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Who's listed in the credits under cartographers for this adventure? Mike Schley & Sean MacDonald made the maps for PotA available for sale pretty quickly. (Granted, buying all the maps cost more than the book, but it's a lot better than nothing.)

http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1237 When I made these, I found that to get the scales to match up right within printable boundaries, you actually need 7.5 hexes per inch. Here's what 5 hexes per inch looks like, though.

Actually, this is no longer true. The errata and newer versions of the PHB and basic rules specifically address this. The old text read: The new text reads (emphasis added):

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This looks great… any chance of a printable PDF version?

I like this. There's a good summary of what's in the book about the delegation here, and frankly, it's not much. It's just a "trade delegation" with no clear goal or consequence for their capture, other than a bunch of unrelated vague faction hooks. It reminds me more than anything of The...

Sounds like you could get some of what you're looking for by limiting characters to the free basic rules.

The standard rules aren't clear on this. The simplified encumbrance sheet does specify that worn clothing doesn't count toward encumbrance. Check the latest version—it includes a note about Large and Tiny creatures. (Small creatures actually have the same carrying capacity as Medium ones.)

Yes, but in game terms, a bandit, a guard, and even a commoner are proficient in the use of their default weapons. (MM page 9: "Assume that a creature is proficient with its armor, weapons, and tools.")

PHB page 159: Skilled hirelings include anyone hired to perform a service that involves a proficiency (including weapon, tool, or skill): a mercenary, artisan, scribe, and so on.

Don't forget, per page 92 of the DMG: A hireling might also expect a share of any treasure earned.

I wonder if their work on this product is what prompted them to change the map scale midway through work on the Princes of the Apocalypse.

There is a lich in the adventure. The bandit is already in the Dungeon Master's Basic Rules.

By the book, an Adult Green Dragon and two Young Green Dragons are almost double the recommended difficulty of a Deadly encounter for six level 10 characters, so yeah, something's not right.

That's Mellikho Stoneworks—it's different from the location labeled as "Old Quarries" on Red Larch Surroundings and "Abandoned Quarry" on Dessarin Valley.

It's not used in the adventure. Probably left over from an earlier draft. Quarries in the hills are mentioned a few times (page 21, 27, 36) but there is no specific description.

Check out Stan Shinn's conversion tools: http://stanshinn.com/dnd-5e-resources/

Those variations sound like perfectly reasonable house rules that would make it easier to play. I might even use something like that myself. I think the current sheet is closer to the official encumbrance rules, though, which is what I was aiming for. Under those, a person with 16 Strength can...

I made the tracking sheet referenced elsewhere in this thread. The rules do not specify how the dwarf's racial feature works with variant encumbrance. Based on the rules for standard encumbrance, and similar rules in earlier editions, I think a good compromise would be to say that the dwarf...

Yeah, I'm not sure why the requirements are so high—In real life, I think you usually get most of your required water from food anyway. 5 lbs for a full waterskin comes from the equipment list.