gargoyleking
Adventurer
Not that Harb would intentionally mention the happening.
(OOC) Fitz's Folly (ToA PBP)
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Oh yes, that's true. I was thinking more along the lines of if you notice right away. With time factored in, everyone will notice. If we want to see who notices FIRST, it'll be a roll-off. Your 14 will stand.
Let's see if you notice before Artus Cimber does:
[roll0] (I'd give him advantage due to it being HIS finger, but I'm gonna balance it out with disadvantage for being busy worrying about his legs. I think the ring itself is happy to go, so it's not gonna warn him - yes, it understands what is happening.)
Edit: There you go. Go ahead and post helping him out a bit and noticing.
gargoyleking
Adventurer
Ohhh, you've done it now!
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Yes. You should have seen me choke and go wide-eyed at the screen when she put it on. It's actually kind of interesting, now that I look at it a little closer, because while it's got the potential to derail the whole game, it's not an automatic Game Over. Theoretically she could wrest the ring under control like Artus himself did. Frankly, I'm more worried about the party getting into a fight with Dragonbait over it. I think he could easily mop the floor with the whole party. He's not exactly the easiest to have a conversation with, either.
My Presciousss.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Oh boy. Here we go:
[sblock=Ring of Winter]
Sentience. The Ring of Winter is a sentient chaotic evil item. The ring communicates by transmitting emotion to the creature carrying or wielding it, and it has hearing and normal vision out to a range of 60 feet. The ring craves destruction, and it likes inflicting indiscriminate harm on others. It now has control of Miss Imogen. Step One is to rid itself of its former master, Artus Cimber - the only mortal who has managed to keep it in check.
Nondetection. The Ring of Winter defies attempts to magically locate it. Neither the ring nor its wearer can be targeted by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Frozen Time. As long as you wear the ring, you don’t age naturally. This effect is similar to suspended animation, in that your age doesn’t catch up to you once the ring is removed. The ring doesn’t protect its wearer from magical or supernatural aging effects, such as the Horrifying Visage of a ghost. Artus Cimber had it for around a hundred years.
Cold Immunity. While attuned to and wearing the ring, you have immunity to cold damage and don’t suffer any ill effects from extreme cold. Miss Imogen is wearing it, but not yet attuned to it, exactly. Not that it matters, she's in Chult!
Magic. The Ring of Winter has 12 charges and regains all its expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the ring, you can expend the necessary number of charges to activate one of the following properties: Artus Cimber has not used it today, because he's been avoiding letting the Sticks know too much about it.
You can expend 1 charge as an action and use the ring to lower the temperature in a 120-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within 300 feet of you. The temperature in that area drops 20 degrees per minute, to a minimum of –30 degrees Fahrenheit. Frost and ice begin to form on surfaces once the temperature drops below 32 degrees. This effect is permanent unless you use the ring to end it as an action, at which point the temperature in the area returns to normal at a rate of 10 degrees per minute.
You can cast one of the following spells from the ring (spell save DC 17) by expending the necessary number of charges: Bigby’s hand (2 charges; the hand is made of ice, is immune to cold damage, and deals bludgeoning damage instead of force damage as a clenched fist), cone of cold (2 charges), flesh to ice (3 charges; as flesh to stone except that the target turns to solid ice with the density and durability of stone), ice storm (2 charges), Otiluke’s freezing sphere (3 charges), sleet storm (1 charge), spike growth (1 charge; the spikes are made of ice), or wall of ice (2 charges).
You can expend the necessary number of charges as an action and use the ring to create either an inanimate ice object (2 charges) or an animated ice creature (4 charges). The ice object can’t have any moving parts, must be able to fit inside a 10-foot cube, and has the density and durability of metal or stone (your choice). The ice creature must be modeled after a beast with a challenge rating of 2 or less. The ice creature has the same statistics as the beast it models, with the following changes: the creature is a construct with vulnerability to fire damage, immunity to cold and poison damage, and immunity to the following conditions: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, and poisoned. The ice creature obeys only its creator’s commands. The ice object or creature appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you. It melts into a pool of normal water after 24 hours or when it drops to 0 hit points. In extreme heat, it loses 5 (1d10) hit points per minute as it melts. Use the guidelines in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine the hit points of an inanimate object if they become necessary.
