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[Jimmy]

So I've begun my homebrew city guard game, and here's the results of my group's characters:

Chaotic Evil Juggernaut Barbarian Caligni (dark-folk)
Neutral Evil Rogue Vishkanya (snake-person)
Lawful Neutral Cleric Dhampir (half-undead)
Neutral Good Warpriest Drow (dark-elf)
Chaotic Neutral Thundercaller Bard Gathlain (plant-person)
Chaotic Good Occultist Ratfolk (rat-person)

The rogue has already snuck away from the party during the first session and assassinated their prisoners messily.

I can't wait to see how much worse it can get for them.

[Kagus]

I can't wait to see how much worse it can get for them.

Who needs a BBEG when you've got players willing to do the job themselves? Efficiency.

(something which is only very slightly less common in more experienced groups).

I believe that you mean only slightly more common.

That too, yeah.

[wierd]

Team Player Character-- Planar Police.

(Team of "Do gooders" cause more damage than they prevent, as they quest all across the material plane. See also, the amount of destruction done in the montage scene from World Police.)

[Kagus]

So, uh... If beholders manifest the substance of their dreams in reality, purely by virtue of having dreamt it...

...what happens if you cast the Dream spell and enter a beholder's dream to deliver a message? Does it make a copy of you? If you use the scary version, does it make a scary version of you?

Use beholders as a cloning pod and make an army of yourself to conquer save the world!

[Hanslanda]

I was just reading Deal with a Devil and now I want to play a 3.5 game that is a died of old age commoner sueing against being sent to hell on the basis of a leonine contract.

A pit fiend lawyer just cracks me up.

[scriver]

I'm assuming you're being literal

[Hanslanda]

Yes and no. The mental image of a pit fiend in a snazzy suit roaring objection and rummaging through a file folder to present evidence is hilarious. And also my body is cracking send help.

[Kagus]

Reminds me of that silly creepypasta about the sad cat.

[Jimmy]

I actually had an entire encounter planned for my city guard game where the group could summon a devil and bind it in a contract to fight for them in exchange for a pint of blood per combat (1 Con damage per pint).

Sadly they just looted the room and destroyed the circle. Not sure why I expected anything different, to be honest.

[Rowanas]

I actually had an entire encounter planned for my city guard game where the group could summon a devil and bind it in a contract to fight for them in exchange for a pint of blood per combat (1 Con damage per pint).

Sadly they just looted the room and destroyed the circle. Not sure why I expected anything different, to be honest.

Wouldnt' have made a difference here, but I prefer to keep consequences unknown.  That way you can pull plot shit out later and claim it was all planned from the start.  My Seventh Sea group have no idea that i'm laying down train tracks like a looney toons episode, with only the vaguest of plans.

[Jimmy]

Oh, I've got a PhD in DM bullshittery, but I still like to be prepared in case by some miracle the plot doesn't jump off the rails, catch on fire and plough through an orphanage.

Anyway, we'll see whether the team of six plucky 1st level guards can stand up to a 4th level mite druid summoning swarms down on them while his dragonfly animal companion eats their faces off.

[Gentlefish]

six 1st level guards

Okay

swarms

Now what in tarnation

[Rolan7]

Oh, I've got a PhD in DM bullshittery, but I still like to be prepared in case by some miracle the plot doesn't jump off the rails, catch on fire and plough through an orphanage.

Anyway, we'll see whether the team of six plucky 1st level guards can stand up to a 4th level mite druid summoning swarms down on them while his dragonfly animal companion eats their faces off.

That build sounds pretty buggy.

I think swarms aren't as bad in 5e, right?  They just have weapon resistance instead of nearly-blanket immunity?

[Kagus]

Resistance to piercing, bludgeoning and slashing damage (magical or non-magical), immunity to the charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained and stunned conditions, and a significant amount of hitpoints and damage for something that CR.

So not the full horror of the swarm, but still kinda mean.


God, I remember Incursion with its swarms of monkeys... Proximity disgust, general swarm intangibility/beefiness, and they'd steal your items.


EDIT: Dammit, I did not need to go reading longwinded and completely plausible P&P roleplaying stories...

[wierd]

I have been thinking more on the "Wizard creates awakened creature" problem posted previously, and have questions..


in addition to somehow getting Comprehend Languages cast onto the creature, so that it can read the +2 INT buff book (and thus potentially gain a language comprehension) there is also the potential to abuse a sentient item, if you roll high enough on its communication ability roll. Per the item creation rules for 5e, the potential to create an item that is able to read and comprehend a language, AND communicate telepathically with the wearer exists.

Now the question: Is it possible for the item created to be able to communicate in 2 languages?

If yes, this is the easiest way to accomplish the prior goal I think. (Pick common for the language it can read, and give it sylvan for the language it uses to communicate telepathically.) Make it an INT +2 circlet, and call it something like "Circlet of bestial tutoring" or something.  Bonus is that it could be used by either humanoids that lack sylvan, or by animals that lack common.