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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6900 on: May 14, 2019, 03:32:26 pm »

Corruption mechanics. You could probably steal something from the 40k RPGs.

As for goblin blood, how about something useful but so situationally that it doesn't really matter? A short bonus to hiding, cheap disengage, upgrading normal -> low-light -> dark vision.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6901 on: May 14, 2019, 03:35:37 pm »

Doesn't seem great to give a really common item a situational use. At that point you may as well say they don't have enough power to do anything and save the players from hoarding the things.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6902 on: May 14, 2019, 03:47:56 pm »

Darkvision might be useful, but if everyone in your party has it its not that useful.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6903 on: May 14, 2019, 05:20:13 pm »

Maybe goblin heart blood could be some sort of replacement for (part of) the gp costs of crafting items and scribing scrolls and things? That way one goblin heart isn't terribly useful, but slaughtering a truckload of goblins gets you half off a new pair of magic boots or something.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6904 on: May 14, 2019, 05:46:18 pm »

This reminds me that I think there was some sort of rumor in my group's setting that halfling blood has a silencing effect, especially when used on door hinges.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6905 on: May 15, 2019, 05:47:55 am »

So an idea I had today was borne of scanning through the spell list for a Pathfinder Cleric. The spell Enemy's Heart would make a great enchantment to put on a dagger, and I thought of making a mission objective for a quest out if it.

I figured I'd make a +1 dagger with 3/day uses of Enemy's Heart, and the PC has a mission to assassinate a target using the dagger.

This got me thinking of other items that could be turned into objects which a PC must use to complete a quest. What things do you guys reckon would make good quest items, not as a McGuffin to find, but as a tool to use to accomplish your objective? I'm really struggling to figure out stuff to use that's not a weapon or a weapon analogue, such as a wand.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6906 on: May 15, 2019, 07:46:37 am »

In the final quest of the Thieves Guild line in Oblivion, you have to bring an arrow with a key as its head that you have to shoot into a lock from across the room. The same quest also has you use magical jumping boots to survive a long fall.

And if you're looking for items to use as tools for a quest, why not actual tools and trinkets? A silent hammer. A bottle of special perfume to Charm a guard. A belt with a coded message written on it. A gnomish recording phonograph to eavesdrop a confession. A pair of goggles so dark that they make you blind to everything but a monster that otherwise shines like the sun.

A Hand of Glory, in any form of the myth, would be useful for a sneak (whether it turns you invisible, shines a light only you can see, entrances anyone but you looking at it, or whatever).
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6907 on: May 15, 2019, 08:57:19 am »

I still like that idea I saw one time of a sword that causes emotional wounds.


Want a quest item? How about an important person is inflicted with an ailment that can be cured with a chunk of mellifed man? I suppose that's a bit McGuffin-y though...

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6908 on: May 15, 2019, 09:22:37 am »

I still like that idea I saw one time of a sword that causes emotional wounds.

Pathfinder has a spell for that, sort of. Enchant your gimp suit with the Sadomasochism spell.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6909 on: May 15, 2019, 02:34:52 pm »

https://reclaimthewild.net/
This is a Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tabletop game. I have not read much of the manual, but what I have seems interesting.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6910 on: May 15, 2019, 03:44:11 pm »

https://reclaimthewild.net/
This is a Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tabletop game. I have not read much of the manual, but what I have seems interesting.
Interesting indeed. I have a pdf that contains 5th Edition versions of Hylian races, but a proper LoZ tabletop game could be very cool.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6911 on: May 17, 2019, 11:50:17 am »

There are people near me that play 3.5 DND. Sweet.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6912 on: May 17, 2019, 11:57:40 am »

https://reclaimthewild.net/
This is a Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tabletop game. I have not read much of the manual, but what I have seems interesting.
Interesting indeed. I have a pdf that contains 5th Edition versions of Hylian races, but a proper LoZ tabletop game could be very cool.
In case it's not obvious, its free.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6913 on: May 17, 2019, 03:28:17 pm »

https://reclaimthewild.net/
This is a Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tabletop game. I have not read much of the manual, but what I have seems interesting.
Interesting indeed. I have a pdf that contains 5th Edition versions of Hylian races, but a proper LoZ tabletop game could be very cool.
In case it's not obvious, its free.
Yeah, I've been looking over the core book. It looks rather nice, especially for a fan project, and the mechanics don't look half bad either.
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