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I have heard that it is pretty dependant on how the DM presents the material. Easy to make it tedious. I was planning on basically putting together a list of fun moments - using Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast for inspiration - and not focusing too much on the day-to-day routine. Yeah, that is...

Thanks, but I know what the adventure is about. I'm hoping for those who have run the adventure, and especially anyone who has combined it with Hoard, to share their experiences. Pretty much every analysis of Hoard includes a comment about how little the reviewer / commentator liked that chapter.

Hey all, I'm running Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and my party is currently chilling in Elturgard, about to get the boat to Baldur's Gate and wait for the caravan that will take them on the (wildly unpopular) Chapter 4. I'm planning on inserting Murder in Baldur's Gate in the gap, since they...

On the contrary, I found @Mirtek's post to have merit, and agreed with it, even as someone who likes Eberron. Your post seemed a way to patronise another poster by suggesting that they have made a valueless comment, and yet your post also tries to sound like you're very respectful, quite an odd...

Presumably Wizards don't want to do loss leaders when they could just do, uh, profit followers(?!) instead.

TL;DR: for just the proposed house rule, check the bolded bullet points below. Hey all, So another thread on the forum made me remember that I'd done some thinking on the commonly-accepted tendency (or "problem") in 5e for the party to only heal once someone is on the ground. Let me quickly...

Well, my group did Curse in about 24 sessions, of about three hours each - but we also didn't do the castle. 100 hours sounds right to me.

This is a good point. I have it in my mind that they wanted to keep things simple for the buyer - walk into store, get core books + one campaign book, leave - but too many campaign books might start to undermine that. However, if they stop doing campaign books, then groups who follow them along...

But why are the adventures selling so well now, when they apparently were not a profitable line before? In other words, what made Wizards turn to them as the primary post-core releases, over other things? I know that they are easier to avoid system bloat with, can be stealth-setting books, all...

Princes of the Apocalypse was very well received as a sandbox campaign after the fairly structured (on rails, not sandboxy, whatever) Tyranny of Dragons; it was also written when the rules were finished, and had enough time to be a full sized book rather than two shorter ones. It - like Out of...

"Other people can't have nice stuff if I don't get my aggressively worded nice stuff"

I like the Ceremony spell, it's very flavourful yet generic enough to be twisted into a lot of fun scenes. I can see this being something that the players agonise over using, and maybe even build concepts (the young lovers, etc) for. I'm also pleased at the Toll the Bell spell, a solid...

The Slaadi are really odd. The fact that they visually resemble some Demons doesn't help, either! The real problem is that, if you showed someone the alignments, and then showed them images of the various outsiders, that they might be able to place things like Modrons, Devils, Angels, and the...

Remember also that a party that really wants to will try to use a spell or ability that creates Sunlight, which also instantly destroys a Vampire at 0 HP, no mist-form allowed. It might be simpler to assume that the 0 HP - turn to mist - flee thing is actually unlikely, and instead would be a...

This seems a solution in search for a problem. What issue, precisely, is being resolved by removing saving throws? It seems like such a profitless thing to do to a system that already has the saving throws built in. I mean, sure, 4e had the defences, and I don't think that I heard bad things...

tl;dr that the book(s) are easy to use at the table and lead to easy and good DM experiences, rather than being cool shelf bait. The factions could do with a rework to be easier to use, in my opinion as someone who is terrible at philosophy. The Planescape books were great fun to read but, like...

Watch out for the Control Water spell, we found that to be a one-shot victory in a naval encounter.

In my CoS game, the party had a Paladin with the Charger feat. At the time I mentally marked it as a suboptimal/useless choice; but the player used the feat in almost every combat in the module. It really paid off for him, and it might also for you. Plus a Dwarf barrelling into battle with an...

You... don't think that a Paladin drawing on divine power and smiting his enemies by burning a spell slot is magical? That's the most intensely precise definition of 'magical' that I've ever seen.

This post was amusing. Certainly, I imagine that this will happen for some groups who lean heavily on the 'tavern talk' element of the module. For my part, it works perfectly - since I'm going to run a campaign in Waterdeep, so I can add these adventures as very low-effort sidequests to the...