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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8325 on: August 03, 2020, 02:03:33 pm »

That is a fun and silly sounding magic item table, I hope your players enjoy the items as much as I enjoyed reading those descriptions.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8326 on: August 03, 2020, 07:33:05 pm »

That is a fun and silly sounding magic item table, I hope your players enjoy the items as much as I enjoyed reading those descriptions.
Thanks, I hope so too

I enjoy making this stuff but I always believe there's no game, no story, until your friends have played it

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So I've added to the first three with help from you guys. There are some stray pixels I need to sort out but for the most part I'm happy with the results, especially since I feel like I'm making actual progress when it comes to drawing shit. At the very least, I'd be willing to show these to my friends! ;D

So we got (left to right)
Goose (poultergoose / poultergeist), swan (black swan / black knight), duck (duch / lich), goose (gandervamp / vampire), magpie (Mr. Magman / Mammon, A Magpire was tempting but their money grabbing was too obvious), pigeon (Pigeon Pilate / rakasha), heron (Heronymous Boss / roc).

Also keeping in theme with the seven breadly sins.
-Poultergoose is envy, always taking others things but can never actually use them or hold onto them for long because incorporeal. Generally speaking, doesn't get along with any of the other breadly sins at all, as it envies them all and is especially despised by Mr. Magpie.
-Black Swan is wrath, always breaking people's arms and killing other birbs for no reason. Fairly self-explanatory here. Black Swan is on great terms with Pigeon Pilate & Gandervamp, and is on good terms with all of the breadly sins except the Duch and Poultergoose.
-Duch is sloth, because he is an idle bird who sees no reason to do anything besides make more bread golem servants & drift in a pond. Generally keeps to himself, but has excellent relations with Hieronymous Boss, because they are both self-indulgent birds.
-Gandervamp is lust. Geese haven't really been associated with lust as far as I'm aware, but this one's a juicygoose. Gandervamp is superficially charming and a master of disguise, but holds a killer instinct reserved for all the birds he can charm. Not the most lethal of breadly sins, he is nevertheless one of the most powerful.
-Mr. Magman is greed, because he sees shiny he collects shiny. Literally just a normal magpie given the means to accomplish its objectives. Being the most intelligent, he's literally got an eye for gold and is the most willing to negotiate with characters. Also wears a tie, which the other birds think is a bit much, even for them.
-Pigeon Pilate is pride, because I thought it was amusing to have the most humble of birds be the most seduced by worldly status. Having forsaken their humble pigeon roots, Pigeon Pilate has risen to the top of the bird world by usurping the dark powers that caused his ascent. Nominally a friend to all birds, Pigeon Pilate is plotting to become the most powerful sin.
-Heronymous Boss is gluttony, because the more she eats the more she grows, the more she grows the more she eats, and she doesn't stop. Where she goes, towns descend into riotous feasts which never end, fattening themselves for the eventual harvest by the winged hunger that is HERONYMOUS BOSS. Heronymous has no relations with anything which can be eaten, which is most things.


Not sure on the final names, especially for the last 3, but the lore and characterisation is practically writing itself. That said, I can't sick all 7 at once so there's no way I can use all of them in one session. I think I'll have them ask for the players to hand over the oyster pearl to them, leaving the choice up to the players as to whether they leave the pearl to the sandmen, the angel, the oyster king or the witch. The seven breadly sins can all be bosses for future days, though the poultergoose can always be there, always throwing things around

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8327 on: August 03, 2020, 08:12:18 pm »

You got Count Duckula?
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8328 on: August 03, 2020, 08:22:20 pm »

You got Count Duckula?
I sense a powerful background rivalry with the Gandervamp and Count Duckula

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8329 on: August 03, 2020, 09:53:59 pm »

Being a rakshasa, Pigeon Pilate may be difficult to permanently defeat if the PCs don't have any planar travel ability. Watch as they kill him once, only to be ambushed by him a month later.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8330 on: August 03, 2020, 10:31:11 pm »

The invisible cloak could actually be useful, since you could use it to deflect small missiles, etc-- with "seemingly nothing".

Likewise, could be wrapped around one's face as an invisible dust mask, etc. 

If it got wet, it could be quite entertaining as a makeshift improvised weapon. (whip type.)

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« Reply #8331 on: August 04, 2020, 03:28:48 am »

Demands to be shown a human quality it has never seen before; and it must be transcendent in nature.

Tentacle hentai.

This is not the time to bring up cat girls!
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« Reply #8332 on: August 04, 2020, 03:38:01 am »

Demands to be shown a human quality it has never seen before; and it must be transcendent in nature.

Tentacle hentai.

This is not the time to bring up cat girls!

I would remind that a supernatural entity with endless free time, has surely some analogous view about Internet Rule 34.  Thus, if your answer is "porn", you likely lose. 

It does not matter how novel the porn is, that sphinx has already seen it, and is not impressed.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8333 on: August 04, 2020, 06:34:00 am »

Being a rakshasa, Pigeon Pilate may be difficult to permanently defeat if the PCs don't have any planar travel ability. Watch as they kill him once, only to be ambushed by him a month later.
Seems fitting too, I think Pigeon Pilate seems like one of the sins most likely to have others fight its battles for it. I like to imagine as well that Pigeon Pilate will attack players in other ways, like trying to get an entire city to deny them basic services

(Left to right)

1. Envy, the Poultergoose. Always coveting, always eyeing up whatever lies in reach, the dreaded poultergoose is driven by the eternal impulse to take what belongs to others. Unable to hold onto anything for too long, its ill-gotten proceeds falling through its ghostly feathered clutches, it is never satiated, always searching... Beware the green honk in the night.

