D&D Ideas

Here’s one for you DM’s that want an item to revive people… with side effects. Appearance: A small red stone with a literal fire burning on the inside of it. The fire is phoenixed shaped. Description: This stone, made from the blood & spirit of a phoenix, can bring anyone who’s been dead back to life. However they will begin life anew at the age of a newborn baby. However they keep their intelligence, & wisdom (though due to the physical capability of babies, it may take them a while of physical developed to be able to express it) Attribute: Can bring anyone back to life, no matter how long they have been dead. -brings them back to life at the earliest stage of after birth/hatching development -Reatins wisdom & intelligence.

Here’s one for you DM’s that want to have one of those horror movie ‘animal jump scares’ for your player’s character. The players are wandering through the woods, when they start hearing something move in one of the bushes. If the players get close to inspect, the thing in the bush darts from bush to bush around the party. Eventually more & more bushes will start to shake, in different directions. Soon enough all the shaking stops. If the players check any of the bushes, who ever checks first, will be jump at by a regular forest fox. The fox will only jump at them which will cause the checker to either make a dex or wis check (choice which best fits their personality [wis is so they don’t get scared] [dex is not falling over from being jumped on). If they fail the fox will rummage through their ration bag & leave with some of it.

Here’s one for you Players who want to have self-limitations via backstory [Especially good for explain how you got magical powers] Long ago, your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Grand-relative made a deal with a demonic being. In an attempt to outsmart them, they bet the soul of relative that would be so far into the future, that it will be ‘nigh impossible’ for the demon to accurately claim that person’s soul. Sadly the family tree turned out to be a lot more linear than planned, (due to some ‘unfortunate accidents, that limited its size’) making it so that the demon would be able to tell who soul they need to take. Unluckily for you, it’s YOU, & now the demon has cursed you (if you are a magic based class, this is where you get your magic), so that when you die, your soul will be there's. Of Course they have gotten impatient wait so long for this, so don’t be surprised if they attempt to ‘speed up the proce...