#thunder damage

[honourablejester]

5e Homebrew Spells

A couple more homebrew 5e spells, again for some unloved damage types.

ACID SLICK

3rd level conjuration

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 60ft

Components: V, S, M (a drop of bile)

Duration: Concentration, 1 minute

You point your finger, and a puddle of slick, caustic grease covers the ground in a 20ft radius circle centred on a point within range, causing the area to become difficult terrain for the duration.

Any creature within the area when you cast the spell, as well as any creature who enters or starts their turn within the area of the spell, takes 3d6 acid damage and must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature falls prone in the acidic grease and takes an additional 3d6 acid damage. A creature who begins their turn prone within the area of the spell does not make a Dexterity saving throw unless they stand up from prone, but takes the initial 3d6 acid damage as normal.

Available to: Artificers, Druids, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Wizards.

(AKA The Grease spell’s more overtly evil big brother, because making the grease acidic seemed a logical progression. Initially I was going to have it level with spell slots, but things like Spike Growth and Evard’s Black Tentacles don’t level, and it’s already horrendously mean between difficult terrain and falling prone, getting burned all the while. So instead I just upped the initial damage a bit, and I think we’ll park it there).

THUNDERSTONE

4th level transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a pebble)

Duration: 24 hours

You imbue a small stone with elemental power, creating a glittering blue thunderstone that lasts for 24 hours before vanishing. You can keep the thunderstone or give it to someone else. As an action, the person in possession of the thunderstone can hurl it at a point they can see within 30ft. The thunderstone detonates on impact in an explosion of light and thunder. Creatures within 20ft of the point of impact must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they take 4d6 radiant and 4d6 thunder damage, and are either blinded or deafened (thrower’s choice) until the start of the thrower’s next turn. On a successful save, they take half as much damage, and are not blinded or deafened.

At higher levels: if the spell is cast using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the spell creates 2 thunderstones, and if it is cast using a slot of 8th level or higher, it creates 4 thunderstones.

Available to: Artificers, Druids, Rangers, Wizards

(AKA Spell of Create Flashbang Grenades. The rocks are blue because of a show I watched as a kid, also called Thunderstone. I flip-flopped again on increasing damage at higher level spell slots, but decided that more stones to be distributed might be more fun).

[dungeon-master-disaster]

d&d (5e) creature idea

A creature that is a humanoid sillhouette of tv static...

It is a 2D projection in the 3D Material Plane, completely flat and invisible from the side

It naturally produces a crackling, static noise, which it uses to communicate with others of its species

To communicate with the other humanoid creatures of d&d, it has learned how to access the residual energies of the dead that are present in the Material Plane, borrowing the echoing voices of the deceased

But these residual energies are of varying strengths and fade with time, so typically these static creatures can only access the voices of the newly deceased, the final words of the long-dead, and the conversations people had during extremely emotional or important times in their lives

And the static creatures can only use the exact words that were spoken by the deceased, in their original languages and tones

They also need to be near where the words were originally said in order to use them, and the volume of the words is directly proportional to how near or far the static creature is from that original location

I don’t think these creatures are evil or really that dangerous. I think they draw their energy—just a small amount, to sustain themselves—from the emotional attachments between people, creatures, objects, etc. This, coupled with their form of communication, makes them very common in places where there has recently been death

Perhaps people view them as gentle angels of death. Or maybe as the souls of the recently departed. Maybe they’re seen as terrifying phantoms; hungry, restless spirits; horrible omens of ill fate...

Whatever the case, I think they’re lovely❤️

My thought is that they can deal thunder and psychic damage, usually just in self defense but occasionally as an attack—psychic for obvious reasons, thunder in the form of painfully loud bursts of their static language, like a scream that deals damage

They’re vulnerable to radiant and necrotic damage—since they are essentially composed of spiritual energy, of course necrotic damage would hurt them. But since they also only need a small amount of spirital energy to survive, an attack that deals radiant damage would effectively overload their fragile forms with power, destroying them😢

They have resistance to all forms of damage that are intended to harm physical forms, such as bludgeoning and piercing. This is balanced by the fact that they really aren’t that dangerous—that their attacks aren’t very strong

I’m thinking that one of these creatures would be very cool to include in a decades-old murder mystery. Maybe people have lost all hope in ever learning the circumstances of the murder or catching the perpetrator—and then one of these unfamiliar static creatures appears....

Feel free to use, and plz reblog or comment with more ideas for these kiddos! I’d love to hear them😁😁😁

[yasosh]

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