Chris Perkins on Using Spells and Magic Items August 31, 2017Zoltar magical items and spells can add a lot<br /> of flavor to any Dean B campaign so I<br /> talked to Chris Perkins about some of<br /> his favorites it has occurred to me<br /> recently that there are certain spells<br /> that I like from a story point of view<br /> because they encourage player creativity<br /> spells like they’re not they don’t have<br /> a loc’d effect so there are things like<br /> press the digitation where you can do<br /> all kinds of things with the spell or<br /> polymorph where you can make all kinds<br /> of choices about what to turn something<br /> into those are the spells that I<br /> typically find the most interesting and<br /> and possibly the most interesting from a<br /> story point of view like for instance<br /> you could go into a dungeon and maybe<br /> there’s a very hungry bear there trying<br /> to eat you<br /> it’s much more interesting encounter if<br /> somehow you learn that there is a<br /> polymorphed person so using spells<br /> against the characters and interesting<br /> ways like that is also kind of fun as<br /> for magic items the same thing some of<br /> the most fun adventures that I’ve ever<br /> read and/or run used magic items in odd<br /> off-the-wall ways there was one<br /> adventure back in the early days of<br /> dungeon Magazine I think it was called<br /> juggernaut and in the adventure a tribe<br /> of goblins find a figurine of wondrous<br /> power that’s the marble elephant and so<br /> the whole premise of the adventure is<br /> you have to take you have to get this<br /> item away from the goblins because<br /> they’re all running around on this<br /> gigantic elephant stomping things into<br /> the ground<br /> and that’s kind of fun<br /> there was another adventure that had a<br /> sentient rope of climbing or something<br /> like that that you had to fight you I<br /> remember there was an adventure in<br /> dungeon called deadly treasure where all<br /> the traps in the dungeon were basically<br /> activated by magic items like a decanter<br /> of endless water that would flood a room<br /> that kind of thing<br /> I loved I loved using magic items<br /> against the characters and giving them<br /> magic items that have dimensionality to<br /> them in in dice camera action<br /> Holly’s character Strix was being<br /> accosted by a broom of animated attack<br /> and she was able to threaten and tame it<br /> into submission so now she has this<br /> broom following her around and she can<br /> ride it<br /> Jarrod’s character d/f has a short<br /> magical short sword that’s sentient and<br /> has the personality of the Hal 9000 in<br /> sort of goading him into backstabbing<br /> things paltin got a severed hand a<br /> crawling claw essentially that has a<br /> backstory most of which hasn’t been<br /> revealed yet but we’ll probably be<br /> revealed to some extent in Tomb of<br /> annihilation and yes it’s been following<br /> him around I think that that creates<br /> interesting role-playing opportunities<br /> and actually adds a new dimension to the<br /> characters it’s not simply something<br /> they’re carrying around it has become<br /> part of their identity<br /> D&D's Chris Perkins on Using Spells and Magic Items https://t.co/7Y6tSwA4Nw — D&D Beyond (@DnDBeyond) August 30, 2017 Share this:TweetWhatsAppTelegramEmail
