Picture this: you have given your players a Deck of Many Things, and your Lawful Good Paladin draws the Balance card. Following the rules of the game, your paladin should now be Chaotic Evil, and nothing else. Here's the thing that bugs me: that's not balance, all this card has done is increase the number of Chaotic Evil creatures in the world, which is not balanced, since the number of Lawful Good decreases with the loss of the Paladin.
Here is my proposed rule: when this theoretical LG Paladin pulls the Balance card, becomes CE, but at the exact same moment that the Paladin's alignment changes, some CE creature somewhere in the world changes to LG. The DM can decide how exactly the other creature to get its alignment swapped is decided. Maybe the DM just randomly picks a creature somewhere in the world, or maybe the card picks the closest creature of CE alignment to turn LG, at the same time that the paladin changes alignment.
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You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
That sounds like it'd be great fun if the CE villain draws Balance and the nearest LG creature is a PC.
Then the "villain" has to help the party stop the PC who's trying to betray them.
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You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
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Picture this: you have given your players a Deck of Many Things, and your Lawful Good Paladin draws the Balance card. Following the rules of the game, your paladin should now be Chaotic Evil, and nothing else. Here's the thing that bugs me: that's not balance, all this card has done is increase the number of Chaotic Evil creatures in the world, which is not balanced, since the number of Lawful Good decreases with the loss of the Paladin.
Here is my proposed rule: when this theoretical LG Paladin pulls the Balance card, becomes CE, but at the exact same moment that the Paladin's alignment changes, some CE creature somewhere in the world changes to LG. The DM can decide how exactly the other creature to get its alignment swapped is decided. Maybe the DM just randomly picks a creature somewhere in the world, or maybe the card picks the closest creature of CE alignment to turn LG, at the same time that the paladin changes alignment.
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
That sounds like it'd be great fun if the CE villain draws Balance and the nearest LG creature is a PC.
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Then the "villain" has to help the party stop the PC who's trying to betray them.
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.