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Dice Drop Table: Evil Temple of Evilness

February 8, 2012 5:16 pm / 2 Comments /
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Another dice drop table, the Evil Temple of Evilness and the Great God Orsobuffo (named for the guy whose request lead to these tables). If you haven’t followed by two previous posts (here and here), this is how they work:

You print these out and lay them flat on a table. Drop some dice on the paper and interpret the results. If you already have a map, this will help you populate it. If you don’t then you can let the results guide you.

Each die should land on one or more outer or inner hexes. The inner hexes have encounters in them. If a die lands partly on one, then the encounter and its surrounding items are present in the room. If a die lands on only the outer hex, then it probably is touching more than one. I tried to design this so that the trappings in adjacent large hexes are somewhat compatible, so see if you can put whatever the die touches in the room. I’d also suggest that whatever large hex the die covers more, put the encounter in that hex in the room as well.

Unlike straight-on tables, this allows for some interpretation and that is the key–do what makes a better scenario.

Here’s an example of a temple made from this table:

 

Dice dropped on the temple table

I have some acolytes, a mummy, an anti-paladin, the temple guards and a private sacrificial alter. I also have two dice on the head priest. I’ll take this to mean there are two priests/priestesses somehow.

The Secret Temple of Orsobuffo

Crypt: The previous high priests and saints of the past are buried here. There are several dusty crypts here and a list carved in stone details the occupants. It does not mention that one of the occupants is a mummy. Also on the wall is a mural of an unholy prophecy of the return of Orsobuffo. There is a giant nest of centipedes in place of a corpse inside one crypt. There is also a scroll of binding there, which details a ritual for enslaving a creature from an outer plane.

Acolytes Quarters: Here can be found the beds, trunks, books, correspondence and prayer books of the acolytes, who can be found throughout the temple (say there are 12, total). A careful search of the trunks will also reveal the accounting books used to manage the temple and a map of the outer and inner planes, including access points. One of the acolytes is a doppelganger. You might involve it somehow in the high priest succession mentioned below.

Sleeping Quarters of the Anti-Paladin: A bedroom, and privy. Here the party can find a whenstone, unholy books (yes, again with all the unholy this and anti-that), dishes on a table with the remnants of a fine meal and a whetstone. The anti-paladin is not present.

Temple Guard Quarters: Here you will find the living quarters of the guards, including bunks, belongings, sports equipment, dice and weapons of the guards. On the tables are the remains of an ordinary meal. There is some gold in the foot lockers. The guards are on duty or otherwise not present.

There are two dice on the ‘high priest’ hex. There would not normally be two ‘high priest’ quarters unless you wanted to have this religion require two for ceremonial purposes. I will go that way and say that this cult only has twin priests. A high priest is chosen by the Orsobuffo idol from the two twin priests. The chosen then sacrifices the other on the altar. If you are a big fan of coincidence in your adventure, the party’s entry to the temple is on the night of choosing.

High Priests Quarters: This suite has been temporarily set up into two sets of living quarters. In one quarters are the thangka collection and the flute. In the other, adjoining chamber, is a private shrine and the cat (a disquised and undiscovered efreet). Both quarters have access to the vestments closet and the privy. The high priests are a rotund pair, a twin brother and sister. Both are secretly hoping to find a way to manipulate the idol into choosing them.

In the main hall is the giant statue of Orsobuffo. He appears as a fat, horned devil with jewels for eyes. This statue will animate when the prophecy on the wall is chanted a thousand times and raise either the right or left arm to indicate which of the twin priests he wants sacrificed on the altar, which is at his feet. There are many drums and gongs that are played as the chanting commences.

PC’s might mistake this as choosing the one who lives. Use that. Also in this main hall the night of choosing will be the antipaladin, the acolytes, and most of the temple guard.

There is an on-off switch that animates the statue fully, allowing it to walk. It is surrounded by a poison dart trap, which is activated by all but a few floor tiles. The priests know the way, as does the antipaladin.  Also here is a self-destruct mechanism for the temple, which is also set off if the statue is destroyed (not deactivated). There is a secret door here as well, which leads outside.

