Sooooo, I’m planning on running a PBP for the spooky season, if any of you are interested. It’s basically a murder mystery, think a haunting in Venice or murder on the orient express. I’m using those two as examples because I just watched them like 2 days ago and they were the first things that came to mind.
Oh, cool. I don’t know if I’ll join though. Are there any class or race restrictions? What level do we start at?
No class or race restrictions, and it’s level 7 to start.
I'm reworking an old character of mine, one of the first I played on the forums: The Egregore. Originally, he was a hybrid between The Dredge from Dead By Daylight and the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth, luring in the unwary with gifts, food, and songs, then feeding off of their fears.
But slowly and steadily, he evolved into a sort of friendly (if creepy and ominous) host, bringing his Black Door to whoever needed it most, feeding and sheltering them until it was safe to leave his pocket dimension. Now, I want to bring back some of his old, horrific flavor.
The Egregore, the Shadow, the Decadent Dark... all these names and more are ascribed to the horror of the Yellow City's Eternal Carnival. When the sun fell for the last time in the Nightmare, fear began to rise. Plants died with no sun. Prey died with no plants. Predators died with no prey. The collapse was here, and there were no Titans to deliver them from this purgatory. They would starve, die, and come back, then starve and die again, forever and ever, ad infinitum. But in terror, there was hope.
Terror is a grim energy, but an energy nonetheless. It was everywhere. So much terror there was, in fact, that it could fuel... a Titan. Some denizens of the Yellow City, formerly the Gold City before the sun fell and it lost its shine, well, they found something to be happy about in this hellish world. The Flesh was an organism living in the sewers, living off of waste. However, its real meal was fear, and with the mass panic of the city above, it grew and grew until the entire sewer system was filled with delicious meat. They could shave pieces off of the Flesh and sell it up above, as long as no one found out where it came from.
Things went well. They sold the meat for cheap, and the Flesh didn't seem to mind. Like an old tree, it sometimes needed trimming. People weren't happy, but the meat was delicious and the body heat from the Flesh, assumed to be the waste rotting, kept the city warm, and even allowed for some "geothermal" energy harvesting to keep the lights on. There were consequences to eating such a being, but they were mostly helpful adaptations such as darkvision and the ability to survive the cold better. They mostly shrugged it off and said that they were simply getting used to the new world they inhabited. But then it happened.
They found out where it came from.
The terror from the days just after Sunfall came back in full force, multiplied as they now knew there was something awful growing under the city, swelling and mutating, infesting their bodies like a swarm of wretched insects. Their terror at the new world wasn't what spawned the Decadent Dark; it was their fear of how they just indulged themselves without thinking. The fear that they'll have to keep eating the meat. Their fear of their hunger. Their Id. Their Shadow. The Monster Inside. And from that spawned their Titan of Guilty Pleasures.
The Egregore stitched together nightmares, meat, smoke, lingerie, gold, whatever indulgences it could get its claws on, and it built a carnival. The Eternal Carnival. Pleasure Island. Dreamland. Oh, what joys it brought. Oh, what guilt.
The Carnival spread to infest most of the town, which at this point was populated by monsters that still pretended they looked like people. The Flesh is served year-round, always in different ways, and this unspoken truth haunts the city folk as they watch carnival-goers stuff themselves with the greatest food in the Nightmare. The Shadow watches over the Carnival, rooting out troublemakers and showing them the wonders and terrors of the world that it seeks out for the Carnival. "Have you tried fried Cezllian Moth? Oh, I insist." "These people would just love to put on a show for you! They're trained in strange techniques!" "What? Oh, of course you would never drink that beer, as you are a gentleman of discerning taste..." "Let me show you what it means to be afraid. After all, terror, pain, and pleasure are all one and the same, are they not?"
Sooooo, I’m planning on running a PBP for the spooky season, if any of you are interested. It’s basically a murder mystery, think a haunting in Venice or murder on the orient express. I’m using those two as examples because I just watched them like 2 days ago and they were the first things that came to mind.
