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Fake / decoy tombs are historically accurate, but don't make it too difficult for the players. As I said in another thread, neither you nor they are Sherlock Holmes.

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I have the book and I feel free to chuck or include whatever I want. If I want my elves to be plant-human hybrids and my orcs to be pig-human hybrids created by Suel mages then those are parts of my Greyhawk campaign world. They don't need to be part of your Greyhawk campaign world.

Just a thought, but have you run a murder-mystery before? The plot here is fiendish. If you haven't then perhaps you should try one with a far simpler plot, not only to gauge how difficult you find it but also to gauge how difficult your players find it.

+1 The only clue mentioned is someone with a Ring of Mind Shielding. Good luck getting the PCs to twig that. Bluntly, you and I and your players aren't Sherlock Holmes.

You'd be surprised at how easy it is for large animals like elephants to disappear into foliage. And elephants move in herds.

I don't have the PHB to hand but spellcasters have magic, the barbarian has extra movement, the rogue has a special action, and I'm not sure about the monk. We went through this a while back: people forget about attacks from Bonus Actions and Reactions. The Fighter needs to use Action Surge...

Yes, it's powerful, but the fighter is out-damaged by other fighting classes and you're assuming it's used for combat. Action Surge can be an escape power (running away) or as a second chance power (e.g. a second chance of grabbing someone who's fallen into a river), in diplomatic settings...

The main tweak I would suggest is to drop the extra feats and replace them with extra reactions or bonus actions. And bring Indomitable forward so that people actually use it. Some of the clumsy wording is there to prevent multi-classing cheese. Level Proficiency Bonus Bonus Features 1st...

Wow. Was this her fall from grace? Or was she taking the position of Devil's Advocate?

If you want a humanoid campaign, take a look at the adventure Vesicant in Dungeon and consider setting your campaign in in the Pomarj. Or look to the north of Oerth, to the west of the Bakluni realms where Orcreich wages continual war against the Khanate / Celestial Kingdom (the latter are...

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It was quite common in some eras for doors - particularly servants' doors - to be concealed. Similarly it might not be immediately obvious that a decorated wall is actually a partition that opens, especially if it hasn't been used for a long time. Both qualify as secret doors.

I'm immediately drawn to the Breath Weapon attack: it replaces only one of your attacks yet increases in power like a cantrip. And it's an area effect. Chromatic Warding seems a bit OP too. It should be immunity for 1 round. I think the dragonborn races are very powerful.

They should be adventure sources before the PCs join them - let the PCs prove their worth, as it were.

Having a pre-printed list of d20 rolls helps here.

That will make for an interesting game. You might want to raise the max level to 8 for the second Feat / ASI. Historically, scale armour was a real thing (lorica squamata) and it seems that you actually want brigandine for splint armour.

Expertise on attack rolls is very powerful. Now, if you were to allow a PC to use their Proficiency Bonus instead of their stat bonus, that's a different matter, and I think would be a way of modelling an experienced fighter. So instead of rolling 1d20 + PB + Stat mod vs AC they roll 1d20 + PB +...

Plot hooks! Harper & Zhent agents will be mission givers.

Being proficient with shields allows you to use it as a weapon. How much damage the shield does depends upon the shield. Naturally, you lose the shield bonus to AC if you are using it as a weapon.