I'm looking for a good curse that would apply when a PC takes gold from a room in a dungeon. I want to entice them to take the gold, but have a repercussion for doing so. Someone mentioned a Mummy's curse at some point, but from my research I don't think it quite applies to my situation. Any other ideas?
@PeterCooperJr. Ah. For what it's worth, the D&D Beyond versions of books are great for that - every image is its own file, so you could download/print each separately.
In 4e I once had a curse that gave the recipient a powerful once-per-encounter attack which turned the pain of the target into a valuable gem... but every long rest forced a save and each failed save gave a +1 to thieving skills and a -1 to all other skills, cumulative.
Effectively the curse said "Oh, you're a thief? Grats, you're going to be the best thief ever but you'll get trashed in every other aspect of your life."
It could be removed voluntarily, with a little effort--the trick was that it was designed to be so tempting that the player didn't want to remove it until it'd seriously messed them up.
@V2Blast Yeah. I play in person, and there's certainly a part of me that likes the harkening-back-to-days-of-yore of having fun without any fancy technology at the table. But I end up copying/printing a bunch of stuff for the players, and typing up descriptions of magic items by copying from the book, and so forth, that maybe even when playing in person I should buy the book digitally and just print what I want, since I'm printing a bunch anyway.
With D&D Beyond, can you download all the stuff in DRM-free formats, or do you only "own" it for as long as D&D Beyond decides to stick around?
Maybe I'm over-complicating things (I usually do), but what do others do (when playing just on paper) for giving magic item descriptions to players? Photocopy the page from the DMG or Adventure, or type it up, or show the book to the player and have them write down their own copy of what the item does, or what?
@Azog4 The specifics should be tailored to your player and game, I think. It's about finding that balance where there's a real temptation to let it go too far.
...And still making it fun for the players, of course, even if it torments the character.
There's stuff out there, I know. But it can be hard to find. I've gotten plenty of Humble Bundle stuff, but a lot of the games on there now are just keys for getting them on Steam.
I did get a bunch of non-Wizards D&D PDFs there in a couple bundles they had quite a while back.
On a failed save, the target obeys the Flee command by
[Spending] its turn moving away from you by the fastest available means.
Three questions:
Does that mean they take the Dash action?
If not, do they take the Disengage action?
In case the answer to 2 is no, do they provoke Opportunit...
The Command spell has the Flee option, which if failed, forces the target to spend its action to move away from the caster.
Is the target able to do the Disengage action before moving away?
I thought it would be a no (part of the use of this command seems to be to generate opportunity attacks),...
@PeterCooperJr. I typically hand the book over to the player with a post-it (or the like) indicating the description; player usually takes a quick photo of it and hands back, and then copies the relevant info onto their character sheet.
DnD is the game where I argue about rules on the internet for maybe 40 hours weekly and then spend four hours per month with my friends pretending to be heroes.
Oh, the improvement is obvious - now I have six full inches of empty wasted space on the left side of my screen. It always bugged me having content fill the screen.
> ZEHIR'S GREED: a curse on tomb robbers. - You gain training in Bluff, Stealth, and Thievery. When you use one of these skills, you gain a cumulative +1 bonus to Bluff, Stealth, and Thievery, and a cumulative -1 penalty to all other skills. - You can use the Greedy Hands encounter power a number of times per encounter equal to the current "stage" of the curse. - At the end of every extended rest, make a Constitution check. You may choose to fail this check. -- 20 or lower: The stage of the curse increases by one.
New player rolled a critical and killed a bandit on her first roll. Just one round of combat, most session time was used to fix errors and solve doubts about character creation.
Two of the players only have a +2 on their main stat and I'm a bit worried
@Zachiel that's not that huge a deal in 5e -- you can have a serviceable char with only +2 in their main stat(s), even if they won't be as splashy at first
It's Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and we got a human priest of bane (me), a gnome rogue, a tiefling necromancer and an elven ranger
(whose village was attacked by a Death Tyrant Beholder while she was away. So my whole presentation amounted to "Hi, I'm Sean and my parents still live" XD)
Other than that, on Friday I botched a pathfinder encounter by miscalculating a stealth check which meant a full round of debuffs on the enemy which ultimately led to her demise. Which is somewhat good since it was 2 AM...
Today we play again, I'm curious to know if they will spare miss elven-Harley-Quinn or not.
I mean, this NPC comes with a jester disguise which she used to infiltrate a party, a madman attitude complete with wisdom-reducing drugs and adoration for an ugly evil schemer.
@BESW Thanks for the memory--that GM's a senior now, looking at colleges, and while I'll be sad to see her go it's awesome that some other school will get to benefit from her amazingness for some years.
The Command spell has the Flee option, which if failed, forces the target to spend its action to move away from the caster.
Is the target able to do the Disengage action before moving away?
I thought it would be a no (part of the use of this command seems to be to generate opportunity attacks),...
