Curious Dungeoneer

Not everything that approaches camp is trying to kill the characters. There are encounters that the character on watch may let their companions sleep through.

Roll on the table for your encounter in the night.

1) Pixie Mischief: A pixie sneaks into camp to paint one of the sleeping characters faces. Their magical pigments are permanent until the next new moon. The pixie does not try to hide from anyone on guard.

2) Flight of Light:A flight of migratory butterflies known as the starlight glisten overhead in the moonlight. Those that gaze upon it are filled with inspiration.

3) Satyr’s Lullaby: The person on guard hears a satyr playing its pan pipes before seeing it. The satyr is playing a comforting lullaby that seems to sooth those sleeping. The satyr encourages the person on guard to sleep too. It is willing to watch over them. THe next morning the satyr is gone, but a fresh breakfast has been made for them. They gain 10 temporary hit points from the relaxing sleep.

What are you supposed to do with your dead Player Characters? You could just scavenge anything useful then bury them, but why not put them back to work? Roll on the table for a better way to reuse your dead PC. (Inspired by my demented players…)

1) Flesh Golem: Have a few dead PC’s lying around? Stitch them togeather to make a creature that may be more useful than the individual parts.

2) Undead Minion: Have a necromancy spellcaster in the group? Have them create an undead minion join the party! All the benefits of the character without the talking!

3) Rations: Don’t bury perfectly good meat! Save a few silver by dividing them into rations. If eating sentient meat isn’t your thing you can always use them to feed your animal companion.

4) Furniture: Might as well put your Taxidermy skill proficiency to use by creating a new ottoman or lounge chair. It may not be the prettiest thing in the world, but having your old allies close by can be comforting.

Bond the dead PC to the character they were getting along with the worst, grab a bucket of popcorn, sit back and relax, while now EVERYONE is so desperately working to resurrect them!

The main villain and antagonist of the cluster is of course Trent Ikithon - Archmage of Civil Influence and relentless hunter of clusters who, according to him, are a danger to the peace of The Dwendalian Empire.

Jester is the one to awaken the cluster. She meets a mysterious stranger on a day she sneaks out of her room to roam through the streets under a disguise. The moment their eyes meet, she finds herself suddenly standing in a mansion, listening to parents fighting with their daughter. She grabs the girl’s hand immediately because what kind of parents scream stuff like that at their daughter? The stranger she met on that fateful night appears to her every so often afterwards, always wearing the same green hood.

Caleb is still in the asylum when the cluster awakens. The person who appears to heal him is Jester. As soon as the cluster awakened they help him to get out of there and Nott helps Caleb to steal the amulet that will make him untracable for Trent. Since they all share a mind now, they all immediately know what kind of person Trent Ikithon is and they vow to help Caleb take him down.

Nott meets Caleb first when she’s in jail. He keeps her company and helps her compartmentalize the abuse she faces from the humans who imprisoned her. The others join in from time to time and eventually it’s Yasha who gets Nott out and lends her her strength. Afterwards she travels towards the people who kept her company in that cell to help Caleb take down Trent.

Yasha is still in Xhorhas when it happens. She finds herself standing in front of an empty grave with a purple Tiefling sitting at its side, staring into nothing. She stretches out her hand and helps him up. The cluster eventually helps Molly to find the circus and his words. Yasha joins up with the carnival after she made her way down from Xhorhas, walking away from the only home she ever knew and towards the purple Tiefling she found. The voice of her God echoes through all their minds and she still leaves often to follow his bidding, but she always finds them thanks to their unbreakable bond.

Fjord is dying when the cluster comes for him. Jester and Beau pull him out of the water and onto the shore. They all hear his patron’s voice in their dreams when it talks to them, waking them up coughing saltwater or with blood on their lips in the morning. He helps the others lie and cheat themselves out of tight spots while he travels north to find the women that pulled him to shore.

Mollymauk claws himself out of the grave only a day after Jester awakens the cluster. It’s Yasha who helps him up and helps him walk out of the forest and Nott who finds the carnival closeby. Since Molly has no memories, his cluster knows nothing of his past either. When he meets Cree they all feel his panic and Fjord helps him to bluff himself out of the situation.

And a very nice idea for your group, ever so beautifully speeding up the meeting process. The UA:Mystic Class has some very neat hints as to how the cluster connection could work (see Mind Meld, Nomadic Mind, Telepathic Contact).

While I’m still finishing all of the archetypes, I thought I might as well throw something extra I had on here. So here’s some Cursed rings. The 7 Deadly Rings because I’m funny

Or maybe a shape-shifting Druid becomes more inclined to a specific animal. E.g. an x% chance to become this beast instead.

Gluttony ➡️Belphegor / Pig

Greed ➡️Mammon / Toad

Pride ➡️Lucifer / Peacock

Envy ➡️ Beelzebub / Snake

Sloth ➡️Abaddon / Snail

Lust ➡️Asmodeus / Goat

Some race ideas that have been being tossed around in my head for a while now.