Recent content by Shadowdweller00

In addition to other adventures and various fantasy books, I'm a big fan of the horror genre. I listen to a bunch of horror youtubers (who often narrate "creepypasta" stories written by others), and occasionally incorporate elements into my games. Some examples, if anyone cares...

Was just an idea

Awesome word and idea. Feels like it could use some sort of special ability to make it a little more interesting though, maybe? How about: Double-Take: A subtle aura of wrongness or incongruousness surrounds the tragelaph, imposing disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and...

I know this site and associated publications involve considerable expense and effort; and I don't begrudge some degree of advertising. But the pop-up ads that expand browser margins are REALLY intrusive and toxic. As in, enough that they make me want to leave this site altogether.

Which would be different from a standard wizard in what respect? Some sort of hard-coded spellbook dependency? Knight of St. Ydris seems a fair approximation to me personally; perhaps with a bit of reflavoring (Demonic Possession => Cursed Sword). Or possibly Warlock with a custom Arioch patron.

Err uhh yes. Yes I did. Nothing to see here...

They do, particularly eusocial variations such as the honey bee. It's possibly also not beyond a sentient bee-like creature to intentionally cultivate plants with hallucinogenic pollen. And your game to design as you see fit.

I can't say how you personally used to play TSR D&D. But OSE (Basic) for example is literally a cleaned up port of D&D B/X. So when you say things like this, it demonstrates a rather substantial disconnect on your part...

Errr umm...this just hurts my brain (pun partially intended). Pollen doesn't come from bees. Particularly not "man-sized" ones.

Hmm. Next idea for a gauntlet: The PCs are a swarm of low-level mooks promised fabulous treasures by a group of famous NPC adventurers if they just "go scout out some temple complex". The complex is filled with nasty defenses that the NPCs aren't expecting any of the PCs to survive. At the...

Excessive talking at helpless players 😥

Fairly simple to convert to whatever local deities you want to use at least. For example a Sea Wolf class that is Luskan-themed using maybe Tempus, Tymora, and Waukeen instead. The number of fictional worlds that use Norse crossover deities IS surprisingly large...

C.f. "5. Banished. Your people cast you out for supposed crimes." With some equivocation for "supposed" (i.e. highly dubious claims to) comedic effect.

"Well...I was banished to the elemental plane of Ice Cream after my parents were killed by ninjas. And as everyone knows, ice cream correlates with heat stroke. So can I roll to make the giant suffer from heat stroke?" GM: "..."

I got caught in quicksand once; when I was young and had been taken clamming. Almost cost me my boots!