However, they can also bog down pacing and damage that verisimilitude just as easily. As such, you want to ensure that your random encounters are making your wilderness a more vibrant, interesting place to adventure in. Your random encounters should accomplish some of the following: Save you time Save you work Push characters toward interesting […]
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With the knowledge of the planes quite literally at their claw-tips, it comes as no surprise that ratatosk have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Citizens of the World Tree The ratatosk presented in the Tome of Beasts represents a squirrel-folk trained to travel the pathways of Yggdrasil and is the one most often
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Frightful Presence. Each creature of the graveyard dragon’s choice that is within 60 feet of the dragon and aware of it must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
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Saint Castillius of the Iron Rod Origins. A defining trait of many saints is an act of sacrifice or martyrdom in the name of their beliefs. One saint who exemplifies this trait is St. Castillius, a humble man of great fortitude and faith in the goddess Lada. Castillius was a low-ranking cleric of Lada’s clergy,
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Paladins have been around for the majority of the game’s history. These holy warriors embody the knight in shining armor archetype. Paladins are an incredibly satisfying class to play because they deal massive amounts of damage without being too overwhelmingly complicated to play. Paladins also make an excellent choice for a new player because they
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From Fisher to Favored. Zarkut grew up in poverty on the docks of Droisha where he and his brothers fished for bream and octopus in their family’s well-patched rowboat. They managed to bring in enough for the dinner table, but there was rarely extra to take to market. Life was drudgery with little hope for
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We are knee-deep in summer right now, which normally means it’s also convention season. With the global pandemic still “A Thing,” the whole convention circuit is taking a little bit different form this year. There are still plenty of in-person shows going on, but a lot of cons have either added—or completely shifted to—a virtual
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Listed below are but a few possibilities for adventures that feature the squirrel-folk. A Gremlin in the Works (Blood Kingdom) Sabotage rocks the construction site of the new Blood Cathedral to Marena in Varshava. Built upon the razed site of an older temple to Wotan, the new cathedral symbolizes the power of the Blood Kingdom.
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Brigands and their Tactics This dance of mongoose and viper has crossed the sands for ages. The raiders utilize a variety of tactics and methods suiting their skills and preferred environments. Here we present a few, so one may adopt them or plan to defend against them. Method: Blitzers Description. The simplest form of robbery
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It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a delve-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got. This month, we’ve got a piece from Scarlet Citadel (artist Egil Thompson). Let’s go light up the shadows, adventurers! Please, click on the image you want to download to expand it into
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Swamp/Marsh/Bog 2d20 Encounter 2 1d4+1 viirets (see Tome of Beasts 2), feasting on a diseased tree. They are not aggressive to the party unless attacked—but if a party member is currently suffering from disease of any kind, the viirets target them. 3 A mass of 2d4 putrid haunts (see Tome of Beasts) lying in the
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So instead, what if we look at traps that move the victim instead of trying to keep them in the same place. It’s a lot harder to predict where you don’t want to be if the danger itself, or the victim, are on the move. There is also something inherently more exciting—and often more comedic
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Curse of Dissipation To enact this curse, the Harbingers will conduct a ritual to affect a thing or place already tainted by the Void—the lair of a creature associated with the Void, a battleground where Void spells were cast, or a spellbook containing Void magic—to direct the taint in a specific fashion. The curse afflicts
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Role of the Monk Monks are very direct in their intentions: they exist to deal a bunch of damage and deal it fast. Monks are the champions of pure DPS (damage per second), and there is no way around that. Monks cannot wear armor, which makes them subpar tanks. They don’t have any access to
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Aggressive Forester. The stryx living in the Old Margreve keep watch over its roads and paths and deliver news of interesting characters and events to the druid Bellisaromir. The young alseid shadows creatures his friends point out to him, ostensibly to make sure they don’t despoil the forest, but in truth, he hopes they do
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For our purposes, we’re going to focus on three elements of giving a location character: What defines this place? How does this place interact with your setting? What can characters do in this place? You should start with the first question as it will guide you toward the others. There are exceptions. Such as, if
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