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D4: Halos

The celestials who serve their gods well are given a crown of light for their piety. These beings have it in their power to bestow to those they deem worthy. Here are d4 halos that glow with righteous light.

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D4 Secret Societies

Secret societies are formed because the actions of their members are either taboo or illegal. Here are d4 secret societies, their goals, and their questionable acts.

1. Boar Spear. This band of bloodthirsty gamblers make their coin by running illegal blood sport. This can be anything from fight clubs, animal fights, and people sport hunting if the coin is right.

2. The Crows. The crows seek to protect the common folk at any cost. They have been known to kill off individuals that they see as a threat to the safety of the general population. Better to have 1 dead duke than to have hundreds die in a war.

3. Spring Foundation. This incredibly well funded organization is seeking a way to gain immortality for themselves and their patrons. Regretfully many patrons grow a bit desperate and aggressive with the passage of time. They also don’t want just anyone to join them.

4. Simmering Pot. This international cooking guild makes a fair amount of gold just trading grain and maintaining cookeries. They have a talent of spreading exotic foods throughout the regions they influence. However many of their ingredients are illegal. Some of their most lucrative meals induce strange physiological reactions, and many others are made from sentient creatures. They are more than willing to traffic live ingredients to make sure the dish is fresh.

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D4 Minor Illusions

I personally think that this cantrip is the best spell in the game. Don’t think so? Here are d4 fun uses for this useful cantrip.

1. Insta-Trap: you can either create a terrifying looking trap in the space (spikes, caltrops, bear traps, barbed wire, etc) or cover up a dangerous space so fools stumble into their doom. (Insta pit trap mostly, extend ledge of cliff so villains going to the edge just fall, etc)

2. Insta-Cover: you summon a massive floating iron shield for total cover if you duck. It blocks line of sight for spells and for those who don’t question the magic provides total cover of ranged attacks.

3. Bag of Horrors: you should always have a bag of apples or something on your person. Leave it someplace or hold it threateningly while having minor illusion give it a voice (beating heart, rattlesnake noises, muffled screaming, lions roar)

4. Illustration: if your character has seen something and wants to portray that information accurately to others. Literally summon an example image. Great for showing layouts or describing what something looked like. Bonus points if you have the Keen Mind feat.

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D4 Lazy Prep/Improv Tools

Sometimes things happen at the table you’re not prepped for. Here are a few tools I use to keep the game moving while still giving the right kind of feel for the situation.

1. Spells as not spells. You need a flamethrower trap? Burning hands. You need quick rules for fighting in a snowstorm? Use sleet storm. Your characters need to cross a pit of constrictor snakes? Evards black tentacles. Once you start using spells as a tool box for other encounters you’ll see how limitless your options are.

2. Reskinning. Need a cursed two headed snake? Death dog. Need an animated fart of death? Invisible stalker. Need a giant robotic machine that detached its limbs to attack at range? 2 flying swords and animated armor.

3. Prepped Random Tables. I know the name is a bit of an oxymoron, but hear me out. While you’re preparing your game think of four things they are likely to encounter that are not related to your main quest for Flora, Fauna, Locations, NPCs, Quests, and foreshadowing things for main quest (Luke a frozen orc to warm of a white dragon) and write them down. It helps you be ready for the random stuff in your game, but it also gives you notes just Incase you’re taken unaware. (See above for my session tables)

4. Conditional Flavor. Tired of just rolling damage? Have the ogres club know them back 10’ and prone. Is a critical hit very violent? Make an adjacent ally poisoned (disgusted) on their next turn. Did a pc just decapitate someone? Have his friend be frightened. It just adds more flavor and encourages descriptive actions during a very mathy part of the game.

(Edit: forgot to actually add my example notes... sorry)

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D4 Intelligent Item Quirks

D4 Intelligent Item quirks

Intelligent items, if not thought through, can come across as flat. Roll on the table for a unique trait that may make them more flavorful as an NPC.

