The next room is a test of Intelligence. It’s a dark room, with the only light source coming from bioluminescent moss growing on the walls and floor. A brass cauldron sits in a wall alcove. There is a loft above the players when the enter the room, and seated on the loft is a goblin wizard named Bumbles that gives them instructions.
There are four types of moss — a red variety, a blue variety, a purple variety, and a green variety.
The green and purple can be mixed to create a philter of love.
The red cannot be mixed with anything, and if it is the final brew will act as a potion of poison.
Mixing three or more colors creates a diluted brew that tastes vaguely like basil and has no in-game effect.
The PCs are instructed to create a philter of love, which Bumbles needs to impress his crush. Figuring out which colors can be mixed with which requires a DC 12 Investigation check. Intelligence-based classes like wizards and artificers have advantage on the check. Four checks are theoretically needed to uncover all the possibilities, but the PCs need only to make as many checks necessary to discover the green+purple combination. They can also experiment by adding random moss to the cauldron and testing each potion to determine its effects.
The cauldron magically refills itself after each attempt, so previous experimentation won’t affect future results. Bumbles has no way to know which potions are which, so it’s entirely possible for the PCs to give him a non-love potion and move on regardless — the only downside being that the poor wizard’s date night is ruined.
One of the rooms - to try and get it so everyone has a chance (assuming a caster will be present of some kind - whether Cleric, Druid, Wizard, etc.)
Room of Runes. This room appears to be a dead end. Each brick however has a rune etched on it. The runes are of an old, almost forgotten Magic tongue.
Arcana or History Check: DC 12. Just above average, especially for introduction dungeon.
On Success: The Runes speak of "Consuming Magic To See Beyond." A player should surmise that any magic spell can be cast in this room. When done so, the Runes ignite, revealing a door hidden by magic (and undetectable by other methods).
The Mirror Room: Inside this bland room there is a single mirror. Upon approaching it, a shimmering image of a bard appears. "Good day, the name's Arius Songstrider. It would seem a hag has trapped me inside this mirror. Apparently she wasn't pleased with me making a song about how ugly she was. The hag believes that no one would care enough to try and free me from this prison." The bard shrugs. "Well, it's true," he says beneath his breath. "She was rather ugly. Now that said, it's highly recommended that you do not break the mirror. It's true what they say you know - about the bad luck. The bad luck comes from hags because they often use mirrors to travel between areas. And when they discover someone has broken one of their passage ways they will bestow a curse upon you."
The party can speak with Arius - and he will eventually reveal, the only way to set him free is for them to preform a song about him and his woes - to prove that someone cares enough to get him out of his prison.
Someone in the party (is there a bard present?) can do a Performance check - or the party as a whole can perform as a "band" - banging on their weapons, staves on the ground, to create musical "sounds." The DC is a merely a DC 12 Performance check - if it's done as a Group - just half or more of the party need to succeed.
Doing so will free Arius from the mirror - and the party can now have their first NPC.
The next room is a test of Constitution. A small pedestal will have a bottle with a drink in it. A man in a mask will be on a balcony. A lever is next to him, which is the trigger to open the door to the next room. Once the party enters, he will speak:
"So you seek to brave this perilous place? Try this elixir here!" He points to the potion. "Once someone drinks it and doesn't vomit, I'll let you pass."
Any character can drink the drink, forcing them to make a DC 10 constitution saving throw or gag and vomit uncontrollably for a small bit. Otherwise, no effect. Once a character has drinken once, they will always have the same reaction, forcing them to try different people instead of one person drinking it over and over.
Once a character succeeds:
The man claps. "Very good! Onward to the next room you go." He pulls the lever and the door opens.
If the rare event nobody succeeds occurs:
The man sighs. "None of you have a proper immune system. Kids these days, not gaining their vitamins." He pulls a different lever the party didn't see before, and a noxious gas fills the room, causing the party to fall asleep for around 10-30 minutes. When they wake up, the door to the next room is open and the man is gone.
