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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
hey i read in the first page that homebrew creations are sometimes allowed
heres a funny homebrew monster i made as a joke and on the fly a few years back.
only have a basic concept the actual classes and stats can be changed to suit your needs
DEMONIC CHOCOLATE FUDGE MONSTER
LORE:
this eccentric evil wizard was kicked out of his wizard college due to his forbiden studies into fusing constructs with demons.
while he was trying to summon the material out of the either he mistakenly said the incantation wrong causing him to summon an endless supply of chocolate fudge that flowed from a well in the ground.
not being one to waste his efforts he spent the next year carefully crafting a golem body from the fudge.
after his golem body was completed he started chanting in abyssal unfortunately he fell asleep as he said the last syllable of the incantation. 2 different demons managed to possess the chocolate fudge golem at the same time. as he was a asleep the wizard could not enchant the magic circle of protection so the double demons killed the foolish wizard. as soon as the double demons left the wizard tower they felt something they did not know; fear. they were plagued with extreme fear when not inside the tower grounds. this fear was so intense all they could think about is returning to the tower. the demons constantly fight for control of the body. only thing the demons are after is a release from this tower or a release from this body.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: the chocolate fudge monster is a 4 foot long 2 ft wide solid chocolate fudge bar. it has 4 arms. 2 arms are big and bulky obviously meant for melee combat. the other 2 arms are small and continuously drip chocolate like melted wax. the fudge bar has 6 red eyes and 2 razor sharp fangs for a mouth. on its back is a set of raven black wings that look like angel wings but dyed black.
SPECIAL QUALITIES/SPECIAL ATTACKS
this creature has dark vision and low light vision
both demons make actions hard so they make opposed will checks each round to decide which one hs control
if demon 1 has control it uses ranged magic attacks ignoring any melee opportunities
if demon 2 has control it ignores all ranged abilities and focuses on melee combat
the only thing the demons agree on is they need out of this tower and their own body
has fast healing when sitting in chocolate or fudge or anything with a high sugar content.
if it consumes high sugar content it heals as if it took a healing potion
if slain revives 1d4 days later in the chocolate well
while in the chocolate well it can regrow limbs
mental control is harder due to the 2 minds controlling the body so it has resistance from charm and compulsion type effects
chocolate fireball SU range 120ft this functions in all other ways as the fireball spell except it does 1/4th the normal damage but the fire ball summons a chocolate clone of the fudge monster that has hive mind with all other chocolate fudge monsters counts as a summoning type ability. can not use the summon aspect if the chocolate fudge well is destroyed or not accessible in some way. requires enough chocolate fudge to make a 4ft monster
flight/hover abilities i had it listed as above average maneuverability but with 180 ft fly speed
this had no base land speed as it does not have legs
demonic qualities/traits
EQUIPMENT:i had this equipped with chain mail 2 long swords but i didnt really put much effort into the equipment
hope you enjoy my rando homebrew monster that was made mostly as a joke
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
I feel that you'd be better served by posting this in a thread in the homebrew forum instead of what amounts to a random thread that's got nothing to do with it. It would be something different if we were having a lively debate on the Elemental Plane of Chocolate or something, but as it stands this is just a non sequitur (and not even a complete one; it's missing a statblock for one).
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Tzardok
I feel that you'd be better served by posting this in a thread in the homebrew forum instead of what amounts to a random thread that's got nothing to do with it. It would be something different if we were having a lively debate on the Elemental Plane of Chocolate or something, but as it stands this is just a non sequitur (and not even a complete one; it's missing a statblock for one).
It's not even the Para-elemental Plane of Ranch Dressing!
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Tzardok
the Elemental Plane of Chocolate
i want to hear more of this please
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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i want to hear more of this please
And it's not even April yet...
The Demiplane of Chocolate
One of the many demiplanes that imitate the Elemental Planes, the Demiplane of Chocolate is mostly made up of gooey half-liquid chocolate, with more solid chunks floating around and large empty spaces filled with air and cocoa dust. The chocolate is made up mostly of different flavours of dark and milk chocolate, but also white chocolate and different mixtures with other matter exist exist, especially close to natural portals. Despite its mostly molten state the matter making up the plane is mostly cool and can easily be reshaped into solid forms. The native chocolate elementals are artistic by nature and enjoy making large figurines, monuments and even cities from the base chocolate.
The demiplane has a few natural portals to other planes, especially to the Elemental Plane of Wood and to the Blooming Reaches, the border between Elemental Wood and Elemental Air. From the Blooming Reaches honey flows into the chocolate, while bits of nut, berry and other fruit enter the plane from Wood.
The Demiplane of Chocolate has been at war since a conjunction between it and the Plane of Faerie 300 years ago. Emmissaries of the Seelie and the Unseelie court battle each other over the opportunity to exploit the demiplane's ressources, while the natives unsuccessfully try to evict both sides.
The servants of the Unseelie are small, elf-like fey who ceaselessly mine the chocolate and shape it into statuettes depicting their master, an ancient sidhe with the appearance of a white-bearded old man, dressed richly in red and white furs. As part of a secret plan to manipulate the destinies of the mortals, he often gifts those statuettes to mortal children.
The emissaries of the Seelie on the other hand take the appearance of talking animals. Their leader is humanoid hare who commands his workers to fashion colourful eggs from the chocolate. During spring, he hides those eggs on the Material as anchors for an ancient fertility ritual that helps ensure the Seelie's supremacy.
