An old sage who lives in the savanna. He knows every story ever told, every event that has ever happened, and he can foretell the future. The reason why? Anansi the spider who tricked the sky god into giving him all the stories in the world spins a web inside the old sage's ear and whispers in his spidery voice every secret and legend ever told.
To take this one step further, all descendants of Anansi, so all spiders, have divination powers. If you look closely at the patterns in a web, you can see hints of what is to come.
The basic concept of the Sandman is that it attacks players in a short or long rest.
Maybe it could hunt people by appearing in their dreams, and when they wake up, they appear?
Speaking of dream hunters:
In mythology there are several strange dream creatures.
For example, there was one story about a witch who was killed and buried, but a few days later people started having nightmares of the witch in their dreams. The dead witch was able to attack people through their dreams, from the grave. They later dug her up to find her perfectly preserved so they disposed of her in the typical way of vampires.
Another is the Draugr which are revenants from ancient burial mounds. They had incredible strength, shape-shifting powers, they could spread disease and misfortune, and they could enter the dreams of the living and mess with people's minds. They would then leave a token or gift to show the tangible nature of their visit.
Both of those creatures would be fun ways to mess with your players.
Baba Yaga from creature codex is really cool. Their statblock was made to frustrate the players. She can have an extra turn once a day, which also stuns people, she has a breath weapon, she has lots of spells, she can just randomly know things about people, and she can bite people and cast spells as a bonus action. If you have creature codex, they’re a really cool statblock to use.
I really like all of this, from both of you. I want to start a guild role play area at some point, so maybe you can intro some of these ideas then?
How exactly would it work? What differentiates it from the average tavern?
Have you ever seen the spider guilds lair? It was the previous rp thread for the guild, I was on it a ton and was the main reason (I think) why I was given the throne. The new one would be a lot like that, with a few changes.
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Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
I have this monster. I've roleplayed him on the forums before, and he's one of my favorite characters. This may not be quite "evil," but I wanted to share it anyway.
The Egregore. A monster made of the fear and love of an entire town that was ravaged by plague. The plague was brought by an eldritch horror that came to the earth because it was deathly ill, and it accidentally infected the village with its psychic virus. The resulting outbreak killed everyone, including the cosmic anomaly.
The Egregore is a boogeyman of sorts, appearing as an unspeakably hideous abomination shrouded in darkness. He looks like he is made out of the remains of machines, animals, and people that were destroyed in the plague. He is a hopeless romantic and hoards trinkets that have emotional significance. He can be summoned by pulping a baby false hydra, a creature he shares relations with, and drawing a quadrilateral on any surface with its remains. Doing so will open the door to The Attic, the Egregore's pocket dimension where he keeps all those trinkets and prepares feasts for visitors.
The Egregore has the memories of everything that died in his creation, and he wants nothing more than to share them with a friend. He will provide hospitality and trinkets to his summoner... in trade for sharing some sanity-blasting stories with them. He's always looking for that special someone, but odds are he will never find one given his impossibly foul appearance.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I also have a plague related character who is one of my favorites to roleplay. On the forums he is called the Plagued Doctor Seymund.
He was a normal plague doctor during the black plague and he became one in order to help people. However, as he went from town to town, trying to figure out how to heal the sick and suffering he realized how powerless he was. He went from one place to the next and found that each one was filled with the dead and dying and there was absolutely nothing he could do to stop the disease.
Eventually he came across a coven of witches hidden in the woodland outside a dying village. They were performing dark rituals and calling upon a horrible spirit known as Pesta in order to spread the plague. He fought them off, and learned from them that all across the country dark monsters were serving this spirit and were spreading pestilence and destruction. He began to fight against these monsters and eventually his efforts drew the attention of several supernatural entities, Pesta and the Grim Sweeper included. Pesta was angry that her followers were being defeated, so she attacked Seymund. The Grim Sweeper, Pesta's father, was against Pesta's disease and so he empowered the plague doctor to fight against her. With the power of Death on his side, Seymund almost destroyed Pesta. However, right before she could be killed she converted herself into the plague and rushed inside of him. The Grim Sweeper stripped her of most of her power at that moment, trapping the spirit of disease inside the body of this plague doctor.
Now Seymund is a living prison cell. Pesta is trapped inside of him and he is inflicted with the plague. If Seymund dies, so does Pesta, so she is using her powers to make him immortal. He has all the worse symptoms of the plague, but he can't die of it. This immortal plague doctor uses this power trapped inside of him to protect others from the supernatural, becoming a sort of monster hunter/paranormal investigator.
I am actually writing a comic about this character with a friend. His name has been altered to Seymour though.
