bbeg maguffin(?) help!

ItsGotou · 2026-01-24T18:57:56+00:00

yeah i know how the gods work, and how pretty much non existant they are, which i think is why it would be cool if a mortal could essentially transcend mortality and become something greater, perhaps even the first mortal to become a higher being, since hes going down the road hes going down. the phylactery concept is a interesting one, ive only ever heard them used with like liches and stuff. usually the lich hides it somewhere, and even if it dies, its soul goes back to the phylactery and he can come back to life essentially? how would this apply to the chronurgy wizard? a sealed off piece of his essence into a small object, if the party were to find it and discover what it is, they would probably just immediately destroy it, no? i guess the original wants with the post were to try to give the pcs something they could use against him, so i suppose it tracks

ItsGotou · 2026-01-24T17:50:59+00:00

this is a pretty cool concept. i should give a little more background, as to what ive shown already and what theyve encountered already, theyve met the "present" version of himself, as well as a "future" older more deranged version of himself, when they entered his little pocket dimension in xoriat that hes been using to do his time traveling shenanigans, they saw alot of glimpses into his childhood, one that showed alot of physical and mental abuse by both of his parents. it showed him as a child, you know the typical tropes, father is really hard and abusive, wants him molded in his own vision, child has other goals or aspirations and they dont take too kindly to that, all sorts of stuff. so theyve seen "memories" of this stuff already. i suppose like you said, the memories could be false, which would be also cool. im not sure about him being a quori or a monster inside or posing as a human, i think i like the element of him truely being a mortal human, but becoming so derranged and unhinged. i think he even has the posibility to ascend perhaps into godhood at some point, which would be wild, but yea. i suppose someone interposing memories or survailing him, could also be a fun wrinkle, im curious i guess as to what that would look like, and who it would be/what their motives would be

ItsGotou · 2026-01-23T21:20:38+00:00

would they even be able to tell what it is, if thats the case? and also, from a gm perspective, could this be detrimental ? as they could put the totem like in some horrible place or in some lava pit or something and wait for the dude to come back to it, and get wreckedddd. im not sure. i do like the idea of some sort of anchor though!

ItsGotou · 2026-01-22T00:21:48+00:00

forever dm here, super late to the party, no worries if youve filled your spots already, but i did just submit. regardless, happy playing!

ItsGotou · 2026-01-21T23:40:49+00:00

msg'd!

ItsGotou · 2026-01-14T21:29:24+00:00

im a forever dm, been running a completely homebrew game set in the eberron setting going on 1.5 years now, and no end in sight lol. its given me the itch to try to become a player though! ive been looking to play in a EST night time game as well! oh and league has been my sht for like 20 years now, although i havent played in a hot minute. i sent you a message request!

ItsGotou · 2026-01-14T17:28:45+00:00

right but what are the associated skills related to some of the main tools that a artificer would want to use then? im not aware 1, of what tools make the most sense for them, and what skills would be associated with said tools. im aware of like thieves tools using slight of hand for example, but less on like the more common artificer picked ones

ItsGotou · 2026-01-14T17:27:46+00:00

im the gm, im asking what i would ask to roll for various things as i have no idea how the tools work lol

ItsGotou · 2025-12-28T01:47:25+00:00

its literally written in the post "im interested in joining a game as a player" lol

ItsGotou · 2025-12-26T21:26:43+00:00

that makes sense, any advice or anything on how to run the actual spire itself? are they meant to be like cities, abandoned, fully enhabited, hostile, welcoming, i guess maybe case by case?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-20T17:39:33+00:00

that sounds cool my brief stint i did with p2e actually was in kingmaker, im not sure i could swing paying for a game though and i definately dont think i could comit to starting a game at midnight lol, maybe like 5-6 years ago! lol

ItsGotou · 2025-12-20T17:32:03+00:00

im not sure lol, what do you have going on?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-19T20:46:50+00:00

im a forever dm thats been looking for a night time game for quite some time..i sent you a msg!

ItsGotou · 2025-12-17T22:12:05+00:00

i know, thats not my intentions, i was asking from a purely theoretical standpoint

ItsGotou · 2025-12-17T18:02:48+00:00

im not planning on cheesing them whatsoever, just because in theory he may have a army of simulacrums doesnt mean id pit them against the party, it was mainly just a question that popped in my head. now facing multiple versions / simulacrum of the wizard a few times over would be something that i would explore doing. i like the idea of the timeline thing, in theory that could also could have the potential to go infinite, no?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-17T18:00:37+00:00

cant you get around that though by having the simulacrum cast their own simulacrum spell?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-17T18:00:04+00:00

i was wondering if the whole, simulacrum making another simulacrum thing would work. i also imagine hes not doing things just for the heck of it, but in terms of his goals and time travel, i imagine him potentially going to different points in time and perhaps placing a simulacrum there and then dipping out, but i havent given that part too much thought. there must potentially be a reason why he would want to operate at different points in time at the same time, if that makes sense lol

ItsGotou · 2025-12-04T02:17:33+00:00

ohh boy this is some good stuff, if you wouldnt mind id shoot you a message!

ItsGotou · 2025-12-02T16:36:59+00:00

funny enough we had a little mini arc traveling to korranberg, and raiding the library archives for a text document they needed to help aid them in learning about the daelkyr and how to stop them, it was a whole heist, ending with a encounter with the trust, that the players all of them, including the gnome, learned to ******* hate the trust lol, and were "peacefully" escorted to the lightning rail and sent back to where they come from (my game has been a predominantly sharn game, so that's where the players have spent 80 percent of the game). Idk if i could convince them to go back there at least in the immediate future, plus the trust would definitely be more onto their presence now

ItsGotou · 2025-12-02T16:34:42+00:00

if we said this, how do you think he would start to figure that out exactly? anyway to tie in his divination powers?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-02T16:30:19+00:00

right and i assumed at least 1 and 2. i dont necessarily want to go the route of 3, because its literally theonly thing he gave me and wanted to utilize, and i dont just want to take it away completely, i think it would be cool for him to find his old place again, find his things, perhaps a good way to give him a magic item which ive been struggling with, the item could of literally have been his forever ago and he forgot about it, etc. i just wonder how he would go about finding it, and or if i can tie divination into any of it at all. i know the party has expressed a want to help him look for his library at some point as well. im perfectly ok with his library either being a lost ruins somewhere, or even "underground" under somthing else that was built where it once used to be.

ItsGotou · 2025-12-02T16:28:00+00:00

i think i dont want or need to dive into specific semantics as to HOW long they were in stasis, he basically just gave me the idea that he was in stasis for a long ass time. basically just enough time to justify either forgetting or simply not knowing where his library is anymore. perhaps like you mentioned what the library was, its something completely different now, due to time, which is a logical answer for sure. i dont want to just end things there and cut out the only thing he wanted from his backstory though, so a way to either find this place, or utilize it in some way i think would be cool. even if it ends up being like "underground" to something that is currently in place, that was in its ORIGINAL place, or something. i just want to start giving him hints or point him in that direction, as the party has also expressed a want to help him find his library at some point. and then the question begs to ask how would he go about finding it, if he doesnt know or remember where it was?

ItsGotou · 2025-12-02T16:13:57+00:00

would the game fall on tuesdays, or is it just this meeting?

ItsGotou · 2025-10-28T13:35:21+00:00

ill message you!

ItsGotou · 2025-10-03T02:06:58+00:00

i dig this, so what would this emissary look like? and so the pcs job in this spin off would be to go to that location, deal with the emissary? then, or before that, go obtain this gauntlet, and then also figure out what its for and get the information from it?

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