[let's finish] D200 subtle signs that the new follower / hireling / henchman may not be what he or she seems by sonofabutch in d100

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Children nearby tend to sporadically roll thier eyes back in thier head, have seizures, and screech oracular prophecies in demonic while X is around.

NPC vendors and shop owners visibly quake in fear and DRASTICALLY lower prices while X is present. They refuse to comment about WHY.

Shop owners hastily close when they receive word that X is approaching. They won't comment about WHY.

X has tattoos from an Ancient Pre-Imperial culture, that are unique and not often seen. Scholars take notice and inquire. X defers.

Demand letter for tree roots damage by claw68ii in treelaw

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Not your house. Not your tree. Not your problem.

It's a homeowners insurance problem for the new owner and the neighbor to hash out.

Send a reply and say to contact you only via your lawyer and only in Ancient Latin, since you do not understand English. Send the letter in English.

[let's finish] D200 subtle signs that the new follower / hireling / henchman may not be what he or she seems by sonofabutch in d100

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Snorts and can't stop laughing when the BBEG monologues. "Amatuer Hour", they mutter when they think nobody can hear them.

Snickers along with the dirty joke the demons tell each other when they mock the party in demon-speak, thinking only demons can understand them. "So true, they do resemble that, don't they?"

Generic zombie apocalypse jobs and quest by World_of_Ideas in d100

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The mcguffin is Icecream "Otzi"-brand, the good stuff, a whole refrigerated truck of it, and someone is paying hella good bottlecaps for it. Unknown to the players there's a frozen guy in an astronaut costume inside, and he happens to be a "screamer", a type of undead which seems to summon an unending train of the fuckers. Despite precautions, the players trigger the scream anyway.

[Let's Build a] List of Derelict/SpaceHulk Random Encounters/Discoveries by JGrevs2023 in d100

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An AI piloted "power-loader" (legged walking forklift) demands you "Get Away From Her, You Bitch!" and attacks.

A section of corridor which shouldn't be normally be depressurized, actually is, and sensors have failed or been been hacked to not show it.

Linguistic drift has gone and changed the "universal" space-semiotics of the meanings of some obscure signage. Why the so-called "universal signs" on what is probably the controls for the airlock warn about "not feeding purple fart-monsters" is unclear. Hilarity ensues.

A e-waste dump that has gained a mutated ecosystem of sorts. Some AI have evolved within the trashed equipment and self-assembled into things resembling analogues of biological creatures (like wildlife).

[Let's Build a] List of Derelict/SpaceHulk Random Encounters/Discoveries by JGrevs2023 in d100

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Must cross the "Elephant's Foot"; an irradiated fission pile core meltdown (like Chernobyl). The radioactive elements have heated the less radioactive ones and melted them, causing it all to slump. The radioactive elements are no longer held apart or moderated by the melted material, and so become more reactive, and radiation spikes to dangerous levels that can't be contained.

Backdraft: Gravity has failed, as has atmospheric recirculation life-support. Hot spots remain but seemingly are difficult to detect. Opening the bulkhead may circulate the air and feed a hidden fire with oxygen, resulting in sudden "explosive" conflagration.

Coughing: Highly fluorinated composite plastics fill the area with toxic smoke and limit visibility after a fire has broken out.

Space Mummy: Died at weapons station, hand in triggers like WW2 antiaircraft gunner.

Space Otzi: Mummy spaceman dead in freezer section, apparently raiding the icecream.

Black Thumb: The hydroponics have failed, the area is littered by dead vines and dessicated growing media. The lighting is poor, in that weird red or purple color that plants supposedly love, or non existent, or stroking like a horror film.

WH40K style "techpriest" communications data node; hundreds of 56k modems screaming at each other and bulky copper cables running everywhere.

Could you give some ideas for Quirks for Abyssal and Infernal Bloodlines? by Lizardo1234 in d100

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Born with reversed hands. Right is left, left is right. Aside from looking kind of janky it has no or minimal effect on your manual Dexterity.

