Finished Book Two and am now starting Book Three in the trilogy by Dennis Schmidt: Twilight of the Gods III: Three Trumps Sounding. It started out as Norse fantasy, got a little druidic magic sprinkled in there, and then added some Egyptian and Chinese mythological figures in there as well in...
I'll just point that given limited food aboard the ship (given the passengers weren't supposed to be awakened until the ship arrived), cannibalization is always an option - perhaps not for the PCs, but it may have occurred to those who were inadvertently awakened along with the PCs, and who...
In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:
Approached a warehouse where we believed the stolen cargo from three of my PC's brother's merchant ships was being stored; we decided I'd go in pretending to look to purchase some stolen merchandise, and if we spotted the stolen cargo...
One thought: maybe the gloomfetch can generate a kind of permanent "reverse shield other" effect (something like a shield me spell, if such a thing existed), such that half of any damage sent its way (by deliberately targeting the head) is transferred to the thrall, whereas any...
I think the second sentence under the "Sorcerers and Wizards" section is there in error, as it contradicts the other material.
Have you decided how to deal with attacking a gloomfetch "riding" a thrall? Who takes the damage?
Johnathan
I wasn't aware of that - it might have aided in building the dream parts of this campaign. I just kind of winged it with the scant material in Manual of the Planes. The 3.5 era of the game certainly came out with a lot of books - it would be difficult (not to mention expensive) to have gotten...
Well, we're two episodes in (we're watching an episode a night, skipping Wednesday because it's D&D game session night) and at the point where we pretty much can recall who the characters are and what their relationships are to each other. So far so good, although I've noticed they have a lot...
I don't think you want it to be Large - that doesn't fit with your pictures above, for one thing. And the darkmantle gets Improved Grab against creatures Large and smaller, even though it's only size Small. I'd probably go that route, myself.
Johnathan
You might want to make "Gloomfetch Thrall" a template that you apply to the host creature. That's how you could rejigger the ability scores around.
As for the chameleon-like ability, isn't "Chameleon" a psionic power? Maybe gloomfetches get a racial bonus on duration for using that psionic...
Swapping out blindsense for low-light vision and darkvision makes perfect sense. I can definitely see the Frightful Presence being a logical addition. And a darkmantle already has a limited form of chameleonlike, color-changing skin - "a darkmantle can change its color to match almost any type...
My current 3.5 sorcerer PC, Alistair Mandelberen Pastlethwaite, comes from a noble background and dresses accordingly: a white shirt with ruffles at the neck and wrists, pants that reach just below the knees, hosiery, and black leather shoes with shiny buckles. His hair is tied in the back with...