Anyone have a fantasy that doesn't fit with DnD's base mechanics at all?
To be clear, I'm not talking about not having a good group, I mean like having to homebrew out most of the things that define DnD to achieve your fantasy.
Somebody sound the flood siren, the AEDorsay text is coming!
What is that? I meant like as a player.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Anyone have a fantasy that doesn't fit with DnD's base mechanics at all?
To be clear, I'm not talking about not having a good group, I mean like having to homebrew out most of the things that define DnD to achieve your fantasy.
Somebody sound the flood siren, the AEDorsay text is coming!
What is that? I meant like as a player.
Quar1on's making an inside joke. AEDorsay is a user who makes long posts here. We love her and her long posts!
As for me, I mean, kinda? I want the Vox Machina/Honor Among Thieves/Harry Potter/Jojo's kind of magic where it's largely about your focus and your mental state, as well as your training, which happens "on-screen" and is focused on learning the particular techniques you'll attempt to use later. I've been posting about it lately, you can check my post history. D&D's magic is not like that. Because D&D's magic is Jack Vance's magic, specifically the spells cast by Magicians in the Dying Earth. They're essentially magic items. You carry as many as you can, and you expend them in order to trigger their effects, which are consistent and predictable, even if they're very strange.
Also I would love a good system for gathering ingredients and cooking that doesn't unfairly dominate the game or something. Like yeah, it's very easy to say a spicy meal gives you resistance to fire damage or a hearty feast gives you temporary HP or something, but you're meddling with balance when you do this. Why would I ever spend a spell slot on False Life, etc etc. I want it baked in as part of the game, pun not intended.
Anyone have a fantasy that doesn't fit with DnD's base mechanics at all?
To be clear, I'm not talking about not having a good group, I mean like having to homebrew out most of the things that define DnD to achieve your fantasy.
Somebody sound the flood siren, the AEDorsay text is coming!
What is that? I meant like as a player.
Quar1on's making a joke.
Me?Never!
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Question: have you ever made an op PC on accident? I made one a couple days ago that can make 12 consecutive attacks with advantage on the first 5 rounds.
Correction. 24 with advantage for the first two, and then 12 with advantage for the next 3.
And yet, still not posted what the build is. Just keep replying to your own post?
I already said the build. Fallen Aasimar Echo Knight with Eye of Chronos feat.
See, but the problem is, Eye of Chronos is a homebrew feat that is very broken.
This. If your homebrew is comparable to a 9th-level spell, there might be something wrong with your homebrew.
Would it be better if they needed to be 16th level to get it?
Anyone have a fantasy that doesn't fit with DnD's base mechanics at all?
As a DM, I can't say I have.
Nor as a player, really, since as a player, in 5e - I've never been in any homebrew. They're all published campaigns (Out of the Abyss, Storm King's Thunder, Lost Mines of Phandalin, and now as of yesterday - Dragonlance).
Also I would love a good system for gathering ingredients and cooking that doesn't unfairly dominate the game or something. Like yeah, it's very easy to say a spicy meal gives you resistance to fire damage or a hearty feast gives you temporary HP or something, but you're meddling with balance when you do this. Why would I ever spend a spell slot on False Life, etc etc. I want it baked in as part of the game, pun not intended.
I am actually (and have been for awhile, not much in terms of free time) working on something that goes along with this.
I have an excel sheet of some fake and real plants and where they are found (plains, forests, deserts, mountains, etc).
And during a rest, a party can spend their time "out harvesting" (so no benefits to rest or expending hit dice, since they're actively walking around).
Each plant has a Nature DC (for the frequency in which they appear). So they can do a Survival check, I check the Excel sheet and whatever the highest DC they rolled, they can find and harvest that plant. (On some of them I wrote "Requires Nature or Survival to properly harvest" - so some plants require an additional roll - those are usually related to poisons). Plants that are harvested last 7 days. If someone purchases a Nature Kit, that is doubled to 14 days. Each plant has a listed price of their value (which decreases a specific % for every day it's been harvested - half if in a Nature Kit). The Excel sheet has details as to what plants mixed make what (mostly just mimicking cantrips and low level spells).
