Ah yes. Good ol' Volo. Nice to see him from time to time. I should use his books more often.

Fortunes Favor doesn't seem like the optimal spell to use in a situation like this (even if you could). Unless the games include no social component, enhance ability would be better.

About the house rule: I get why you'd use the rule for simplicity, but especially if your not playing a cleric, but instead a wizard or an artificer, it seems weird to make the PC a chosen one by having those spells.

I usually give NPCs a set selection of spells they use. But this set is only their prepared spell-list, it varies depending on the NPC and most preparation-casters will have access to the other spells on their list, should the need arise (as it most likely won't, so there is no extra work on my part).

Probably. An author once wrote this piece of conversation:

"Wait? You can transform matter. Thats magic." "Your people can use metal to fly over buildings." "Of course they can. It makes perfect sense."

Having a world, where "magic" actually exist raises a lot of questions about some conventional expressions and cultural aspects.

Ironically enough, I've had campaigns where just doing what the priestess suggested would have been a better solution than what the party ended up deciding to do.

Thats funny, because I've seen some DMs where nobody cares wether or not lvl. 10, they still treat you as if you were lvl. one and don't know sh*t about you. (Mainly in campaigns where the characters travel a lot. I still find it weird. Rumors spread quickly.)

"So what do you have? "

"A sword!"

"A sword?"

"Yes. And I can hit with it twice as often twice every hour."

"... I'll stick to my spellslots thank you."

"... It sounded better in my head."

Never show this to my players please.

And thats why I think Firbolgs are underused.

Something tells me that this will be the favorite picture of many people… I am not among them of course.

As long as the players got to watch and listen, as the two lovebirds did there thing, there would be no reason to complain. You don’t get to see a a high quality romantic comedy show every day.

What would Konsi do should they have a serious fight? Throw her out?

It is a melee attack. Jesse hits people with the crossbow in melee. Jesse does read the rules. Thank you.