Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Any D&D/D20

Shadowrun

World of Darkness

Palladium

Other (feel free to post about it)

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Finally decided to expose the world to my shitty art skills, behold! The goose, swan and duck. Followed closely by their powered up undead champion forms, the poultergoose, the black swan and the duch. Haven't decided on the rules yet, but in general I want the poultergoose to be able to steal player items, the black swan to break player arms and the duch to summon bread golems and undead shrimp

[IcyTea31]

Poultergoose? Poultrygeist.

[Egan_BW]

The players are having a good session and you are a horrible goose.

[Loud Whispers]

That may be true, but no one may ever call me a quack

Poultergoose? Poultrygeist.

Poultryghast?

[Egan_BW]

poultrygoose, obviously.

[Loud Whispers]

What's good for the poultrygoose is good for the gandervamp

[scriver]

Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun
The frumious gandersnatch

[Loud Whispers]

Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun
The frumious gandersnatch

Beware the flower heaths where the bansheep graze,
Beware the fiery peat hills of the salamancer's blaze.
In the darkened moats of boggy devil goats,
In the acidic maze of the mosquitaur,
There lies the dark source of this infernal power

[Iduno]

I liked how in 1e the only benefit to playing a dwarf was that you had an instinctive ability to detect a subtle incline plane, used to defeat what was apparently a common DM trap at the time of tricking the players into going to a deeper level then they thought they were on, which would then "allow" the DM to use stronger monsters. Weird stuff, the 1e culture.

I think that made it into some of the other editions as well. I vaguely remember it in AD&D second edition. Probably both the ability and the culture.

Edit: I've also been thinking about AD&D's weird 18/% strength thing, where certain classes got an improved strength rating at 18, with bonuses to the things you'd normally get from strength. It at least allowed fighters to be good at the one thing they did. And also the wizard spell (5th spell level ish?) that turns you into a fighter for a while, with full strength bonus etc.

I looked into it more, and the minimum 18/% score is 18/1%, which gives +0 to hit or open doors vs 18, +1 damage, extra weight allowance, and 4% extra bend bars/break gates. 18 strength in AD&D had a 16% chance, based on a d20, which is based on 5% increments. That was also back when thief abilities were increased in 1% increments, and also based on a d20 roll. Those are all nice to have written down, but when you've tied yourself to a RNG that's based on 5% increments, use 5% increments.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I know that in one of the editions (2e, maybe) 18/% strength was one of the only ways to brute force a magic door effect, by just being so fukhuge you can tear it down.

[Kagus]

So we're starting my first Roll20 game, with a DM who isn't familiar with DMing Roll20 and who waited until this moment to let us know that all sourcebooks are allowed for chargen/spell selection/etc.  Off to a good start!

[Loud Whispers]

All right: sphynxes

What is the best thing a sphynx can do to enact a toll upon players whilst still being fun? Riddles are a bit painful for my group, but I'm thinking of having the sphynx ask them for a story about some theme / to borrow a feature for a day. Yet it seems like either way it'll be a brief interaction, which is a shame

[NJW2000]

Force them to collectively compose a rhyming account of what they did that day. If they do more things, demand more verses?
Unless your group would hate that, which some people would.

Not sure what you mean by "borrow a feature"?

[Loud Whispers]

Force them to collectively compose a rhyming account of what they did that day. If they do more things, demand more verses?
Unless your group would hate that, which some people would.

Not sure what you mean by "borrow a feature"?

Have them give up a class feature for a day, e.g. an extra attack, bonus action thing or something

[Rolan7]

Perhaps the sphinx could reward the group with a riddle-based ability of some sort?  I'm picturing something where they ask a riddle in combat to get, I don't know, temporary advantage by distracting the foe. 

My group *loved* riddles, so much that we always spared the "riddle ogre" we kept encountering while traveling.  Apparently the encounter chart called for a random ogre to show up and attack, and our GM thought that was boring.  He swears we rolled it fair and square the latter 3 times (between basilisks and other less memorable encounters).  I guess it would have tried to eat us, except that we're decent at riddles between the three of us.  Good times!