So various potions (or poisons) can be made this way - but they're just weaker versions of actual spells. Mostly used for "in a pinch" situation, or to consume/use first, before resorting to actual spells.
Also I would love a good system for gathering ingredients and cooking that doesn't unfairly dominate the game or something. Like yeah, it's very easy to say a spicy meal gives you resistance to fire damage or a hearty feast gives you temporary HP or something, but you're meddling with balance when you do this. Why would I ever spend a spell slot on False Life, etc etc. I want it baked in as part of the game, pun not intended.
I am actually (and have been for awhile, not much in terms of free time) working on something that goes along with this.
I have an excel sheet of some fake and real plants and where they are found (plains, forests, deserts, mountains, etc).
And during a rest, a party can spend their time "out harvesting" (so no benefits to rest or expending hit dice, since they're actively walking around).
Each plant has a Nature DC (for the frequency in which they appear). So they can do a Survival check, I check the Excel sheet and whatever the highest DC they rolled, they can find and harvest that plant. (On some of them I wrote "Requires Nature or Survival to properly harvest" - so some plants require an additional roll - those are usually related to poisons). Plants that are harvested last 7 days. If someone purchases a Nature Kit, that is doubled to 14 days. Each plant has a listed price of their value (which decreases a specific % for every day it's been harvested - half if in a Nature Kit). The Excel sheet has details as to what plants mixed make what (mostly just mimicking cantrips and low level spells).
So various potions (or poisons) can be made this way - but they're just weaker versions of actual spells. Mostly used for "in a pinch" situation, or to consume/use first, before resorting to actual spells.
I like this. I found a book that had similar concepts and was really quite intriguing, but it ended up being 100 pages and $70, so I decided not to buy it, as I needed to stock up on paints and minis to work on.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
“… and me great, great grandfather said, Aksident, swung her blade twenty four times, for every swing o’ the sword me great, great grandfather swung ‘is! And ye now us dwarves! We had to admit when there’s another who might be a greater warrior than us! But Aksident, she was a sight to behold! Aksident proclaimed that she had some kind of angelic bloodline – which is the only reason, I think me great, great grandfather would admit how incredible she was to behold. Always said, ‘She was mighty fine to behold,’ – which was something me great, great grandmother was not fond o’ hearing – because she could swear he meant that she was beautiful too! But he’d always add, ‘Only reason she was better’an me is because of that angelic blood! Still no mortal that is a great tomb raider or warrior than me!” Drakenbrine explained as they walked through the woods, his hands flailing about for emphasis.
“You mentioned she was an Aasimar?” ChoirOfFire asked. ChoirOfFire was a Tiefling; one that was rumored to have had a demomic bloodline somewhere do their ancestral family line. An Aasimar was something that was strangely not traveling with them. Her eyes drifted behind her where at the back of the group a fumbling old man, with ears like elves, beard like a dwarf, and hair on his feet like a Halfling seemed to struggle with the path – AllMightyLordOfDND, ChoirOfFire believed was far more than he appeared to be – but certainly not an Aasimar. She turned her attention back towards Drakenbrine. “So how was she able to strike so fast? From the sounds of your – yet another – fantastic tale, she seemed unnatural fast. Even for ‘an angel blood.’ As someone who has ‘demon blood’ I am not mystically faster.”
“Well she was like you, accordin’ to me great, great grandfather! Said Aksident was a … fallen Aasimar,” he paused for dramatic, but ChoirOfFire had her arms crossed in front of her chest, unimpressed.
“Being fallen doesn’t mean she’s like me,” ChoirOfFire snorted. “Just means she touched darkness. That still wouldn’t make her fast.”
“Did I not mention she was an Echo Knight?” he replied.
“You didn’t, but that still wouldn’t do it,” ChoirOfFire growled. “That just means that’s probably the darkness she touched – summoning shades to help her in battle. I am surprised your great, great grandfather wasn’t unnerved by that. Regardless, that still doesn’t do it.”