(Note to Orsobuffo: I named this after you, but didn’t put it in the title so as to not interfere with SEO to your blog. Not that this blog is big enough to do that…)

Evil Temple Jpeg

The Evil Temple of Evilness JPEG (2.3 MB)

 

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Dice Drop Table: Institute of Deathology

February 7, 2012 5:32 pm / 4 Comments /
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This table I call the Institute of Deathology. It can be used to quickly populate a necromancer’s tower or hidden lab. It works almost the same as yesterday’s Kaotic Cave, but has fewer possible encounters. You get one die for each room on the same level and drop it on the chart. The large hex the die falls mostly in suggests the theme and use of the room along with a possible occupant. If the die falls in the inner hex, or the occupant is not mobile, then the occupant is there. Otherwise, wait and see where else it might be. If the die is on the border of a few large hexes, see what it touches that goes well together. This tool is meant to suggest, not dictate, so go with whatever makes sense to you and looks fun.

I’m going to populate four floors of a tower that has two rooms each. There are only 12 possible ‘encounters’ on this table, but some rooms might be empty and I’m going to have the head necromancer be in her quarters on the fifth floor.

First two dice come up square on the shoggoth and the traitorous demon familiar.

Dice drop for basement of Necromancer's Lab

Dice drop for basement of Necromancer's Lab

Basement

  1. A shoggoth is hidden in the corner of a room that includes a captive NPC (unconscious or crazy or mute, let’s say), a hideous painting, broken glass, a golden leash, a scroll of banishment and a slime trail near the door. I think I’ll make the cellar one big room and add the familiar, the ‘phone’ to other planes and the broken iron chains. I could have added the rest of the trappings around the familiar but the  die fell only barely on the familiar and the room is already pretty rich with stuff. The familiar or the NPC might have useful information or want to help you deal with the necromancer. The demon is not to be trusted, of course, and might just forget to mention the shoggoth…

Ground Floor

  1. Room one is where the talking head is. Let’s say they use it as an entryway decoration or mojordomo. The d4 doesn’t touch the inner hex, so he could be away (perhaps getting repaired next door). I’ll wait and see what else comes up then decide. In the meantime, the entryway has at least the column the head stands on, a music box, a tray of hard candies and a library (probably for show). Hidden away is a case for the head (to sleep at night) and vials of blood (for maintenance).  The d4 also hit ‘cadaver’ but since I only want 2 rooms per level, I’ll just have a dead body in the entryway. Perhaps Igor needs to take it upstairs…
  2. Room two. The d10 landed mostly on oil lamp and barrel of eyeballs and only a but on shovel, tools and rope. Let’s put the caged zombie(s) room in back with those things and also the straight jacket, lightning prod, mummified cat and the parts on the tables. Seems Igor is making a mess today…

Floor 2

The d10 landed square on the doppelganger apprentice. It has foreign coins, a sword, mirror, torn clothes, a wig and a bottle of poison. (Why does a doppleganger need a wig? I dunno. Maybe they don’t do hair so well. Maybe they need a magic wig? Maybe I made this late at night?). There’s also a secret exit here.

Now the tower isn’t going to have a special room for uninvited doppelgangers, so let’s look  at the other die. It landed on the corner of library, sleeping quarters and is also touching privy, cadaver and parts in drawers (for the clockwork corpse). Let’s forget the parts, but use library and sleeping chambers. Let’s also use sleeping chambers but not for the head necromancer, who is on the top floor. Here’s what we get:

  1. Sleeping quarters. There is a dead body here with a wig, torn clothes and a dresser with a mirror. On the dresser are some coins, which on close inspection turn out to be from a foreign land. In the pricy is a doppelganger who has killed the assistant Igor (in the privy no less) and has just shoved the body down the latrine along with its wig and old clothes. It now looks like Igor and is deciding what to do next. There is a secret exit at the bottom of the privy pit, but the doppelganger doesn’t know. Might be interesting if Igor is just unconscious for a few hours…
  2. Library. There should probably be some scrolls and books here.