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The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Also, after spending some time in the Arts & Crafts forums, I have decided to start making the characters from Tawmis as Heroforges, and so, the first character on the list: Dorsay the wood elf transmutation wizard: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config=44808287/ .does anyone (who am I kidding, I've spent enough time in Arts & Crafts to know that Sposta knows the answer) how to put the image in a spoiler rather than having to put a link?
The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Also, after spending some time in the Arts & Crafts forums, I have decided to start making the characters from Tawmis as Heroforges, and so, the first character on the list: Dorsay the wood elf transmutation wizard: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config=44808287/ .does anyone (who am I kidding, I've spent enough time in Arts & Crafts to know that Sposta knows the answer) how to put the image in a spoiler rather than having to put a link?
Nope. No clue.
Not even a little bit.
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The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Also, after spending some time in the Arts & Crafts forums, I have decided to start making the characters from Tawmis as Heroforges, and so, the first character on the list: Dorsay the wood elf transmutation wizard: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config=44808287/ .does anyone (who am I kidding, I've spent enough time in Arts & Crafts to know that Sposta knows the answer) how to put the image in a spoiler rather than having to put a link?
Nope. No clue.
Not even a little bit.
Teach me your ways! I am but a young padawan, eager to learn from the wise old sages. what do you think? any suggestions/alterations?
The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Also, after spending some time in the Arts & Crafts forums, I have decided to start making the characters from Tawmis as Heroforges, and so, the first character on the list: Dorsay the wood elf transmutation wizard: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config=44808287/ .does anyone (who am I kidding, I've spent enough time in Arts & Crafts to know that Sposta knows the answer) how to put the image in a spoiler rather than having to put a link?
Nope. No clue.
Not even a little bit.
Teach me your ways! I am but a young padawan, eager to learn from the wise old sages. what do you think? any suggestions/alterations?
So, once you have the photo hosted somewhere (I used my wyrlde website), you click the insert photo thing like you normally would, put in the link, set the constrain to 600 or whatever.
THen, once it appears, it will be all dark, because it is selected. Then you hit the exclamation point to make it spoiler -- and if you unselect it, then just select it again.
As for the fig, it works, lol.
Imma download it and probably print it out down the road.
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The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Thanks for the feedback!
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The Enchantment Room: As the party enters the room - the door behind them seals shut - and seemingly vanishes! (Any attempts to locate the door they'd just come through will result in no success). The room appears to be a large temple - empty pews, now rotting line up in seven rows. Ancient stained glass is cracked and broken - but the view outside seems to be a dark abyss. Down the long row of pews, a single statue with its arms outstretched gazes directly at the door all of you have come in.
As the party searches around the room and/or approaches the statue, the lone statue in the room suddenly animates. "Welcome. This room was once a temple to a deity, long since forgotten. Over the ages the connection to the deity has been severed - and as such - I have but one more blessing left in me. Who among you will step forward so that I might temporarily enhance your weapon?"
The statue will bless a weapon - temporarily making it a +1 to hit, +1 to damage.
The final room probably should be some form of combat, I assume.
After the party exits these ten rooms, the enhancement will cease to exist.
After the statue blesses someone's weapon - it will crumble in a burst of light - revealing a hole where it once stood that the party can descend down into the next room.
EDIT: You could even at this point use "Survival" checks to tie a secure knot on something before they descend, and then have people make Athletics check to descend down the rope. Falling would only be about 10 to 15 feet, so minimal damage if someone fell?
Because of the challenge, I did not finish the final continent. I will do it tomorrow.
Today, however, I present to you the Land of Learning, Pedantia. Which is one of those weird places where you can drop in a whole host of different (yet shockingly common) cultures, using any one of the 25 city states. There are Far East, Dark Jungle, Highland, Lowland, and more possible places. The purpose of Pedantia? To aid new DMs in creating their own world by giving them a place that is vaguely reminiscent of a compressed Earthly locale.
Now, why would I be focused on teaching new players and new DMs suddenly?
We are about to grow to 50 members of what seems to be becoming a kind of informal club. None of the new members have ever played before. Additionally, I have been asked to run a game locally -- by folks who don't know how to play, lol. Wyrlde is not a good learning environment. The rules are too different.