“Oh, did I not mention she wore the Eye of Kraunos,” he replied again, his hands making a wide arc.
“The Eye of Kraunos is a fictional thing,” ChoirOfFire retorted. According to legend, Kraunos was a deity who saw the future, past, and present all at the same time. It is said that the deity saw a visage that caused him great fear – so much so that it drove him made and he gouged his own eyes to stop the visions. His eyes, said to be meteors fell from the heavens into the mortal plane, where they shattered into thousands of pieces – and many speculate that if they pieces are gathered together, the one who wears it will be able to manipulate time itself; so that they could see the past, present and future, just as the deity had; and supposedly could gain absolute control of time, so that an enemy might move at a snail’s pace, while the one who wears it could strike like a cheetah. The other story is that those who wear the Eye of Kraunos would never age and attain true immortality, being the master of time.
As the party made camp, the young, Kobold druid, Antonsirius, came to sit next to the opposing, and opposite figure – Thorrison, the Giff Ranger. Antonsirius looked at Thorrison, “Your people – the Giff – they are not native to this land, correct?”
Thorrison, who looked to be what a humanoid hippopotamus might look like turned and looked at the much smaller figure sitting beside him. “No, the Giff are not from Deyandy – we are from far beyond.” For a moment Thorrison looked sad, before he forced a smile and said, “I originally hail from Ayfrikka.”
“What was that world like?” Antonsirius asked, curious to know more.
“It was beautiful and terrifying all at once,” Thorrison explained. “In the land I come from, it was arid plains of grass, where often rain did not come for an entire season, and yet there were rivers and lakes that existed. The plains were full of lethal hunters, much like him,” he gestured towards Deadpan_c. “Leonin. That’s what they were called on my world as well. I suspect that Deadpan_c’s own lineage also traces to Ayfrikka as well. He may not just be aware of it. The Leonin were the apex hunters on my world. They were lethal hunters. Though they did not hunt my kind, nor the Loxodon,” Thorrison began to explain, but Antonsirius cut him off.
“Loxodon?” Antonsirius asked. “What’s a Loxodon?”
“Have you never heard of a Loxodon?” Thorrison asked, amused. “They’re difficult to miss. If you think I am large. The Loxodon are elephant humanoids, towering several feet higher, and rounder than myself.”
“I can see why the Leonin did not hunt either of your kind,” Antonsirius confirmed with a nod of his head. Though Deadpan_c was muscular, the idea of taking on a Giff or something bigger, such as a Loxodon, would require several Leonin.
“Anyway, the Leonin, they did hunt in packs – or what they called prides,” Thorrison explained. “If they found one of our young, or a young Loxodon, or one of us alone, an entire pride may try to bring us down – but it was rare.”
“However, a terrible species of people known as the Githyanki found Ayfrikka and began hunting – mostly the Loxodon for their tusks – to use as weapons and to sell the ivory to vendors of the Astral Plane,” Thorrison’s look grimaced. “However, as we rushed to defend the Loxodon, and the Githyanki became aware of us – the Giff became hunted as well, primarily because of the amount of meat on our bones, which could feed travelers on the Astral Plane for long periods of time. The hunting, mostly of the Loxodon became so outrageous, that the Loxodon were brought to the brink of extinction, which is why I suppose I am not too surprised you’d not seen one – not many exist anymore due to these Githyanki poachers.”
Thorrison paused for a moment, and Antonsirius could see pain etched on the tough Giff’s expression. “I was helping Loxodon escape on a Spelljammer I acquired, but we were over taken by the damn Githyanki who simply had faster ships – and planned the ambush. We were boarded, I was taken prisoner and tortured; the Loxodon were all brutally slain – the echoes of their screams ring in my ears endlessly. I was finally able to overpower the Githyanki and escape in a smaller ship. One of their cannon struck my ship, sending it spiraling out of control. I crash landed on this world. I am hoping, along the way, I find a way to get back to Ayfrikka and to help the Loxodon against the Githyanki.”
Antonsirius wasn’t sure what to say, and turned and watched the fire crackle, every once in awhile turning to look at Thorrison and from time to time, a tear streaked down the jagged features of the Giff.
