may have the overall campaign arc in your head, you don't want to spend a lot of time...

So what is it a scale from? A dragon? Or do you mean a set of scales to weigh things on? If the first, possibly it should be protective, or support law and good. If the second, possibly it weighs the words a person speaks, for truth vs falsehood, or for honest belief, or for good intent.

Seasons are pretty clearly tracked and used, daily weather only when it interests me. I have a weather almanac, and I often check it for general trends when the pcs have a journey to take. They've been traveling recently for over a month, and the early spring weather has been pretty miserable...

First, I have chosen a language to draw place and personal names from for each country in my campaign world. So Greenvalers have Saxon names, and Miranians have Latin names. Dwarves and elves draw from Tolkien's languages, and hobbytlan use English plant and flower names. Catfolk and Lizardfolk...

You definitely need to know what happens if they fail the test - is there a way to get around it? Will there be an alternative to solving each one? Or is the trip to the feywild totally dependent on them being successful? If it is, you'd better be prepared for them to fail... Anyway, you have...

Hmmm... I'm presuming you know if the human defenders have any interesting skills, such as carpentry or masonry, etc...? I would definitely allow them to put those skills to use, if they have any prep time. If they know they're going to defend the house, they should be able to get plenty of...

i'd love a witch class or subclass - but I'd mostly use it for NPC's, I expect. I've only skimmed the first page of the thread, but here's my opinion: It would have to have a familiar for me to feel that it was anywhere close to true to the folklore basis for a witch. From there, yes, I...

I'm very interested in good quality short standalone adventures, or collections thereof. I would LOVE to have Dungeon magazine back, for example - in print or in e-format. But the AL stuff leaves me cold. I don't play in FR, the adventure paths are not quite what I want (I used Phandelver, but...

In the 'party scenario' it is nice to give each PC a 'party night' goal. Perhaps the fighter is interested in speaking to the Captain of the Guard, or some other famous nobleman, about his dueling skills, or how he fought a particular monster, etc... Maybe the bard wants to listen to a...

Not really; for days on which there are no encounters, it will mean nothing. It simply means that if a party travels through wilderness for five days, and has 2 encounters, they will have one or more short rests between the two encounters, not one or more long rests. It means that pacing will be...

I thought the middle path was a bit silly. Too teen girl romance-like. And no class that cannot fight is going to last in a long campaign. Might make a good annoying NPC to escort somewhere, though.