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Eh, Eryndel, you're not disagreeing with me - I didn't even think of the pregens. But I do think a one or two character campaign DOES really need a fighter. Anyway, I don't disagree with anything you've said. I almost suggested starting at L3, but I think in the long run the amount of learning...

If you are going to play a PC with your nephew, then definitely play a cleric or wizard-with-extra-healing-potions. How old is he? If he's under 12, then yes, the basic fighter is probably his best option. Does he have a friend he could invite along to play? Or would one of his parents join in...

I would be more likely to work the OTHER way: have your adventure, with a minimum number of encounters - 3 or 4, whatever you think is the fewest you can use to make an adventure work. Then have 2-3 extra encounters or puzzles or traps or whatnot (an interesting NPC?) to insert, if they have...

Other than really good furniture and comfortable chairs, I recommend a mini-fridge for game day beverages and snacks, lots of shelving as Lanefan suggested, and good, bright lighting. I know it can be a "mood killer" but when you're older, you care more about being able to read than to be in the...

Oh, that reminds me of a beholder encounter in a megadungeon - Dungeon-a-day - It had a glass tube, impervious to magic, that it used to "visit" the upper levels of the dungeon to spy on events taking place there. So the first time or two the PCs spotted it, they could not get attacked, nor...

Yes, I suppose that's a risk. So have some pregens ready, but push them to do their own if at all possible.

Just because there's a beholder there, doesn't mean the PCs have to fight it. They could get a chance to avoid it completely, not fight it and run away until they're more powerful. They could get captured, dragged before it and have to bargain their way out of being sold off as slaves. Or they...

Since your new group has experience with playing RPGs, I would NOT do pregens; I would simply tell them that they need to come with a finished character - tell them to do point buy or rolls, and whatever else. Suggest, possibly, that if they don't have a Player's Handbook, that using the free...

I recommend two things: 1) start "in media res". Skip the whole tavern thing. "You are standing in front of the gates to the Dungeon of Doom. It has taken you six weeks of travel to get here from the Last City on the Shore. You are seeking the Great Emerald Eye of Belevere, which has been lost...

Hmmm.... I guess I must use some bastardized version of leveling halfway between milestones and XP. It works more or less like this in my campaign; we start an adventure - say, clearing out a haunted building of whatever is inside - that the PCs have freely chosen to do. When they finish, I look...

Humans. The evil wizard has replaced the true heir with a duplicate that he controls. No one believes the adventurers who have stumbled on a piece of the plot, and even they have no clue who the real villains are.

I fully intend to adopt these backgrounds into my campaign world. I like! I do agree though, that nobody should feel pushed to take a background just because they come from such a place.

I own both - I've only run one adventure so far - the winery one. My pcs liked it, but it took a bunch of work to make the maps even remotely sensible. And a whole winery estate with one tiny patch of vines made no sense; I just added acres of fields around the estate on the hills. In the house...

I'm looking forward to more adventures. Winters Heart doesn't fit my current campaign but it was a very good read.

It is a game, so I know reality only loosely applies, but the idea that an unbroken animal can be controlled that way (knees only) is laughable. A well trained animal with a skilled rider? No problem. An untrained, unwilling predator? Sorry. No. Magic would be needed. So yes, I would apply...

In my county, I was paid $7 the first day, $14 the second, and $40 for every day thereafter. I donated it all to the animal shelter. My employer ( the city) paid my salary while I served. We were not sequestered, but we were told not to speak about it, research it, listen to or read anything...

Oops! But the thought still counts. I would definitely apply at least a -5 penalty to any checks for going bareback, and another -2 or more for no bridle. Or possibly the reverse. And if the animal is wild, unbroken, then effectively he's trying to break the animal on the spot. That's a pretty...

The more I read of PotA, the happier I am that my current (4th+ lvl) party did NOT bite on the chance to go down to Red Larch. I'll save the whole thing to start my next campaign...

1. There's a saddle? If not, all his ride/control checks should be at disadvantage. There are reins? If not, then he's at another penalty. 2. The other sharks and crocs are going to be trying to pick this morsel off the back of the first shark. 3. He's going to have a LOT of trouble holding his...