And while this is a story, and I just make it up as I go (clearly) – the idea of poaching is a very real thing, and while steps have been made to help decrease the poaching of ivory – here’s a little more if you’re so inclined: https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/stopping-elephant-ivory-demand
Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
Oh, I'm just talking about the spells you see people casting in the movie. Off the top of my head, there's Time Stop (but it doesn't work the same way...), Misty Step, Prestidigitation, what might be Hold Person or perhaps Entangle, Meteor Storm, Major Image, Reverse Gravity, and Counterspell.
Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
Oh, I'm just talking about the spells you see people casting in the movie. Off the top of my head, there's Time Stop (but it doesn't work the same way...), Misty Step, Prestidigitation, what might be Hold Person or perhaps Entangle, Meteor Storm, Major Image, Reverse Gravity, and Counterspell.
One small thing: meteor swarm is not actually cast in the movie. That was actually a special ability that is included in one of the stat blocks WotC made.
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What is that? I meant like as a player.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Quar1on's making an inside joke. AEDorsay is a user who makes long posts here. We love her and her long posts!
As for me, I mean, kinda? I want the Vox Machina/Honor Among Thieves/Harry Potter/Jojo's kind of magic where it's largely about your focus and your mental state, as well as your training, which happens "on-screen" and is focused on learning the particular techniques you'll attempt to use later. I've been posting about it lately, you can check my post history. D&D's magic is not like that. Because D&D's magic is Jack Vance's magic, specifically the spells cast by Magicians in the Dying Earth. They're essentially magic items. You carry as many as you can, and you expend them in order to trigger their effects, which are consistent and predictable, even if they're very strange.
Also I would love a good system for gathering ingredients and cooking that doesn't unfairly dominate the game or something. Like yeah, it's very easy to say a spicy meal gives you resistance to fire damage or a hearty feast gives you temporary HP or something, but you're meddling with balance when you do this. Why would I ever spend a spell slot on False Life, etc etc. I want it baked in as part of the game, pun not intended.
Me? Never!
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Would it be better if they needed to be 16th level to get it?
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You had not mentioned the Feat... you'd only said it was a homebrew feat... To which....
... and...
... point out exactly why I was asking. I was banking on that all these extra attacks were going to rely on whatever this "homebrew feat" was...
As a DM, I can't say I have.
Nor as a player, really, since as a player, in 5e - I've never been in any homebrew. They're all published campaigns (Out of the Abyss, Storm King's Thunder, Lost Mines of Phandalin, and now as of yesterday - Dragonlance).
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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I am actually (and have been for awhile, not much in terms of free time) working on something that goes along with this.
I have an excel sheet of some fake and real plants and where they are found (plains, forests, deserts, mountains, etc).
And during a rest, a party can spend their time "out harvesting" (so no benefits to rest or expending hit dice, since they're actively walking around).
Each plant has a Nature DC (for the frequency in which they appear). So they can do a Survival check, I check the Excel sheet and whatever the highest DC they rolled, they can find and harvest that plant. (On some of them I wrote "Requires Nature or Survival to properly harvest" - so some plants require an additional roll - those are usually related to poisons). Plants that are harvested last 7 days. If someone purchases a Nature Kit, that is doubled to 14 days. Each plant has a listed price of their value (which decreases a specific % for every day it's been harvested - half if in a Nature Kit). The Excel sheet has details as to what plants mixed make what (mostly just mimicking cantrips and low level spells).
So various potions (or poisons) can be made this way - but they're just weaker versions of actual spells. Mostly used for "in a pinch" situation, or to consume/use first, before resorting to actual spells.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
I like this. I found a book that had similar concepts and was really quite intriguing, but it ended up being 100 pages and $70, so I decided not to buy it, as I needed to stock up on paints and minis to work on.
And yes, minis and paint are needs in my world.
I must have missed this post. Not hugely relevant anymore but I just wanna say I didn't intend to ignore anyone here
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I hope not... unless it's modeled after what I know it for.
