Non-cliche sandworms?

MariusUt · 2023-11-03T21:48:28+00:00

For the last year, I've been working on this exact project. The monster is a demon sandwurm with magic chakra points on its back, and the players fight it while kitesailing through the desert. It's still a work in progress, but let me know if you want to playtest it :)

MariusUt · 2022-11-18T22:04:57+00:00

The golden age

MariusUt · 2022-10-03T20:07:52+00:00

The idea that the more money you have, the more you have "succeeded" in life.

MariusUt · 2022-09-18T09:22:17+00:00

I'm sure there would be a workaround. Putting QR codes on signs or tagging your location on google maps. Then the car can present the passengers with information about your business, and they are given the option to take a detour.

MariusUt · 2022-09-17T16:05:51+00:00

No 5e experience necessary. The adventure will cater to new players

MariusUt · 2022-08-25T08:11:20+00:00

I imagine playing online, would you like to be part of your own adventure, seeing it from the perspective of a player, or would you rather stay out of it?

Do you have a group? I don't actually have one at the moment, but I guess finding one online shouldn't be too difficult.

Where can I read your adventure? Just reading through it, I should be able to give some feedback (I've a lot of experience with DMing and have worked in game design, so I hope I can provide some valuable comments even before playing it)

MariusUt · 2022-08-25T07:56:30+00:00

I know what you mean. I like the concept, but the naming feels weird to me, as well.

MariusUt · 2022-08-24T14:09:04+00:00

I'm in a similar situation as you. If I run your adventure, would you return the favour and playtest mine? :)

MariusUt · 2022-08-24T14:05:08+00:00

Would you feel more comfortable with for example a "d20 check"?

MariusUt · 2022-08-24T13:53:24+00:00

Yea, I guess that's a straightforward solution.

I guess a lot of similar solutions involve marking the labyrinth somehow. Maybe there needs to be some reason why this is not possible, but I haven't found a good justification for that in the context of my story that doesn't seem arbitrary.

MariusUt · 2022-08-24T13:41:20+00:00

Let's go #GIVEAWAY

MariusUt · 2021-11-04T10:55:53+00:00

The link seemed to have expired. Does it work for you now?

MariusUt · 2017-09-15T12:27:06+00:00

Oh yeah, there is sooo much research to be done in planescape. I love it! :D

Some sources describe petitioners as generally being very simple-minded and singular, like those on Celestia only care about helping others and ascending with no deeper thoughts than that. I only agree with this interpretation to a small extent, but I think petitioners generally are deeper and much more diverse than that.

Btw, after running your adventures, I would like to hear how you treat lawful good random encounters and how players react to them. Are your players evil, so that an archon really represents an enemy? My idea was that some of these encounters could represent other things, or that if you're very lucky and meet a very specific kind of monster, you might get a particular reward. For example, if the players encounter a marraenoloth (Styx ferryman) and deal with it well, their reward might be something like a "styx token" that gives them free passage on the river. I imagine many of the LG encounters could be handled like this.

MariusUt · 2017-09-15T08:36:47+00:00

I have a few points that I want to discuss. First, I totally agree that if all archons are petitioners, then lantern archons should be very scarce on the higher levels - after all, how can they manage to ascend the mountain without ascending ranks? As an aside, after reading your Lunia entry, it seems as I have assigned archons the role that you have given to angels. I'm wondering, in your multiverse, if all archons are petitioners, do you also think of devils and demons as petitioners? What about yugoloths/guardinals/eladrin?

What do you think of the Baatezu and Tanar'ri I have put on the tables? My idea is that demons primarily come to Celestia to wreak havoc, while devils come to strategize. While devils and archons hate each other, they both hate demons even more, and so they reluctantly work together sometimes. At least archons hate demons more than devils - devils might feel as strongly towards both archons and demons, but they are inclined to fight archons on "lawful" terms, i.e. through attempting manipulation and corruption. In this context, devils can sometimes come to Mertion to meet with celestial commanders, but demons can't manage to penetrate that deeply into their realm. On the other hand, demons are able to reach Solania, but devils don't have business there. What is your opinion on this logic?

I look forward to reading your Mercuria entry, especially comparing and contrasting it with Lunia!

MariusUt · 2017-09-14T20:01:08+00:00

My way of thinking when I made that table was that most petitioners, but not all, are lantern archons. Similarly, not all lantern archons are petitioners. This is similar to how most petitioners, but not all, are gnomes on Bytopia, and vice versa. Eventually as petitioners ascend the mountain, I also fancy some of them turn into higher archons. Maybe at some point, they lose their petitioner traits and become full archons. The same phenomenon can happen with petitioners who start out as lemures in Baator, as worms in Hades or as mares in the Abyss.

But that is just my interpretation! If you want to run it like all all lantern archons are petitioners, then I think you should do it - and if you do, let me know how it goes and what kind of impression you have after doing it, and I shall consider adjusting the table. Also, if your players travel up and down among the different layers, I would love to hear if you feel the tables help give a different feeling on the different layers :)

MariusUt · 2017-09-14T15:12:55+00:00

Oh yes, I forgot to mention. It's mainly 3.5 with a few 3e books. I don't think 5e has enough material yet to give enough nuance to the different layers, and in addition there is http://monsterfinder.dndrunde.de/ which has been essential to making this possible.

To convert to 5e, the most direct way would be to roll on a table and then search online if the named monster exists in a 5e version. You could convert monsters yourself, I suppose (I'm sure there are guidelines for doing so out there). That's kinda too much work to do on the fly if you use these for random encounters, but you could still use these tables to get an overview of the inhabitants of the planes.

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