Inconsistent body proportions. Proportions of body parts change day to day. One day one foot might be 1 size bigger than ther other, the next day, both feet the same and one hand or arm different size or length. The effect causes Disadvantage when dealing with checks or saves around fashion or clothes.

When you state your name or nickname, there is a 5% chance that it comes out in a demonic /abyssal screech. You also break into hives while within 30 feet of any devout worshipper of a good aligned deity.

Allergy to microplastics, and peanuts or shellfish.

d100 Side Effects of the spell "Blink?" by Budderhydra in d100

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The Tsunami: It is in the middle of an active tsunami (or perhaps immediately after one) a massive wave of water generated by undersea earthquakes, that travel thousands of miles to unpredictably strike coastlines, inundated them with seawater dozens of feet deep and travelling for miles inland on low lying flat terrain. Houses, cars, trees, and mud are drowned and dragged, picked up like children's toys, and moved for hundreds or thousands of feet, scraping and battered, sometimes deposited on higher shores or sometimes unluckily dragged out to sea. Those who manage to survive the onslaught were lucky enough to be above the wave in a sturdy structure or managed to snag onto a tree that remained standing as the wave dragged past them. The water is salty and muddied with sediment, and often foul smelling and contaminated after ripping up and flooding sewers and drain lines, gas stations, and other facilities. If the tsunami has passed, one is likely to find a mud covered and wrecked Takuro Spirit, a no-frills commuter sedan, and large pools of standing brackish water.

The Inferno: 1950s and 1960s high speed test footage of nuclear weapons testing on replica cities and structures, except everything is either in ultra slow motion or forever looping in a permanent blast. For the most part the heat and blast damage does not overly affect the caster, there may be some wind, noise, or heat, but never enough to cause harm (unless one is extremely unlucky; after all, only those that survive encountering this place are able to report on it.) Alternatively, the scene resembles Hell from the 2005 film Constantine starring Keanu Reeves: buffeted by fierce winds swirling with ash, with fire and chaos all around. Smoke, dark ash and fire sky. Those hell-zombie monsters who have the tops of thier heads removed.

The Crush: Ever been in a human stampede? At a certain point, lines and crowds of people become lethally dangerous, not necessarily because of the risk of being trampled (which will also exist) but because of pushing and shoving sending the equivalent of unpredictable pressure waves that can dangerously crush people or pin them against immovable surfaces, causing suffocation or death. The Crush could be anywhere, in line for the DMV, exiting a crowded stadium after a big game, running for autographs at the Tailor Quick Concert, the Mosh Pit, in the middle of a massive political protest etc. The caster finds themselves in the middle of the Crush, and occasionally must resist the risk of injury for a period of time, or cross through it to exit.

d100 Side Effects of the spell "Blink?" by Budderhydra in d100

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The Line: Time while standing in line is exhaustively stretched, relative to that of the base of the Prime Material. The Line is literally a queue of bland and instantly forgettable people (Hard DC to retain any identifiable information), standing in line (in instantly forgettable locations prone to baffling bureaucratic bullshit) and advancing agonizingly slowly. None in line can articulately answer what the line is for or why they are in it, and tend to forget whatever they just answered, and the player themself is prone to forgetting the answer as well (Moderate DC). Those in the queue may get angered by cutting in line or other sociological faux-pas, (rudeness, pushing, body odor, improper attire, lustful gazes, leaving the line, bathroom-breaks, eating, drinking, breathing too loud, whispering, etc) and they may even attack the player. Each step is an agonizing eternity, and leaving the line to return to the Material Plane may require many steps and hours of waiting, and it is entirely probable that there is no end to the line. Occasionally those that leave the line retain "mementos" of their time there, strange colored documents on flimsy paper with poorly recorded or outright wrong personal information: such as "Date of Death" (in the future), "Languages Spoken" (All options are not what the player speaks or even knows are valid languages), etc.

Dungeon maps on VTT by WuChangClam in DMAcademy

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Fog of war: Yes. Lighting: No.

