This options simulates taking massive damage to the point a creature is knocked unconscious. When a creature takes at least 50% of its maximum hit points in damage between the start of its turn to the start of its next turn, divine the amount of damage takes by its max hit point. Multiply that by 20 and round to the nearest whole number, rounded down. At the start of the its turn, the creature must make a flat d20 roll with the DC equal to the calculated value. On a failure, the creature fall unconscious As an action, another creature can rouse the target back to conscious. Any additional damage also wakes the target up. Creatures immune to unconscious condition can not be subjected to shock.
Playing some DnD, and I had players try to ambush some monsters at a higher level. Let’s build something that might help.
Shock
This options simulates taking massive damage to the point a creature is knocked unconscious. When a creature takes at least 50 percent of its maximum hit points in damage between the start of its turn to the start of its next turn, divine the amount of damage takes by its max hit point. Multiply that by 20 and round to the nearest whole number, rounded down. At the start of the its turn, the creature must make a flat d20 roll with a bonus equal to your Constitution bonus with the DC equal to the calculated value. On a failure, the creature fall unconscious As a bonus action, another creature can rouse the target back to conscious. Any additional damage also wakes the target up.
Your near preternatural senses sometimes save you. When you roll a Perception check for Initiative and your dice roll is under 5, you can reroll the check taking the second result.
When you smash into your foe, you keep the hits coming.
Benefit: When you score a critical hit you may make an additional attack as a free action with a -4 penalty to the attack. You may only gain one free attack per round this way.
When you hit hard, you hit hard! Gain the following advantages:
Increase one ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20. You MUST be able to make an attack that uses this ability score
When you score a critical hit, either through a spell or a weapon attack, you may make another attack as a free action. This attack can be a weapon attack or a cantrip that uses a spell attack roll.
How about we build up stamina in Starfinder a bit?
Magical Stamina
You’ve focused on healing to body to the point you can energize the soul.
Prerequisites: ability to heal hit points magically, base attack bonus +4
Benefit: When you heal hit points on a target using a magical ability, any additional hit points over the target’s maximum are converted to stamina points.
General Healing Manipulate Skill Prerequisites expert in Medicine Requirements You are holding healer’s tools, or you are wearing them and have a hand free
You prepare for the damage to prevent the worst. When you attempt a medicine check, any additional hit points over the target’s maximum are gained as temporary hit points for up to 24 hours. The target is then temporarily immune to your Preventative Medicine for 1 day.
I want to help heal a few people in a group. We got 1st level fireballs with grenades. Let’s make 1st level cure as well!
Healing Grenade
Through a combination of magic and shaped charges, healing fluid is throw in an areas. Any targets in the area are affected by the healing spray. This may cause undead damage in the area who may attempt a Reflex save to avoid the damage.
Healing Grenade, I Level 1; Price 50 Hands 1; Proficiency Grenade Damage —; Range 20 ft.; Critical — Capacity Drawn Bulk L; Special Explode (1d4 hit points healed, 10 ft.)
Healing Grenade, II Level 4; Price 320 Hands 1; Proficiency Grenade Damage —; Range 20 ft.; Critical — Capacity Drawn Bulk L; Special Explode (2d4 hit points healed, 10 ft.)
Healing Grenade, III Level 8; Price 1,300 Hands 1; Proficiency Grenade Damage —; Range 20 ft.; Critical — Capacity Drawn Bulk L; Special Explode (4d4 hit points healed, 10 ft.)
Healing Grenade, IV Level 12; Price 5,100 Hands 1; Proficiency Grenade Damage —; Range 20 ft.; Critical — Capacity Drawn Bulk L; Special Explode (6d4 hit points healed, 10 ft.)
TL; DR– Solid Book of bad guys, set ups, and tools 100%
Basics– Ia! Ia! Cults of Cthulhu gives you… exactly what it says! This book is a book of four different cults, adventures to go against each cult, and tools to build your own cthulhu cult.
Mechanics or Crunch– This book is VERY much a Keeper’s book and not a players’ book, and that’s ok. This book has new monsters and stats for them, variant spells, and tips for building your own cult. I am honestly impressed by the depth of ideas for building a cult. I play too many fantasy games where the idea of how a cult is financed doesn’t come up. But here, how the money happens is a very important way to build your cult. Even optional crunch for Pulp Cthulhu is presented! Players will find nothing in this book, but Call of Cthulhu doesn’t really ever give players much more beyond the basic investigator book. The crunch doesn’t disappoint in this one. 5/5
Theme or Fluff– Again, this is a Keeper book, but built in a fun, informative way to help the Keeper build a world. Each of the four presented cults have real depth and personality with individual people and their goals presented. My one minor negative is like most Cthulhu books, you really only get the 1920s as a playground. It’s the most popular time for Call of Cthulhu, so I understand why, but I do seriously appreciate the one modern cult that is presented here. Also, adventures! There are four adventures against these four cults. So even if you need a one shot, this book has you covered. 5/5
Execution– I don’t think Chaosium has ever disappointed me. Hyperlinks, solid handouts, easy reading, separate files, pictures of monsters, and everything else makes this the whole nine yards. Its 25 bucks as a PDF, which is a decent chunk for a PDF, but even if you just used this for four one-shots, that brings the price down to manageable levels of any other market adventure for CoC. And it seems that Chaosium is listening and , while I love them, the handwritten notes are hard to read, Chaosium is making just nice plain text ones as well. My one complaint is I want pregens for each of the adventures, but that is just begging for more on an already solid product. 5/5
Summary– Cthulhu is gonna be the main draw for a game called Call of Cthulhu, so why not have some humans doing bad things for him? This book is a solid resource that, even if I just wanted some quick adventures and handouts, is well worth the price of admission. If you want to build your own cults, then this is the book you might want to check out as well. NOW DO YOG! 100%
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