Birth and Growth. The Year of the Wood Dragon is already starting...
As ever, click through to embiggen to 6k.
One square is 3 miles. Yes, this is a very "close up" map, and a very small land. Six squares is a day's travel. I crammed Scandinava, Britain, Central Europe, Western Europe, Italy, Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Jungle, Japan/Korea/China, The Central Steppes, Sahara, and more into this map. There are also 6 Dungeon entrances scattered around, lol.
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Because of the challenge, I did not finish the final continent. I will do it tomorrow.
Today, however, I present to you the Land of Learning, Pedantia. Which is one of those weird places where you can drop in a whole host of different (yet shockingly common) cultures, using any one of the 25 city states. There are Far East, Dark Jungle, Highland, Lowland, and more possible places. The purpose of Pedantia? To aid new DMs in creating their own world by giving them a place that is vaguely reminiscent of a compressed Earthly locale.
Now, why would I be focused on teaching new players and new DMs suddenly?
We are about to grow to 50 members of what seems to be becoming a kind of informal club. None of the new members have ever played before. Additionally, I have been asked to run a game locally -- by folks who don't know how to play, lol. Wyrlde is not a good learning environment. The rules are too different.
Birth and Growth. The Year of the Wood Dragon is already starting...
As ever, click through to embiggen to 6k.
One square is 3 miles. Yes, this is a very "close up" map, and a very small land. Six squares is a day's travel. I crammed Scandinava, Britain, Central Europe, Western Europe, Italy, Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Jungle, Japan/Korea/China, The Central Steppes, Sahara, and more into this map. There are also 6 Dungeon entrances scattered around, lol.
I congratulate you on your ability to make maps. Whenever I do it ends up like this.
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after descending to the boss room from room 8, the party lowes themself onto a small island in an underground lake where an Ogre is. the ogre got trapped down here through a tunnel that partially collasped, but that can still fit medium creatures if they squeeze, (the tunnel leads to room 10, prolly a treasure/reward room). the Ogre is asleep, dozing on a throne (really giving the rogue a chance to shine), and the party must kill it. to make the Ogre not able to one hit kill the whole party, give it the following adjustments:
The ogre has a strength of 16, as spending time trapped in the cave has made it weak.
The ogre wields a normal club rather than a greatclub, as it once had a greatclub that broke when it tried to smash its way out of the cavern, so now it sa smaller lcub, the party could possibly parley with the beast by offering to fix the club (mending, anybody?), which the ogre cuddles like a stuffed animal while sleeping
This makes the Ogre has +5 to hit, on a hit it deals 8 (2d4 + 3) Bludegoning damage.
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My Characters:Brorminthe Devout Crusher; Ellorathe Romantic Rookie
QOTD: what do you think of this proposed system for martial characters:
Requirment: class that gets extra attack
Martials do not get extra attacks, instead, they get a pool of weapon damage dice = to the base weapon damage die + their level in martials classes (this stacks, so lvl 5 Barbarian, lvl 2 paladin has 7 dice). before they take the attack action, they divide their dice between a number of attacks (minimum 1 die per attack). they can also spend extra dice on their turn to attach rider effects similar to a battlemaster, just without the extra superiority die of damage. dual wielding adds the second base damage die to the dice pool, but you must split your dice between at least 2 attacks to gain this benefit. the martial rolls each attack roll, on a hit, the number of dice specified for that attack are rolled as the base weapon damage. magical weapons add extra damage die instead of +1/2/3 damage on a hit.
example: a level 20 champion fighter has the dueling fighting style. they wield a magical +3 longsword. they have 24d8 dice to spend on attacks (20 for lvl 20 fighter, 1 for longsword, 3 for magic sword), the fighter could choose to make one attack that deals 24d8+strength on a hit, six attacks that each deal 4d8+strength on a hit, or 24 attacks that deal 1d8+strength on a hit. or they could sacrifice up to 23 dice to add on rider effects (hoo boy, think about that, your a monster fighting this fighter and you get tripped, fientiend, shoved, disarmed, stunned, flat-footed, and like 20 other thinhgs all from one attack that dealt a paltry amount of damage
Just spitballing here
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This is a very zoomed in area of the earlier map, featuring the City of Aegis, and the towns of Metis and Koitis. The dungeon is in the upper left corner.
