jacinto classes, LotFP, new age dnd, san serafín, type v

having the time of your life

Been playing Shantae. Aggressively nostalgic, exceedingly Crayola, surprisingly excellent. Been have interested in playing it since it came out for the Game Boy Color. Anyway, it has me thinking about dancing. Also been thinking about Gus L’s Imperial Cultists. So here’s a prancing bardlike that mashes the two together.

from Etrian Odyssey


Dancers

from black swan

HP, attack bonus and XP as Cleric. Saves and Equipment as Thief.

Dancers perform magic dances, which aren’t memorized and forgotten like spells–they can be attempted as often as the dancer wishes.

Each Dance function like Lamentations of the Flame Princess skill. You start out with a 1-in-6 chance of succeeding on checks pertaining to the relevant dance, but you can increase the odds of success with skill points. At level 1, you start out with 4 skill points to allocate however you wish; every time you level up, you gain 2 more. You can only improve Dances you’ve learned, naturally. A Dance cannot exceed a 5-in-6 chance of success. If all of this is too complicated for you, just use the thief’s Hear Noise skill odds for all known dances.

Dances always work, but for every turn you perform a Dance, you must make a check with the relevant skill. If you succeed, you continue your performance unfazed; if you fail, you take a level of exhaustion. (There are a lot of ways to do this. In my games, for each level of exhaustion, you suffer a -1 penalty to all attribute, attack, and skill rolls, and move as if you were encumbered by an additional level. If you roll a negative number on a roll while exhausted or reach a movement speed of 0, you fall unconscious for d4 Turns. Eating a ration and resting for a Turn removes one level of exhaustion.) When you are dancing, you move no faster than 30′. If you are struck by an attack while dancing, you must make a Save vs Breath or end the dance.

from Shantae

Dances
You begin play knowing two Mysterious Dances dances. To acquire more, you must find them in your travels. Learning a dance from a tutor takes a week. Learning a dance from written instructions takes a month.

Mysterious Dances

  • Arson Dance: When you perform this dance indoors, no fire within that structure can be extinguished until you leave or stop dancing. This may work in a limited area (such as a single story or wing) in very large buildings. 
  • Vorpal Dance: This dance ends by tracing a finger or toe across a flat surface. This creates a cut with a depth in inches equal to twice the number of turns you danced, regardless of material. 
  • Murder Dance: For each round you perform this dance, every creature that can see you takes d6 necrotic damage as they slowly crumble to dust; they can Save vs Spell for half damage
  • Scandal Dance: Any creature that sees you perform this dance must Save vs Spells or pay attention to nothing else but you for as long as you continue to dance. This does not change its disposition towards you. 
  • Shatter Dance: Completing this dance breaks every mundane piece of glass within a number of feet equal to 10 times the number of Turns spent dancing.  
  • Dark Dance: Completing this dance extinguishes every torch, lamp, or other light source within a number of feet equal to 10 times the number of Turns spent dancing.

Forbidden Dances
Known to no one. Can only be learned from forgotten texts.

  • Bone Dance: animates a number of HD of undead equal to half your level, rounded up. They obey your spoken commands until you stop dancing, at which point they go berserk.
  • Wind Dance: As per Stormspeech. Lasts until you stop dancing. 
  • Dance of Monstrosity: As per Summon. Replace all mention of caster level with number of turns spent dancing.
  • Dance of Change: When you complete this dance, you may polymorph into a mundane animal of your choice with HD equal to or less than half your level. The transformation lasts for as long as you danced or until you choose to revert to your true form. 
  • Immolation Dance: Performing this dance sets you on fire and makes you immune to all heat and flame. Any creature in melee range of you takes d6 damage, and you ignite every flammable thing you pass by. Ceasing to dance ends your immunity to heat, but it doesn’t douse you. 
  • Prominence Dance: For as long as you perform this dance, the Sun shines overhead as if it were noon. Only works outdoors
  • Nocturne Dance: For as long as your perform this dance, the sky darkens and the stars shine as if it were midnight. Only works outdoors.
from Magi

So the idea behind all of this is you have multiple pressures on the character, most of which revolve around the overloaded encounter die/Hazard System.

