So, I'm DMing tomorrow, and I've been lazy. I need an idea for following:
20 Magical Misshaps, akin to magic - induced Stalker/Picnic on the roadside effects. Can be a bit more, enough to freely roll.
Backstory: The players in my Planescape game have been hired by someone to deliver a body of a dead god into Sigil, and are travelling into Dark Sun to grab the dead mummified God of Hope (thanks Bill, I got that idea from you). Along the way on the desert, outside of normal hexcrawl dangers, are Wild Magic Zones - horrific, tainted areas. The idea is that if they'd enter a hex or a hex near to them, they get an appropriate chance of encountering such effect.
So help me out, ladies and gentlemen. And don't be afraid - those bastards deserve the worst to happen to them.
Roadside Picnic stuff was pretty hardcore, as in fatal/permanently disfiguring, sure you want to go that route?
Otherwise ... "HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!"
Which now that I think about that, maybe they are in the post-Happiness apocalypse? Because you know that wish went totally wrong, it could be the Adventure Time apocalypse, or any other reality warping state of being.
Edit: I'll add into this "Lathe of Heaven" lucid dreaming type effects, like when George Orr wants world peace: aliens attack, or an end to hunger: a plague kills off a portion of humanity.
Ran a 3.5 adventure once with the prestige class that summons but everything is tainted by "outsiders, Cuthulu like abilities" But since the characters were low level he was a training so the summoned creatures stuck in our reality and had tentacles, and other horrible things.
So start with normal animals and make the horrific and twisted. The worse I had was the weasel who was hollow and his entire stomach was whirling gnashing teeth. players picked it up and looked through it and could see out the other side and coined the phrase Weasel Scope.
Normal herds of dear with laser eyes / flame bolts whatever. So randomly give them teleportation and other frightening effects, phasing in and out of reality etc.
Quote from: dragoner;790907Roadside Picnic stuff was pretty hardcore, as in fatal/permanently disfiguring, sure you want to go that route?
Otherwise ... "HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!"
Which now that I think about that, maybe they are in the post-Happiness apocalypse? Because you know that wish went totally wrong, it could be the Adventure Time apocalypse, or any other reality warping state of being.
Edit: I'll add into this "Lathe of Heaven" lucid dreaming type effects, like when George Orr wants world peace: aliens attack, or an end to hunger: a plague kills off a portion of humanity.
Yes, yes I do. They are a 4th level party with Minotaur Paladin, Modron Sorcerer, Tiefling Fighter and Human Rogue, they can deal with hardcore stuff - besides, in 5e, death's really mostly a temporary inconvenience in Sigil, and in most cases they'll just get saves and damage/exhaustion rather than instadeath.
I would start with the Wild Magic table in the PHB.
Quote from: estar;790918I would start with the Wild Magic table in the PHB.
I do, but nowadays it's mostly beneficial rather than actually problematic.
I think a roll of something like this:
If you step on a hex next to the "Wild Magic" hex:
1 - 4: Nothing happens
5 - 6: Wild Magic table
7 - 10: Bad Wild Magic table
The bonus is, I can then just drop it to d6 when they step on an actual hex.
Just steal from the Tricks table in OSRIC (p.155f).
Right off the bat I can think of the graviconcentrates, that are invisible and crush you mid-air. Second would be the slime that the Vulture got into an turned his bones in his legs to rubber like consistency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_of_many_things
Use these as your guide for the random events, scaled down and sideways.
Quote from: Rincewind1;790904body of a dead god
QuoteWild Magic Zones
Undead god anyone?
Quote from: Blacky the Blackball;790957Undead god anyone?
That is the plan - the whole plot is, that behind said employer, lies the last paladin (now Death Knight) of that Portal God killed by Lady of Pain, who along with a cabal of Hags and Ilithids, plans to release that God and have him kill Lady of Pain - since he's technically a body at the moment of entering Sigil, he gets through the "no powers in Sigil"loophole.
Absolutely essential from Logan K's LAst Gasp blog:
http://www.lastgaspgrimoire.com/cunning-linguists/
Also - any ideas for positive effects?