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[wierd]

For some reason I have the "Dominion Tank Police" theme music playing in my head now...

Bonus points if you somehow include the "ultimate deterrent" in somehow.

[NullForceOmega]

I love the old Dominion Tank Police movies from the nineties, one of the very first anime I ever watched, and that intro was awesome.

Additional bonus points for working in Ana and Uni Puma.

[MrWiggles]

Man. That tank company commander is going to get court marshal. Super incompetent. Where is that tanks support? Generally a US Tank Platoon is 3 Tanks. Where are the other two? Where is its mechanize infantry? Where the Infantry Company this Tank Company is working in conjunction with?

[highmax28]

Can someone explain to me why, in curse of strahd's level 1-3 dungeon, there is a LITERAL BAG OF SHIT that the party can loot!?

Loving everything I found so far but this... This is SOOOOOOOO messed up

[Egan_BW]

Because someone left a bag of poop there, and the party can loot anything they can carry.

[Jimmy]

You missed your chance, but Cards Against Humanity actually sold a Bullshit Box on Black Friday with literal bullshit inside. So perhaps your sack of shit isn't so inexplicable after all?

Plus if it was me in the game, I'd automatically invent some method of finding a door in a dungeon, lighting the bag on fire, knocking on the door and then hiding around a corner.

[Jimmy]

Ideas time!

So my players last session have gained the aforementioned airship by passing a series of fairly easy skill checks to gain control of the unmanned craft. Part of the charm of it will be its umbrite shadow engine, harnessing the power of an ethereal rift to power the vessel through passage through the Plane of Shadow.

As part of this, the characters will be exposed to an encounter risk involving primal magic.

The rules on this page have a recommendation to strike out one result and add a new one when it's triggered, so I'm sourcing ideas from the community to build on this table.

Any thoughts for some effects of magic gone wrong?

[wierd]

What features does the ship have?  Does it have the transmutation function? If so, interractions can be interesting.

Suggest rolling 1D6 to get a "severity", and another 1D6 for number of effects, and another 1D6 (or suitable dice for total number of allowed effects) for each effect to determine what it is. Get a shortlist of effects and assign them each fair dice rolls. (Personally, I would cobble together a simple python or VB scriptlet that simulates the dice rolls, and does the table lookups to say what the effects are, but not everyone has my skillset or would find that a trivial exercise.)

That is different from what the table suggests, but would allow more interesting combinations, such as nightmare gore that smells like chocolate, coupled with giggling laughter, and soothing music-- for example.


As for ideas:

Smells
Sounds
material emissions
alterations in mass or chemical properties resulting in aberrant matter
conjurations
transmutations
illusions
behavior altering effects/compulsions
status changes
"sensations" (other, such as say, "prickling", or "tickling")
spontaneous activation of nearby magical items (wands, potions going flat, etc)

Really, if it is a magical effect, it can happen.  Abandon normal things that go together, like "fire being hot".  The hallway could be replaced with a burning inferno, but be perfectly room temperature, and smell like marmalade, with a slight itchy feeling. etc.

[Jimmy]

So far the group haven't passed any of the checks to identify its secret functions. I gave them a DC 30 Knowledge: The Planes check to know how it works, and there was a trapped folder that exploded into a fireball and destroyed its contents inside the captain's quarters.

Currently the ship has the feature "broken as shit." It's stats are included below, spoilered for length.

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Damaged Airship

DESCRIPTION

This exotic and expensive vehicle is held aloft by unknown energies. This ship is similar to a sailing ship, complete with an open top, and is propelled by an esoteric magical engine. Passengers and cargo are carried in the ship.

