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The Necromancer The party encounters a small rural village, where the locals beseech them for help. They explain that a foul necromancer and his band of evil dwarves have been working to resurrect their dread deity in the hills a few miles away, and are responsible for the disappearances of...

I've been wrestling with a similar dilemma in the adventure I'm writing, and part of my solution is to have several other factions trying to unravel the same mystery the party is trying to solve- in my story, the Big-Bad's scheme messes up the plans of an Even-Worse-Bad, and if the party doesn't...

Imaculata, option #2 in Dead Cattle is exactly the sort of sick genius I admire! Here's one I've got in the adventure I'm currently writing-it's very similar to Imaculata's Weeping Widow, which inspired me to share it While searching a graveyard for a group of people who disappeared, the party...

Meet the Press Deep in a catacomb, the party stumbles across three ragged survivors of a previous adventuring party- in this instance, a portrait artist, a minstrel and a talented but low-level bard. They were hired to accompany the other band of heroes and record their heroic exploits, but...

Theater in the Round In a sunlit glade some ways outside a small town sits a ring of 15 simple wooden chairs, arranged in a circle 30' in diameter. Despite their ordinary appearances, the chairs are infused with magic, cannot be moved and are seemingly indestructible. Villagers living nearby...

More riffing: Horse-sense The party encounters a very pleasant inn and stable run by a large extended family, renowned for the extraordinary horses and ponies they rent for extremely reasonable rates. In fact, the entire family are Werehorses, who pose as ordinary horses to spy on riders (who...

Sorry, but I couldn't resist joining in! This thread is massive, so my apologies if someone else has made similar suggestions earlier in the thread! If A Tree Falls in the Forest: Looking for a spot to cross a crevasse deep in the forest, the party comes across a long-abandoned Elven fortress...

A fair point- I felt like this was pretty powerful as well. I tried to limit it by giving it a range of 15' ("I wonder if that nice old lady is actually a night hag- Bloobdorp, go walk up really close to her and let us know..." Still, it does wipe out a whole school of magic, as you pointed...

Some ill-considered, unconnected and potentially ridiculous additional thoughts: a) Helpless "Extras"- innocents trapped in costumes or concealed under illusions, with Magic Mouths cast on them to deliver their lines. Part of the challenge is knowing who is a real threat and who is just a...

I tend to like the very weird Jack Vance/Chine Mieville style worlds, with lots of ancient cultures that appeared, left behind some strange artifacts and then disappeared.

Not sure how it would work through a phone, but Homebrewery seems to be a popular and powerful choice

You're right- I didn't think the falling damage through very well. The doubled hit dice is somewhat offset by making healing potions less effective, although how much parties rely on those will vary between campaigns. I'll edit the original and see if I can make it a little less unbalanced...

you're right- and nice work on the conversion! I played a bit of Star Frontiers back when it was released- I wonder if some of those ideas were rattling around in the dustier corners of my subconscious and found their way into my Ordle concept. It wouldn't be the first time I thought I came up...

Here's my first crack at a race I've been playing around with, based on a sketch I did years ago: Alchemical oddballs known as "Ordles". Feel free to critique, suggest improvements or question my sanity- certainly some if it is pretty cumbersome as written. Ordles Ordles are an ancient race of...

...point well taken- that's exactly the trap I was falling into. Partly true. Devoted player and DM since 1981, getting back in after a decade-long break. I'm admittedly rusty, and I've got some bad habits from 1st edition I still need to shake. That's an excellent suggestion! This thread...

I started playing with a related idea a few years back- the (much lower level than you're considering) party had to interrupt an evil ritual being performed as part of a play, but the audience would be harmed if the play was disrupted. So in order to stop the villain, they had to throw on a...

Thanks everyone for the great advice and a fun debate! To provide a bit more background on my succubus, she's one of the main villains behind the scenes in my adventure, and at first she's pursuing her plan and isn't even aware of the party. Depending on how many clues they uncover and how they...

One of my big villains in the adventure I'm writing is a Succubus with a few levels of Warlock, who has an imp familiar. Reading the description of her charm ability, it specifies a target she can see (not that can see her). The thing is, of course, she can see through her familiar's eyes...

For the adventure I've been writing for the last thousand years or so, a Tiefling hero and his Elven wife have a daughter who is basically a half-elf with just a few infernal traits (enough to make her VERY valuable some really bad people). But having read Elon's suggestion, I think I'll...