(Not mine. I can't remember where I read that one.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
(Not mine. I can't remember where I read that one.)
It was a list of useless magic items from Order of the Stick. Said list also included Beets of Striding and Springing, the Shield of Sparrow Deflection, and the Ring of Djinn Prank Calling.
And if we're talking about really bizarre magic items, in one campaign I'm in, another character has a magic Ring of the Exhibitionist, which provides an AC bonus based on how much skin the wearer shows. A bikini gets you the equivalent of chainmail. Going starkers* gets you plate.
*You can still wear things like belts and backpacks, just not clothing or other armor.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Perfect item for a damage sponge tank. They'll target the naked person first.
No more indoor spellcasting of spells with outdoor-inspired names or effects and no more outdoor-named damage indoors: No weather related spells inside. No Moonbeam without direct moonlight. No lightning or thunder damage indoors, too.
(That'll learn 'em for changing Electric and Sonic. Can't tell you how many people I've seen think Thunder means Electric. Thanks for that, Marvel.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
A Long Rest in a dungeon, street, alley, ditch, or tavern has no effect. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions.
A Long Rest in the wilderness, in a natural cave, or in a cheap or seedy inn counts only as a Short Rest. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions
A Long Rest in an reputable inn counts as a Long Rest. Trance functions as normal.
A Long Rest in an expensive resort results in one Long Rest, a time skip of 7 days, a loss of 21 days of standard inn expenses, and one Long Rest at the next uninterrupted Short Rest or longer at any location. Trance is considered a type of music and dance when staying at a resort.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
All DCs are done by popular vote of the players. Therefor, only an odd number of players may play at any time.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
A Long Rest in a dungeon, street, alley, ditch, or tavern has no effect. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions.
A Long Rest in the wilderness, in a natural cave, or in a cheap or seedy inn counts only as a Short Rest. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions
A Long Rest in an reputable inn counts as a Long Rest. Trance functions as normal.
A Long Rest in an expensive resort results in one Long Rest, a time skip of 7 days, a loss of 21 days of standard inn expenses, and one Long Rest at the next uninterrupted Short Rest or longer at any location. Trance is considered a type of music and dance when staying at a resort.
This is more realistic than the previous rule. Adding something about a bedroll out in nature counting as a long rest as well would make it nearly perfect
Critical success is not just for attack rolls anymore. (Not that most people think it is anyway.)
Natural 20s on DCs and Saves and Contests are instant successes regardless what is being attempted. Anything the players want to attempt will be rolled on a DC of the DM's choosing and the DM must allow the attempt - anything the player attempts to do. A DC or Save of 30+ is not immune to the Nat20 guaranteed success. The roll happens only once for an intended result and no further rolls may attempt to undo the Nat20 result until the succeeding party chooses to either allow an attempt or the succeeding party can simply decide the success has completed its intent.
If a character falls off of a ledge that would be to the character's death, the character can flap as hard as possible and succeed in flying by rolling a Nat20. A character can attempt to convince the final boss to become a doorman for the character's hovel and succeed by rolling a Nat20.
That's all well and good... except NPCs can do the same. An NPC wants to convince a player to donate all possessions - money, food, equipment, clothes, domiciles, vehicles, summoned characters and creatures, pets, children, hopes and dreams - to the local Thieves' Guild and can succeed by rolling a Nat20.
In the case of Contests where both parties roll a Nat20, they can take no further Action or Movement of any kind for that round - no Actions, no Bonus Actions, no extra Actions, no Free Actions, no Re actions. They must attempt another contest in the next round regardless if they wish to continue or not.
I will be removing all 0s from all d20s in the sessions I play now. (A 10 is a 1 and a 20 is a 2. Problem solved.)
What about d20 Nat1s? The DM gets to decide players' failures on all things and players get to decide NPC failures on all things - Attacks, Saves, DCs, anything using a d20 other than results from a table or determining a quantity of items or NPCs.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Every 10 Rounds of Combat without at least a Short Rest, the characters in Combat gain a level of the Exhaustion Condition. After a Short Rest or more or equivalent effect, the count of Combat Rounds before Exhaustion returns to 0. The Exhaustion Condition must be removed by normal 5e rules.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
A cursed breakfast burrito. If you eat it, you're stuck in the center of a Stinking Cloud the whole day, but you're immune to the effects and don't even realize it's happening.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
A cursed breakfast burrito. If you eat it, you're stuck in the center of a Stinking Cloud the whole day, but you're immune to the effects and don't even realize it's happening.
That’s only on a successful Con save. On a failed save you’re poisoned and incapacitated for the next 12 hours.
Wand of Counterspell. Ditto. Attempts to counterspell every spell.
