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rasmuswagner · Post by **rasmuswagner** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:36 am

Avoraciopoctules wrote:My players have asked me to run a single-session "horror" game, average PC level 10. It should involve some sailing or underwater exploration, and maybe a haunted and/or sunken ship. Any suggestions?

Kill them with Greater Dispel Magic.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:50 am

Avoraciopoctules wrote:My players have asked me to run a single-session "horror" game, average PC level 10. It should involve some sailing or underwater exploration, and maybe a haunted and/or sunken ship. Any suggestions?

A whole graveyard reef of shipwrecks full of treasure, and evil merfolk.

A captain wizard ghost.

Ghost sharks.

TheJerkStore · Post by **TheJerkStore** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:51 am

Every adventure is better with ghost sharks.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:56 am

a lich that lives inside of a whale. He buffs the whale and directs it from inside the belly. He sinks ships to grow his undead navy.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:57 am

a lich that lives inside of a whale. He buffs the whale and directs it from inside the belly. He sinks ships to grow his undead navy.

K · Post by K » Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:42 am

Ship graveyards, underwater or in sargassos.

Sahaugin. Just because.

Kraken cultists because everyone needs to say "release the Kraken!" for a good reason once in their lives.

Drowned city.

Iceberg caves. Undead and/or cold magic optional.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:44 am

This sounds like a perfect opportunity for the haunted aboleth pleasure palace discussed in the 5 second hooks thread.

infected slut princess · Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:32 pm

Aboleths are scary.

hogarth · Post by **hogarth** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:37 pm

"Tammeraut's Fate" from Dungeon #106 has its proponents.

The PCs visit an island and then they're besieged by the zombified crew of a sunken ship, and then they can go loot the ship.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:08 am

Thanks for the ideas, they were helpful.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:24 pm

Avoraciopoctules wrote:
Morzas wrote:Well, this is interesting. And Mearls is being a dipshit as usual.
Wow. Okay, looks like I'm not touching that game, free playtest or not.

http://distractedelf.tumblr.com/post/92 ... t-the-best
http://wesschneider.tumblr.com/post/926 ... t-the-best

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:28 pm

See, this is how you do PR. You don't hire conspiracy theorists and guys best known for fighting with feminists, you just do good things.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:56 pm

What are some generically good traits to have? The general idea seems that they're worth half of a feat, but, a lot of them seem as good as a feat or even better than a feat. Like that one trait that allows conjuration specialist wizards to cast summon monster spells as a standard action.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:25 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:What are some generically good traits to have? The general idea seems that they're worth half of a feat, but, a lot of them seem as good as a feat or even better than a feat. Like that one trait that allows conjuration specialist wizards to cast summon monster spells as a standard action.

Reactionary, for +2 to initiative.
Traits that allow you to key skills from different stats (like social skills from Int for wizards). And traits that give you perception as a class skill.
Traits that give you save bonuses.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:31 pm

Hrm. Any traits that let me use my WIS to replace INT and CHA skills?

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:43 pm

There are no traits for that, but a couple of options exist to swap one ability dependancy with another. This here is a pretty comprehensive list.

Other good traits one should consider:

Fate's Favored: increase all your luck bonuses by +1. Archaeologist bards absolutely want this.
Inspired: 1/day reroll any skill or ability check as a free action.
Magical Lineage: reduce metamagic cost for one single spell by -1. Not awesome, but still really ok.
Gifted Adept: Cast a single spell at +1 CL. Same as Magical Lineage (you can't have both traits though).

Ferret · Post by **Ferret** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:39 pm

I do so love the Archaeologist bard. Closest thing any d20 fantasy game has come to Generic Fantasy Adventurer Protagonist - The Class.

MisterDee · Post by **MisterDee** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:50 pm

Dangerously Curious if you need Use Magic Device
Trap Finder if the campaign will have a lot of traps and you don't want to waste a party slot on a rogue.
Transmuter: +1 CL to Transmutation spells
Magical Knack if you've dipped in another class for two levels.

Hedge Magician if you're planning to craft a lot.

There's also a bunch of half-a-feat's worth of bonuses for pretty much anything (there's half Spell Penetration, half Iron Will, and so on)

Adopted - it doesn't seem like much, but there are a lot of traits that have duplicates in the race trait categories. So if you want, for instance, another combat trait in addition to Reactionnary, you can take Adopted and go for Warrior of Old instead.

(or you can just take Reactionnary and Warrior of Old, to effectively trade your two traits in for Improved Initiative.)

Scrivener · Post by **Scrivener** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:53 pm

MisterDee wrote: (or you can just take Reactionnary and Warrior of Old, to effectively trade your two traits in for Improved Initiative.)

I don't think they stack. They both provide a trait bonus, and normally same named bonuses don't stack.

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:35 pm

Indeed, Trait bonuses don't stack.

Heirloom Weapon is a trait you should try and sneak into the game in its original form (from Advanturer's Armory), granting you a free mwk weapon and proficiency with it. The errata'ed version kinda sucks.

MisterDee · Post by **MisterDee** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:37 pm

Right. Bonus stacking. I knew that, I was just checking to see if you guys did.

(or it was a massive brainfart. You decide

)

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:44 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Like that one trait that allows conjuration specialist wizards to cast summon monster spells as a standard action.

What trait is that?

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:20 pm

Acadamae Graduate, from Curse of the Crimson Throne. Note that it requires a Fort save to not become fatigued. You gotta love though how it explicity states how it must be a prepared spell, apparently the sorcerer's earhole still needs some violent thrusting.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:00 pm

Oh, yeah, that's a local feat, not a trait. My bad!

Axebird · Post by **Axebird** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:14 pm

Second Chance (originally Lessons of Chaldira) lets you reroll a failed save once a day. So it's straight up better than any of the Greater Save feats, since it applies to any save category and lets you reroll when you fail rather than when you see the number on the die but before you know the results.

Irrepressible lets you use Cha instead of Wis on saves against charm and compulsion effects. So, you know, most of the dangerous ones.