Floor 3

  1. The d4 is on Igor’s hex, but he’s indisposed. This is the kitchen, pantry and Igor has a small cot in back. Under his cot is some tasteful woodblock ‘art’, a holy book, and the petty cash for buying household goods. I would suggest swapping this room out with the zombie room below. It’s more likely a servant’s quarters and kitchen are located below, far away from the master’s room.
  2. Naga in tank. This captive naga lives in a large tank. There is a book on a stand near the tank, so it can read. There’s also a painting of a hell-like place, a kaleidoscope which with the book are probably carrots to get the naga to do as it’s asked. Then the sticks are here as well-a harpoon and feeding fish.

Top Floor

  1. This is the necromancer’s quarters. She has sleeping chambers, a privy, a wine ‘cellar’ (let’s say several bottles and some cups), an hour glass, a potion of youth and a cat. There’s also a secret exit here that is most certainly not the privy. Perhaps it is a teleportal to a safe spot a few miles away, designed to allow one person and one cat through before deactivating. Whether she is around is up to you. She could be in the library, zombie room or the basement.

One thing I forgot–where’s the talking head? In the sleeping quarters on the dresser (on a pillow) where Igor sometimes let it nap. It saw the doppelganger kill Igor but played dead.

I hope you find this useful. It was fun to make, as goofy as it is.

Rolang's Necromancer Lab Drop Table

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Dice Drop Table: Kaotic Cave

February 6, 2012 6:09 pm / 4 Comments /
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It’s not often I get to show off how artistically my development is arrested, but here we go…

A multi column dungeon dressings/rooms/accessories table, with columns like ‘natural cave’, ‘necromancy lab’, ‘mine’, ‘underground prisons’, ‘evil temple’ and whatever you feel like including. Oh why am I the 15th!??!

I’m afraid I can’t do this in the format that you requested. Well I could, but I’m not going to. I  understand the OSR fetish for endless tables, tables, tables, but in this case, I wanted to do something different that will hopefully still be useful for you.

Today’s post is the first in a series of drop tables, the Kaotic Cave (2.4 MB file). This is the ‘natural cave’ table. These tables are all hand-crafted with no real artistic skill whatsoever and are not intended to reflect high production values. To wit:

Level 1 of Kaotic Cave

These are the dice dropped on the chart for level 1 of Kaotic Cave

Just grab a handful of dice and drop them on the table to fill several rooms and with trappings and possibly encounters or encounter hooks. Look under each die at every space it touches and arrange the items indicated on your map however you like. Each large hex has a smaller hex in the middle with an encounter. If the inner hex is not touched, have the monsters be away from their lair when the PC’s arrive. Maybe they are wandering, or perhaps they are in a battle with a neighbor. If multiple large hexes are touched, you can optionally include all the encounters together in a large room or hallway, battling it out.

I have tried to arrange these tables so that encounters that have similar window dressing are close to one another. The Kaotic Cave has several humanoid races close to one another with accessories that fit any group.

Example d4 on Kaotic Caves

Smashed shriekers, mound of skulls, troglodyte corpse and garden

For example, the mound of skulls in the troglodyte hex could easily belong to the Kobalds. If I dropped a d4 on that space, as pictured, I would fill a cave chamber with smashed shriekers, a mound of skulls, a troglodyte corpse, a garden and some trogs fighting the kobalds in their home. Why in the Kobald’s home? If I didn’t have a preference, I’d just go where the larger part of the die is. If two dice cover the same large hex, I reroll the one furthest from the center.

I threw several dice with this, so for level one, I have:

  1. a pack of kobalds [sic] defending their home from troglodytes. They were warned by the dying alarm of their shriekers, which were placed to guard their garden (of mushrooms, I suppose) and the shrine built with the skulls of their ancestors.
  2. a room with troll bones,
  3. an ale cellar with a secret door to the outside,
  4. a corpse in the middle of a pentagram (no obvious explanation, perhaps a hook to later encounters),
  5. an owl bear’s nest with owlbear(s) and all the surrounding trappings (worms, bones, beetles, roaches, centipedes and a half-eaten dwarf),
  6. the mushroom mens’ home with its residents plus all the surrounding trappings (dung, glowing fungus, mulch pile, spore pods, guano and a mushroom garden)
  7. a room with rats eating a dead adventuring party.