The basic concept of the Sandman is that it attacks players in a short or long rest.
Maybe it could hunt people by appearing in their dreams, and when they wake up, they appear?
I like that idea
I’m basing it one the version of the sandman that steal children’s eyes, so I think it would use stealth, so maybe the dream idea wouldn’t work well with that
I know of a story called the Sandman where the Sandman is an old man who sneaks into houses and sprinkles sand into the eyes of children. This loosens the eyes in their sockets and he removes them before flying to the moon and feeding them to his monstrous children.
Or, he takes the eyes and gives them to mad inventors who put them in their clockwork machines to make them look like real life people. The eyes are also used to enchant spyglasses and similar items to make them show the world in a maddening way.
I remember that! I was wondering what was up with the name change. I'd be very happy to see what the comic is like once it is finished, even if I have to pay for it!
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
The basic concept of the Sandman is that it attacks players in a short or long rest.
Maybe it could hunt people by appearing in their dreams, and when they wake up, they appear?
I like that idea
What if it pursued and attacked players in their dreams, so they had to fight it there? So if they killed it their it wouldn't really die, and vice versa, but maybe if the PCs died in their dreams they couldn't finish their long rest?
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Proud member of the Spider's Guild (y'all should join!)!
Join Cafe [Redacted], people! I play Treble in it. Isn't SCP stuff awesome?
The basic concept of the Sandman is that it attacks players in a short or long rest.
Maybe it could hunt people by appearing in their dreams, and when they wake up, they appear?
I like that idea
What if it pursued and attacked players in their dreams, so they had to fight it there? So if they killed it their it wouldn't really die, and vice versa, but maybe if the PCs died in their dreams they couldn't finish their long rest?
I remember that! I was wondering what was up with the name change. I'd be very happy to see what the comic is like once it is finished, even if I have to pay for it!
If I ever get it published I will definitely let y'all know. This is the first time I have ever written a comic though so publishing is a long way down the road.
The basic concept of the Sandman is that it attacks players in a short or long rest.
Maybe it could hunt people by appearing in their dreams, and when they wake up, they appear?
I like that idea
What if it pursued and attacked players in their dreams, so they had to fight it there? So if they killed it their it wouldn't really die, and vice versa, but maybe if the PCs died in their dreams they couldn't finish their long rest?
Do a whole campaign modeled after Inception.
Lol, yeah!
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Proud member of the Spider's Guild (y'all should join!)!
Join Cafe [Redacted], people! I play Treble in it. Isn't SCP stuff awesome?
Have you seen their video on the King in Yellow yet?
I saw the one where they summarized the book a while ago but I think they have done another about the King in Yellow specifically that I haven't seen yet. Is it good?
If we are doing spider ideas.
An old sage who lives in the savanna. He knows every story ever told, every event that has ever happened, and he can foretell the future. The reason why? Anansi the spider who tricked the sky god into giving him all the stories in the world spins a web inside the old sage's ear and whispers in his spidery voice every secret and legend ever told.
To take this one step further, all descendants of Anansi, so all spiders, have divination powers. If you look closely at the patterns in a web, you can see hints of what is to come.
Ooh thats cool.
Speaking of dream hunters:
In mythology there are several strange dream creatures.
For example, there was one story about a witch who was killed and buried, but a few days later people started having nightmares of the witch in their dreams. The dead witch was able to attack people through their dreams, from the grave. They later dug her up to find her perfectly preserved so they disposed of her in the typical way of vampires.
Another is the Draugr which are revenants from ancient burial mounds. They had incredible strength, shape-shifting powers, they could spread disease and misfortune, and they could enter the dreams of the living and mess with people's minds. They would then leave a token or gift to show the tangible nature of their visit.
Both of those creatures would be fun ways to mess with your players.
Baba Yaga from creature codex is really cool. Their statblock was made to frustrate the players. She can have an extra turn once a day, which also stuns people, she has a breath weapon, she has lots of spells, she can just randomly know things about people, and she can bite people and cast spells as a bonus action. If you have creature codex, they’re a really cool statblock to use.
I don't have the Creature Codex but if they made a statblock worthy of the Baba Yaga then I applaud them.
I really like all of this, from both of you. I want to start a guild role play area at some point, so maybe you can intro some of these ideas then?
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
How exactly would it work? What differentiates it from the average tavern?
Have you ever seen the spider guilds lair? It was the previous rp thread for the guild, I was on it a ton and was the main reason (I think) why I was given the throne. The new one would be a lot like that, with a few changes.
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
I have this monster. I've roleplayed him on the forums before, and he's one of my favorite characters. This may not be quite "evil," but I wanted to share it anyway.