I know the word as a Wizardry spell, since like Wizardry 1.
It was essentially Fireball.
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Q: If you could choose between being able to cast any one spell from D&D: Honor Among Thieves, what would you pick? The icy finger Prestidigitation honestly seems pretty neat, I don't know how often I'm gonna need to like, strangle someone with a giant tentacle.
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I'd have to go with a "the remote is too far away" spell. Misty step, telekinesis, or Bigby's hand.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Not seen the movie yet (I assume it's from the movie specifically) - the Honor Among Thieves Bundle (https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/bundle/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves?icid_medium=ddb&icid_source=article&icid_campaign=claim-hat&icid_content=honor-bundle) doesn't have Spells that I see.
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Blame: AllMightyLordOfDND (https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=466 and https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=467)
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IAMsposta: satyr bard
AEDorsay: elf wizard
Sirtawmis: half-orc fighter
Deadpan_c: leonin barbarian
Theology of Bagels: goblin cleric
Drakenbrine: dwarf sorcerer
Amnon_Balderk: orc monk
Midnightplat: changeling rogue
Wysperra: halfling artificer
Quar1on: gnome warlock
Antonsirius: kobold Druid
Thorrison: Giff Ranger
ChoirOfFire: tielfing paladin
The_Summoning_Dark: tortle bloodhunter
BoringBard: Dragonborn bard
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“… and me great, great grandfather said, Aksident, swung her blade twenty four times, for every swing o’ the sword me great, great grandfather swung ‘is! And ye now us dwarves! We had to admit when there’s another who might be a greater warrior than us! But Aksident, she was a sight to behold! Aksident proclaimed that she had some kind of angelic bloodline – which is the only reason, I think me great, great grandfather would admit how incredible she was to behold. Always said, ‘She was mighty fine to behold,’ – which was something me great, great grandmother was not fond o’ hearing – because she could swear he meant that she was beautiful too! But he’d always add, ‘Only reason she was better’an me is because of that angelic blood! Still no mortal that is a great tomb raider or warrior than me!” Drakenbrine explained as they walked through the woods, his hands flailing about for emphasis.
“You mentioned she was an Aasimar?” ChoirOfFire asked. ChoirOfFire was a Tiefling; one that was rumored to have had a demomic bloodline somewhere do their ancestral family line. An Aasimar was something that was strangely not traveling with them. Her eyes drifted behind her where at the back of the group a fumbling old man, with ears like elves, beard like a dwarf, and hair on his feet like a Halfling seemed to struggle with the path – AllMightyLordOfDND, ChoirOfFire believed was far more than he appeared to be – but certainly not an Aasimar. She turned her attention back towards Drakenbrine. “So how was she able to strike so fast? From the sounds of your – yet another – fantastic tale, she seemed unnatural fast. Even for ‘an angel blood.’ As someone who has ‘demon blood’ I am not mystically faster.”
“Well she was like you, accordin’ to me great, great grandfather! Said Aksident was a … fallen Aasimar,” he paused for dramatic, but ChoirOfFire had her arms crossed in front of her chest, unimpressed.
“Being fallen doesn’t mean she’s like me,” ChoirOfFire snorted. “Just means she touched darkness. That still wouldn’t make her fast.”
“Did I not mention she was an Echo Knight?” he replied.
“You didn’t, but that still wouldn’t do it,” ChoirOfFire growled. “That just means that’s probably the darkness she touched – summoning shades to help her in battle. I am surprised your great, great grandfather wasn’t unnerved by that. Regardless, that still doesn’t do it.”
“Oh, did I not mention she wore the Eye of Kraunos,” he replied again, his hands making a wide arc.
“The Eye of Kraunos is a fictional thing,” ChoirOfFire retorted. According to legend, Kraunos was a deity who saw the future, past, and present all at the same time. It is said that the deity saw a visage that caused him great fear – so much so that it drove him made and he gouged his own eyes to stop the visions. His eyes, said to be meteors fell from the heavens into the mortal plane, where they shattered into thousands of pieces – and many speculate that if they pieces are gathered together, the one who wears it will be able to manipulate time itself; so that they could see the past, present and future, just as the deity had; and supposedly could gain absolute control of time, so that an enemy might move at a snail’s pace, while the one who wears it could strike like a cheetah. The other story is that those who wear the Eye of Kraunos would never age and attain true immortality, being the master of time.