  • Rations encumber you, but let you reduce exhaustion.
  • Exhaustion reduces the amount of stuff you can carry (including rations) and makes you more likely to fail dances, which exhausts you more
  • Dancing takes time, which makes encounters and complications more likely, which might require more dances to resolve.
  • Armor makes it safer to use dances in combat, but leaves you less room for rations and makes you even slower while you dance.
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    sunliiiiiiiiight

    I haven’t played Boktai in years, but I still think about. A bizarre little game, but totally charming and actually pretty excellent.

    The setting is vampire-ridden science fantasy post-apocalypse Mexico, though it goes in different directions than what you’re probably thinking right now. A lot of wacky pastiche in the style of Japanese video games–the other aesthetic influences are Norse mythology and spaghetti Westerns.

    El Sur

    Two hundred years after the last agent of the Empire fled east back over the sea, they returned on black barges that slid over the ocean without sails. They were different this time, bloodless rather than pale, armed with an ugly magic that blotted out the sun and raised their predecessors from forgotten graves. They were vampires, the very same princelings and governors that had been defeated in life two centuries ago, transformed during their exile, coming back to claim what they lost when they yet lived.

    They did not find El Sur so easy to conquer a second time. They made it to San Miguel, the ancient City of the Sun, where they rule to this day, but they have not been able to occupy any more territory. The Queen and her armies contain them, but there is much to be done. There is a constant need for itinerant exorcists and monster hunters in the hinterlands, as the vampires send their agents there to sabotage rightful rule. The great tracts of sunless, vampire-blighted lands to the east are fertile ground for saboteurs and adventurers looking for foreign gold and alien magic.

    The vampires use silent black-metal machinery to blot out the sun and fly overhead on funureal barges. They tax the blood of their subjects for their own purposes and deface the holy city of San Miguel with immense necromantic diagrams. Their servants are known as the Sanguinaires.

    The Queen and her forces keep the vampire in check, using devices stolen and adapted from the Old World to call forth the sun. Their allies are the Children of the Sun, heliomancers who worship gods from before the First Invasion, and the Knights del Sol, gunslinging exorcists who destroy vampires with strange machines.

    And here’s a paladin oath, I guess.

    Oath del Sol
    Brave gunslingers from the city of San Miguel, formed to defend humanity against an ancient court of vampires. They use strange machines to circumvent the defenses of their otherwise immortal enemies.

    The Knights del Sol value cunning, bravery, and determination, but what they treasure most of all is results.

    Oath Spells
    1st level: earth tremor, create or destroy water
    2nd level: gentle repose, dust devil
    3rd level: plant growth, speak with dead
    4th level: control water, conjure minor elementals
    5th level:  control winds, commune with nature

    Gun del Sol
    Starting at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with firearms. You also can designate any non-thrown ranged weapon as your Gun del Sol (even if it isn’t actually a gun. It’s tradition) Your Gun del Sol can fire sunlight projectiles. Doing so doesn’t require ammunition, but the sunlight behaves as the projectile would (so sunlight fired from bows have the same range and trajectory as arrows, and so on) and deals no damage unless natural sunlight would. However, you can use your Divine Smite ability to empower attacks made this way.

    If your Gun del Sol is lost or destroyed, you must spend 8 hours modifying another non-thrown ranged weapons with divine machinery to replace it. A Gun del Sol only works for its particular Knight.

    If you take a short rest in a sunny place, you can use Divine Smite at the highest available spell level on your next attack with the Gun del Sol without expending any spell slots.

    Messenger of the Sun
    At 3rd level, you acquire the Find Familiar ritual. In addition to the normal familiars you can use it to summon a sprite. This familiar is fully sentient regardless of type and immune to radiant damage. You receive advantage on (Arcana), Intelligence (Religion), or Intelligence (History) check pertaining to fiends or undead when you talk it out with your familiar.