Wand of Detect Magic. Detects that the wand is magic.
A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.
My Improved Lineage System
Gauntlets of Ogre Stench
(Not mine. I can't remember where I read that one.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Variant variant human. Starts with extra feet.
...I'll show myself out.
Do they come with legs?
It was a list of useless magic items from Order of the Stick. Said list also included Beets of Striding and Springing, the Shield of Sparrow Deflection, and the Ring of Djinn Prank Calling.
And if we're talking about really bizarre magic items, in one campaign I'm in, another character has a magic Ring of the Exhibitionist, which provides an AC bonus based on how much skin the wearer shows. A bikini gets you the equivalent of chainmail. Going starkers* gets you plate.
*You can still wear things like belts and backpacks, just not clothing or other armor.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Perfect item for a damage sponge tank. They'll target the naked person first.
No more indoor spellcasting of spells with outdoor-inspired names or effects and no more outdoor-named damage indoors: No weather related spells inside. No Moonbeam without direct moonlight. No lightning or thunder damage indoors, too.
(That'll learn 'em for changing Electric and Sonic. Can't tell you how many people I've seen think Thunder means Electric. Thanks for that, Marvel.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
ever played munchkin?
tho rod of lardly meat(lordly might)
the duck of doom(you should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon)
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.
A Long Rest in a dungeon, street, alley, ditch, or tavern has no effect. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions.
A Long Rest in the wilderness, in a natural cave, or in a cheap or seedy inn counts only as a Short Rest. Trance rests have no effect under the same conditions
A Long Rest in an reputable inn counts as a Long Rest. Trance functions as normal.
A Long Rest in an expensive resort results in one Long Rest, a time skip of 7 days, a loss of 21 days of standard inn expenses, and one Long Rest at the next uninterrupted Short Rest or longer at any location. Trance is considered a type of music and dance when staying at a resort.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I'm gonna use that, but every curse instead transfers to the wand bearer...
All DCs are done by popular vote of the players. Therefor, only an odd number of players may play at any time.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
This is more realistic than the previous rule. Adding something about a bedroll out in nature counting as a long rest as well would make it nearly perfect
Darn. I'm terrible at bad ideas, I guess.☹
Critical success is not just for attack rolls anymore. (Not that most people think it is anyway.)
Natural 20s on DCs and Saves and Contests are instant successes regardless what is being attempted. Anything the players want to attempt will be rolled on a DC of the DM's choosing and the DM must allow the attempt - anything the player attempts to do. A DC or Save of 30+ is not immune to the Nat20 guaranteed success. The roll happens only once for an intended result and no further rolls may attempt to undo the Nat20 result until the succeeding party chooses to either allow an attempt or the succeeding party can simply decide the success has completed its intent.
If a character falls off of a ledge that would be to the character's death, the character can flap as hard as possible and succeed in flying by rolling a Nat20. A character can attempt to convince the final boss to become a doorman for the character's hovel and succeed by rolling a Nat20.
That's all well and good... except NPCs can do the same. An NPC wants to convince a player to donate all possessions - money, food, equipment, clothes, domiciles, vehicles, summoned characters and creatures, pets, children, hopes and dreams - to the local Thieves' Guild and can succeed by rolling a Nat20.
In the case of Contests where both parties roll a Nat20, they can take no further Action or Movement of any kind for that round - no Actions, no Bonus Actions, no extra Actions, no Free Actions, no Re actions. They must attempt another contest in the next round regardless if they wish to continue or not.
I will be removing all 0s from all d20s in the sessions I play now. (A 10 is a 1 and a 20 is a 2. Problem solved.)
What about d20 Nat1s? The DM gets to decide players' failures on all things and players get to decide NPC failures on all things - Attacks, Saves, DCs, anything using a d20 other than results from a table or determining a quantity of items or NPCs.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Every 10 Rounds of Combat without at least a Short Rest, the characters in Combat gain a level of the Exhaustion Condition. After a Short Rest or more or equivalent effect, the count of Combat Rounds before Exhaustion returns to 0. The Exhaustion Condition must be removed by normal 5e rules.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Rules for hangovers, which include having disadvantage of saves vs Thunder damage.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Damage type mixes, like Flunder, Fire/Thunder damage, or Psiacid, Psychic/Acid damage.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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Yeah. That psychic acid damage is no joke. 😜
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A cursed breakfast burrito. If you eat it, you're stuck in the center of a Stinking Cloud the whole day, but you're immune to the effects and don't even realize it's happening.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
It's nothing compared to Fold damage (Force/Cold)!
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
That’s only on a successful Con save. On a failed save you’re poisoned and incapacitated for the next 12 hours.
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