As the party made camp, the young, Kobold druid, Antonsirius, came to sit next to the opposing, and opposite figure – Thorrison, the Giff Ranger. Antonsirius looked at Thorrison, “Your people – the Giff – they are not native to this land, correct?”
Thorrison, who looked to be what a humanoid hippopotamus might look like turned and looked at the much smaller figure sitting beside him. “No, the Giff are not from Deyandy – we are from far beyond.” For a moment Thorrison looked sad, before he forced a smile and said, “I originally hail from Ayfrikka.”
“What was that world like?” Antonsirius asked, curious to know more.
“It was beautiful and terrifying all at once,” Thorrison explained. “In the land I come from, it was arid plains of grass, where often rain did not come for an entire season, and yet there were rivers and lakes that existed. The plains were full of lethal hunters, much like him,” he gestured towards Deadpan_c. “Leonin. That’s what they were called on my world as well. I suspect that Deadpan_c’s own lineage also traces to Ayfrikka as well. He may not just be aware of it. The Leonin were the apex hunters on my world. They were lethal hunters. Though they did not hunt my kind, nor the Loxodon,” Thorrison began to explain, but Antonsirius cut him off.
“Loxodon?” Antonsirius asked. “What’s a Loxodon?”
“Have you never heard of a Loxodon?” Thorrison asked, amused. “They’re difficult to miss. If you think I am large. The Loxodon are elephant humanoids, towering several feet higher, and rounder than myself.”
“I can see why the Leonin did not hunt either of your kind,” Antonsirius confirmed with a nod of his head. Though Deadpan_c was muscular, the idea of taking on a Giff or something bigger, such as a Loxodon, would require several Leonin.
“Anyway, the Leonin, they did hunt in packs – or what they called prides,” Thorrison explained. “If they found one of our young, or a young Loxodon, or one of us alone, an entire pride may try to bring us down – but it was rare.”
“However, a terrible species of people known as the Githyanki found Ayfrikka and began hunting – mostly the Loxodon for their tusks – to use as weapons and to sell the ivory to vendors of the Astral Plane,” Thorrison’s look grimaced. “However, as we rushed to defend the Loxodon, and the Githyanki became aware of us – the Giff became hunted as well, primarily because of the amount of meat on our bones, which could feed travelers on the Astral Plane for long periods of time. The hunting, mostly of the Loxodon became so outrageous, that the Loxodon were brought to the brink of extinction, which is why I suppose I am not too surprised you’d not seen one – not many exist anymore due to these Githyanki poachers.”
Thorrison paused for a moment, and Antonsirius could see pain etched on the tough Giff’s expression. “I was helping Loxodon escape on a Spelljammer I acquired, but we were over taken by the damn Githyanki who simply had faster ships – and planned the ambush. We were boarded, I was taken prisoner and tortured; the Loxodon were all brutally slain – the echoes of their screams ring in my ears endlessly. I was finally able to overpower the Githyanki and escape in a smaller ship. One of their cannon struck my ship, sending it spiraling out of control. I crash landed on this world. I am hoping, along the way, I find a way to get back to Ayfrikka and to help the Loxodon against the Githyanki.”
Antonsirius wasn’t sure what to say, and turned and watched the fire crackle, every once in awhile turning to look at Thorrison and from time to time, a tear streaked down the jagged features of the Giff.
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Oh, I'm just talking about the spells you see people casting in the movie. Off the top of my head, there's Time Stop (but it doesn't work the same way...), Misty Step, Prestidigitation, what might be Hold Person or perhaps Entangle, Meteor Storm, Major Image, Reverse Gravity, and Counterspell.
One small thing: meteor swarm is not actually cast in the movie. That was actually a special ability that is included in one of the stat blocks WotC made.