Another throw for level two gives me:

  1. a room with a brazier and burnt bones,
  2. the lair of the giant spider, where she is hiding, plus all the surrounding trappings (eggs, more bones, small spiders, a giant web, mummified corpses and a secret exit),
  3. a room full of bats
  4. a hallway with a full backpack and shredded ropes and a trap
  5. a nest of flail snails with the snail family plus slime trails, trippy mushrooms, a dead party, a pile of bones, a pond and a bunch of baby flail snails.
  6. a dead, runt adult albino ape, lying on a dung pile, holding a cow femur
  7. a hidden room with weapons, armor and several jewels belonging to human bandits, who are away.
Level 3:
  1. the d4 went off the sheet, so I’ll add one wandering/pursuing monster to this level: It’s a minotaur who wants the dragon’s treasure but will let someone else kill it.
  2. The lair of the trogs, who have their own skull mound, human bones, a cave painting of demons, trippy berries, their own smashed shriekers and a half eaten kobald [still sic]. These would be the weak, young and elderly trogs, since the boys are out fighting. I wonder who started this?
  3. another chamber of bats and guano–the same large chamber as on level 2.
  4. A pool or stream with a secret underwater door, which leads to a lake outside.
  5. an abandoned campsite (formerly belonging to goblins).
  6. A gelatinous cube lurks in this chamber. A smart party will be wary once they find human bones, a map (of what? you decide!), a scroll of spells, a ring, gold coins and some bits of armor.
  7. The dragon’s chamber, complete with dragon, hoard, ceiling exit, eggs, melted armor slag, pieces of armor and a flock of birds that clean parasites from under its scales as it sleeps.

Now this won’t populate your megadungeon, but I think the above isn’t too shabby for a night of adventuring. The die rolls took twelve seconds total, while the typing took twelve minutes.

Here’s the Kaotic Cave as a hi-res jpeg at 2.4 MB. I’ll probably update the images to make them smaller and more readable later this week.

I hope it was worth the wait, Orsobuffo. Tomorrow: The necromancer’s academy.

Kaotic Cave v1 (2.4 MB)

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Ten Cursed Coins

February 2, 2012 5:38 pm / 4 Comments /
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John Johnson said:

To satisfy my irrational love of the d10 I would love to have 10 unusual, weird, and magical coins.

