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[Egan_BW]

You could try sneaking in some caws before the illusion breaks, to aid in the confusion.

[IcyTea31]

Of course. I intend to change my accent every time I open my mouth to see if anyone notices. I also typed in a 'character bio' that's just "something isn't quite right here" to be replaced with the actual one after the reveal.

Note: we're playing over the web, with live voice but no video, and in the Finnish language.

[Jimmy]

Treasure time!

So my Pathfinder group's going up against the Seven Sons of Sin, a series of mini-bosses with a theme each. After defeating Sloth, Wrath, and Gluttony, they've finally reached Greed.

Appropriately, this is the point where I dump a massive room of treasure onto them. I also have a pretty crazy loot budget, since they're level 15 and they're about 500,000 gp below their ideal WBL currently.

So, if you were a player, what cool stuff would you be wishing for in a greed demon's horde? Obviously I have some individualised items I plan to plant that will assist specific characters, but I'd love to hear anyone's ideas about awesome treasure that isn't simply an upgrade to a character's base numbers.

[wierd]

Items that grant wishes (limited use, some charges used), possibly evil genies in bottles--

Priceless antiques: magical swords and armor with history behind them, that sort of thing. Be sure to include horribly cursed items, like things that induce "Midas touch" type horror.
magical formulae for producing wealth (possibly at some horrific cost, like sacrificing babies or something)
Fancy clothes, carpets, silk curtains, squishy comfy pillows, treatises on how to get filthy rich by selling other people's souls, etc.

Oh, a list of all the people this demon managed to swindle / inventory of owned souls, would be amusing as well.

That and a nice haul of hard cash.  Be sure to punish the party if they themselves act too greedy. Greed is a sin, after all. A demon of this sin would not be ignorant of this, and would have tailored its coffers accordingly.

[IcyTea31]

Ten million random household objects of values between a silver piece and a gold piece, all of them fragile, bulky or otherwise inconvenient to transport. Good luck trying to liquidate 100000 antique dinner plates into usable wealth. Amongst the junk, however, are several mighty magical items, if the PCs simply look instead of leaving the "disappointing" pile or going crazy figuring out how to move the "treasure". To find the good stuff, they must not be too greedy, but they can't ignore the opportunity for profit either.

[wierd]

Can hardly wait for the "Crack whore dungeon" Lust must have...

[NJW2000]

Objects made of precious metal and fabrics that really shouldn't be.

Solid platinum beds, for example. With platinum sheets.

Oh, and some useful metals like adamantine. Still being end to make hatstands and umbrellas though.

[smjjames]

And throw in a mimic or two, theres ALWAYS mimics in treasure rooms. Unless you're not that type of DM.

[pikachu17]

Is there any chance that a gnome with the "mounted Combatant" feat in 5E, if given a piggyback ride, would give  the piggyback giver Evasion and be able to take hits for him?

[Harry Baldman]

And if they raise it as a zombie, it'll work for a bit. Once the spinnerets start rotting...

Kinda sad that Gentle Repose doesn't work anymore for what it was explicitly mostly used for in my experience during 3.5, how's a guy supposed to keep his corpses fresh anymore?

Though I figure the bigger problem would be the zombie spider running out of silk since I figure it's not actually generating new protein inside its body while dead unless they make it into a much meaner kind of undead spider. That said, a spider infused with the essence of night and malice to imbue it with eternal unlife and magical powers seems like it'd be great in general to have on your side or, failing that, as some kind of recurring antagonist.

Is there any chance that a gnome with the "mounted Combatant" feat in 5E, if given a piggyback ride, would give  the piggyback giver Evasion and be able to take hits for him?

If the DM finds it funny enough there probably is. Even the advantage on melee attack rolls would only apply to Small creatures (unless you're riding a giant or ogre or something, but then there's no way in hell you'd be able to reach anything from up there to hit it) in that event so it's not particularly gamebreaking or anything.

Hm. Mounted Rogue could be pretty good, on that note. Get up to some real Zorro bullshit that way.

[pikachu17]

Actually I was thinking of a small barbarian with a lance. Since then he's a tank that totally prevents anyone from hitting his "mount" with an attack.

What are the stats on the other small races of 5E? The ones not in the PH?

[Harry Baldman]

Goblins get Dex and Con bonuses plus a thing that lets them do extra damage with an attack equal to their level once per long rest, so if your DM allows the Volo races that's a fightier option than the gnome. There's also the deep gnome but that's just a gnome with super darkvision and an advantage to stealth checks in rocky terrain. Finally, Kobolds from Volo's get a Dex bonus but also a Strength penalty so probably not what you want in a barbarian.

[pikachu17]

There doesn't happen to be a small but strong playable creature in 5E, is there?

[Harry Baldman]

No. Which means you have the perfect niche to propose a scaled-up version of the Pictsie as a custom player race.

[pikachu17]

Oh, that would be so awesome. But aren't they more Tiny sized? Or is six inches only Small?