D&D Ideas

Here's one for you DM's who want a cool treasure for you party to have. Description: A paint of a forest, with the focus of the painting be an extraordinarily tall tree that looms over all the other trees. When viewing the painting at night, the large tree glows an astounding blue.  Backstory: This painting was made by an old vampire queen, to specifically house their phylactery. However, it has since become the permeant residence of both the vampire's soul & mind. This happened due to a party coming in & killing her, but being unable to find the phylactery. To work around this, they split up her body parts, feed all her limbs to different carnivorus animals around the world, & put her head in a box & chained it to an anchors, which they promptly through into the bottom of the ocean. With all of this, the queen vampire decided that they would rather just wait in the painting, forever, talking to whatever passer-bye's co...

Here's one for you DM's who want an encounter based around an aggressive yet tame-able animal. The players are travelling from one area of the world to the other. As they do this, one of the day's that they are walking, they see a strange figure in the distance. As they get closer, the figure starts to look more minusing & minusing. The figure looks to be an armless minitour in demon armor. That is, till they get closer & find it's just a really heavily armored war horse. Counting on how the player have reacted towards the horse so far, the horse may either ignore them, or be rude to them (ie kicking them when they aren't looking at it). This can escalate into a battle. However with good animal handling rolls, this horse of war can be recruited.

Here's one for you DM's who want a good weapon to counter constructs. Appearance: A neon blue lance with yellow glowing tubes on the side. At the tip of the lance's spike, a yellow/blue discharge comes out of it. Description: This lance, made by a constroctphobe, is highly effective against constructs. Not only does this weapon deal more damage to constructs, but it also has the possibility of stunning them. However, for all living creature who aren't constructs, get a reduced damage die. Attribute: Deals 2d12+str damage -If the being is a construct, they will have to make a con save & on a fail, the construct will be stunned for that turn. -If the being is living the damage dealt is 1d8+str, with no con save having to be made -If the being isn't living, but is not a construct, they will take 1d12+str damage, but can't be stunned