The section of the big map this comes from is the Greece-like area. There are some ruins scattered around as well. The grid is one mile.
For me, this is generally as tight as I go. Smaller than this and I start to get cranky because the things I need and want aren't available on Inkarnate as stamps or whatever, and most of the time it isn't useful since this is a travel map more than anything else.
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And, to finish the whole world of Iyah for all of you:
Alaha, the first continent.
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The next room is a test of Intelligence. It’s a dark room, with the only light source coming from bioluminescent moss growing on the walls and floor. A brass cauldron sits in a wall alcove. There is a loft above the players when the enter the room, and seated on the loft is a goblin wizard named Bumbles that gives them instructions.
There are four types of moss — a red variety, a blue variety, a purple variety, and a green variety.
The PCs are instructed to create a philter of love, which Bumbles needs to impress his crush. Figuring out which colors can be mixed with which requires a DC 12 Investigation check. Intelligence-based classes like wizards and artificers have advantage on the check. Four checks are theoretically needed to uncover all the possibilities, but the PCs need only to make as many checks necessary to discover the green+purple combination. They can also experiment by adding random moss to the cauldron and testing each potion to determine its effects.
The cauldron magically refills itself after each attempt, so previous experimentation won’t affect future results. Bumbles has no way to know which potions are which, so it’s entirely possible for the PCs to give him a non-love potion and move on regardless — the only downside being that the poor wizard’s date night is ruined.
edit: fixed tooltips.
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One of the rooms - to try and get it so everyone has a chance (assuming a caster will be present of some kind - whether Cleric, Druid, Wizard, etc.)
Room of Runes. This room appears to be a dead end. Each brick however has a rune etched on it. The runes are of an old, almost forgotten Magic tongue.
Arcana or History Check: DC 12. Just above average, especially for introduction dungeon.
On Success: The Runes speak of "Consuming Magic To See Beyond." A player should surmise that any magic spell can be cast in this room. When done so, the Runes ignite, revealing a door hidden by magic (and undetectable by other methods).
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The Mirror Room: Inside this bland room there is a single mirror. Upon approaching it, a shimmering image of a bard appears. "Good day, the name's Arius Songstrider. It would seem a hag has trapped me inside this mirror. Apparently she wasn't pleased with me making a song about how ugly she was. The hag believes that no one would care enough to try and free me from this prison." The bard shrugs. "Well, it's true," he says beneath his breath. "She was rather ugly. Now that said, it's highly recommended that you do not break the mirror. It's true what they say you know - about the bad luck. The bad luck comes from hags because they often use mirrors to travel between areas. And when they discover someone has broken one of their passage ways they will bestow a curse upon you."
The party can speak with Arius - and he will eventually reveal, the only way to set him free is for them to preform a song about him and his woes - to prove that someone cares enough to get him out of his prison.
Someone in the party (is there a bard present?) can do a Performance check - or the party as a whole can perform as a "band" - banging on their weapons, staves on the ground, to create musical "sounds." The DC is a merely a DC 12 Performance check - if it's done as a Group - just half or more of the party need to succeed.
Doing so will free Arius from the mirror - and the party can now have their first NPC.
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The next room is a test of Constitution. A small pedestal will have a bottle with a drink in it. A man in a mask will be on a balcony. A lever is next to him, which is the trigger to open the door to the next room. Once the party enters, he will speak:
"So you seek to brave this perilous place? Try this elixir here!" He points to the potion. "Once someone drinks it and doesn't vomit, I'll let you pass."
Any character can drink the drink, forcing them to make a DC 10 constitution saving throw or gag and vomit uncontrollably for a small bit. Otherwise, no effect. Once a character has drinken once, they will always have the same reaction, forcing them to try different people instead of one person drinking it over and over.
Once a character succeeds:
The man claps. "Very good! Onward to the next room you go." He pulls the lever and the door opens.
