Daily Punch 3-6-18 Distracted Advantage feat for DnD 5e

We did it for Pathfinder, so let’s do it for DnD!

 

Distracted Advantage

When they are not looking at you, you spring into action.  Gain the following benefits:

  • Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • When you attack an enemy that you have advantage against or an enemy that you and an ally are engaged with, you apply double your ability modifier to damage instead of your normal ability modifier.

 

 

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Daily Punch 3-5-18 Distracted Advantage feat for Pathfinder

Why not lay on the damage when you can?

 

Distracted Advantage

If they are not looking right at you, twist the knife harder!.

Benefit: When you attack an enemy that is flatfooted or an enemy you are flanking, you can add you strength modifier to damage in addition to your normal damage bonuses from strength for using a melee weapon.

 

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Daily Punch 2-28-18 Redouble Courage feat for Pathfinder

I have players fighting a dragon now.  Some of them want this ability…

 

Redouble Courage

You can shake off the hardest frights in a moment.

Benefit: When you are subject to a Fear effect or the  frightened or shaken condition because you failed a saving throw, you can reroll that saving throw.  You must use the second result, even if it is lower.  If you fail the second saving throw, you cannot use this feat for 24 hours.  If you succeed, you may continue to use this feat until you fail a saving throw.

 

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Daily Punch 2-26-17 Flatfooted hindrance for Savage Worlds

Jumping back into things!  Here is a one that came up at the table for Savage Worlds!

 

Flatfooted [minor or major]

You are slow on the draw.  A minor flatfooted character’s initiative is one number lower that indicated on his or her card.  If this would put a character at one initiative, they must make an agility check or be stunned.  If the character is already stunned and fails the check, they take one nonlethal damage.

A major flatfooted character’s initiative is reduced by one number and one suit.  If the character draws a club, an agility check or be stunned.  If the character is already stunned and fails the roll, they take one nonlethal damage. If this would put a character at one initiative, they must make an agility check or be stunned.  If the character is already stunned and fails the check, they take one nonlethal damage.  A character can be subjected to both these effects with a major hindrance.

 

 

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Daily Punch 2-5-18 Item Specialist feat for DnD 5e

Here is a quick one that came up this weekend.

 

Item Specialist

When it comes to getting you money’s worth, you get double!  Gain the following benefits:

  • You may use two consumable items as part of the same action.
  • Drawing an item from any container is not an action for you, but a free action.
  • You do not provoke opportunity attacks for using any items.

 

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Daily Punch 1-30-18 Diabolical Tutor monster for DnD 5e

Let’s get caught up with an idea from a 5e game.

 

Devil, Diabolical Tutor

Tiny fiend(devil, shapechanger), lawful evil

Armor Class 9

Hit Points 10 (3d4+3)

Speed 20 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
6 (-2) 16 (+3) 12 (+1) 18 (+4) 12 (+1) 16 (+3)

Skills Deception +5, Insight +3, Persuasion +5, Arcana +5, Religion +5, History +5,Nature +5

Damage Resistances fire, piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing from nonmagic weapons that are not silvered

Senses passive darkvision 120 ft., Perception 11

Languages infernal, Common

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Special Traits

 

  • Shapechanger: The diabolical tutor can use its action to polymorph into a beast form that resembles a rat (speed 20 ft.), a raven (20 ft., fly 60 ft.), or a spider (20 ft., climb 20 ft.), or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form, except for the speed changes noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
  • Devil’s Sight: Magical darkness doesn’t impede the diabolical tutor’s darkvision.
  • Magic Resistance: The diabolical tutor has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
  • Dark Knowledge: When you spend an action to make a knowledge check and consult the diabolical tutor, you may add the diabolical tutor’s bonus to these checks to your own.Actions

 

  • Bite: Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (2d4 – 2) piercing damage.

 

Description

A man-shaped monster that stinks of brimstone and rot but offers fel knowledge to any who listen to its evil lips.

Daily Punch 1-29-18 Dark Tutor spell for Achtung! Cthulhu/Savage Worlds

Let’s keep up the Savage Worlds!  Here is a spell for those who think no knowledge is forbidden.

 

Dark Tutor
Casting Modifier: varies
Range: touch
Duration: permanent
Cost: varies
This spell teaches the willing the true secrets of the world.  When this spell is cast, the target may increase it’s Cthulhu Mythos level to the next die level.  The modifier for the spell equals the next level of the targets Cthulhu Mythos level ie a target gaining a d4 in Cthulhu Mythos imposes a -4 modifier modifier.  The target and the caster both lose sanity equal to the dice gained ie the target gaining a d4 imposes a 4 points of sanity loss to both the caster and target.  No die level may be skipped using this spell, and each die level imposed the same penalties and sanity cost to the caster and target.

 

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Daily Punch 1-25-17 Portal Pouch spell for DnD 5e

Let’s make a low level conjuration spell. Credit to my wife for the original idea!

Portal Pouch

1st-level conjuration

Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: touch
Components: V, S, M (two non-magic bags of roughly the same size)
Duration: 8 hours

When you finish this spell, you link two bags together, so opening one bag shows the contents of both. Only one bag may be opened at a time. Opening one causes the other to close, and both bags register as carrying the weight of all items in both bags. When a bag is forced to be closed by opening another, all items in the closing bags opening are expelled with no damage. Only items that can fit in the bag are allowed to move from one bag to another. A linked bag may only have a total volume of a quarter of a cubic yard. Placing any item that has an extra-dimensional space such as a portable hole or bag of holding acts as if a bag of holding is placed into a portable hole.

At higher levels.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the number of bags that can be linked increases by one for each slot level above 1st.