Ninja

Gunslinger > Thief 

his name is Gun

I just made one student who is a mech pilot that struggles with being a bit too insecure in her abilites and could stand to take some more risks with her piloting. I generate a random name for her.

Last name Jenkins.

Worried that an item is too powerful? Or, not sure whether it fits in as a permanent tool on your party's toolbelt? Give them a Single Use Magic Item!

A S.U.M.I. might be a jar with one ball from a bag of tricks, capable of summoning a single animal. It might be a Wand of Wonder that crumbles after you activate it, or a flaming sword that melts itself into slag over the course of a minute. "Why not just give them the sword forever?" I'm glad you asked. A Single Use Magic Item can be very useful and very situational - players will talk about that fight where they finally had to use the flying carpet to escape, but if they always have a flying carpet it becomes mundane very quickly. And there's nothing stopping them from saying "Wow, that magic staff we used was awesome! DM, I'd like to see what it would take to make my own or find one like that." Give out lots of free trials!

Like, we only really deal with the dangerous naturally invisible creatures, but there's also species of birds and insects and plants and so forth that are invisible. There's invisible rock formations (ever trip over nothing?). Invisible clouds. Invisible works of art. You cast See Invisibility and suddenly there's an entire invisible ecosystem that you can never really interact with normally.

Also you finally find out there's actually been a gnome sitting on the barbarian's head and livetweeting your adventures this whole time

Come up with three or four letter stock codes for each character. The starting value for one share in a character is $500.

If a character’s share value drops below $100, they are removed from the market until their stock price rises above $100.

At the end of each session, the GM announces changes in each character’s stock value. Taking Ws and generally having a good time raises the stock. Taking Ls and suffering lowers the stock.

The more extreme the character’s experience, the greater the change to their stock value, from anywhere between $50 and $250 (in $50 intervals)

Each player starts with $1000 and one share in their own character

Each player can purchase one share from the GM in between sessions. Additional shares can be purchased from the GM for an additional, stacking $500 fee. (So it would cost an extra $500, then an extra $1000, etc etc)

Players can sell shares to the GM at market value between sessions, and can sell or trade shares with other players between sessions. Selling and trading between two players can also happen DURING the session.

Shares in a dead character are completely worthless, and cannot be bought or sold. If you’re scared someone’s going to die, you can try to sell to your fellow players mid-combat. If a dead character is revived, their stock value resets to $500 if it wasn’t lower.

"Why can't you use a bow in melee?"

Another one for the D&D/ Baldur's Gate fans: what's going on with the 'archers can't shoot close up' rule?

✨New item!✨ Misty Shiv  Weapon (dagger), rare (requires attunement) 

A chilling mist wafts from the blade of this dagger. The misty shiv has 3 charges, and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. As a bonus action you can expend one charge to cast the misty step spell from the dagger. Upon reappearing, the next attack you make with this dagger before the end of the turn deals an extra 1d6 cold damage on a hit. 

The duchess sat on the plush leather bench seat of her carriage, her head resting against the window as she lazily watched the countryside roll by. The duke had long since given up any attempt at conversation when he realized she would rather sit quietly than make small talk. He contented himself with a platter of fine pastries while they rode in silence.

Outside, the sky had grown overcast and a thick fog began obscuring the farm houses, fields and hedges, until it muddied into a hazy blur. The duchess yawned, and in the moment when her eyes were almost shut, she noticed something in the fog. A man, running full speed, directly towards her. She snapped out of her daze, fully alert, but the man had vanished.

“Are you alright my lady?” 

“Yes, I- I thought I saw someone-” 

A shout rang out suddenly, and the carriage jerked to a halt. The duchess craned her neck to see what was happening. Confusion had broken out among the retinue. She turned to say “I can’t see anythi-”, but froze in mid sentence.

Sitting in front of her was a man who had not been in the carriage but one second earlier, grinning coldly as she stared in shock. He slowly held a finger to his lips, in a silencing gesture. The duchess had no choice but to sit still, paralyzed with fear. The man casually removed a handkerchief from his front pocket and began cleaning the knife in his hand. Thick crimson blood came away to reveal a gleaming steel blade. He smiled, flicked the dagger through the air, and vanished.

The duchess’ screaming eventually alerted her retinue to the duke’s body, slumped over his pastry tray, and the assassination that had just occurred beneath their noses. - 🖌🎨 Like our work? Consider supporting us on Patreon and gain access to the hi-resolution art for over 180 magic items, item cards and card packs, beautiful creature art and stat blocks, and setting pdfs with narrative hooks and unique lore!🧙‍♂️

Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.

Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: "He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks." Which vaguely makes sense, but they're clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they're trying to say.

dwarf: :o "that's so beautiful..."

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human, speaking humanish to a human: "his quest is like he's looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."