At the very least, these cannot be disposed of without a remove curse spell.
  1. Dinar of Destruction. This coin transmutes to copper, silver, electrum, gold, platinum, mithril and so forth. It can also change its appearance and apparent age to match any coin ever made. It becomes more precious if the owner is trying to buy something deadly with the intent to cause harm and less valuable if the owner is trying to buy supplies, healing, etc. It appears worthless if given as an act of charity. Merchants will not notice the change consciously.
  2. Dead Mickey’s Doubloon. Anyone who finds this will recognize it as a doubloon, a coin with ‘heads’ and ‘tails’, traditionally used for gambling and making arbitrary decisions. Because it is enchanted/cursed, the first forty times you flip it as a gamble, it will come up as you call it. The next forty it will come up against your true wish, no matter what you call aloud.
  3. Quid of Calling. These coins are bound to a particular animal or monster. There is a 10 percent chance of encountering 1-3 of that creature during the course of the day. Treat these as cursed items for the proposes of getting rid of them.
  4. Kroner of Control. This coin is the monetary equivalent of an intelligent sword, capable of taking over its owner whenever matters of money are involved, whether it is the dividing of spoils or the purchase of supplies. It is very greedy.
  5. Dollar of Detriment. This reduces a random ability score by 5 for two days. Afterward, there is one hour in which it can be given away or slipped into another’s possession. After the hour, it reactivates again, effecting a different randomly chosen ability score.
  6. Mark of the Devil. An infernal coin with occult markings. It catches fire when in water. Anyone possessing this coin for even a minute will bear the mark of The Enemy until the mark is removed via remove curse. Detect evil will reveal them as evil, even if they are lawful good. Unlike the other coins, it is happy to let you pass it around.
  7. Sheckel of Strength. This coin weighs two thousand pounds when held by any but the first in the party to touch it. To this person, it weighs no more than a regular coin. Note: It cannot be used as a weapon because it gains mass as soon as it leaves its owner’s possession. It cannot be used to crush someone, as it rolls over them quickly and to the floor. DMs: In other words, do not let this become a combat advantage unless you want.
  8. Yuan of Youth. The owner of this coin will stop and then reverse the aging of the bearer by ten percent of their current age until they are approximately 10 years old (in human years). Spells and knowledge are not lost, but strength is. Attitudes do revert to those the character had at that age, whatever they may have been. When the spell is broken, age is regained at twice the rate lost.
  9. Guilden of Gum. Will transmute into a very sticky gum when handed from one person to another. This gum will entangle the two together and continue to stretch and expand until all nearby are caught in it. This ball of gummy substance has intelligence and will attempt to immobilize the most dangerous beings nearby. Treat it as a high-level web or entangle spell. These are sometimes hidden in treasure as a deterrent to theft and only work once.
  10. Livre of the Dead. This rare coin will seem a great find of unknown origin and undetermined benefit. It will animate its owner upon death, raising their level by 6. These wight/lich lords will then try to establish a castle, tower or lair and become an enemy of the party.
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Eighteen Common Hireling Motivations

February 1, 2012 5:15 pm / 4 Comments /
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Lasgunpacker said:

Dear Sanity-clause,
Although I have not been good this year, I would like: a 3d6 table of hireling/follower/retainer goals and objectives
(traditional)

Thank you,
lasgunpacker

Since 3d6 is a bell curve, the most common goals and objectives will be in the middle. I tried to keep these traditional. I included some literary and film examples in some cases, although I don’t think they are necessary.


Roll 3d6 Objective
3 Maybe I will find a cure for this curse/disease/malformity.
4 One of the PC’s will be a great leader and I will be his right hand!
5 Restore honor to the family name.
6 Need money to ransom sister/mother/brother/son/father/pet owlbear.
7 Village/home burned to the ground (Luke Skywalker)
8 See the world! Meet interesting people! And take their stuff!
9 Get enough food (or gold) for family to survive winter/rainy season/drought. (Young Genghis Khan)
10 Prove worthy of a bride/groom/honor.
11 Just plain mean. Likes to kill. (The Comedian)
12 Prove that I’m better than Dad/Mom/Uncle Joe. (Jaime Lannister)
13 Former prisoner. No one else wants me. I’ll take what I want. (Jack Sparrow, Riddick)
14 Wants to learn the ropes. (Incrediboy)
15 Just one last score/adventure/war then I can quit. (Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon)
16 Really a peasant/woman/child, but wants to be accepted as a warrior (Kikuchiyo)
17 Works for the party’s enemies.
18 Believes fighting the dark forces/monsters is a religious calling.

 

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Twelve Fantasy Tavern Flies / Galactic Races

January 31, 2012 1:07 pm / 2 Comments /
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This is what we scientists call a “Twofer”:

Twelve (or more) drunken named NPCs found in the local inn or tavern.

Kudos for doing this.

Lex Icon on said

A list of things the big bad corporation is doing to the supernaturals they’ve kidnapped. New World of Darkness spacefaring campaign, so any sort of supernatural you can think of could be included.

Alternatively, just a list of strange aliens to use in said campaign would be great too. Whatever’s easier.