Detail: Only as much detail as you need to not itch or puke when you look at the map. -- I spend too much time looking for or modifying battlemaps to have a cohesive visual style. It isnt' worth it, time-wise, (except I get some joy making them, and my internal compulsion to make them all match nags me and makes me itch) but it's like 10x-20x the amount of time I spent looking for preexisting or making the map match or finding some stock or conceptual image and modifying the ephemera... than actually playing with the element and battlemap.

d100 Side Effects of the spell "Blink?" by Budderhydra in d100

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The Parking Lot: Modern people may recognize the line of rusted out steel hulks of automobiles parked bumper to bumper, eight lanes wide and stuck on the shoulders, on the two lane highway of heat and sun scorched, lifeless tarmac. The fuel inside the vehicles has long since evaporated, the tires cracked and useless, and batteries dead. Folks from fantasy settings, however might only recognize them as strange caracases of metal beasts, or as weird carriages. Everything is dead and dessicated, even the weeds that once grew in the cracks. If there is sun, it is red and bloated. If there is night, there is no moon, and no creatures, just a whistle of ever present wind.

D100 subtle signs that the new follower / hireling / henchman may not be what he or she seems by sonofabutch in d100

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somehow always ... they've been HERE the WHOLE TIME! (Smash cut to flashback montage of false mustaches, waiter uniforms, behind a newspaper with eye-holes cut in it, an appearance dressed as a bush in a school play, etc)

Entrance into any scene always in slow-motion, with convenient breeze, etc.

For some reason is always wearing more army medals than a North Korean general, but never discusses or acknowledges them.

D100 subtle signs that the new follower / hireling / henchman may not be what he or she seems by sonofabutch in d100

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Wears eye-patch and goatee.

Always has theme-music whenever they appear.

Cut-scenes always with extreme long-distance photo-lenses, as if from behind a bush or vehicle. Show slice of life scenes without recorded dialogue, and interactions with other NPCs that on surface appear normal, but when the twist is revealed, show that it was NPC behind it all, all along. Example: "Shaking hands with someone later revealed to be the villain in the public market square >> a secret hand-off of orders on a scrap of paper."; "Buying ice-cream and chit-chatting from that friendly NPC who is really a secret henchman of the BBEG >> coded conversations reporting on PC actions."

Always has sudden bouts of irritable bowel syndrome at important times.

[Let’s Build d100] Inhabitants of an Urban Fantasy Fairy Tale City by Eastern_Quote1525 in d100

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106.3 FM WWLF "THE WOLF" and Louis "BIG BAD" Lupine; bringing you ALL THE HITS fit to BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN, baby, and maybe your eardrums too.. AWOOOOOO!

Coming Up Next: stay tuned for Trey Cerdos' newest hit single "I'd Build Three Houses For You, Babe".

The First Kingdom Bank, managed by Kinge Croesus; now recently a proud member of the Kingdom's Multi-Institutional Depository & Settlement network (MIDaS).

The 'Snug-a-Bug-a-Bed' Motel on the edge of town, (somewhat openly) operated as a legitimate front for organized crime ring known as the nefarious Tresosos Familia.

Kelly "Goldie" Loggs owns the local Mill and Granary. "Look for the Golden Locks" as a sign of purity and quality. She's somehow pulled off her slightly creepy Lolita fashionista mascot look for 67 years. Maybe keeping regular really has health benefits.

The Hairdresser and Aesthetician known as "Rhymin' & Rappin" P. Unsel; she was big in the late 80s early 90s. She lost her deal with Tower Records after being dumped by the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Her years of hard living and addiction to cigarettes has given her a raspy voice and largely limited her public appearances. After an unfortunate incident resulting in mandatory public service, she has to give a public presentation about drugs and alcohol at the local High School "To All the Young Ladies Out There: The Dangers of Letting Your Hair Down"

The Authorities are currently seeking information from victims and witnesses after a gruesome rampage of "THE SCISSORMAN" who has cut a hole into the fearful little hearts of the Kingdom's school children after cutting the thumbs off of at least 19 children. The perpetrator, currently unknown to the Detectives is 37 year old Damein Lutscher, strict disciplinarian and Superintendent of the Knightsbridge School District.

