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>>46787813
well what kind of stuff do you want it to be ?
are you lacking ideas or creativity ?

>>46787813
It makes everyone in the world have a smaller dick.

>>46787902
I am lacking both.

Well it should be something that gives the hags ultimate power over the land and make it go from bad to maximum overshit.

At the same time, the PC's still need the chance to rally the people and be big goddamn heroes.

>>46787023
Still trying to figure out a non-miracle-based healing system for Athar. One of my big complaints about DnD in general is the assumption that no other form of medicine would ever be developed besides organized religion's fucking monopoly.

Surely somewhere out there someone's developed something, right? Any good systems you've seen brewed up, or is it just "You picked Athar now deal with it"

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>>46787305

This is a heavily system-dependent matter. D&D 3.X, Pathfinder, D&D 4e, D&D 5e, 13th Age, Strike!, Dungeon World, and all manner of fantasy heartbreakers have a wide variety of non-divine healing abilities.

For that matter, I have always thought that the Athar should provide some sort of civil service to Sigil, seeing how the majority of the factions do so. It would be interesting if the Athar ran the Cage's healthcare system (via non-divine means, obviously) so as to undermine divine healing.

I've been thinking a lot about Baatezu politics recently, and could someone please remind me what's special about Glasya again?
Something about her not being 'bound to hell' that Asmodeus wants to exploit, or something like that; I don't quite remember.

>we are searching for a very specific item for at least a month in-game and out of game time
>we are running out of leads
>get into a bad situation
>one of our players desperately goes "I pull out a random item in my bag to help"
>it is the item
>he didn't know it was in there despite having a paragraph on his character sheet written by him about it
>he had gotten it 2 months ago on a solo adventure

it was unintentionally a secret because the player was just forgetful/stupid

We have no hidden information OOC. Ingame characters know what they know and we just try to avoid metagaming.
It keeps people engaged and it's very entertaining to witness how somebody tries (and possibly fails) to conspire against your character, or to watch how your character just walks into a setup you perfectly know of.

>>46786146
I give my players secrets on notes, and I leave it up to them whether or not to share the info. Even the best RPer can let meta-gaming slips happen from time to time, and they know that, so most of the time they keep it to themselves.

I also like to tell them useless private information throughout the game, so they're unsure if I'm pulling them toward something or not. Shit like "a tall, angry man locks eyes with you before leaving the tavern". I want them to think critically about what's relevant and what's not.

Festivals and carnivals are always fun. Giant flea markets are neato. Disgruntles mobs are as well.

Why do your players "visit towns a lot"? Do they just roll through random places for no reason, and each week you have to tell them that they're in another generic hamlet filled with generic sights?

If there isn't a reason for them to be there, then why are you spending time fleshing out what happens there?

>>46786136
They see that (material they can somewhat reliably acquire) is selling at a high cost as it becomes a popular fad and realize they can make fat stacks of cash by playing the market.

>>46786046

I think Age of Sigmar has rules much like that for some of their old characters.

BESM?

The Slayers D20 I think.

>>46786046
That reminds me of Oblivion's custom spell system, I think it works quite well

Put the clerk to work sorting our loot and shit.

From what I've heard clerks were really into murdering people back then so they'll probably fit right in. Keep them and continue looking for a healer of some kind, when possible.

My taxes.

>>46784037
Killing like ten thousand dudes at once by jabbing your magic sword into the group.

>>46784093

GUY LEARNS ONE WEIRD TRICK ON HOW TO BE THE SON OF THE FLAME AND PRONOUNCE JUDGMENT ON HIS ENEMIES

>>46784037
Showing unrelated footage to well known quotes while not understanding what capslock does.

>>46782723
Gotrek and Felix are pretty good.

Really that's all? Nothing else of note from the fantasy setting?

>>46782754
Thanks for the suggestion, Anon.

There's this one about a soldier who gets wounded in a battle with chaos and his wound ends up growing teeth and shit and he slowly falls to corruption. I can't remember what it is called though.