If the rare event nobody succeeds occurs:
The man sighs. "None of you have a proper immune system. Kids these days, not gaining their vitamins." He pulls a different lever the party didn't see before, and a noxious gas fills the room, causing the party to fall asleep for around 10-30 minutes. When they wake up, the door to the next room is open and the man is gone.
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
The Band thing is hilarious, but I will add one thing to room 3: instead of a DC 15 check, it requires a combined strength modifier of +4, so a normal martial has a low chance of doing it alone, so it teaches the value of teamwork, but the Martial can still contribute most of the work and feel like, as a standard party (fighter w/ +3 Str, rogue w/ +0 str, wizard w/ +0, cleric w/ str +1; approximately)
Also, after spending some time in the Arts & Crafts forums, I have decided to start making the characters from Tawmis as Heroforges, and so, the first character on the list: Dorsay the wood elf transmutation wizard: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config=44808287/ .does anyone (who am I kidding, I've spent enough time in Arts & Crafts to know that Sposta knows the answer) how to put the image in a spoiler rather than having to put a link?
Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, a young genderfluid actor, writer, explorer, and bass vocalist. Pronouns They/Them/Theirs
My Characters: Brormin the Devout Crusher; Ellora the Romantic Rookie
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"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
Nope. No clue.
Not even a little bit.
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Teach me your ways! I am but a young padawan, eager to learn from the wise old sages. what do you think? any suggestions/alterations?
Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, a young genderfluid actor, writer, explorer, and bass vocalist. Pronouns They/Them/Theirs
My Characters: Brormin the Devout Crusher; Ellora the Romantic Rookie
Check out my EXTENDED SIGNATUR (hasn't been updated in forever, fyi) and don’t forget to join the Anything but the OGL 2.0 Thread!
"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
So, once you have the photo hosted somewhere (I used my wyrlde website), you click the insert photo thing like you normally would, put in the link, set the constrain to 600 or whatever.
THen, once it appears, it will be all dark, because it is selected. Then you hit the exclamation point to make it spoiler -- and if you unselect it, then just select it again.
As for the fig, it works, lol.
Imma download it and probably print it out down the road.
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Thanks for the feedback!
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
The Enchantment Room: As the party enters the room - the door behind them seals shut - and seemingly vanishes! (Any attempts to locate the door they'd just come through will result in no success). The room appears to be a large temple - empty pews, now rotting line up in seven rows. Ancient stained glass is cracked and broken - but the view outside seems to be a dark abyss. Down the long row of pews, a single statue with its arms outstretched gazes directly at the door all of you have come in.
As the party searches around the room and/or approaches the statue, the lone statue in the room suddenly animates. "Welcome. This room was once a temple to a deity, long since forgotten. Over the ages the connection to the deity has been severed - and as such - I have but one more blessing left in me. Who among you will step forward so that I might temporarily enhance your weapon?"
The statue will bless a weapon - temporarily making it a +1 to hit, +1 to damage.
The final room probably should be some form of combat, I assume.
After the party exits these ten rooms, the enhancement will cease to exist.
After the statue blesses someone's weapon - it will crumble in a burst of light - revealing a hole where it once stood that the party can descend down into the next room.
EDIT: You could even at this point use "Survival" checks to tie a secure knot on something before they descend, and then have people make Athletics check to descend down the rope. Falling would only be about 10 to 15 feet, so minimal damage if someone fell?
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Because of the challenge, I did not finish the final continent. I will do it tomorrow.
Today, however, I present to you the Land of Learning, Pedantia. Which is one of those weird places where you can drop in a whole host of different (yet shockingly common) cultures, using any one of the 25 city states. There are Far East, Dark Jungle, Highland, Lowland, and more possible places. The purpose of Pedantia? To aid new DMs in creating their own world by giving them a place that is vaguely reminiscent of a compressed Earthly locale.
Now, why would I be focused on teaching new players and new DMs suddenly?
