Author: fineyoungmisanthrope

Daily Punch 3-8-19 Raised in Filth feat for DnD 5e

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Ok, lots of disease lately, so how about we get some tools to fight it?

 

Raised in Filth

You were raised in dirt, and some of your family didn’t survive it,  but you thrived gaining resistances to it. You gain the following benefits:

  • Increase your Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • You have advantage on saving throws against diseases or being inflicted with any disease via a spell.
  • When you are affected by a disease, instead of making a saving throw every 24 hours, you make a save to end a disease every 12 hours.

 

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Ring Side Report- Saga RPG Adventure Arc: Darkwood #3 – The Vile and the Voracious

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Product– Saga RPG Adventure Arc: Darkwood #3 – The Vile and the Voracious

System– Pathfinder

Producer-SagaRPG

Price– $15(PDF)-40(softcover and pdf) here https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/249671/01AA03–Saga-RPG-Adventure-Arc-Darkwood-3–The-Vile-and-the-Voracious-PFRPG-PDF–01AA03?affiliate_id=658618

TL; DR-Why does it have to be mutant trolls! 93%

Basics– That troll pillaging the town has an arm growing out of his head!  Darkwood 3-The Vile and the Voracious is the third part of an ongoing series where the players adventure through Darkwood, a community on the fringe where different power players attempt to gain sway while horrors in the woods attack unrelentingly.  In this one the town is attacked by trolls, but not just any trolls, horrible mutant trolls! All the different groups are united against them, and the players are sent to exterminate the threat. In the dark caves where the trolls call home, long, best forgotten fey things are found as well.  The book also features a new mechanics for mutant monsters, crafting rules, items, magic, templates, locations and even gods of the Darkwood setting.

Mechanics or Crunch-Here is honestly where the book shines.  This book provides some really fantastic new crunch to Pathfinder with items, guns, templates and a large section devoted to making mutant monsters of old favorites.  These are liberally applied to all the things the players experience through the adventure, so it’s fun to see the new crunch dropped on the players mid battle! The new camping expedition rules are a welcome addition as well as “Ok, you set watch” *rolls one die per payer on watch* “Ok, get back your spells and hp.” *rolls encounter table and nothing happens* REPEAT TILL DESTINATION is honestly boring.  It’s fun to make your players’ characters people and give them things to do while living. This book adds some solid mechanics to the Pathfinder RPG 5/5

Theme or Fluff–  Here is the low point for the book. It’s not bad, not even close to bad, but this is not a very diverse adventure.  This is an unrepentant dungeon crawl and everything about this one is getting you to the place, so the killing can happen.  There are fun elements to the place like great descriptions of each room and new monsters to right in each room, but do not expect levels upone levels of intrigue i this one.  It’s just a fun romp killing trolls with some extra splash put in to keep the bard from being bored in the back. That’s not a bad thing, but not a diverse adventure. A decent hack and slash dungeon crawl in a lost fey cavern.  4.3/5

Execution–  The book is put together pretty decently, but has a few things I’d like changed.  It reads pretty quickly and is set up so I, the laziest DM ever, can simply skim enough at the time to get the game running in under three minutes while I say take a bio brake on the phone with clear outlines of plot and locations as well as area descriptions with monster personalities.  That’s exactly what I want from every adventure! I HATE having to read and reread a section to find how one of five brothers interacts in a combat when I’m trying to give life to 10 different monsters, and this book makes my life easy! What I don’t like is even on my tablet at the table, I have to do some considerable zooming to read the text.  The background looks nice, but the weathered parchment look makes it hard for me to read because I’m getting old! Others things I think are interesting design choices are to put the camping section in the middle. It kind of interrupts the flow, so I don’t think it goes there while other mechanical things are at the back of the book. But, I honestly can forgive that pretty easily because this book HYPERLINKS THE DAMN PDF!  I am boggled by how this isn’t industry standard, but these people do it and it makes my day. The art is nice and adds enough, and even better the PDF had maps WITHOUT labels on them that I can easily grab and throw into my online games or print for my table, so that is another fantastic plus to this adventure. Minor issues with the book, but otherwise its a solidly put together PDF. I have a few minor issues, but this is a well put together PDF 4.6/5

