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The assassin's Assassinate ability is somewhat circumstantial. As with any other circumstantial primary character ability, to get it to work properly a DM should be creating/planning/including opportunities for an assassin to use it. Don't spoonfeed the players or telegraph too much, but make...

* Fields of beautiful crystal where winds raise clouds of glittering, razor-sharp shards that strip flesh from bone. * Swarms of locust demons * (Sparse, thorny) vegetation and creatures with hallucinogenic poisons * Souls buried and trapped beneath the sands and in other places, screaming and...

In the not so distant past, I used a demon lord who styled itself "Lord of the Invisible Flame" and had a bunch of powers and minions based around the concept of using radiation as a weapon. I essentially treated radiation as a slow-acting poison that dealt necrotic damage and decreased max hp...

Nope. Or rather that's not the reason they were used as secondary weapons. In a battlefield context, the reach is important. Past the early middle-ages it was quite easy to fit troops with swords. Most spear/pikeman still carried swords - as sidearms for use in close quarters. Even the...

There were some parallels in the form of the military fork, but yeah - the trident was almost exclusively a fishing implement not a weapon. It worked in gladiatorial fights becausenot even the more heavily armored secutor/murmillo types had any body armor, for example.

At least one species already does. Kinda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFda1MZ54G4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XmsqGCXrU4 Cephalopods evolved from shell-bearing ancestors.

Octopi are capable of swimming/movement without water jets - using external fins and tentacle flaps. Not all octopi even have jets. A (terrestrial) example of an octopus moving off with prey, using its limbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar5WJrQik2o Octopi most definitely use their limbs...

The Stolen Stole This worn woolen stole was taken long ago from the witch-queen, Amarizu Malice. Though ratty and motheaten now after the passage of many years, the garment still has the power to keep its bearer warm even in subfreezing temperatures, granting resistance to cold. Furthermore...

Da soap-bane: Dis turrible ting maken gob-kin look sicky-pale an smell loik hoo-man fer way too long. Keep rat an' skirrels an' bats aways from yooz cuz yooz not smellin' loik eart an sweat an odder animals. Smells loik flow-ers and hoo-man tings. Ken't trow away eiddder cuz booyahg. Giv as...

DOWNVOTES ARE THREE. PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS. Grave Domain 2 Scout 2 Shadow Magic 8

And the vegepygmies cry.

Some random ideas: * The blade isn't sentient or maybe just doesn't ever communicate with anyone. The Warlock doesn't so much have a pact with the blade as a certain magical attunement to it. The "services" the Warlock might perform for the blade are actually just tasks that the Warlock...

Study of the Plasmancer This little figurine was a model of an ooze constructed by the sociopathic mage, Victus, before his more nefarious work resulted in his subsequent execution. At the time, the blasphemer was masquerading as a puppeteer as he travelled the known world looking for magical...

I frequently find the stat blocks too limiting to accurately simulate the world I'm trying to portray, so I have to adapt them. For example: What happens when the giant tries to just step on the little bug-men that keep stabbing it with needles? Or pick one of them up and slam it against a...

Psst. Nobody mention that we of the...*ahem*...gravedigger's union have had this sort of amusement going on since the very first days of the 5e PHB. Well, mostly. Skeletons need a certain...finishing...to serve as adequate roaming end-tables. But they masquerade quite nicely as foolhardy...

Huh? They focused on items that would actually be functional in play. A cantrip would be a VASTLY higher cost than a ritual 1st level spell that one can swap out every day. Notwithstanding that the concept of a cantrip - a minor or simple magical spell (originally orison for prayer) learned...

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I really don't like the zealot death-breaking mechanic; and I strongly suspect that if I threw a Zealot NPC at the PCs, one might die (depending on party composition) before they realize what's going on and find ways to deal with it . HOWEVER, if we're going to talk about game or...

I'm thinking more along the lines of this actually (Catholic rite). There's actually a whole host of religious and folklore-based examples of rituals or other things (such as this) that can remove sin/wrongdoing and a fair few require a holy figure who knows or has been empowered to conduct the...