Twelve Fantasy Tavern Flies / Galactic Races
Roll 1d12 Name Scifi Desc. Fantasy Desc.
1 Hoblart Walking Sore Walking Source of Sores
2 Moosasa Dark Multi-eyed merchants Dark Elf Merchant, sees six of everything
3 Argle Upright walking chihuahua-looking bipeds Short, loud, barely walking
4 Mooch Tall, thin, gold-skinned worms Tall, thin, no gold, probably has worms
5 Walp Two senses: Touch and smell Smells and wants to touch you
6 Merple Galactic banking race Always broke, asking for money
7 Zaras Sharp exoskeletal spines Draws a knife at the slightest provocation
8 Poi Inside-out parrot-looking things Has pet bird that talks
9 Lola Sentient liquid, looks like lava lamp Fat, loses temper easily
10 Lyssa Has seven ears, three mouths The town gossip
11 Prap Slave race, used as laborers. Village Idiot. Large.
12 Inid Octopoid. Extremely Clever. Doesn’t drink. Not to be trusted.
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What Does That Weird Busted Goblin Machine Do?

January 5, 2012 11:56 pm / 1 Comment /
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“What Does That Weird Busted Goblin Machine Do?”

What Does That Weird Goblin Machine Do?
roll d20 What it does
1 dehydrates potions into pills.
2 turns any humanoid race into another humanoid race at random.
3 turns any humanoid race into a goblin.
4 creates harmless cattle of random flavor.
5 attacks as level 10 fighter. ten slicing blade attacks as +3 vorpal blades.
6 spits out a hundred pythons.
7 answers questions about the dungeon/region. just like goblins, they always say the opposite of the truth.
8 demon vending machine.
9 a mechanized exo-skeleton that doubles your strength and defenses, but uses you to its own ends (usually attacks the party). you are not being controlled mentally–just physically.
10 distracts you from a much simpler machine in the room–one that doesn’t even look like a machine, but allows time or planar travel.
11 save at -4 or be charmed into trying to fix it for 1d4 months, sparing no expense to get it home, buy parts, etc. it cannot be fixed.
12 processes corpses into meat products.
13 circumsizes titans.
14 lays large eggs. what hatches?
15 dispenses 10 x d100 killer bees.
16 tells bad jokes constantly.
17 teleconferences with similar machine on far-away planet. 1D4: 1-aliens 2-faeries 3- demons 4-mirror universe versions of yourselves.
18 teleports party to mirror universe where alignments are opposite (and the shaved have beards).
19 mends armor and weapons, then eats them all and melts them down into ingots.
20 best cook on this side of planet.

Make your request here.

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12 Things Found in a Six-Demon Bag

December 30, 2011 10:29 pm / 6 Comments /
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Ogilvy requests:

12 things that happen when you pull something at random out of a six-demon bag.

by way of Egg Shen:

Jack Burton: Terrific, a six-demon bag. Sensational. What’s in it, Egg?
Egg Shen: Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!

The six demon bag is a mixed bag. It can hold up to six elemental demons, representing the five traditional Chinese elements plus wind, which is a western element. The holder of the bag reaches in and pulls out a demon, which appears as a glowing baseball-sized sphere. She then throws it. Then something happens. Roll dice to determine if it is major or minor.

If the demon is minor, it will be extremely helpful to whoever holds the bag. It will only effect the other side in a battle. If Wang Chi were to open the bag and throw out a demon, it would be minor. If it is a major demon, it will indiscriminately destroy as much as possible according to the table below. If Jack were to open the bag, the demon would of course be major.

How do you determine major or minor? Pick some odds beforehand and roll. Of course players might not know that there’s a good and bad side, so perhaps always make the first demon minor. Up to you, DM.

Six Demon Bag Contents

Roll Demon Minor Major
1 Wood Root Trap Splintering Forest
2 Fire Fireball Firestorm
3 Earth Fault Opens Earthquake
4 Metal Magnetic Storm Lightning Storm
5 Water Deluge Storm or Tsunami
6 Wind Gust of Wind Tornado

 

Deluge

A tremendous flood comes from nowhere, pushing the enemy as if from a fire hose, washing them away (if there is somewhere to drain).