    Solar Engineer
    At 7th level, you learn how to make lenses. Fitting a lens into your Gun del Sol takes 10 minutes, and changes the damage it deals when you empower it with Divine Smite. When You can learn how to make two lenses from the following list:

    • Ruby Lens: You learn the Control Flames cantrip. When you fit this lens into your Gun, you have resistance to cold damage and your Divine Smite deals fire damage when used to empower your Gun’s attacks.
    • Seaglass Lens: You learn the Shape Water cantrip. When you fit this lens into your Gun, you have resistance to fire damage and your Divine Smite deals cold damage when used to empower your Gun’s attacks.
    • Rare Earth Lens: You learn the Mold Earth cantrip. When you fit this lens into your Gun, you have resistance to lightning damage and your Divine Smite deals acid damage when used to empower your Gun’s attacks.
    • Quartz Lens: You learn the Gust cantrip. When you fit this lens into your Gun, you have resistance to acid damage and your Divine Smite deals lightning damage when used to empower your Gun’s attacks.
    • Lunar Lens: You learn the Friends cantrip. When you fit this lens into your Gun, you have resistance to radiant damage and your Divine smite deals psychic damage when used to empower your Gun’s attacks.

    Piledriver
    Starting at 15th level, as an action you can summon the Piledriver, a divine machine designed to destroy wicked immortals. When you do so, you raise a circle of 6 pillars from the earth. The pillars are of Medium size and have 75 HP and 14 AC. The circle’s radius cannot exceed 60 ft. Within the Piledriver, fiends and undead suffer disadvantage on all saving throws. More importantly, anyone and anything who dies in this area is dead forever, laid to rest beyond the reach of magic. Vampires, liches, death knights, and spirit nagas, and even gods are all subject to the Piledriver’s effect. The effect only lasts while all Piledriver pillars stand, and ends after an hour. Your Divine Smite ability heals Piledriver pillars. You must take a long rest before you can use this ability again.

    Extra Lens
    At 15th level, you gain an extra lens from the list above.

    Prominence
    At 20th level, you can summon a minor aspect of the Sun. Once per long rest, you can cast sunburst without a material component. For an hour afterwards, a miniature sun hangs directly overhead, shedding sunlight as bright as if it were noon in a 1 mile radius around the epicenter of the sunburst. This works indoors and underground, but the miniature Sun will be outside.

    Extra Lens
    At 20th level, you gain an extra lens from the list above.

    jacinto type v

    monster of the week

    one of my players is grumpy I disallow darkvision in my 5e game, so here’s a proposal for him.

    Dark Elves

    by asher levine

    unseelie freaks, troglobite fairies, bad-dream cousins of the elves. They are just as beautiful as their surface-swelling relatives, save that they have no eyes. the ones who live deep beneath the Earth are worm-belly white, while the ones who live in caves and venture to the surface are shades of dark grey. Their clothes and art are heavily textured, because they cannot truly see. Their fashion is designed to disturb those who can; their Knights Verso wear backwards armor and paint eyes on the back of their head.

    The ruler of the dark elves is Lord Fathom, who dwells at the bottom of the earth. He knows what the dead know–every soul passing on to the Hereafters must give him a single secret. His honor guard is Lord Fathom’s Forty, the evilest, strangest, and most powerful of the dark elves. They are renowned and hated on the surface, famous for stealing the Little Moon and killing the Red Dragon and the White Worm.

    • Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1
    • Age: Around 700.
    • Alignment: Whatever you please
    • Size: Your size is Medium. Because your skeleton is cartilaginous, you can squeeze through spaces as a Small creature. 
    • Speed:  Your move speed is 30 ft.
    • Weird Knowledge: You cannot see, but you have blindsight out to 30 feet.
    • Keen Senses: You have proficiency in the Perception skill. When you make a Wisdom (Perception) check to smell something, add double your proficiency bonus.
    • Fey Ancestry: You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
    • Sleep: You can’t sleep, no matter how much you want to. You instead slip into a semiconscious fever dream; 4 hours counts as 8 hours of sleep, and you remain aware of your surroundings during this time. 
    • Languages: You speak English/Common and Ara Gorash/Deep Speech. You can only read textured scripts, because you are blind. This is rare on the surface.
    • Sunlight Sensitivity: You have disadvantage on all checks, saving throws, and attack rolls in direct sunlight. Shade and heavy clothing remove this effect.
    • Uncanny: You can cast the Thaumaturgy cantrip.