We are about to grow to 50 members of what seems to be becoming a kind of informal club. None of the new members have ever played before. Additionally, I have been asked to run a game locally -- by folks who don't know how to play, lol. Wyrlde is not a good learning environment. The rules are too different.
Birth and Growth. The Year of the Wood Dragon is already starting...
One square is 3 miles. Yes, this is a very "close up" map, and a very small land. Six squares is a day's travel. I crammed Scandinava, Britain, Central Europe, Western Europe, Italy, Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Jungle, Japan/Korea/China, The Central Steppes, Sahara, and more into this map. There are also 6 Dungeon entrances scattered around, lol.
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I congratulate you on your ability to make maps. Whenever I do it ends up like this.
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Though to be fair, this is quite literally named what happens when your bored.
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Oh, and congrats on the new 50. That seems like a lot of new people to teach new things.
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Room 9: The Big Boss Throwdown!
after descending to the boss room from room 8, the party lowes themself onto a small island in an underground lake where an Ogre is. the ogre got trapped down here through a tunnel that partially collasped, but that can still fit medium creatures if they squeeze, (the tunnel leads to room 10, prolly a treasure/reward room). the Ogre is asleep, dozing on a throne (really giving the rogue a chance to shine), and the party must kill it. to make the Ogre not able to one hit kill the whole party, give it the following adjustments:
This makes the Ogre has +5 to hit, on a hit it deals 8 (2d4 + 3) Bludegoning damage.
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QOTD: what do you think of this proposed system for martial characters:
Requirment: class that gets extra attack
Martials do not get extra attacks, instead, they get a pool of weapon damage dice = to the base weapon damage die + their level in martials classes (this stacks, so lvl 5 Barbarian, lvl 2 paladin has 7 dice). before they take the attack action, they divide their dice between a number of attacks (minimum 1 die per attack). they can also spend extra dice on their turn to attach rider effects similar to a battlemaster, just without the extra superiority die of damage. dual wielding adds the second base damage die to the dice pool, but you must split your dice between at least 2 attacks to gain this benefit. the martial rolls each attack roll, on a hit, the number of dice specified for that attack are rolled as the base weapon damage. magical weapons add extra damage die instead of +1/2/3 damage on a hit.
example: a level 20 champion fighter has the dueling fighting style. they wield a magical +3 longsword. they have 24d8 dice to spend on attacks (20 for lvl 20 fighter, 1 for longsword, 3 for magic sword), the fighter could choose to make one attack that deals 24d8+strength on a hit, six attacks that each deal 4d8+strength on a hit, or 24 attacks that deal 1d8+strength on a hit. or they could sacrifice up to 23 dice to add on rider effects (hoo boy, think about that, your a monster fighting this fighter and you get tripped, fientiend, shoved, disarmed, stunned, flat-footed, and like 20 other thinhgs all from one attack that dealt a paltry amount of damage
Just spitballing here
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The immediate Environs around the Dungeon:
This is a very zoomed in area of the earlier map, featuring the City of Aegis, and the towns of Metis and Koitis. The dungeon is in the upper left corner.
The section of the big map this comes from is the Greece-like area. There are some ruins scattered around as well. The grid is one mile.
For me, this is generally as tight as I go. Smaller than this and I start to get cranky because the things I need and want aren't available on Inkarnate as stamps or whatever, and most of the time it isn't useful since this is a travel map more than anything else.
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And, to finish the whole world of Iyah for all of you:
Alaha, the first continent.
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Ok, so, here we go: Iyah as a whole.
Click through to embiggen and save, and they are all for you to use as you would like.
https://inkarnate.com/m/rgXNWQ-iyah/
https://inkarnate.com/m/lgrox7-iyah-alaha/
https://inkarnate.com/m/QlzQJ8-iyah-iyena/
https://inkarnate.com/m/vlJx1V-iyah-hasala/
https://inkarnate.com/m/MR7G9Z-iyah-kath/
https://inkarnate.com/m/67qn20-iyah-chelfth/
https://inkarnate.com/m/ZV275K-iyah-chelfth-phthorsk/
https://inkarnate.com/m/DXbvLl-iyah-spotia/
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. . . Wow.
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