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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9458570" data-attributes="member: 7044704">That's full of really clever stuff. Naturally a castle built by giants would be imposing but just a facade, how would they even fit inside to build interior walls and floors, etc. in the first place?  Also feels like a subtle nod to Big Rubble over in Glorantha, with its absurdly huge giant-made outer walls that now surround acres of ruins, wreckage and open land instead of a living city.Sir Amis and the Weeping Beast's are pretty great, but it would be nice if there was another way to end one or both curses than either hiring an NPC mage or the Beast dying.  I'm more sympathetic to the monster here than the hero, honestly.The tower doesn't seem as flawed as it first sound.  Even the greediest PCs can only milk the star for magical ingredients for crafting, but that's usually high-level magic beyond the reach of PCs who'd consider 500-1000gp daily a fortune.  That's a fair chunk of change in OSR D&D games, but it isn't really a great workday for the kind of people who spend their time making magic items from scratch.  So who are they going to sell to to turn a profit, and how long will it take their buyer(s) to decide to A) lower their offers due to oversupply and/or B) come looking for whatever's producing all this star-stuff and take it away from the PCs?And the wish-a-year program - yeah, might not change much at first, but as more and more people work out the "rules" to how it works, you'll find people increasingly organizing into groups that pursue a given (and usually beneficial) agenda.  At its extreme this is the road to a weird form of magical democracy.  Everyone gets one vote a year, and if enough people agree to wish for something it won't be overridden.  Doesn't even need to be a majority, since there will inevitably be many things any given person would like to support wishing for and how the votes split will be a big deal.  Plus some people will say they're going to wish for a group cause (presumably one at a time until it sticks, and then turning it back on each time it's removed) and then betray the cause for something more personal (healing a relative, say) or shift their vote to another cause after reconsidering - or being coerced.If Grimothy's little project works, there's a whole lot of long-term chaos a-coming.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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