The Competition of the Finest Brews III
Poll: Please Rate These DM Options!
Please Rate These DM Options! - Score
- Kaboom979's Souldering Iron 4.286
- Thauraeln_The_Bold's Emotion Giant 4.143
- ThorukDuckSlayer's Spellblight 3.286
- Yamana_Eajii's The Midnight Angel's Weapons: The Staff of Dawn's Precipice, and the Spear of Twilight's Grievance 3.857
- MilestoGo_24's Thief of Hearts 3.571
Ended Oct 2, 2021
Poll: Please Rate These PC Options!
Please Rate These PC Options! - Score
- Kaboom979's Primordial Spirit 3.714
- FallenPhoenixIV's Absorb Spell 3.429
- Yamana_Eajii's Life Bond 3.750
- MilestoGo_24's Empowerment of Vitality 3.143
- Thauraeln_The_Bold's Extraplanar Absorption 3.714
Ended Oct 2, 2021
Poll: Please Rate These Inspirational Options!
Please Rate These Inspirational Options! - Score
- MilestoGo_24's Ethereal Detachment 4.143
- Yamana_Eajii's Aetherium 3.125
- Thauraeln_The_Bold's Encounter Table 3.857
- Kaboom797's Planar Pulse 4.143
- ThorukDuckSlayer's Ethereal Fisherman 4.333
Ended Oct 2, 2021
I really like it. Maybe Aetherium should be lighter? It feels like it should be lighter.
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I miswrote this. It's 1/4 the weight of aluminium, so it's 1/4 of the weight of airplane metal.
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No... It's like 42 times lighter than aluminium. According to google, aluminium weighs around 168 pounds per cubic foot. A 5-foot cube is 125 cubic feet, so so the weight is 168 * 125 = 2100 pounds, or 9525.44 kilos.
Anyway, looks great!
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An odd submission for the DM options - dealing with the emotions of regret and trauma. A lovely little room to put in the path of your players, if they have good backstories with dark deeds they wish to remain buried in them...
The Museum of Misdeeds (on Homebrewery)
I shall have a think on what I can put together for the other 2 options...
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I don't get this maths. It's already 5 cubic feet, you've cubed this again for some reason?
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Looks great, thanks!
A 5-foot cube in dnd means a cube with side length 5. How many cubic feat are in a cube with side length 5? Well. By the formula for cube volume, is side length cubes, for 125. But if you want, I can try to help you visualize why. So you take your 5-foot cube, and chop it 5 times along one face, leaving you with 5 sheets, each 1 foot by 5 feet by 5 feet. Then repeat the cutting, turning each sheet into 5 1 foot by 1 foot by 5 feet strips, for a total of 25 of them. Then repeat the cutting one more time, turning each of these strips in 5 1 foot by 1 foot by foot cubes, for a total of 125.
Makes sense? A cube with side length 5 is not 5 cubic feet, it's 125 cubic feet. This is why the object created by my vile of shaping weighs 448,000 pounds. Not that this really matters, it's dnd and your magic item can weigh whatever you want it to weigh.
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Ok, now it's suitably light.
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This one is awesome.
EDIT: But dungeons are inspirational options, not DM options.
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Spear of Twilight’s Grievance
Weapon (spear), artifact
This weapon is imbued with the magic of the midnight forest and the last light of the day, along with the last hopes of lost souls. Along its long, silvered shaft are runes written in an ancient dialect that has long since been lost. The spear has the following abilities.
Random Properties. The Spear of Twilight’s Grievance has the following random properties:
The detrimental properties of the Spear of Twilight’s Grievance are suppressed during the night.
A Light for the Holy. For any creature with a good alignment, the Spear of Twilight’s Grievance sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius, and dim light in a 20-foot radius. Creatures whose alignment is neutral or evil cannot see this light.
Enemy of Night Stalkers. When the spear hits a creature with the undead creature type or the shapechanger subtype, that creature takes an additional 1d12 radiant damage and must make a Wisdom saving throw, the DC of which equals 10 + the amount of radiant damage the creature just took (minimum DC of 11). On a failed save, the creature is enveloped in an aura of holy fury, and takes an additional 1d4 radiant damage at the start of each of its turns for the next minute.
