Campaign Inspiration

Inspiration and aesthetic for my dnd campaign

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Swallowtail Mantle
Wondrous item, rare ___

While wearing this mantle, when you move 10 or more feet before jumping, the maximum distance of your jump is increased by 10 feet. In addition, when you fall at least 20 feet while wearing this mantle, you can use your reaction to grip its edges with both hands. While holding the edges, you fly at a speed of 30 feet, but cannot fly upwards without a significant updraft. Unless you’re lifted by an updraft, you descend 15 feet at the end of each of your turns. If you land on the ground while flying in this way, you take no damage from falling. You lose this flying speed if you ever fail to grip the mantle’s edges. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Bracers of Spell Reflection
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a monk) ___

While wearing these mirrored bracers, you gain a +2 bonus to AC if you are wearing no armor and using no shield. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against spells.

While wearing the bracers, you can use your Deflect Missiles feature when you’re hit by a ranged spell attack, reducing its damage as if it were from a ranged weapon. If you reduce the damage to 0, you don’t suffer any of the spell’s effects and can immediately reflect the spell back at the attacker. The reflected spell uses the same spell attack bonus and spell save DC as when it was originally cast. ___

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[charaznablescanontoyota]

so i’m writing a tabletop game

[charaznablescanontoyota]

the game is out. btw

[play-this-game-if-you-like]

TO FUCK SHIT UP

[madmaenads-casual]

It's a GMless high concept game that uses tarot/oracle cards alongside dice. I am very interested

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Greenthumb Whittler
Wondrous item, common ___

This small whittling knife has a green blade and can be used in place of a set of woodcarver’s tools. Its wooden handle is decorated with carvings of soft leaves and fitted with a verdant, opal-like gemstone ring.

Over the course of several hours, you can use the knife to carve a Tiny statue from fine wood, which can’t be larger than 1 foot in any dimension. At the end of each hour you spend carving the statue, make a DC 10 Dexterity check, adding your proficiency bonus to the roll if you’re proficient with woodcarver’s tools. The statue is successfully completed if you succeed on four of these checks, or unfortunately mangled and destroyed if you fail two of them.

The statue can do minor feats of animation, which you decide upon completing it. If it moves, it can’t leave its space on its own. For example, the statue can wave and turn its head back and forth robotically, or dance around in a circle within its space. You can start or stop the animation by tapping the statue twice in rapid succession (no action required).

Up to three statues can be animated at a time in this way. When a fourth statue is completed, the first one ceases to move and loses its magic. Destroying a statue ends the effect. ___

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[drowsydraws]

II :: tiger | bow | trees

[architecturealliance]

The 11th century Round Tower of Glendalough, a monastery founded in the 6th century in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Footnotes on foes: Eldrazi

Hey DMs, do you need an unfeeling aberrant force to threaten your campaign world at various scales but don’t want to use mindflayers? Bored of lovecraftian knockoffs threatening to drown reality in abstract but unspecified “madness”? Well have I got the monster for you friends, It’s the Eldrazi: an unknowable and all consuming horde that’s here to reduce your setting to nothingness.

I’ve always had a fondness for the Eldrazi after they originally debued in magic the gathering, alien beings that sap all life from their surroundings and seem to have no other aims beyond the total and complete obliteration of whatever world they happen to dwell on. (plus they have a super cool look, and in the end isn’t that what matters?)

Eldrazi have a lot of mystery surrounding them, but in trying to puzzle them out I came up with my own headcanon that was too good not to use.  Below the cut I’ll go into detail on how I think the eldrazi function, and how you can best use them in your campaigns.

TLDR: The eldrazi are the great decomposers of the multiverse, reducing dead worlds down into their base components, and then into dust to be reabsorbed by the cosmic cycles of the astral sea. A perfectly natural process, but one that can go catastrophically wrong should the eldrazi be drawn to a world that has not yet died as they often are by witless dabblers or disruptions to those same astral currents. When they end up on a world they’re not supposed to be they end up creating wastelands, fighting against nature like an infection.  

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Wand of Meadow’s Rest
Wand, rare ___

This wand looks and smells like a flourishing sprig of lavender. It has 7 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into petals and is destroyed.

𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥. While holding the wand, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the "sleep" spell from it. For 1 charge, you cast the 1st-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend, up to 5th level. Creatures that have a trait that grants them advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell are considered to have half as many current hit points for the purposes of determining the number of creatures affected by the spell.

𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙚. While holding the wand, you can use an action to expend 7 of its charges and wave it in the air above you. You and up to five willing creatures you choose within 20 feet of you are lulled into a restful sleep. A sleeping creature remains unconscious for 10 minutes. It wakes up early if it takes damage or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. If a creature remains asleep for the full duration, it wakes up and gains the benefit of a short rest. This property of the wand fails if you aren’t outside. ___

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The Pirate’s Grotto Battle Map (32x44)

You’ve entered the Pirate’s Grotto, a 32x44 sea cave occupied by a wrecked ship, its pirate crew, and their treasures. Make a Stealth roll…

→ The Pirate’s Grotto Battle Map

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Sentry Candle
Wondrous item, common ___

This dark candle has a crenelated rim that remains even as the candle melts. While lit, small windows seemingly glow from within the candle’s dark wax. The candle’s magic is activated when the candle is lit, which requires an action. After burning for 8 hours, the candle is destroyed. You can snuff it out early for use at a later time. Moving the lit candle immediately snuffs it. Deduct the time it burned in increments of 1 minute from the candle’s total burn time.

While lit, the candle sheds dim light in a 15-foot radius. Any creature within that light is mentally alerted whenever another Tiny or larger creature enters the area within 60 feet of the candle. ___

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[dungeonmapster]

Mountain’s Edge Fort and 3 variants, up on patreon! http://patreon.com/dungeonmapster

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Welcome to Connor’s Fantasy Stadium battle map, a field of packed earth ready for a clash of gladiators, athletes, or whatever you imagine! Find it on the website:

→ The Fantasy Stadium Battle Map

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Radiant Teapot
Wondrous item, common ___

This small, ceramic teapot can hold up to two cups of liquid. When left in direct sunlight for 1 minute, any water or similar liquid inside it begins to boil. While the teapot has water boiling inside, you can use an action to speak its command word to cause the water to become a rich tea. Each "radiant teapot" creates a different kind of tea, which can typically be deduced by smelling the inside. Choose or roll on the table below to determine what kind of tea the pot makes.

| d6 | Type of Tea | — | 1 | Black (assam, chai, or similar) | | 2 | Green (jasmine, matcha, or similar) | | 3 | Herbal (chamomile, mint, or similar) | | 4 | Oolong | | 5 | Rooibos (green or red) | | 6 | White |

While a "tea weird" rests inside the teapot, it’s immune to all damage and can change the temperature of the water inside the pot at will. ___

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Angler’s Wand
Wand, uncommon ___

While holding this wand, you can use an action to speak its command word to transform it into a fishing rod, complete with line and tackle. It remains in this form until you use an action to speak its command word again to transform it back into the wand.

The wand has 7 charges for the following properties. The number of charges remaining are represented by the amount of spectral fish that swim around you while holding it.

𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙎𝙡𝙖𝙥. While holding the wand, you can use an action to expend 1 of the wand’s charges to send one of the spectral fish toward a target that you can see within 60 feet of you. The fish then grows in size, swims through the air to the target, and smacks the target with its oversized tail or fins. Make a ranged spell attack against the target, using an attack bonus of +5. On a hit, the target takes 1d12 + 3 force damage. The fish then swims away and disappears.

𝙍𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙄𝙣. While holding the wand, you can use an action to point it at a target you can see within 60 feet of you and expend 1 of its charges. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it’s pulled up to 30 feet toward you and is considered hooked for 1 minute or until the target is more than 120 feet away from you. For the duration, you can use a bonus action on each of your turns to force the hooked creature to repeat the saving throw, pulling it up to 30 feet toward you again on a failed save, or ending the effect early on a successful one. You can only have one creature hooked at a time in this way. The effect ends early if you are no longer holding the wand.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand dissolves into water and is destroyed. ___

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✨New item!✨ Spicy Tom’s Secret Sauce Potion, rare

After drinking this potion, you must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned and take 1d6 fire damage at the start of each turn. You can repeat the saving throw at the end of each turn, ending the effect on a success. If you fail this saving throw two times, the fire damage increases to 3d6 and your movement speed is doubled.

While poisoned in this way, you can use a bonus action to exhale fire at a target within 20 feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or catch fire, taking 3d6 fire damage immediately and at the start of each of its turns until someone takes an action to douse the fire.

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📜 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Scroll of Instant Cookies
Scroll, common ___

This 5-foot scroll of parchment is wrapped around a rolling pin. You can use an action to unroll 1 or more feet of the parchment, pressing it against a solid surface while you do. The pressed parchment immediately transforms into a pastry dough that’s been freshly baked and cut into rows of delicious cookies. You choose the shape and flavor of the cookies each time you use the scroll. Every foot of scroll creates 18 cookies when pressed.

When the last of the scroll has been used, it leaves behind the rolling pin, which can be used as a magical club. ___

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Cherry Blossom Wand
Wand, common ___

This wand has 7 charges and regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. As an action while holding the wand, you can expend 1 of its charges to target a point that you can see within 60 feet of you. The air in a 20-foot cube centered on that point stirs into a light, dramatic breeze that carries a flurry of delicate pink cherry blossoms on it. The wind and the blossoms vanish immediately at the end of your turn. ___

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