Summary-Sometimes you want a fancy 20 course meal with multiple courses.  Sometimes you just want to curbstomp a troll in a cave. This adventure might not redefine the fantasy world for its story, but simple doesn’t mean bad.  If you are in this deep to the Darkwood Adventure Arc, you are gonna have a blast in this book. If you are looking for your next book of long intrigue in the high courts of nobles, then this isn’t your book.  But, if you just want a fun Pathfinder adventure you can spring on your players to have them fight some mutant trolls then honestly for 15 bucks it’s hard to beat, even if your players don’t care about darkwood at all and they just want some good old fashion hack and slash.  The other things in here that really stand out well like the expedition camp rules, the mutant templates, and multiple other things are slick pathfinder additions. The Vile and the Voracious is a simple adventure done well and put together smoothly. 93%

Daily Punch 3-6-18 Buboes Explosion spell for DnD 5e

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More fever dreams and mixing with my day job reading about biochemistry.  Why no necromancy fireball?  I GOT YA NECROMANCY FIREBALL!

 

Buboes Explosion

3rd-level necromancy

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 100 feet
Components: V, S, M (a lymph node cut from a plague victim)
Duration: Concentration, up to one minute

You fling the dried lymph glad to a point in range and it explodes in a black mass of smoke.  Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Constitution saving throw. A target instantly becomes infected with a pox if it fails the save becoming covered with boils and pustules.  Any creatures who make their save are unaffected.  Each turn an affected creature takes 3d6 necrotic damage at the start of its turn while affected.  Any ability that removes diseases ends the effect on an affected creature.  Creatures immune to disease are immune to this spell.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.

 

 

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Daily Punch 3-5-18 Plague Wind spell for DnD 5e

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Still feeling like crap and having my friends avoid me means I only get to talk to myself and the magic elves I see from the cough syrup.  Here is another spell where you can make your friends sick!

 

Plague Wind

2nd-level necromancy

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet cone
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

You cough out a vile purple mist that envelops all targets in range.  Any living target that breaths must attempt a Constitution saving throw.  If it fails, it’s lungs, mouth, and sinuses instantly fill with sickly brown mucus.  Each round, any affected targets must attempt a Constitution saving throw to breath and act normally.  If it fails, it falls prone losing all actions for that turn.  After succeeding at or failing two saving throws it successfully shacks coughs out the mucus returning to normal.

 

 

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Daily Punch 3-4-19 Wracking Cough spell for DnD 5e

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I’ve been pretty sick this weekend.  CANCEL DND SICK!  But it does give me some ideas….

 

Wracking Cough

1st-level necromancy

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You attempt to hamper a target in range with a debilitating cough.  Choose a target in range.  If it fails a Constitution saving throw,  it gains a debilitating cough.  Each round if it attempts to do more than just stay still and rest, it must make a Constitution saving throw.  On a failure it gains disadvantage to all attacks and skill checks for that round as well as saves made before the beginning of its next turn.   Any effect that removes a disease or magically heals damage removes this cough.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Daily Punch 2-28-18 Dreadnought Soldier Fighting Style for Starfinder

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Alright, let’s get make a soldier Fighting Style.  I like heavy armor and hurting people, so here is a semi-fighter berserker.

 

 

Dreadnought

You are a wall of force.  You use heavy weapons and heavy armor to simply smash through everything around you.  Pain fuels your as much as the quest for glory

Unstoppable (Ex) 1st Level

When you are wearing heavy or power armor, remove any negative adjustments you have to speed.

Indomitable (Ex) 5th Level

Starting at 5th level,  you  you gain damage reduction to all damage equal to 1/2 your level minimum 2 .  If another effect give your DR, you add this damage reduction to the effect..

Relentless (Ex) 9th Level

If you take damage equal to your level in a round, you gain a +4 bonus to all attacks made the next round.

Armorer(Ex) 13th Level

You build and rebuild your weapons of war.  Your EAC and KAC increase by a +4 moral bonus.

Fuel to the Fire Within (Ex) 17th Level

You can pour all the anger of the last round into a single swing or shot.  Make a single attack as a full round action.  If you succeed, you add the total damage you would have taking including damage reduced by your indomitable ability that you took from the end of your last round to the start of this round, including effects that occur at the start of your turn, to that attack’s damage.

Daily Punch 2-26-19 Captain Training feat for Starfinder

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Let’s do what the Captain Says! Here is a feat for Starfinder!

 

Captain Training

You know exactly what to do to get what you ant out of your crew.

Prerequisites: Diplomacy 5 ranks, Intimidate 5 ranks.

Benefit: When you take demand or encourage action, you increase the bonus your crew gets by +4.  When you take the Orders or Moving Speech action, you gain a +4 to your check to succeed on that action.

 

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