/5eg/ - Fifth Edition General

Only if you have the war caster feat.

Hey guys, my friends want me to DM a campaign for them

They like murder plots, intrigue, whodunnits, riddles, puzzles some horror maybe
They do not like dungeon crawls or needless combat

I don't have a lot of time on my hands to make something from scratch, is there a 5E Campaign that would fit? Or perhaps a campaign from 3.5 I could use as a baseline?
Or maybe just a few separate adventures I could connect together into one campaign

A few years back we played Rise of the Runelords and they really liked the first 3 books with the murders and the haunted house and all that, but on book 4 it became a boring combat grindfest and it started sucking

Create Bonfire.

They can with the War Caster feat, and as Fighters get extra ASIs it's not as critical a choice as other classes.

A way to get around it however is to make their sword or shield also their arcane focus, as you can preform Somatic components with your focus hand.

Paladins can explicitly put their symbol on their shield, might have to ask the DM for a sword with a Crystal in the pommel for EK though.

From the official adventures, cuck of strahd is the closest to this, but it's still quite far from it.

You can cast while using a 2h weapon because they only require 2 hands while attacking

That makes no sense. How do you have a free hand to cast? What if you need both hands free? Spells don't specify if they're cast one handed or two handed anyway!

Alright, neat. Thanks, guys, I appreciate it.

You can shoulder your weapon for transportation, and somatic components as the rules state require one hand. Material components can use the same hand. Unless he needs to be holding a wand for a material component and doesn't want to free action drop after casting a bonus action spell he can attack.

Yes they do.

>Somatic (S)

>Spellcasting gestures might include a forceful gesticulation or an intricate set of gestures. If a spell requires a somatic component, the caster must have free use of at least one hand to perform these gestures.