D&D General Island of science experiments

[Dannyalcatraz]

Don’t forget the obvious Island of Dr. Moreau option.

 

[aco175]

Howzabout this: the townies are actually Damned souls given corporeal form, “purchased” or leased from an infernal lord to be the “company town” for the island. It gets paid in the souls of the victims of the experiments.

They don‘t give a damn ahem about what else goes on on the island because- for them- living on the island is a vacation- a better fate than they imagined possible.

It would be cool if the dammed souls randomly burst into lemures or such. All the rest of the townies ignore them and the lemures only seek out stranger in town like the PCs. I'm sure the PCs have questions for the barkeep after the first few encounters.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It would be cool if the dammed souls randomly burst into lemures or such. All the rest of the townies ignore them and the lemures only seek out stranger in town like the PCs. I'm sure the PCs have questions for the barkeep after the first few encounters.

I just had a vision of the party’s Barbarian have that happen to him while indulging in “ale & whores”...and being so traumatized that he takes sacred vows to become a Monk/Paladin/Cleric of some kind.

 

[aco175]

I just had a vision of the party’s Barbarian have that happen to him while indulging in “ale & whores”...and being so traumatized that he takes sacred vows to become a Monk/Paladin/Cleric of some kind.

There was that 80s movie with Rowdy Randy Piper and aliens disguised as humans using a hologram machine. There is a scene at the end when the machine was destroyed of someone in bed with an alien as the machine turned off.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There was that 80s movie with Rowdy Randy Piper and aliens disguised as humans using a hologram machine. There is a scene at the end when the machine was destroyed of someone in bed with an alien as the machine turned off.

They Live- I loved that flick.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I love wizards doing magical experiments on people and creatures. I had a tower with an underground lab like this in a campaign about five years ago: SWORDS OF THE FOUR TAVERNS PART III: THE GOLD OF GOFF-TAN AND THE RISE OF THE BLOOD CULT

 

[Eltab]

The Stone-To-Flesh alchemist can get a lump of flesh from a stone. He can feed any carnivorous monsters just with the leavings of a rockfall down a slope, but it's a bland diet.
He cannot yet get dead living beings, let alone living living beings, from the Medusa's victims. But there are clues standing about...

• Break off a statue's arm / leg. It is hollow with crystals on the inside surface like a geode.
• Some statues trickle / ooze blood if you scrape against them.
• Statue shatters or crushes easily and it has a skeleton inside.
• Throw holy water on the statue and get a fleshy substance at the wet spots.
• Turn Undead causes the statues to shiver in place or slowly (5 ft / round) flee.
• One statue lights up when Detect Magic is cast; it is a recent victim / experimental subject.
• Have you seen the Renaissance-era sculpture that looks like the statue is pulling itself out of the stone? This statue looks like it is fighting a losing battle against being sucked into the rock and knows it.
• The Academy - Florence Italy - has a room full of sculptures (including David ). Some are full-length, some are partial, some are busts. The PCs find an open-air gallery like that. Every face and every body is different.