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IMC significant enemies often have scry wards of various sorts, including scrydemons which are entities that try to rip the mind of the scrying enemy apart. This makes attempting to divine on Sauron directly rather hazardous. To compensate for this, I gave Diviner specialists some extra...

I have seen it in practice twice, both while DMing. The first time around was with a pretty power gaming lot, they cared a lot about DPR and soon found that the ranger was eclipsing other people. That bothered a few members of the group, namely the melee damage dealers. I alleviated that...

The yonic overtones on the picture are quite apt for a mother/growth figure. Disturbing to say the least though.

Out of interest, why wouldn't it affect undead? The spell is pretty clear about who it does and doesn't affect. It is arbitrary, but pretty clear. What is the issue you are looking to fix by ruling that undead are not affected? If it was a mindless undead, then I could see that you might decide...

I play in a near-earth setting just like this. It basically uses an earth map and is more about the shaky ceasefire along the Spanish-French border than about defeating some archenemy. The main threat to the known world is currently rising Ottoman nationalism and a political marriage linking...

A few quick thoughts: A) Everybody makes a Wisdom based water vehicles check to remember all the instructions blurted out at them by the captain. Are they familiar with the halfling navel words, do they know their stern from port? "Don't stand there, look out for the yarbridge line, keep down...

To me the original question is really simple. Around here nobody likes to play with or DM for a Devil Sight + Darkness Warlock. It is just not fun. At best it makes every fight the same. Battlemaster all the way. They are a great class. It looks like you are going for some pretty powerful...

If the tavern was called, The Choking Bear, then the PCs would be drawn to investigate it and actually discover the guy of their own accord. If they cause trouble, they find that he is now considered a Favored Soul of Tymora. Any Tymora cleric can clearly see that he was saved for some purpose...

A passing Paladin let the poor guy out after hearing a sob story from him. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed and has made oath to avenge the wrong done to the poor guy. An oath that cannot be broken.

What about a large humanoid with a calloused almost rocky skin that obviously produces a lot of heat. Big fanged mouth that gives off heat waves when it roars. Its blood is like a runny magma, when you cut it, the stuff oozes out then solidifies, fixing up the wound. The PCs might be waiting for...

I have actually played a Str based rogue recently, if briefly. It was a pirate campaign and he is a professional kidnapper. Ask the DM if you can silence people when you grab them from stealth. If so, you become an expert at taking out sentries. You grab them to keep them quiet, then using...

Ooh just had a thought. The well is a wishing well. You can throw in a coin and make a wish, but it consumes you totally to do so. So Reginald wished for his family to get over the plague, it worked, but he is now bound to the well. A trade he is happy with. His grandkids have moved to another...

I normally think the same, but it has bitten me a lot of time now. I at least tend to give them a way to make it into what they originally wanted. Players have spent a lot of time visualizing and thinking about certain items and traits and tend to have a set image of what they want. I have in...

To see vicious mockery in action; The Last Boyscout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BM_WpNpa8 (NSFW for language) My Bard tends to work blue: My bard failed a perform roll badly when attempting to enthrall an audience and got heckled, I took the heckler down with a vicious mockery "Hey...

You could go the steampunk route. The mechanical ferret is powered by a magical substance, that substance happens to be the water from Reginalds pool. It has the power and soul-residue in it enough to allow the ferret some basic intellect, about what you would expect for a familiar. The power...

Handaxes see a bit of use in my game, as it is assumed that anybody proficient in survival has a small axe on their belt when outdoors. So there have been a few times that has come in handy. I also add in a 'sundering' property on axes and similar weapons, meaning that they do max damage to...

Personally, I run a setting where all of the gods are dead, gone, banished or asleep. This is the best of both worlds. Clerics can still channel power off them, like vestiges. There is an awful lot of residual god-power floating around in the universe and it is fairly easily tapped into. Most...

I really like the idea of a type of spider that weaves a web of conductive steel like substance. It is drawn to sources of lightning and normally makes its webs in the tallest trees of the tallest forests to try and catch as many lightning bolts as possible. In nature it has an egg sack in the...

My issue in this regard is that my players now all just use iphones for their dice rolls. It automatically adds everything up for them so speeds up the game and we have no dropped dice, or passing dice etc. There is no way for anybody else to tell what you rolled or if your additions were...

Personally in my games I never want to have to think about them again for the rest of the combat. If they are not important to the plot, then they die in such a way as to make it clear that they are not coming back, e.g. decapitation. If the PCs are more heavily invested in them, then they have...