Off the top of my head, what I would do for option #3 is as follows:
Every character has the opportunity to perform a number of suspicious acts in exchange for some mechanical or plot-related bonus, similarly to the obsession mechanics in Everyone is John. The difference being nobody but the DM...
I got swamped this week, so I wasn't able to respond, and I definitely don't want to jump into the middle of the new judgment. I still think @Iron Sky had the better adventure: He had a more unique setting and used the elements in a way I thought was very innovative (I'm sorry for using a...
Ingredients
Laconic Sphynx
Thieving Caravan
Astral Jaunt
Last Crownbearer
Affluent Troll
Crystal Seal
Fountain of Love
Pendragon: Love Eternal
Royal Brat
During the war on the continent, the party is assigned by their liege to guard a minor Frankish prince who is to be betrothed to a more...
I'm probably going to have to sandbag this one. I'll admit this is mostly a practice experience on my part, but given my job, the time crunch was much more severe for me than I anticipated. I'll see if I can manage to make myself not look like a buffoon in what time I have left.
How about the fact that you have to concentrate on Bigby's Hand but you don't have to concentrate, nor have any understanding of medicine at all, when you're literally knitting someone's organs back together and ending every disease in their body with Heal. Or how stabbing someone in the chest...
Piping hot opinion coming through:
Vancian magic as handled by D&D makes no sense from a narrative perspective. You're supposed to 'hold spells in your mind', but only people who have spellcaster levels can do this. And yet a wizard can cast any spell he's copied into his spellbook for the mere...
I agree with @ajanders, and he did a solid job with the overall scene concept. This was necessary, but I don't know how much better I could have done without submitting this first and understanding the judgment method better. I wrote the ingredients out in order to ensure that I could understand...
That judgement was correctly harsh, I think. I did feel like the ingredients were a bit far-fetched to put together, which is why I struggled to come up with something that even included them all. IMO, 'Land Pirates' was far and away the most difficult ingredient especially because it's barely...
• Shivering Tree- The life-tree of the elven grove, made weak by injuries done to it and shaken by glamoured wind.
• Paper Trail- The pirates betray their location by use of the shavings they cut off and their murder. Additionally, Garfin's journal.
• Illusory Storm- Summoned by the cursed maul...
I assume the ingredient description counts based on previous submissions. As I put what I have into WordCounter, I have 749 words and 4,313 characters.