Colossal Air vehicle
Squares 128 (40 ft. by 80 ft.); Cost 50,000 gp

DEFENSE

AC 2; Hardness 5
hp 1,920 (current 480)
Base Save +0

OFFENSE

Maximum Speed 100 ft.; Acceleration 30 ft.
Weapons Up to 6 Large direct-fire siege engines in banks of 3 positioned on the port and starboard sides of the airship, or up to 4 Huge direct-fire siege engines in banks of two on the port and starboard sides of the ship. The siege engines may only fire out the sides of the ship they are positioned on. They cannot be swiveled to fire toward the forward or aft sides of the ship.
Attack ram 8d8
CMB +8; CMD 18

DRIVE

Propulsion weird current and magic
Driving Check none (magic)
Forward Facing the ship’s forward
Driving Device weird engine
Driving Space the nine squares around the controlling magic item that sits at the front of the ship
Crew up to 100 creatures of medium size or smaller

LOAD

Decks 4
Cargo Up to 30 tons or 100 passengers.

Care to offer ideas for specific examples of what you'd consider good effects for your suggested tables?

[wierd]

Suggested method:

1D6 determines number of simultaneous effects.

For each D6, 1D6 is rolled for severity, and 1 dice of appropriate value determines effect type. Some effects may have a subtype-- such as, say "Sensation", or "Smell". Roll suitable dice for the subtype.

Again, this is time consuming to do with real dice. would create a diceroller script that produces output for expediency, and which outputs the values of all the rolls (because SOMEBODY will always ask)

[Harry Baldman]

Can someone explain to me why, in curse of strahd's level 1-3 dungeon, there is a LITERAL BAG OF SHIT that the party can loot!?

Loving everything I found so far but this... This is SOOOOOOOO messed up

I once looted some troll shit and put it in a bag while exploring the entryway to a level 1 dungeon in my 3.5 game.

Nine levels later I still have it. Turned out to be less useful than I thought.

[Neonivek]

Also there is a fairly good reason for there to be a bag of poop in Strahd's dungeon...

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There is literally a homicidal Jester who is terrible at jokes

[Arx]

Planar shenanigans are always fun. When handling the engine directly, for instance, you could have a 1 on a d6 cast Blink on the handler, or 2 put them into the shadow plane for 1d10 minutes (hopefully there's a closet corresponding to the engine in the shadow plane, so they don't plummet to their deaths...)

If abjuration is in effect anywhere to keep the ship stealthy or whatnot, require a concentration check to cast while aboard the ship. If something rocks the ship, you could say that on a 1-3 on a d10, an antimagic field on the ship activates for 1d20 minutes - a safety measure gone wrong.

...all planar magic used on the ship is automatically Empowered?

[highmax28]

Also there is a fairly good reason for there to be a bag of poop in Strahd's dungeon...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There is literally a homicidal Jester who is terrible at jokes

No no no. This is in the death house optional dungeon.

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WHY DO CULTISTS NEED A BAG OF SHIT!?! I do find it funny that old players and metagamers get pranked by finding what LOOKS like a wand of polymorph but its just a frog stretched on a stick in the same spot.

Also, I decided to add an NPC ally so the party has someone to possibly sacrifice for the easier exit out. Since I decided that Barovia will have several others of my previous characters who are most likely dead, I picked the best one for this.

I'm hoping the party doesn't mind having my slightly suicidal 4e Fighter that was a champion of bahamut appear

[Kadzar]

Can someone explain to me why, in curse of strahd's level 1-3 dungeon, there is a LITERAL BAG OF SHIT that the party can loot!?

Loving everything I found so far but this... This is SOOOOOOOO messed up

Wait, was it just regular old shit or bat guano? Because bat guano is one of the material components of the fireball spell, along with sulfur (which is likely a reference to the recipe for black powder (though there should probably also be some charcoal in there)).

Ideas time!

So my players last session have gained the aforementioned airship by passing a series of fairly easy skill checks to gain control of the unmanned craft. Part of the charm of it will be its umbrite shadow engine, harnessing the power of an ethereal rift to power the vessel through passage through the Plane of Shadow.

As part of this, the characters will be exposed to an encounter risk involving primal magic.

The rules on this page have a recommendation to strike out one result and add a new one when it's triggered, so I'm sourcing ideas from the community to build on this table.

Any thoughts for some effects of magic gone wrong?

After being exposed to it for a while, you might have them roll for mutations from the Metamorphica. Or you could use before that but have the mutations have a limited duration. Either way, you might want to give them a Fortitude saving throw to avoid, and possibly have the DC scale up every time the effect is triggered.