The Egregore. A monster made of the fear and love of an entire town that was ravaged by plague. The plague was brought by an eldritch horror that came to the earth because it was deathly ill, and it accidentally infected the village with its psychic virus. The resulting outbreak killed everyone, including the cosmic anomaly.
The Egregore is a boogeyman of sorts, appearing as an unspeakably hideous abomination shrouded in darkness. He looks like he is made out of the remains of machines, animals, and people that were destroyed in the plague. He is a hopeless romantic and hoards trinkets that have emotional significance. He can be summoned by pulping a baby false hydra, a creature he shares relations with, and drawing a quadrilateral on any surface with its remains. Doing so will open the door to The Attic, the Egregore's pocket dimension where he keeps all those trinkets and prepares feasts for visitors.
The Egregore has the memories of everything that died in his creation, and he wants nothing more than to share them with a friend. He will provide hospitality and trinkets to his summoner... in trade for sharing some sanity-blasting stories with them. He's always looking for that special someone, but odds are he will never find one given his impossibly foul appearance.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
That is really interesting Baalzeboop.
I also have a plague related character who is one of my favorites to roleplay. On the forums he is called the Plagued Doctor Seymund.
He was a normal plague doctor during the black plague and he became one in order to help people. However, as he went from town to town, trying to figure out how to heal the sick and suffering he realized how powerless he was. He went from one place to the next and found that each one was filled with the dead and dying and there was absolutely nothing he could do to stop the disease.
Eventually he came across a coven of witches hidden in the woodland outside a dying village. They were performing dark rituals and calling upon a horrible spirit known as Pesta in order to spread the plague. He fought them off, and learned from them that all across the country dark monsters were serving this spirit and were spreading pestilence and destruction. He began to fight against these monsters and eventually his efforts drew the attention of several supernatural entities, Pesta and the Grim Sweeper included. Pesta was angry that her followers were being defeated, so she attacked Seymund. The Grim Sweeper, Pesta's father, was against Pesta's disease and so he empowered the plague doctor to fight against her. With the power of Death on his side, Seymund almost destroyed Pesta. However, right before she could be killed she converted herself into the plague and rushed inside of him. The Grim Sweeper stripped her of most of her power at that moment, trapping the spirit of disease inside the body of this plague doctor.
Now Seymund is a living prison cell. Pesta is trapped inside of him and he is inflicted with the plague. If Seymund dies, so does Pesta, so she is using her powers to make him immortal. He has all the worse symptoms of the plague, but he can't die of it. This immortal plague doctor uses this power trapped inside of him to protect others from the supernatural, becoming a sort of monster hunter/paranormal investigator.
I am actually writing a comic about this character with a friend. His name has been altered to Seymour though.
I know of a story called the Sandman where the Sandman is an old man who sneaks into houses and sprinkles sand into the eyes of children. This loosens the eyes in their sockets and he removes them before flying to the moon and feeding them to his monstrous children.
Or, he takes the eyes and gives them to mad inventors who put them in their clockwork machines to make them look like real life people. The eyes are also used to enchant spyglasses and similar items to make them show the world in a maddening way.
I remember that! I was wondering what was up with the name change. I'd be very happy to see what the comic is like once it is finished, even if I have to pay for it!
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
What if it pursued and attacked players in their dreams, so they had to fight it there? So if they killed it their it wouldn't really die, and vice versa, but maybe if the PCs died in their dreams they couldn't finish their long rest?
Proud member of the Spider's Guild (y'all should join!)!
Join Cafe [Redacted], people! I play Treble in it. Isn't SCP stuff awesome?
Harry Potter stuff is cool.
Homebrew: The BloodBorn; GemBlade Soldiers; Soldier of The Silver Armies. (Comments, Improvements?)
Life is okay, but who knows how long that will last.
Speaking of the Sandman:
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Do a whole campaign modeled after Inception.
If I ever get it published I will definitely let y'all know. This is the first time I have ever written a comic though so publishing is a long way down the road.
Lol, yeah!
Proud member of the Spider's Guild (y'all should join!)!
Join Cafe [Redacted], people! I play Treble in it. Isn't SCP stuff awesome?
Harry Potter stuff is cool.
Homebrew: The BloodBorn; GemBlade Soldiers; Soldier of The Silver Armies. (Comments, Improvements?)
Life is okay, but who knows how long that will last.
I watched that video about thirty minutes ago.
Have you seen their video on the King in Yellow yet?
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I saw the one where they summarized the book a while ago but I think they have done another about the King in Yellow specifically that I haven't seen yet. Is it good?