1. Obsessed with its Ex. The items doesn’t let a day go by without informing the character that its last owner was way better/stronger/smarter. They even hold it wrong compared to the Ex.

2. Disgusted. The item is appalled that people need to eat, drink, and sleep. It finds the act disgusting and lets the hero know it every time.

3. Suicidal. The item is very very old and seeks death. Will encourage the heroes to take any action that will lead to its personal destruction.

4. Story time. The item will cause a ruckus and prevent rest unless it is told a bedtime story. It was not enchanted to know how to read and really loves stories.

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D4 Evil uses for Awaken

In the spirit of Halloween, what could your sadistic villain use the overall benevolent spell Awaken for? Well, roll on the table to see how your evil bard or druid uses the spell.

1) Mayflies: What’s more terrible than granting sentience to an insect? Awakening an insect with a lifespan of one day, and letting said creature know that the only reason you granted it intelligence is to study the awareness of one’s mortality over its small lifespan. ‘You will die today small mayfly. How does that make you feel?’

2) Dung Beetle: Want a clean lair in spite of the various messy monsters you own? Grant sentience to a dung beetle and have them clean up the mess. If the first one doesn’t want to roll up poop anymore Awaken a second one, feed the first to one of the various monsters, and ask the second if it is willing to clean. It will, and there will be a gentle reminder to keep working as soon as the first has been digested.

3) Cow: So you’re an evil individual who likes insects (ticks) swarms and giant ticks, but keeping them together and well fed can be challenging. So just awaken a large cow and just have the ticks ride along! Yes you may need to use restorative magic on the cow, but that is an easy price to pay for a good meal for your ticks. The cow will also stay close and listen to you or else be devoured by the ticks.

4) Coral: Awaken a coral structure. Use some kind of telepathy to communicate with the animal since it has only the barest of sensory systems. THen deprive the sentient being of any kind of contact for a week before checking up on it again. Record its mental state. Then a month. Then three. Then just whenever you get around to it. Did you know that some kinds of coral can live thousands of years?

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D4 Ways to Surrender

Not every band of moods surrenders gracefully when their leader’s head is cut off by the ‘heroes’. Roll on the table to see how your affable NPCs give up.

1) Beg: The nooks toss their weapons at the heroes feet and start begging for mercy. They are willing to do anything to live another day.

2) Cry: The nooks start to cry believing that their death is inevitable. They also sheath their weapons, fall prone, and curl up into a ball.

3) Sleep: A few of the nooks straight up faint and the rest run. Some villains just can’t handle the stress.

4) Hostage: One mood panics and takes another mood hostage. They then threaten the heroes that if the heroes don’t let them go they will kill the hostage. Regretfully they are too distressed to understand why this will not work.

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D4 Unusual Quests

Not every quest should result in spilt blood. Sometimes adventurers are tasked to do other things. Roll on the table for your next challenge.

1) Party Time: Have the characters plan and host a party for some unique event like a birthday or wedding. It can be harder than the heroes think when the flowers were delivered elsewhere, some of the guests show up drunk, and somehow the kitchen caught fire.

2) Last Request: A sphinx lies dying of old age. It’s last request is for the adventurers to tell her of their adventures and hopes. There is something bittersweet about sharing their absurd tales to a dying creature.

3) One Small Favor: The characters need a thing from an NPC. Well that NPC is only willing to part with the trinket if they can get one of Aunt Irma’s famous pies, but Irma can’t be bothered with that until she has taken care of setting up for a funeral but the caskets are late. The caskets are late because they only have the bodies but no clothes. The clothes need to be picked up from the families, but one family can’t find the suit he requested to be buried in because...

4) Matchmaker: One of the NPCs that the adventurers have adopted has fallen in love with a very unlikely suitor. Help them compose a love letter, set up a first date, and make sure their rival in love (who is a complete dirt ball) doesn’t win over the suitor first.