2. Wrath, the Black Swan. Once a champion of the virtuous birds, the Black Swan fell to the Seven Breadly Sins after breaking the arms of multiple innocent children. Consumed by their rage, the Black Swan became the incarnation of wrath, breaking the arms of everyone everywhere. Wherever she goes, anger erupts throughout the land - brother set upon brother, sister upon sister, with every quarrel a feud, every feud a blood feud, until the ponds run red with the blood of the dead.

3. Sloth, the Duch. Milling around in their pond, the Duch was once an innocent Duck until they were fed the first malnutritious and deadly breadly sin. Consumed by the necrotic energies of a food no bird was meant to eat, the Duck became the Duch, an undead monstrosity that summons bread golems to see to its every need. Despite being the oldest breadly sin, the Duch has not accomplished much - preferring to set soporific sloth upon all of his foes with comfy constriction.

4. Lust, the Suggoosebus. When the heavens ordained that geese should be the noble exemplars of chastity and monogamy, the heavens saw that it was good. One fateful goose however, politely disagreed. In open rebellion against the heavenly order, the Suggoosebus was formed from the knowing consumption of a breadly sin. Though not the most lethal of sins, the Suggosebus is one of the most powerful - Wherever the Suggoosebus goes, extramarital handholding follows, the harbinger of the discord and strife yet to come.

5. Greed, A.K.A. Mr. Magman.  The Magpie was always the most intelligent of the birds, and indeed of the whole animal Kingdom. The Magpie used his foresight and intelligence to spread good luck and good fortune throughout the land, until he happened upon a piece of the Seven Breadly Sins. Corrupted by its shiny power, the Magpie became the enigmatic Mr. Magman, a well-dressed purveyor of all things yet to see hostile acquisition. After all, it's just business, and he's making a killing.

6.  Pride, the Pigeon Pilate. It is unclear whether Pigeon Pilate is his name or his title, for status and identity have become one and the same for Pigeon Pilate. Once the most humble of all the birds, Pigeon Pilate was invigorated by the breadly sin to become the greatest of all birds, to suffer no strike with impunity nor insult without overwhelming retaliation. Pigeon Pilate has been busy at work in the machinations of courts, businesses and governments everywhere, manipulating the proceeds of the mortal and immortal realms to rise above the limits of the skies. Many a time Pigeon Pilate has been slain, only to be located weeks later at another location - sometimes multiple locations at once. How this is achieved, none but Pigeon Pilate know.

7.  Gluttony, HERONYMOUS BOSS. She was a fisherbird once, a steward who tended to the rivers and waterways, maintaining a careful balance - the perfect image of temperance.
Until the fateful day she devoured one of the breadly sins. No change manifested at first, but the faint pangs of hunger that gripped her stomach were to become the portent of something far greater, far more fell and fearsome to behold. The breadly sin festered in her stomach, providing her no nutritional value at all. To compensate she devoured more, but still she hungered. Eventually she set to hunting day and night, hour by hour, but her only profit was to grow and exceed her diet, her hunt an endless exercise in rapturous famine. For the more she ate, the more she grew. The more she grew, the more she ate.
Beware the town gripped by riotous feasting, for they are already under the influence of HERONYMOUS BOSS, unwittingly fattening themselves for the gruesome harvest coming over the horizon.



Gandervamp, Count Duckula, Bansheep and the Salamancer are all going to be used for something else. All in all, I am satisfied with these 7. I think I'm going to pull a Pandora's box on them, where a normal magpie guides them to an artifact sword which just so happens to be containing the Seven Breadly Sins. Once they are unleashed it's a future campaign hook to reseal all the sins as they sow their seeds throughout the Empire

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8334 on: August 04, 2020, 06:40:09 am »

Will count duckula have a brawny chicken nanny, and a greasy buzzard for a butler? (blunderingly incompetent, and acidically dry, respectively?)
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« Reply #8335 on: August 05, 2020, 04:03:51 am »

Obviously not Australian, or else you'd have Wrath as a magpie and Gluttony as a bin-chicken.
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« Reply #8336 on: August 05, 2020, 04:43:36 am »

Emus would be Pride
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8337 on: August 08, 2020, 03:44:37 pm »

Was tempted to make a gluttony sea gull but I'm happy to leave them as minions

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« Reply #8338 on: August 08, 2020, 04:23:01 pm »

Pelican?
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« Reply #8339 on: August 09, 2020, 05:25:24 am »

Cursed Waistband of Uselessness (AKA: The Futility Belt)

Can be used to store, protect, and retrieve a large variety of components, tools, ammunition and other assorted tidbits at reduced weight. However, the pouches can only be opened when you don't specifically need what's inside them. Attempting to access the relevant item in a time of need will result in the user meaninglessly probing a completely sealed container with no flap or opening.

Also also known as the Di-sash-ter.
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