I have a paladin whose lawful evil. Everything he does is for the good of others but what he's willing to do is beyond doing good. If he found out there was a village afflicted with a plague and the only solution was to burn it he'd volunteer to do it if it meant sparring the surrounding towns and villages. This goes so far that he willingly allowed himself to be cursed to one day be a death Knight bound to his oath (multi class undead Warlock+conquest paladin). Yes, his objective is to protect others. His method is to be so severe in the dispensing of punishments that you'll be too afraid to follow to repeat the as that person's mistake

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I wouldn't say thats cowardice, thats the will to survive

Warsaw metroline map moment

bro kinda sounds like Sebastian Lague

Implement the Rimworld combat system. Hit's go to body parts. Damage is divided into three primary categories: Bleeding wounds cause blood loss, blunt wounds cause additional pain, piercing causes internal organ wounds. Necrotic damage and Scars are permanent damage to an area. Scars occur from heavy damage poorly treated. Necrotic damage is a rare damage type. Damage also causes a partial loss of functionality. Lose an arm, leg, or such and lose it's functionality entirely. maybe your torso or brain and die. Painshock downs you, but is bypassable pretty easily. If you run out of blood, you die.

You forgot life transference

if you want to make dnd healing actually impactful? Go back to 4th edition. Where healing was a vital part of the system and hugely impactful and important.

Wizard without spell slots fighting a house cat just comes back missing an arm.

You should look into the cyberpunk injury system. I add a lot from that combat system into my sessions.

Falling unconscious has a chance to give me a status effect that makes me automatically fail any death save until I'm bandaged, essentially guaranteeing that I'll die. And you consider this a "relatively harmless" injury?

This is actually pretty smart

6:36 As iron sharpens iron, Sensei sharpens student!

How about a ghost as a fun, playable character party member who is generally good-aligned but morally grey out of necessity, perhaps disguised via possessing an already dead body, but the other party members don't find out until a little later in the plot, at a pivotal moment early, after some build-up and hints, where the ghostly party member has to reveal it's true nature in order to get the others out of a unique sticky perhaps slightly funny situation, that only the ghost, being a ghost can solve for them, or something?

That sounds like an amazing session to have! Ill try it out. Thank you! :)

thank god for the red arrows i almost didnt see the ghost

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Pathfinder 2nd edition has similar system baked in. It's a really good system. It allows you to start with your great great great grandpapi's sword that has been handed down to you and use it throughout the campaign. Basically, weapons and armor have can have runes inscribed on them. These runes can be transferred between items. There is even a lore accurate way to justify why a sword that once slayed a mighty dragon is not much more than an heirloom. At some point, someone in the family needed money. However, they weren't willing to part with the sword. So they sold the runes and kept the sword. Which is why it doesn't have any enchantments on it when you receive it. Then as you play through the campaign. You transfer runes back onto it.

I would replace the entry conditions with a feat or a skill. The feat would require commmitment from the player. The skill could force the player to trade off other strengths for the runes.

as soon as this started with most powerful cantrip I was thinking minor illusion, then he goes on with yapanese for 2 minutes, and finally says it and I was like YES! this man knows!

Minor illusion is very cool and in a campaign I'm currently in it's how one of our party members is able to speak, as they are a cursed skeleton and the only way they can speak is well minor illusion

This is great, i use a similar system for players that have a signature weapon wich lets a player simply forge their weapon to a level above. now i may use a version of your ideas in a future session, thanks for the inspiration

Okay but that end card freaked me out

3:12 I think I've seen a character craft magic items 3 times. 2 times by myselft, level 11 wizard in pathfinder 1st edition, created an extradimensional space without timeflow so I could sit down for six months and craft our entire party's worth of money into magic items. The second time was with the same character later, building a command construct adamantine golem and slotting myself into a soul gem. The third time I've seen someone craft was also in pathfinder 1st edition, our usual forever gm got to crafting because I was the GM. Idiot gm I was, I allowed him to put the teleport spell on a rifle, letting it make teleportation 1D100 rolls with appropriate maluses for not knowing/seeing the target location etc.

I suggest the PABG method: play a better game

I just did not understand who can use this, its a background, a feat whats the condition? sorry if you said in the video and I just lost it.

I recently realized how limiting magic items were and decided to make a system my players could use to make their own magic items with the intent to be that they don't forge god one shotting blades of world annihilation but also be able to remember and feel how much their magic item is helping them by letting them construct their own in accordance with their needs or wants. The system I resulted with is similar to this one where I made a bunch of premade "Augments" magical crystals you could just slap onto a weapon, Armor, or piece of jewellery and the Augments grant the item their augmenting passive buffs. It could be something like when you hit a creature with this weapon you also attempt to grapple them as part of the same attack. It could be simple like granting yourself cold resistance and dealing extra fire damage. Or with the right bizarre combination of augments you could create a weapon that deals some cold damage, reduces movement speed, and takes away the targets reaction. The result can be flavoured as stabbing someone with a sword that traps them partially in a block of ice. The biggest limit is that anyone can put Augments on a weapon but not everyone can easily remove them and each item can only hold a maximum of 3 augments at a time. I dish out these augments as the DM the same way I would ordinary magic items but now the players can decide what they want to slap that Augmentation of invisibility onto. Be it a dagger, ring, cloak, helmet, whatever they want and whatever completes their ideal build!

Just make weapons upgrade able maybe later get anti magic propertys, like a sword that made from dragon steel gets stroger the more scales and blood its feed it, growing more sharm and size yet keep weight as before

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I suggest you look at 4e

8:05 the word you are looking for is momentum

Your idea about resources at the 12:00 mark was worth the watch. Thanks!

Don´t forget the KISS method also

This is cool. Thank you.

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The tarrasque has spines on its back and sideways eyes And if you know about biology (yea I know they aren’t really a evolved thing but depending on the DM if it is a natural creature or a world destroyer) it can be considered worrying that a creature of mass destruction has to have anti predator defence And before you say the players are its hunters Spines aren’t really used to defend from weapon attacks But a bite Well try stepping on Lego and you’ll find out what happens if you place pressure on a spike with your body

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Also 3.5e dnd has many levels above 20 with it's own book for them

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U made me change my answer u said in all of dnd then the few sentence later u say in 5e I was gonna say the cr. 90 time dragon from 3.5 e :(

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this reminds me of the system warhammer 40k rogue trader uses for psykers

Been considering a mechanic like this for a campaign involving magic being unstable. Core component of the campaign. Your system seems like it would fit perfectly, nice work.

try the mechanic by clicking this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1arefd2tEyGToKZ41hB2P_Gg7DJAaI-UqZCKVY2O6b48/edit?usp=sharing.

Check out the weather effects system by clicking this link: docs.google.com/document/d/1zbgJthzED_IcOcwTASdHxsdq-9BpCqAsNsPq4znaJk8/edit?usp=sharing

Its called graverobbing, youre right a dead person wouldnt need their body but its the graveyards property and if you dont get the permission from the graveyard and the corpses love ones youre doing a horrible deed