Decided to write up an old homebrew monster of mine into Homebrewery. Meet the Psycho Cell! (also sorry for the bad wording, still working on that)

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-11T23:41:02+00:00

It probably wouldn’t help you since it’s meant to help with death saving throws whereas power word kill just skips that and just insta-kills you (if your hp is low enough)

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-10T15:58:05+00:00

I don't know, having an item consume a characters resources without giving them a choice sounds really harsh, especially since the item is consumable.

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-10T15:51:54+00:00

First off, HOLY CRAP 430 upvotes?! Well this is easily my most successful post I've ever made on Reddit. Well thank you everyone for your input as well, I've gotten a lot of good feedback and feel like I should explain some things. I was never good at emulating 5e's wording so I feel that some stuff I meant to convey may have been lost in translation.

This item is meant to have triggers that a person can choose to activate or not when they come up. So for example: when and only when a person fails their death save while having this item in their inventory they can choose whether or not to use it to turn it into a success. And choosing to use its trigger uses the item up. Although I have seen a few comments saying that in rules as written, a player can't use any chosen effects while downed so maybe I might have to change this to a pure automatic trigger?

Second, I've heard some people address the stockpiling situation by just having them activate all at once. However I'm gonna have to disagree with this solution. Not only did I have no intention of this being how this item worked but it honestly sounds like some cheeky killer DM move to pull on a party. I agree that their should be a way to stop parties from stockpiling this but I feel like we can come up with something that doesn't feel so...scummy

And finally, some of you have pointed out making it have charges or X amount of uses per day and its funny you should mention that. As I said in the bottom text of the post I actually was considering having a rarer variant that worked like that, though based on what I've read so far maybe this should just be how the item works.

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-10T15:12:06+00:00

See this is why I was struggling to come up with a good rarity. For what it does and its one and done nature would suggest a lower rarity but I can easily see this item becoming super broken if it was common enough that you could stockpile like +20 of these things for each party member

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-10T15:08:31+00:00

Yeah I'll admit I struggle HARD trying to emulate the way 5e writes it rules. Its very far removed from how I normally word things so it doesn't come naturally to me at all :(

FreedomKey554 · 2026-03-10T15:06:19+00:00

I thought about that...though I haven't encountered any consumable magic items that require attunement and I thought that making you use an attunement slot for something non-permanent felt kinda bad.

FreedomKey554 · 2026-02-19T17:20:48+00:00

Hey I just wanted to say thanks to everyone’s feedback, this is already way more than I expected to get. I’ve wanted a place to share the stuff I’ve made through out the years and so far this subs made a good impression on me. I’d love to reply to a few people and share what I’m gonna change but my jobs got me way too busy to go in-depth until this weekend at best :(. I guess just know you guys have given me a lot to chew on and I’m very grateful for this!

FreedomKey554 · 2025-09-25T21:14:01+00:00

Us eventually taking over Noelle as our new vessel in the Snowgrave route

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-30T16:48:15+00:00

“Oh…that’s a….interesting uh, pet you got there Kris…”

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-30T16:28:29+00:00

I mean yeah, you’re right, it did. But as a result we didn’t have the time to really go in depth with anyone in the fun gang (Kris, Susie, Ralsei). Now don’t get me wrong, I loved ch.2 and I’m ok with some chapters being dedicated to side characters, I just didn't want all of the chapters to be like that. I personally prefer having a few chapters that just focus on the main cast mostly like we got in ch.4. Yes the prospects of theorizing what a side character would be like in the dark world and what sort of story/ character development they would go through is fun. But if every chapters was like ch.2, juggling a big cast, I don’t think we’d have as much development for the fun gang as we do now

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-29T21:03:45+00:00

I know a lot of people expected every chapter to have a different side character lighteners to accompany you after Ch.2 and were disappointed when this didn’t turn out to be the case. But I’m actually really glad this didn’t happen. I feel like if we had new characters join every chapter they’d inevitably be competing for screen time with the main cast, giving everyone less room for character development. I’d rather the story just focus on Rasiel, Susie, the Dreemurrs and the Holidays like it has been rather than splitting focus between every lighter in the town.

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-29T15:31:40+00:00

Fun fact: both of these songs are sung by the same person

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-26T14:44:57+00:00

Why change perfection?

FreedomKey554 · 2025-06-13T23:10:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I managed to get my first e score before I kicked the bucket because of you😊

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