u/8yearholdout

Fellow DMs, I come to you with a predicament: My party's cleric chose the grave domain, and my party of mostly new players has proven to be a little death-prone (possibly owing to my running fewer, harder combats each day instead of more, easier encounters). I searched the campaign and discovered that if run as-written, access to revivify and later raise dead will be meaningless as there are no diamonds, of the required value or otherwise, in any of the module's many treasure drops. Where would you all suggest I place some, to let the necromancy cleric do his thing and give the party and extra life or two? My initial instinct is to convert some of the higher gold amounts (for example, maud's cauldron) into the equivalent in diamonds? Or maybe I should just have there be a jeweler in Bryn Shander & Targos and let the party exchange gold for diamond themselves?

Hi all! One of my players took the pirate cannibal secret, so the party is practically guaranteed to come across Arveiaturace in a few levels (we are level three now, but I am anticipating a trek to the shipwreck around level 5 or 6). I am unsure whether to adapt her to the 2024 ancient white dragon statblock. I have mostly adapted reprinted stackblocks, aside from the really stupid ones like duergar->spy, and my players have mostly taken 5.5 features.

Hi all! I am DM my ROTF campaign with XP advancement (so that the world feels more open and advancement can be quantified more easily than milestone/checklist). What level should my party be when I give them the “we know where the fortress is, go hike for 2-3 days then break in” hook? My main concern is having them at a high enough level that they can handle the dragon if they decide to chase the dragon *before* infiltrating the fortress, not after. My instinct is to wait for level 5, but if anybody has experience with how to approach this I’m all ears :)