Other Properties. The Ring of Winter is rumored to possess other properties that can be activated only by an evil being whose will the ring can’t break. Frost giants have long believed that the ring can be used to freeze entire worlds, while a djinni in the service of a Calishite pasha once claimed that the ring could be used to summon and control white dragons, as well as a mighty ice primordial named Cryonax.[/sblock]
... have fun with that. Let me know if you need any advice.
[sblock=Ring of Winter]
Sentience. The Ring of Winter is a sentient chaotic evil item. The ring communicates by transmitting emotion to the creature carrying or wielding it, and it has hearing and normal vision out to a range of 60 feet. The ring craves destruction, and it likes inflicting indiscriminate harm on others. It now has control of Miss Imogen. Step One is to rid itself of its former master, Artus Cimber - the only mortal who has managed to keep it in check.
Nondetection. The Ring of Winter defies attempts to magically locate it. Neither the ring nor its wearer can be targeted by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Frozen Time. As long as you wear the ring, you don’t age naturally. This effect is similar to suspended animation, in that your age doesn’t catch up to you once the ring is removed. The ring doesn’t protect its wearer from magical or supernatural aging effects, such as the Horrifying Visage of a ghost. Artus Cimber had it for around a hundred years.
Cold Immunity. While attuned to and wearing the ring, you have immunity to cold damage and don’t suffer any ill effects from extreme cold. Miss Imogen is wearing it, but not yet attuned to it, exactly. Not that it matters, she's in Chult!
Magic. The Ring of Winter has 12 charges and regains all its expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the ring, you can expend the necessary number of charges to activate one of the following properties: Artus Cimber has not used it today, because he's been avoiding letting the Sticks know too much about it.
You can expend 1 charge as an action and use the ring to lower the temperature in a 120-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within 300 feet of you. The temperature in that area drops 20 degrees per minute, to a minimum of –30 degrees Fahrenheit. Frost and ice begin to form on surfaces once the temperature drops below 32 degrees. This effect is permanent unless you use the ring to end it as an action, at which point the temperature in the area returns to normal at a rate of 10 degrees per minute.
You can cast one of the following spells from the ring (spell save DC 17) by expending the necessary number of charges: Bigby’s hand (2 charges; the hand is made of ice, is immune to cold damage, and deals bludgeoning damage instead of force damage as a clenched fist), cone of cold (2 charges), flesh to ice (3 charges; as flesh to stone except that the target turns to solid ice with the density and durability of stone), ice storm (2 charges), Otiluke’s freezing sphere (3 charges), sleet storm (1 charge), spike growth (1 charge; the spikes are made of ice), or wall of ice (2 charges).
You can expend the necessary number of charges as an action and use the ring to create either an inanimate ice object (2 charges) or an animated ice creature (4 charges). The ice object can’t have any moving parts, must be able to fit inside a 10-foot cube, and has the density and durability of metal or stone (your choice). The ice creature must be modeled after a beast with a challenge rating of 2 or less. The ice creature has the same statistics as the beast it models, with the following changes: the creature is a construct with vulnerability to fire damage, immunity to cold and poison damage, and immunity to the following conditions: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, and poisoned. The ice creature obeys only its creator’s commands. The ice object or creature appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you. It melts into a pool of normal water after 24 hours or when it drops to 0 hit points. In extreme heat, it loses 5 (1d10) hit points per minute as it melts. Use the guidelines in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine the hit points of an inanimate object if they become necessary.
Other Properties. The Ring of Winter is rumored to possess other properties that can be activated only by an evil being whose will the ring can’t break. Frost giants have long believed that the ring can be used to freeze entire worlds, while a djinni in the service of a Calishite pasha once claimed that the ring could be used to summon and control white dragons, as well as a mighty ice primordial named Cryonax.[/sblock]
... have fun with that. Let me know if you need any advice.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Okay. Here's a fight I didn't expect to have to run. Good luck with that guys, I have no idea what you should do about it.
Poor Artus Cimber. He was so beat up from the Ghouls he got knocked out right away by his own ring!
Poor Artus Cimber. He was so beat up from the Ghouls he got knocked out right away by his own ring!
