D&D 5E DMG Excerpt: Wonderous Items

Boarstorm · Nov 13, 2014

TerraDave said:
But animated shields and adamantine armor, for changing fundemental bits of the game, and just because, totally SUCK.

IMO, breaking the rules of the game is kind-of what magic is for.

But maybe I'm just defending it because I love the idea of the Animated Shield.

TerraDave · Nov 13, 2014

Boarstorm said:
IMO, breaking the rules of the game is kind-of what magic is for.

But maybe I'm just defending it because I love the idea of the Animated Shield.

And thats the thing. The approach they have taken here make all this very much discretionary, and they can hence push the envelope more. And pushed it they have, which is good.

Dausuul · Nov 13, 2014

Li Shenron said:
No comments on the Amulet of Health? Does it change your HP or not?

Unless something in the DMG specifically states that temporary Con modifiers don't affect your hit points, I would say yes.

ExploderWizard · Nov 13, 2014

pemerton said:
I wasn't sure about it when I read it. Stuff that teleports PCs to random locations/planes can be pretty hard on both GM and players - potentially very disruptive, and the potential for anti-climactic or just lacklustre play if the GM isn't able to incorporate the random location into the ongoing flow of events in the campaign.

Popping around from plane to plane isn't as difficult to run as it sounds. Going from place to place in a game quickly becomes a non-event quite simply because (Douglas Adams said it best):

"when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish."

Derren · Nov 13, 2014

How many vials are 8 ounces of acid?

TarionzCousin · Nov 13, 2014

Phaezen said:
Clearly to make bulk tartar source when the party kills a giant crab.

scottdprt said:
After fending off the giant crabs that disturbed your rest on the beach you make crab cakes.

At last, we can replay the great classic module [sblock]White Plume Mountain.[/sblock]

AmerginLiath · Nov 13, 2014

Scorpio616 said:
Coat your Apparatus of Kwalish and hope you give The Kraken a heart attack after it eats you.

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How does a lower-level party fight the Kraken when they're too weak to injure his hide? Climb into the Apparatus of Kwalish (covered in mayonnaise) and trick him into into swallowing them in their potent craft – then set off a potent alchemical bomb inside of his unprotected gut, saving the kingdom via powerful indigestion!

FitzTheRuke · Nov 13, 2014

I really like the Apparatus.

Tormyr · Nov 13, 2014

FitzTheRuke said:
I really like the Apparatus.

There are so many shenanigans that could happen with this. Pull the lever that runs it into the water. "Quick! Which level closes the back door?" Or you are underwater and someone who wasn't paying attention opens the back door underwater.

pemerton · Nov 13, 2014

TerraDave said:
TBut animated shields and adamantine armor, for changing fundemental bits of the game, and just because, totally SUCK.

I wasn't sure if this was intended as humorous or not, because I don't really know animated shields from earlier edtions, and adamantine armour in AD&D was +5, which is pretty clearly not making a comeback.

If serious, can you elaborate on your objection?

D&D 5E DMG Excerpt: Wonderous Items

Boarstorm

First Post

TerraDave

5ever, or until 2024

Dausuul

Legend

ExploderWizard

Hero

Derren

Hero

TarionzCousin

Second Most Angelic Devil Ever

AmerginLiath

Adventurer

FitzTheRuke

Legend

Tormyr

Hero

pemerton

Legend

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