Earthquake

A nasty earthquake effects the region. The center is where the bag is. There should be lots of property damage and hit points lost.

Fault Opens

A fissure opens in the ground, leading to the depths of the planet.  It should be about 50 feet long and about 10 feet wide (see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ending). It should be close to the enemy leader or the strongest enemy grouping.

Fireball

A fireball that damages only enemies. Roll damage as if cast by fifth level mage.

Firestorm

A giant firestorm hits, doing one die of damage to each creature in a one-mile radius according to the level/HD each creature has (much more damage to higher levels). All who survive have a sunburn that lasts 1d4 years.

Gust of Wind

Knocks down all enemies, disarming them and possibly doing damage or putting them in harm’s way.

Lightning Storm

All creatures within one mile are hit by lightning if they have any metal whatsoever on their person. No tesla cages allowed–these are demons, not science.

Magnetic Storm

All metal used or worn by anyone within 200 foot radius, even magical metals, fly off or away from their owner and form a large Katamari ball of scrap. This applies to magical and non-ferrous metal as well as steel.

Root Trap

Roots come from the ground and entangle all ‘enemy’ creatures.

Splintering Forest

A forest erupts from the ground/floor or ceiling. Branches and vines entangle and skewer every creature larger than a medium dog. Druids take 1/2 damage automatically and are not entangled. Tree-dwelling and sylvan creatures are not effected, nor are flying creatures. This works even in the desert or arctic, but the forest may die off if not in an appropriate climate.

Storm or Tsunami

A hurricane or tsunami occurs, centered on the bag holder.

Tornado

A tornado rips through the area, doing damage to random locations in the vicinity in addition to the immediate area of the bag holder.

 

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Ten Potions

December 16, 2011 4:29 am / Leave a Comment /
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jasonk says:
10 alchemist potions.

 

ten potions
1 fizzy bang explosive gas. if lit, does 2d8 damage. can be shaken and thrown for half damage.
2 sticky syrup sticky tar. -2 to initiative, move at 1/4 normal rate. Covers 10′ x 10′ square area.
3 earth shake shake well then drink. causes minor earthquake.
4 hair tonic hair growth. will double length of all your hair. doesn’t cure baldness. 2 x 0 = 0
5 charlie’s potion boil 10 scrolls with herbs. reduce inky liquid. drink to be a supreme expert on one subject for one day (can be in another language). then know nothing of it at all ever again.
6 northern marmelade eat this and you cannot get lost for 2 days. after, you will be directionless and disoriented for 6 hours.
7 cahetch hup a few drops of this elixir makes any meal taste delicious. does not prevent poison, but does prevent disease from spoiled food.
8 ear honey three drops of this in the ear and you’ll be hearing ‘voices’ all day. (crazy voices)
9 fake fever elixir can be mixed with various berries and herbs to simulate almost any natural disease for up to a week. duration  depends on how much you drink.
10 cetacean potion potion of whale summoning calls d100 whales to the nearest saltwater location. you can communicate with them and ask for help (you are aquaman without the water breathing).

I hope at least a few of these haven’t been done before.

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Freamon’s Cattle

December 15, 2011 10:17 pm / Leave a Comment /
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Freamon’s Cattle

AC: Almost defenseless. Three steps lower than an unarmored human.

HD 2

Attack as FTR 2

Attacks: headbutt, backwards kick.

Damage: 1-2 HP

These peaceful, stupid grazing beasts wander the mountainside and forests near the wizard Freamon’s tower at Buzzard’s Peak. They are about eight to nine feet long, three feet tall at the shoulder and short-legged (think giant dachshund).

There are several types of Freamon’s cattle which can recognized by their differing heads. These are the heads of a bird, fish, cow, pig, goat, crustacean, horse, rat and human. No matter the head type, they are all herbivores that can eat just about any grass, brush or sapling.

If killed and cooked, their meat tastes like the animal that matches the head.

Freamon was rumored to have built a zoo of exotic creatures under his tower and some believe these were his invention, as they are much easier to raise than the large variety of food such a zoo would require.

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