Oh, cool. I don’t know if I’ll join though. Are there any class or race restrictions? What level do we start at?
No class or race restrictions, and it’s level 7 to start.
Hang on, give me a sec.
Ability scores: 141616131113
Are we allowed to reroll ones for stats?
Yep.
also, since i can’t make threads, it’ll probably just be in a PM.
Sorry about that, but I had some other ‘priorities’ first, like the spell thing. Sorry.
To be perfectly honest, it should be at the bottom of your priority list. It's cool, but I wrote it for myself. It's relevant to the Night Walker Tavern, though, so it might have some importance.
Also, I'm gonna RP the character discussed.
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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.
Would a spell be broken if it gave the effects of a long rest, but needed two hours to cast?
I don’t think so. It basically cuts the length of time needed for a long rest down to one quarter of the time. I don’t feel like that’s broken.
Great. The spell is basically just you setting up the most luxurious bed possible that can fit 3 creatures of any size.
That sounds awesome! Imma have my characters learn that one. Is it an arcane spell? What level is it?
It’s in the conjuration category if that’s what you’re asking. Is 9th too high, or should it be around 7?
What are y’all thoughts (y’all mean whoever sees this)? It also has two material components, a bed and silk.
I would make it sixth level and give the silk a gold cost.
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Would 50 GP work, or more?
I would say something like 600 gp, to fit with the regular scaling of spell-to-cost ratio. However, if the silk is consumed, 50 sounds like a good price.
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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.
Sooooo, I’m planning on running a PBP for the spooky season, if any of you are interested. It’s basically a murder mystery, think a haunting in Venice or murder on the orient express. I’m using those two as examples because I just watched them like 2 days ago and they were the first things that came to mind.
Oh, cool. I don’t know if I’ll join though. Are there any class or race restrictions? What level do we start at?
No class or race restrictions, and it’s level 7 to start.
Hang on, give me a sec.
Ability scores: 141616131113
Are we allowed to reroll ones for stats?
Yep.
also, since i can’t make threads, it’ll probably just be in a PM.
Ok. Give me a sec to make my character, then invite me, will ya?
Would a spell be broken if it gave the effects of a long rest, but needed two hours to cast?
I don’t think so. It basically cuts the length of time needed for a long rest down to one quarter of the time. I don’t feel like that’s broken.
Great. The spell is basically just you setting up the most luxurious bed possible that can fit 3 creatures of any size.
That sounds awesome! Imma have my characters learn that one. Is it an arcane spell? What level is it?
It’s in the conjuration category if that’s what you’re asking. Is 9th too high, or should it be around 7?
What are y’all thoughts (y’all mean whoever sees this)? It also has two material components, a bed and silk.
I would make it sixth level and give the silk a gold cost.
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Would 50 GP work, or more?
I would say something like 600 gp, to fit with the regular scaling of spell-to-cost ratio. However, if the silk is consumed, 50 sounds like a good price.
Sooooo, I’m planning on running a PBP for the spooky season, if any of you are interested. It’s basically a murder mystery, think a haunting in Venice or murder on the orient express. I’m using those two as examples because I just watched them like 2 days ago and they were the first things that came to mind.
Oh, cool. I don’t know if I’ll join though. Are there any class or race restrictions? What level do we start at?
No class or race restrictions, and it’s level 7 to start.
Hang on, give me a sec.
Ability scores: 141616131113
Are we allowed to reroll ones for stats?
Yep.
also, since i can’t make threads, it’ll probably just be in a PM.
Ok. Give me a sec to make my character, then invite me, will ya?
Thank you! I statted out both Egregore and the Flesh, so you could even fight them if you wanted!
Eh, spoiler, the Flesh has like no effective attacks.
Ooh could I see the statblocks? It’s always fun to see them.