>>46781334
>PCs are getting too powerful
>let's force a TPK!
>Is there a problem with this idea?
Yeah, I think it might just be a problem there.

More seriously, players going Monty Haul or derailing a campaign can be tricky to deal with and different solutions would need to solve different situations. Monty Haul is usually best solved by explaining to the players that they're wrecking everything with their items, and either agree to a situation where they lose the power items (perhaps allowing the DM to sneak in and steal them from the characters) or just escalating things of the players like a power spiral. Derailing the campaign gets solved by either not putting the campaign on rails to begin with, figuring out how NPCs respond to the derailment, having the BBEG continue with their plans anyways, or just letting the players know that you don't have content for digging up a swamp on-hand and would prefer they try out the dungeon you had prepped this week.

>>46781334
Depends how are you using it?

Using it to say yo you probably don't want to keep going left a bunch of now homeless beggars/refugees just said the scariest mythical creature ever just fucking ate our town and is now eating everything in the area. Then if they are dumb enough to attack it it's their own fault, other wise they head right on the right path again.

>>46781334
How are they derailing the campaign?

If the only way you have to keep players "on track" (whatever that means) is by lining the "track" with unkillable kaiju it might mean that your game sucks.

200-ish, for my Master's Thesis.

>>46780987
Too many. We switched to FATExalted afterward.

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>>46780987
>modrons
>no. appearing: 12-144
>DM: roll for initiative

Self Bump

>>46780979
Bump

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bump this nigga

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serves them right

>Go into the underdark
>Get a freaky waifu

Good game.

>>46780387

If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, is the road to Heaven paved with bad ones?

Run through it as expected. He's pretty awful at most everything but surprisingly great at running and feats of dexterity. An obstacle course is probably the one sort of thing that he'd actually be good at, apart from straight races.

Depends solely on how much fire is there. Fire is problem.

>>46779947
Your*

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>>46779924
STOP RIGHT THERE!

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>>46779924
>Morrowind is for the Dunmeri
>le n'wah meem
>literaly member of the Empire
>sharing boarders with a fuckload of other races of Mer and Men

I'll post a compilation of ideas I copy-pasted from helpful anons last night for those interested:

>Exotic Caravans
>Harem Girls
>Oasis Paradises
>Sphinx riddles.
>Scorpions.
>Chariot archers.
>Depending on magic levels, sailboats which fly just barely touching the sand, driven by wind.
>Snake-people.
>Ancient temples to the moon.
>Creepy biblical salt fields.
>Rumors of a secret oasis more bountiful than a thousand palaces.
>Giant fucking statues. Just fucking giant sculptures. Get some scale in there. The age of these will depend on your setting.
>Nomadic cannibals.
>Defend a caravan from Raiders sent by the prince of thieves.
>Den of the prince of thieves should be an incredible town hidden away somewhere, defended by magical sandstorms or desert mirages that can only be navigated by those who know the secrets.
>Prince of thieves needs xyz, raids caravans for xyz, gains a bad reputation. Is actually using xyz to help an oppressed population being abused by an evil trade prince/water baron/slave lord.
>Quicksand.
>Virgin sacrifice for predictions and other types of future-telling.
>Matriarchal assassin cult patronized by competing merchant princes/whatever for thousands of years.
>Cats as a familiar/symbol of wizards and witches
>Perhaps have one kingdom of mortals ruled by a mummy lord or dry lich, who keeps his undead nature a secret. He gained his position as ruler in the past by being the only one not in need of water to survive, and gradually took control of the largely water-based economy.

>>46779095
>2016
>Still doing such shit like this

I mean... seriously? Nothing better to do in your games than random table of possible encounters?

>>46779177
I'm just coming up with ideas that will hopefully inspire further ideas. I'm also a noob at d&d (only played like 4 sessions total) and especially noob at DMing. Don't hate the noobs.