The Mentalist
2017-03-27, 09:14 PM
I have far too many ideas to keep logged in paper form since the meds started helping me be active again and also not nearly enough time to do them all in so I come to the community to see what you would all like to see next. Below is a list of descriptions of ideas that I have soft crunched but unformatted and I am asking what you would all like to see rushed out the door.
Paragon in a Can
The Paragon template is far beyond the ability of any one spell or even any one caster to bestow but a cabal of evil Wizards, Priests, and Psions all joining forces to create an army of superbeings? That my friends is what stories are made of. Basically a series of spells and powers that when applied to a creature grant instant bonuses in small increments with a combined Druidic magic can be passed down along generations as well as Rogue, Fighter, and Barbarian abilities to train them
You found WHAT?! Where?!
Things from the material aren't really meant for the inner planes, cloaks burst into flame on the plane of ash, potions just mix into the plane of water, your precious spyglass was crushed on the plane of mineral but sometimes, ever so rarely these items fall into a safe place in the planes for a very long time and take on some of the qualities of the location.
Mostdefinitelynotamon
I started this years ago trying to stat up every Pokemon I cared about (Gens I and II) but got overwhelmed and so have decided to retry this as a series of special abilities (think Draken's mutations) that can be added to any creature making it a "Pokemon" the three lists will be moves that will mostly be special attacks and qualities, types which will be light templates, and abilities which will be a large grab bag of things. May do natures as Magebred style templates as well
And on that note!
Magebred rocks my socks. I freaking love that template and have done some similar to it. So far around the nine schools of the Sublime Way and the eight schools of magic. Considering adding domains to this list and maybe something with psionics.
Godly Domains
There's not really much support other than complete Champion to expand on most of the domains of the deities. I have been beating my head against a wall finding ways to make clerics more interesting based off their deity and domain choices and have a list of Weapon/Armor enchantments and a few fun pieces of basic equipment attuned to Domain. Thunderstone of the Sun, War Smokestick, stuff like that.
I got Magic in my Magic
Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons are a match made in nerd heaven but there's very little stream crossing but I see keywords on cards like "Propagate" and I think "Propagate Spell +2 Metamagic" also adding Myr and Slivers to D&D
Alternate Potions
This is one I've rough drafted four times and have hated four times but potions that are used differently and grant effects differently than the base spell for example a Bath Bomb of Mage Armor. You have to soak in the bath for at least thirty minutes but you get the effect for ten times as long and the bonus is double. Some of these would be the same cost just different usages providing different drawbacks to use and some would cost more.
And the Last Paragraph Break
I've broken my wrist a total of nine times and think about bones rather more than I should but I got to thinking instead of holding a wand what if one of the bones in your finger was a wand? Or your tooth a potion or your ribs a wand that you had to center on yourself or your blood an ever replenishing potion you could wound yourself to give your friend or just active the charge with a thought? What if your heart turned all your blood into a potion and could your blood potions be double potions or would you just get the effects of one? This is the roughest I have but I rather like the concept of "Spellborging" someone
The Good and the Desperate
Spawn of Tiamat really interested me and what happens when desperate priests of Bahamut risk excommunication and the wrath of their god himself to save their homeland with a clutch of metallic dragon eggs?
Great you've Runed it.
Feats that carve runes into constructs that's basically corpsecrafting for constructs.
Plethora of Pixies, Boggle of Bogan
Using the alleged magical properties of flowers and woods providing pixies based on the type of flowers on their heads and Bogans based on the type of wood and scrap they're made from.
Fire like Fine Wine
Alchemy augmentation that isn't made of fail and ELH stupidity. Multiple ways to stack bonuses to keep Tanglefoot Bags and Thunderstones relevant in the later game. Modular to homebrew alchemy as well.
Paragon in a Can
The Paragon template is far beyond the ability of any one spell or even any one caster to bestow but a cabal of evil Wizards, Priests, and Psions all joining forces to create an army of superbeings? That my friends is what stories are made of. Basically a series of spells and powers that when applied to a creature grant instant bonuses in small increments with a combined Druidic magic can be passed down along generations as well as Rogue, Fighter, and Barbarian abilities to train them
You found WHAT?! Where?!
Things from the material aren't really meant for the inner planes, cloaks burst into flame on the plane of ash, potions just mix into the plane of water, your precious spyglass was crushed on the plane of mineral but sometimes, ever so rarely these items fall into a safe place in the planes for a very long time and take on some of the qualities of the location.
Mostdefinitelynotamon
I started this years ago trying to stat up every Pokemon I cared about (Gens I and II) but got overwhelmed and so have decided to retry this as a series of special abilities (think Draken's mutations) that can be added to any creature making it a "Pokemon" the three lists will be moves that will mostly be special attacks and qualities, types which will be light templates, and abilities which will be a large grab bag of things. May do natures as Magebred style templates as well
And on that note!
Magebred rocks my socks. I freaking love that template and have done some similar to it. So far around the nine schools of the Sublime Way and the eight schools of magic. Considering adding domains to this list and maybe something with psionics.
Godly Domains
There's not really much support other than complete Champion to expand on most of the domains of the deities. I have been beating my head against a wall finding ways to make clerics more interesting based off their deity and domain choices and have a list of Weapon/Armor enchantments and a few fun pieces of basic equipment attuned to Domain. Thunderstone of the Sun, War Smokestick, stuff like that.
I got Magic in my Magic
Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons are a match made in nerd heaven but there's very little stream crossing but I see keywords on cards like "Propagate" and I think "Propagate Spell +2 Metamagic" also adding Myr and Slivers to D&D
Alternate Potions
This is one I've rough drafted four times and have hated four times but potions that are used differently and grant effects differently than the base spell for example a Bath Bomb of Mage Armor. You have to soak in the bath for at least thirty minutes but you get the effect for ten times as long and the bonus is double. Some of these would be the same cost just different usages providing different drawbacks to use and some would cost more.
And the Last Paragraph Break
I've broken my wrist a total of nine times and think about bones rather more than I should but I got to thinking instead of holding a wand what if one of the bones in your finger was a wand? Or your tooth a potion or your ribs a wand that you had to center on yourself or your blood an ever replenishing potion you could wound yourself to give your friend or just active the charge with a thought? What if your heart turned all your blood into a potion and could your blood potions be double potions or would you just get the effects of one? This is the roughest I have but I rather like the concept of "Spellborging" someone
The Good and the Desperate
Spawn of Tiamat really interested me and what happens when desperate priests of Bahamut risk excommunication and the wrath of their god himself to save their homeland with a clutch of metallic dragon eggs?
Great you've Runed it.
Feats that carve runes into constructs that's basically corpsecrafting for constructs.
Plethora of Pixies, Boggle of Bogan
Using the alleged magical properties of flowers and woods providing pixies based on the type of flowers on their heads and Bogans based on the type of wood and scrap they're made from.
Fire like Fine Wine
Alchemy augmentation that isn't made of fail and ELH stupidity. Multiple ways to stack bonuses to keep Tanglefoot Bags and Thunderstones relevant in the later game. Modular to homebrew alchemy as well.