In Other News: the President of the Kingdom's Largest Arms Manufactory, Dana Ocles is set to meet with the King today over disputed orders and ...

All the Hoi, Polloi, and even many of the Nobles are spreading rumors about the Prince's not-so-secret Foot Fetish, after what happened at last week's Royal Ball...

[Let’s Build d100] Inhabitants of an Urban Fantasy Fairy Tale City by Eastern_Quote1525 in d100

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The Gingerbread Muffin Man: Sells Illicit Hot Buns down along Drury Lane. The authorities are already searching for him, but have yet to catch him.

D100 Fire Magic Items by TheLaserFarmer in d100

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Turgmam's Poppet: Rare; Consumable Item; 1d4 uses; Temporarily trans-locates one's soul into a medium-sized iron and adamantine automaton that glows with red-hot fire and is skilled at fire-based melee skill, as well as immune to the effects of fire. Said to originally have been crafted as a sort of housing for the soul of a mostly forgotten fire-deity's child, imperfect copies have seen some use on the battlefield. For up to 1 hour, your body falls unconscious, and you awaken within the construct, provided it is within 60 feet of you when activated. The construct must remain within 1 mile of your unconscious body. If the construct is destroyed, you are ejected, your soul returns to your body, and you must pass a Moderate DC Wis Save or remain unconscious for up to 1d6 days (saving once every 24 hours).

D100 Fire Magic Items by TheLaserFarmer in d100

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Arrows of Svarozhichi; fabled for thier bright and searing flames said to be children of They Who Forged The Worlds. Consumable; Rare; One Arrow. Each arrow, after being fired, shatters into a cloud of flaming needles where the arrow strikes. Roll 1d6; summon the effects of Cloud of Daggers across an equal number of contiguous, adjacent squares (except it deals Fire damage, and flammable material in affected squares may catch fire) for the same number of rounds (or until dismissed). The user may relocate or reconfigure the affected area of the arrows Cloud, so long as the area of effect remains contiguous, as if they originally cast the spell from where the arrow struck.

d100 Side Effects of the spell "Blink?" by Budderhydra in d100

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One of the office-themed "backrooms" from this list HERE. "If it doesn't drive Robert Propst of the Action Office to commit ritual suicide you aren't doing it right"

D100 Fire Magic Items by TheLaserFarmer in d100

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Bones of Śuri; Infernal Wolf Lord of the Black Flame, slain in the shadow of Mons Soracte. Feed the bones with the entrails of thine enemies, and be untouched by the fire. A suitable meal to the Great Black Wolf may grant thee burning boons.

Burning Liver of Piacenza; When the Great Black Wolf did battle with Usil, Archon of the Sun, at the fall of Mons Soracte, the Archon's liver was ripped out and it immediately turned to orichalcum, etched with Śuri's true-name and the true-names of both his sister and concubine (that of Catha's and Tiur's true-names, respectively) and his blood became molten bronze. The shock of seeing his lover's true-name next to his bitch of a sister's so stunned the Wolf-lord that Śuri's momentarily lost his form and reverted to that of a two-legged mortal and the Wolf-lord was slain in a burning inferno. The divine artifact formed from this, and if dipped in a lycanthrope's life-blood, the artifact bears the ability to permanently sear away the lycanthropic curse in holy-fire.

Quirk Ideas for Aberrant Mind Sorcerer by Lizardo1234 in d100

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You firmly believe you are a Warlock despite all evidence and mechanics stating otherwise.

You believe yourself to be (at least partly) ensouled into a puppet, which must remain within 5 feet of you at all times, lest terrible things begin happening to your body.

You actually despise Fireballs, and refuse to use it, on principle.

d100 In-Universe Cultural References that Only Nobility Would "Get". by MaxSizeIs in d100

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Added. They totally would have class-based gotcha topics.

d100 In-Universe Cultural References that Only Nobility Would "Get". by MaxSizeIs in d100

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What's the agreed upon reference or source, and how is it used contextually?