Twilight’s Glory. When this spear scores a critical hit against a creature, the spear turns into a bolt of light for a single moment. The creature takes 1d12 lightning damage and 1d12 radiant damage, instead of the attack’s normal damage. If the creature is undead or a shapechanger, the Enemy of the Night Stalkers ability still functions as usual.
Sentience. The Spear of Twilight’s Grievance is a sentient, chaotic good item with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 18, and a Charisma of 13. It has hearing and truesight out to a range of 60 feet.
The spear can communicate telepathically with creatures within 60 feet of it, and it can speak, read, and understand Common and Celestial.
Personality. The spear is determined to rid the night of vampires, werewolves, and similar dark creatures. The spear is preoccupied with anger and planning to show a wide array of emotions.
The spear will verbally attack and admonish creatures that fail to slay a vampire or were-creature upon sight, and it will only happily remain in the use of a creature whose alignment is good.
Destroying the Spear. The Spear of Twilight’s Grievance is specially enchanted so it cannot be destroyed by any mortal means. However, if all creatures with the undead type and shapechanger subtype are killed, or if the spear is held by an archlich such as Acererak or Vecna, the spear shatters instantly and is destroyed.
Staff of Dawn’s Precipice
Weapon (quarterstaff), artifact
This weapon is infused with the essence of the stars and the magic of the dawn, along with the first dreams of newborn souls. Its long and humble wooden shaft makes it appear as a simple stick, and spells such as detect magic cannot reveal the fact that this item is magical. The staff has the following abilities.
Random Properties. The Staff of Dawn’s Precipice has the following random properties:
The detrimental property of the Staff of Dawn’s Precipice is suppressed during the day.
A Light for the Holy. For any creature with a good alignment, the Staff of Dawn’s Precipice sheds bright light in a 15-foot radius, and dim light in a 30-foot radius. Creatures whose alignment is neutral or evil cannot see this light.
Blessings of the Moon. As an action, a creature holding the spear can cause good-aligned creatures within 30 feet of them to regain hit points. The total number of hit points the staff can heal in this way is 50, and it may split these hit points among creatures as it sees fit.
For instance, if this ability is activated, the spear may cause one creature to regain 30 hit points and another to regain 5 hit points.
This ability can be activated once. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Macabre Disillusion. The staff scores a critical hit if the number on the d20 is 19 or higher. On a critical hit, the attack’s target takes 4d6 radiant damage, instead of the normal damage they would take.
In addition, if the target is a creature with the undead type or the shapechanger subtype, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw, the DC of which equals the amount of radiant damage they just took (minimum DC of 4). On a failed save, the target takes an additional 2d6 radiant damage, and they shed bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light in a 10-foot radius for the next minute. While shedding light in this way, attack rolls made against the creature have advantage.
Sentience. The Staff of Dawn’s Precipice is a sentient, lawful good item with an Intelligence of 15, a Wisdom of 15, and a Charisma of 15. It has hearing and truesight out to a range of 60 feet.
The staff can communicate telepathically with creatures within 60 feet of it, and it can speak, read, and understand Common and Celestial.
Personality. The staff’s purpose is to destroy the vampires, werewolves, and similar dark creatures of the night. The staff clings to hope that its task will succeed, but slowly is descending into melancholy with the passing ages.
The staff is highly supportive of its wielder, and encourages them to go out and fight the creatures of the night, though the staff by no means expects a creature to throw their life on the line for the staff’s goal. The staff remains silent if its wielder is a creature of a non-good alignment.
Destroying the Spear. The Staff of Dawn’s Precipice is specially enchanted so it cannot be destroyed by any mortal means. However, if all creatures with the undead type and shapechanger subtype are killed, or if the power word kill spell is cast on the staff by an undead creature, the staff shatters instantly and is destroyed.