I don't have them digitized, but I'll try and do that at some point in the future. I used some techniques from Why Your Monsters Suck on YouTube, as well as some from MCDM's Flee Mortals book. Let me sum it up, though:
Egregore ignores immunity to fear and has just about every fear-causing spell in the game, as well as several utility and illusion spells. None of his stats go above 20, but he is intended to be a CR 20+ monster that can fight solo against level 20 characters. He's a Huge Monstrosity that relies on trickery, and has to stay in dark or basically be useless.
The Flesh comes in small blobs called Sapid Flesh, which are minions (one hit kills, cleaving rules, all the cool stuff). It doesn't fight back, and is incredibly slow, but can effectively Compelled Duel you and force you to eat it on a failed save, causing you to convert your HP to temporary HP.
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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 leveled up a level three character to level 10 with no help. I've never done anything like this before on my own(I usually need help with just one level up), so even though its such a small thing, I'm super proud of myself
Congrats!
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Sooooo, I’m planning on running a PBP for the spooky season, if any of you are interested. It’s basically a murder mystery, think a haunting in Venice or murder on the orient express. I’m using those two as examples because I just watched them like 2 days ago and they were the first things that came to mind.
Oh, cool. I don’t know if I’ll join though. Are there any class or race restrictions? What level do we start at?
No class or race restrictions, and it’s level 7 to start.
Hang on, give me a sec.
Ability scores: 141616131113
Are we allowed to reroll ones for stats?
Yep.
also, since i can’t make threads, it’ll probably just be in a PM.
Ok. Give me a sec to make my character, then invite me, will ya?
Alrighty
Done, also
If we’re doing one of the players are the killer, and if mine is, the murdered might need to be a bit of a rich jerk.
Sorry about that, but I had some other ‘priorities’ first, like the spell thing. Sorry.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Would 50 GP work, or more?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Hang on, give me a sec.
Ability scores: 12 15 13 13 12 17
Are we allowed to reroll ones for stats?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Thats super cool. I love spooky carnivals.
Yep.
also, since i can’t make threads, it’ll probably just be in a PM.
To be perfectly honest, it should be at the bottom of your priority list. It's cool, but I wrote it for myself. It's relevant to the Night Walker Tavern, though, so it might have some importance.
Also, I'm gonna RP the character discussed.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I would say something like 600 gp, to fit with the regular scaling of spell-to-cost ratio. However, if the silk is consumed, 50 sounds like a good price.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Ok. Give me a sec to make my character, then invite me, will ya?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
It does, so 50
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Thank you! I statted out both Egregore and the Flesh, so you could even fight them if you wanted!
Eh, spoiler, the Flesh has like no effective attacks.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Ooh could I see the statblocks? It’s always fun to see them.
Alrighty
I don't have them digitized, but I'll try and do that at some point in the future. I used some techniques from Why Your Monsters Suck on YouTube, as well as some from MCDM's Flee Mortals book. Let me sum it up, though:
Egregore ignores immunity to fear and has just about every fear-causing spell in the game, as well as several utility and illusion spells. None of his stats go above 20, but he is intended to be a CR 20+ monster that can fight solo against level 20 characters. He's a Huge Monstrosity that relies on trickery, and has to stay in dark or basically be useless.
The Flesh comes in small blobs called Sapid Flesh, which are minions (one hit kills, cleaving rules, all the cool stuff). It doesn't fight back, and is incredibly slow, but can effectively Compelled Duel you and force you to eat it on a failed save, causing you to convert your HP to temporary HP.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
How has everyone been?
Your friendly trans bard!
She/They pronouns
The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
I've been better. Anxiety is killing me right now.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Same here.
Your friendly trans bard!
She/They pronouns
The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
i like turtles
Just a grung lover
Same, but Grungs are better than Tortles
Your friendly trans bard!
She/They pronouns
The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
Congrats!
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Done, also
If we’re doing one of the players are the killer, and if mine is, the murdered might need to be a bit of a rich jerk.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!