Half-Elves Anonymous

What’s up it’s DnD time, I rolled a Nat 20, yelled “SPICY,” and then my party refused to let it stay OOC.

Personally I headcanon that tiefling magic starts to manifest around puberty, but if that wasn’t the case, they’d just have to suck it up and tiefling baby-proof the hell out of the place. B) Have no vases and stuff that might fall over and break during tremors. Have sturdy furniture. Lock doors and windows. Avoid having open flames around. Shove cotton or something into your ears.

BABY TIEF HEIST ONESHOT

PLAYER RULES

You are all tiefling toddlers, each pick a different subrace

All your stats are 10, then apply your racial boosts.

you have 4 hp (5 if you have the con boost) if you reach zero, you are unconscious. 

Your only abilities are your racial traits.

You have broken out of the orphanage with no money, and seek a treasure trove of candy from the store. 

How you retrieve this candy, without being apprehended, is up to you.

DM RULES

Any environmental or effect that could potentially hurt a toddler will only deal 1 hp of damage.

The candy store functions as a dungeon:

the shopkeep is a final boss (objectively has 5 hp if they go the combat route, however, this would only cause him to fall unconcious— there will be no toddler murder.)

other patrons are to be befriended or avoided. 

Any creature that is not considered Charmed by the toddlers, whether by magic or exceptional persuasion checks and baby tief cuteness, will report any thievery they see.

Environmental hazards can include

gumballs on the floor

getting distracted by a cute kitty or dog

the candy is on the top shelf!!! just out of reach!

To reach your goal:

you must steal a pound of candy for each player character. you may also steal excess to aid you in your heist just be careful how much you use.

Candy

Lollipops: if you consume a lollipop you can regain 2 hp. (5 lollipops = pound, you may grab 3 at once)

Gumballs: gumballs can be spilled on the floor, functioning like a bag of ball bearings. (20 gumballs = a pound, using gumballs wastes half a pound, you may grab 5 gumballs at once) 

Chocolate: Invokes Sugar Rush. (2 chocolate = a pound, you may grab 1 at once, 1 chocolate = one sugar rush)

Sugar Rush gives you advantage on all strength and dexterity checks for five minutes (since initiative hopefully will not be a factor, if it is invoked in a combat situation, the duration is 1 minute), however after, you must make a DC: 15 con save to avoid falling asleep for a post-sugar nap. 

You may design your candy store as you will for maximum chaos

roll a d10 + 1 for the number of potential patrons within.

Your campaign world needs a newspaper. There is no better way of relaying the setting’s lore and exposition than through the lens of the NPCs who live there. They can post work opportunities! They can discuss current events! They can use local lingo! They can post scurrilous lies about whatever you want!

And your players will eat it up!

Are you feeling heady with power yet? Do you realize what a tool this is?!

They will be shocked when they first realize that the papers lied to them… Or they’ll feel oh so very clever for being skeptical about what they read! Hell, they might even want to put out ads or articles in the paper of their own creation! Imagine their faces when the paper talks about them and their heroic exploits… Or attributes credit for what they did to someone else entirely! Or makes the whole thing a hit piece painting them as villains! What if the whole tone of the paper suddenly changes? What if a favorite columnist suddenly shows up dead? What if an obituary for one of the player characters gets printed? Your options are literally limitless.

So I have this idea.

All the planes are listed having different influnces on the adventurers that travel there. Residents of that plan grew up there and that’s all they know, why would the world work any differently?

In the DMG (5.0) the different planes have effects for staying there overnight and how it changes your character. The material plane doesn’t! (Probably because it’s a mechanically neutral plane for the sake of gameplay BUT.)

What if the material plane did have an influence that affected creatures, but since the party grew up there they’re “noseblind” to it? What happens when a lesser demon is exposed to the material plane over an extended period of time?

It’s my theory that the material plane frees you from your planar influences and is a more “neutral” zone. Left there long enough, a demon begins to forget it’s compulsion for evil. They lose sight of what drove them to kill and murder. Maybe they even become more introspective as they ask what they want and how to find their own fulfillment.

You can tell your adventuring party hails from the material plane because they have a sense of direction, a sense of what they want as characters to achieve their own fulfillment, and they set out as adventurers to accomplish this.

It’s my theory that extraplanar creatures are affected by the material plane when they stay for more than a day. They become subject to our flow of time and have inspired in themselves newfound agency to do things they want for fulfillment.

the rest of the party:

two thirds of the party, immediately:

Pro tip: the enhance ability spell helps on making dispel and counterspell checks. It grants advantage as long as you target the correct ability on your allies or yourself.

And the inverse trick is casting hex, bestow curse, or the poisoned condition on an enemy caster to hinder their counterspells and dispels.

Her husband.