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[Egan_BW]

Or you could spend a whole grueling quest fighting against something insurmountable only for the government to show up and turn the eldritch god into a battery.

[NJW2000]

Or you could spend a whole grueling quest fighting against something insurmountable only for the government to show up and turn the eldritch god into a battery.

Gubmint can be a good source of mundane horror in these settings… there’s a bit of that in the Southern Reach trilogy, where the Anthropocene horror entity/zone is under investigation by an organisation controlled by a group only known as Central. Works quite well as cosmic horror often uses a kind of literalness or mundanity (the Old Ones are beyond comprehension but sometimes you just encounter literal giant piles of sea-flesh) alongside the eldritch stuff.

Or if you want to preserve the specialness of the cosmic entity, maybe just have the government be the ones poking around in it, perhaps even forcing it on the village Tuskegee/MKUltra style. Blood borne sort of did that, but hey. Final boss would be some kind of arcane special ops team, and afterwards the entity is just… still there. It never initiated any of it, it was just humans seeing what happened if they exposed people to the eldritch truth.

Anyhow, that’s enough rambling from me. Do tell us how it goes if you run it, Portent!

[Egan_BW]

Or if you want to preserve the specialness of the cosmic entity, maybe just have the government be the ones poking around in it, perhaps even forcing it on the village Tuskegee/MKUltra style. Blood borne sort of did that, but hey.

A corpse... should be left well alone.

[Horizon]

Or if you want to preserve the specialness of the cosmic entity, maybe just have the government be the ones poking around in it, perhaps even forcing it on the village Tuskegee/MKUltra style. Blood borne sort of did that, but hey.

A corpse... should be left well alone.

But necromancy.

[King Zultan]

Or if you want to preserve the specialness of the cosmic entity, maybe just have the government be the ones poking around in it, perhaps even forcing it on the village Tuskegee/MKUltra style. Blood borne sort of did that, but hey.

A corpse... should be left well alone.

But necromancy.

But what about scientific experimentation?

[Grim Portent]

Funnily enough I do have an idea for a Byrgenwerth scholar type NPC, who's there to pursue the eldritch phenomena for selfish goals.

One set piece I have in mind is the reveal of their true nature being them cutting open someone's head (while they are strapped into a chair and fully conscious) to check if their brain has been altered. Lots of people have gone missing in the town over the past few years, a lot of them lost to eldritch phenomena, others abducted and dissected by a clandestine doctor trying to study the growing corruption.

[Rolan7]

DnD advice: At a loss for a last-minute holiday gift for your players? Pick them up a book they've never read. I'm getting each of my players one titled "Player's Handbook."

https://twitter.com/nat1advice/status/1473329931727749126

[Grim Portent]

I find myself wanting to play a Phyrexian PC some time.

A missionary sent from New Phyrexia via experimental magitech, to spread the good word of the Machine Orthodoxy on a new world.

Not malevolent per se, more just indiferent to morality and convinced that becoming Compleat is the best thing that can happen to anyone, and that unifying the world under Phyrexia will end all it's suffering. Lacking numbers, or large quantities of phyrexian oil, the character is reduced to actually preaching and convincing people to submit to infection through rhetoric and deed, in hopes of creating more phyrexians to further the cause and give the infection a chance to take root.

[Vector]

I'm strongly considering learning the Coyote and Crow system. Anyone else heard of it? I have the rulebook but haven't read it yet, I guess that's the first step.

[Persus13]

I'm in a similar boat. Got the Core Rulebook on a sale awhile ago, but haven't been invested enough to read the whole thing yet. A sci-fi setting based on a utopian futuristic version of Native American cultures sounded interesting enough on a broader scale, but when I skimmed a few pages I didn't see something smaller scale to hook me deeper.

[Loud Whispers]

DnD advice: At a loss for a last-minute holiday gift for your players? Pick them up a book they've never read. I'm getting each of my players one titled "Player's Handbook."

https://twitter.com/nat1advice/status/1473329931727749126

This one wounds on a philosophical level

[MaximumZero]

I'm finally getting to play in a campaign again. It's been years since I wasn't DM. I will admit, though, to missing being at an actual table. Discord is wonderful, but just not the same.

[delphonso]

Last night was the final session of a nine month long campaign. Whew, feels good to actually finish a story for once.

[Kagus]

Apropos nothing, but I'm making a goblin artificer for a level 3 one-shot and I'm working on what infusions to bring. Considered alchemy jug, but figured this character is probably a bit eccentric™ and so I was thinking of what kind of stupid command words would be associated with the different fluids available.

Then it struck me that "Key lime" is a pretty good fit for acid, and that's really all I came here to share.

I'm finally getting to play in a campaign again. It's been years since I wasn't DM. I will admit, though, to missing being at an actual table. Discord is wonderful, but just not the same.

Woohoo! Now to purge your mind of all DM-ness and just enjoy the brainless zen of being an adventurer!

Last night was the final session of a nine month long campaign. Whew, feels good to actually finish a story for once.

The main group I've been playing with recently just wrapped up a months-long arc as well, but... Seeing as I've only been a "dedicated guest" player with them for like four sessions, I can't say it had quite the same weight for me personally

[Loud Whispers]

You all hear about the new OGL update? Hasbro is trying to make the 1.0 obsolete using an update clause to declare the 1.0 no longer authorised, in an impressive move of legal quantum abrogation which probably is illegal but the courts will decide most like