Category: DM Option (That One Piano Song) - the flavor text and the lore is very soul-filled, even if the mechanics are more celestial
Entrance Name: The Midnight Angel's Weapons: The Staff of Dawn's Precipice, and the Spear of Twilight's Grievance
Lore Blurb: Three thousand centuries before the creation of the First World, or the Prime Material, the Plane of Elysium was a mere echo of what it has become today. Early werewolves and vampire-like beings that fed upon pure energy plagued the Plane, forcing thousands of celestials and similar beings into hiding on the innermost layer of Elysium, Amoria. However, one particular angel - the near-divine Iaquis Eanordii (NG female angel) - ventured forth into Eronia, the second layer of Elysium.
With the assistance of June the honest Phoenix and Marcellius the determined Moon Dog, Iaquis retook the layer of Eronia, but not without great loss - both June and Marcellius were felled by a werewolf known only as Winter's Wrath in the final battle for the layer. After the battle, Iaquis took the souls of her two companions and placed them within a staff and a spear. Marcellius, the spear, became known as the Spear of Twilight's Grievance, and June, the staff, became known as the Staff of Dawn's Precipice.
Iaquis, determined not to have let her allies have died in vain, slowly retook the layers of Belierin and Thalasia from the forces of evil, sequestering her foes in an infinite demiplane of darkness and deciet. Though many werewolves, energy vampires, and similar beings escaped, Elysium was rid of its foul siege.
Iaquis, upon her return to Amoria, was asked to become a god of the hunt and of sacrifice and purification. Though Iaquis refused this offer in favor of travelling the newly created Material Plane and protecting its inhabitants from harm, she has become worshipped as a Lesser Idol throughout the Planes, especially for her deeds in cleansing Elysium.
*Found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything
**Found in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
***Found in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Iaquis Eanordii's Appearance: Iaquis is depicted as a tall woman with dark brown skin and two white wings, which are normally hidden beneath Iaquis's green chiton and leather belt. She is missing a leg, which has been replaced by an elegant metal prosthetic. Relatively humble in appearance, one might mistake Iaquis for a mere adventurer if it wasn't for her glowing, ice-white eyes, which turn bright orange and pink during sunset and sunrise.
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I'm guessing this won't do too well...
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This is my submission for the Inspirational Option. It's a table of three different encounters based around the Ethereal Plane.
Encounter Name
Monsters
Description
Mist Hauntings
Chimera, Ghost
A ghost haunts a region of the Ethereal Plane. Before they can pass on to their afterlife, they must deliver a treasured trinket to a dead friend whose skeleton sits in the lair of a chimera. If the party refuses to help them, they haunt the group until they leave the Ethereal Plane.
Starving Spiders
Night Hag, 2 Phase Spiders
Two phase spiders are scouring the Ethereal Plane, desperate for sustenance. The vaporous mists in this region of the Ethereal Plane have turned toxic due to the foul magic of a night hag, and if she’s not stop, dozens of creatures that live on the Ethereal Plane will starve.
Ethereal Thief
Mage
A mage is draining energy from the Ethereal Plane to fuel their misty step spell. However, this causes the border between the planes to weaken, to the point where they could potentially catastrophically merge.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Sorry, I messed up the multiattack. Thanks for the catch. And I might change it to fey, good point.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
My other submissions:
Player Option:
Empowerment of Vitality
DM Option:
Thief of Hearts
(Yes, the thief is based on p5)
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My homebrew stuff:
Spells, Monsters, Magic Items, Feats, Subclasses.
I am an Archfey, but nobody seems to notice.
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Here is my submission for the Inspirational Option
For visualizing this phenomenon, I like the mental image of the way the rainbow bridge functions in the MCU. A huge pillar of energy from a creature being transported across realms
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For Empowerment of Vitality, is the damage bonus equal to half of the necrotic damage rolled on the 6d8, or is it half of the TOTAL necrotic damage dealt across all affected creatures (i.e half of 6d8+6d8+6d8+6d8+.... depending on how many creatures were affected)
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I am an Archfey, but nobody seems to notice.
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