Is that some kind of company? Or am I missing a very obvious joke?

How do you know all that?

I like using modules so that I have a general basis to start with. It keeps me focused on the things relevant to the campaign.

But they are polished equally on each side, right?

Yeah, human brains are bad at statistics, so logical outcomes can still surprise us.

The pearl does not get consumed though. Buy it once, use it indefinetly.

Statistically it comes up 5% of the time you use a hero point, so yeah, about as often as rolling a nat 20.

I habe no idea what this is, but it sounds incredibly whacky.

It also makes the Rhino a fairly competent celestial warrior.

Wait what?

Because a flying Rhino is a pretty absurd rules interaction.

Thanks for pointing this out, that’s better than what I could’ve said to explain it. The DM can always make changes without adhering to any limitations, but if they are a good DM, they’ll at least try to be consistent. And that’s the least I expect from professional writers. (And I similarly expect them to wait for the actual rules of the system to be published before writing an adventure.)

I love this gem. The only thing they got a but wrong is that Bardic inspiration could actually be whispered, since it only requires the target to be able to hear you.

I feel you. I’m currently planning to run it someday and there are just so many things I’ll definetly change.

Yes they could. But they did not. That’s what I’m crititicising. Perception is one of the most used skills ever. It would not have hurt not to use it here. And if you really want to, then give her some kind of ability that actually let’s her do that, because these kind of things can be missleading to new players/DMs and put extra work on the DM.

And I really like less strict systems like M&M too, but if you write something in a more rigid system, you should adhere to the rules of that system. Or in this case: You shouldn’t start writing full on adventures in an unfinished system.

Because it would make subtle-spell kind of redundant and why even use components in the first place if they cannot be used to tell you are casting something?

They are using an official statblock which lacks this ability. The only way the shaman can have it is if the DM added it themself. And since this is a prewrittem module, it really shouldn’t have such oversights, especially since newer, inexperienced DM‘s likely aren’t familiar enough with the rules to know this, which makes it at least decently likely that they’ll just assume everyone can cast stealthily.

If the idea involves simply walking into Avernus, I’ll be as impressed as I’ll be amused.

Beyond that, did the party specifically leave some members behind when I did not notice, or are they simply offscreen during this comic?

I know that it would be out of character, but now I’m trying to make up a plan how this might work. If Mystery can counterspell, then if you send him along while disguised as someone else, it might be possible.

However, as you’ve said, it would not really accomplish much anyway and Konsi would never do it.

I don’t know what you mean. Winning poker via the use of a hammer is a long honored dwarves tradition.