Vixen's Dungeon

The spell slow poison will cause even a lethal poison to be slowed down such that the poisoned character is able to function and can still be saved, though they take 1 point of damage each turn while the poison is still present. Now here's the passage that could be an issue:

(although the victim will never go below 1 hit point while the slow poison spell’s duration lasts)

The rules lawyer knows that this obviously only applies to damage received from the ongoing poison, but will nonetheless try to argue that it will stop the affected character from dropping to 0 or fewer hit points from any damage source.

I've deemed these two very different classes as the best-suited for playing one-on-one with the DM. The paladin is just really powerful, and has restrictions on who they can associate with, so it's easiest to just go question alone. And speaking of quests, those are certainly best to do on your own for that good aulde knight-errant feel, and they'd need to let you do most of the work anyway when you're questing for your steed or holy sword for it to count anyhow.

Verily I tell you, there is nothing within that deck capable of ruining my campaign, not one thing.

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

The three stages of the Shadow:

Surprise

Alarm

Also what is life like for the average people you see? Are they medieval european peasants or something closer to something else? Is the economy still predominantly focused around the production of bread and textiles? Is that labour gendered?

I have met spellcasters, yes! Most notable among them would probably be Gzalbadyrhh the Magician, who I would assume to be 6th level based on the title. And I have recently become one myself, having finally finished my apprenticeship under Gzalbadyrhh and become a 1st-level magic-user!

I've not done a survey of the land so the spellcasting demographics are largely a mystery, but I would assume less than 1-in-1,000 due the to abundance of non-classed people in addition non-spellcasting adventurers.

I am to the best of my knowledge not in Faerûn. As for the laws of physics, I know that during combat people aren't literally taking turns, so time works the normal way at least. I think the most sure-fire test of this is to see how quickly someone falling reaches terminal velocity, but regrettably maths and physics were never my top subjects so I might not be qualified to run that experiment. But I think for the most part things work as they would over there.

Right now based on what I’m reading, I see spell slots as a storage limitation, not a “mana” limitation. Do they explain that in the DMG and not the player’s handbook?

No worries on the rules lawyer thing, you just unintentionally gave me a good example of what that looks like. I figured it was most likely a genuine question.

To get to your follow-up, yes, it's a storage limitation, specifically for memorising spells. Because that's what you're doing, you're not preparing spells like in 3rd Edition, you're literally pressing the mystical gestures and words into your memory, from whence they will be wiped after use. The rationales are a bit different for magic-users and clerics but the same basic principle applies, and in both cases you draw the actual power from an outside source, as powering a spell yourself would kill you.