Cursemark Tomes! Ill Reiterate The Players And Cursemarks Note: These Arent Meant As Loot Or For Players

Cursemark Tomes! I’ll reiterate the Players and Cursemarks note: these aren’t meant as loot or for players to just find. They’re meant to be plot items, wielded by a powerful NPC or villain. Obviously, you can give them to your players. Do so with caution. I mean, they have pretty long cooldowns between uses.

Class pack Part 1 by AshenGT / BoltNine Homebrew

Some undead creatures. Used them a while back, thought they were fun.  

This is a system for dnd adventures I made that’s been successful at keeping a greater number of friends in the loop who can’t play all at the same time who all have adult lives and jobs to keep up with so schedules rarely line up.

Welcome to the University Corcyra Isle! One could even call it a Multiuniversity. The university is led by a proud gynosphinx, has a drider librarian, a medical doctor tired of stitching young wizards back together, and more.

Players make a character with at least 2 levels of wizard so they have a school of magic they focus on. Upon finishing their entrance exams they are given:

-2 Health Potions -A pearl of power -A driftglobe -An extra spellbook

There is a course catalogue depicting the multitude of courses players can take ranging from CREA 101: Mimic Safety, to ABJU 101: Circles and Wards, to PLNR 101: Echoes in the Shadowfell. Players vote on what class (what session) they want to take next.

Sphinxes (as lair actions) can take themselves and up to 7 other creatures through space and time letting your sphinx Ms Frizzle take them to the heavens, hells, and everywhere in between. You can even revisit important historical events in your campaign world.

One shots are two parters, so if a player can’t make it or has to drop canonically they have to go back to school to study. This makes it so players can drop in and out as necessary.

The loot system is what makes all this work with this many people. It uses a Milestone progression system. Every one shot is a Milestone, and it takes a set number of Milestones to level up every four levels or so (lvl2 is 1 Milestone, but lvl6 is 3 Milestones). The system also uses Down Days, days spent studying as loot. You can spend down days to do anything: make magic item, learn new spells, learn new proficiencies, even learn class abilities, but most importantly gain Milestones. If you aren’t able to play in the one shot you gain 5 down days, the exact amount you need to gain 1 Milestone so you can keep with the “campaign”’s progression if the session was full.

Loot distribution looks like this:

-1 Milestone -3 Down Days (for playing in the one shot) -Grant of 60 Gold -Your choice of one of the following:

A spell scroll (usable as a free spell above your level or can be added to your spellbook regardless of class) of: Ray of Sickness/Silence/Speak with Dead

OR

A magic item from the following list: Potion of Greater Healing/Eversmoking Bottle/Pipes of Haunting/Crawling Hand

Players may select the same loot options if they wish to (but they haven’t yet).

That’s the system! The idea is it keeps everyone involved session to session, makes inspiration for sessions through the courses that are two parters so dm planning is biweekly, and allows for people to jump in or drop even midsession. D&D has been a great way to keep my friends together, and this system is born in that spirit.

Flapping around on bat-like wings, the medic's misery is a foul parasite that lurks in temples, hospitals and other places of healing. It feeds on magic energy, sapping the strength of clerics and druids as they go about the business of tending the sick.

Their huge, yellow eyes glisten whenever they spy an opportunity to inflict pain and suffering, which they do by projecting sickening rays of necrotic energy at whatever vulnerable targets present themselves. Medic's miseries avoid open conflict and tend to retreat when presented with vigorous opposition, relying on their flight and small size to escape into darkened hiding places.

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