I hope you enjoyed me taking a quarter hour to come up with this bull. :smalltongue:
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
lol, absolutely wonderful
i was hoping for a river of chocolate pudding that meets up with the river styx or something, but what you came up with works
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
Back in thread 6, afro was asked if there were any issues removing the Faction War from canon. He said:
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No, and frankly I feel the same way. I like the idea that the Faction War is something that could be around the corner, ready to happen - and thus in service to the DM rather than already part of canon. So I tend to use the factions as organized prior to the War.
I think he's also been pretty clear over the years that he doesn't like the whole War of Souls/Takhisis Time Heist era of Dragonlance. Personally, I prefer Zariel to still be the Lord of the First. Since afro's away, open question: what bits of canon (not counting 4/5E) do you prefer not to use?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Tzardok
And it's not even April yet...
The Demiplane of Chocolate
(…)
The Demiplane of Chocolate has been at war since a conjunction between it and the Plane of Faerie 300 years ago. Emmissaries of the Seelie and the Unseelie court battle each other over the opportunity to exploit the demiplane's ressources, while the natives unsuccessfully try to evict both sides.
The servants of the Unseelie are small, elf-like fey who ceaselessly mine the chocolate and shape it into statuettes depicting their master, an ancient sidhe with the appearance of a white-bearded old man, dressed richly in red and white furs. As part of a secret plan to manipulate the destinies of the mortals, he often gifts those statuettes to mortal children.
The emissaries of the Seelie on the other hand take the appearance of talking animals. Their leader is humanoid hare who commands his workers to fashion colourful eggs from the chocolate. During spring, he hides those eggs on the Material as anchors for an ancient fertility ritual that helps ensure the Seelie's supremacy.
The locals, in the meantime, are rumoured to rally behind a powerful being said to possess the shape of a purple cow.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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QuickLyRaiNbow
Back in thread 6, afro was asked if there were any issues removing the Faction War from canon. He said:
I think he's also been pretty clear over the years that he doesn't like the whole War of Souls/Takhisis Time Heist era of Dragonlance. Personally, I prefer Zariel to still be the Lord of the First. Since afro's away, open question: what bits of canon (not counting 4/5E) do you prefer not to use?
Eberron has so much stuff that was left as an open question in Eberron Campaign Setting, but given a canonical answer later. I definitely prefer not to use... basically all of those canonical answers.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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QuickLyRaiNbow
Back in thread 6, afro was asked if there were any issues removing the Faction War from canon. He said:
I think he's also been pretty clear over the years that he doesn't like the whole War of Souls/Takhisis Time Heist era of Dragonlance. Personally, I prefer Zariel to still be the Lord of the First. Since afro's away, open question: what bits of canon (not counting 4/5E) do you prefer not to use?
Well, obviously the 2e version of the Great Wheel takes precedence over 3.x cosmologies for me. Besides that I ignore the continued existence of the Wall of the Faithless. Can't think of anything else right now, but surely there is more.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
Two Questions:
*Is Oerth's day-night cycle primarily caused by the rotation of the planet or by the orbit of Liga
*What actually triggers the teansformation of dromites into reproductive castes? Is it some kind of a psionic effect or more of a phyaical royal jelly type thing?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Bohandas
Two Questions:
*Is Oerth's day-night cycle primarily caused by the rotation of the planet or by the orbit of Liga
Well, if I understand the info on the Spelljammer Wiki correctly, Oerth rotates in 24 hours, while Liga's orbit takes 364 days (a Greyhawk year), so the planet's rotation.
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*What actually triggers the teansformation of dromites into reproductive castes? Is it some kind of a psionic effect or more of a phyaical royal jelly type thing?
Not a clue.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
Just came across an interesting quesiton on another forum and I thought here might be the best place to ask:
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I came across
this blog post that describes the Lady of Pain as being 15 feet tall (4.5m). Is this substantiated in any of the Planescape books, or is this a detail created by a fan?
Any takers?
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Just came across an interesting quesiton on another forum and I thought here might be the best place to ask:
Any takers?
Considering her powers, she can most probably change her size at will, but her regular incarnation seems to be a bit bigger than that. I'd say maybe 6 meters tall. But considering her robes, 15ft doesn't seem completely out of question.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
I haven't found any sources that give any clear measurements for her (I looked in the 3.x MotP and Planar Handbook, but also the Planescape Campaign Setting and In The cage: A Guide to Sigil).
For what it's worth, I always imagined her as tall, but not giant, specifically as deceptively harmless 3 m.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
There's very few pictures that show her with normal people. But yeah, Beni-Kujaku's picture from Harbinger House is the best we've got, and on that, she's definitely quite huge.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Beni-Kujaku
Considering her powers, she can most probably change her size at will, but her
regular incarnation seems to be a bit bigger than that. I'd say maybe 6 meters tall. But considering her robes, 15ft doesn't seem completely out of question.
My answer was "I think she is as tall as the circumstances dictate and/or she desires."
Someone has responded that "She's described and drawn casting her shadow across hundreds of people in a city park, literally towering" so 15' sounds a bit on the short side for her normal public form...
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Khedrac
My answer was "I think she is as tall as the circumstances dictate and/or she desires."
My setting has a "kinder & gentler" LoP. She's about 4'10", vaguely potato shaped, wears a frumpy flower print dress, and her nose is practically turnip-like. She tries to show a sense of humor and is known to visit cinemas showing psycho-thriller horror movies. People are, in fact, now more afraid her. And the factions immedately unanimously banned LoP bobblehead dolls after rumors that she'd seen a 'Chucky' film.
There are entire planes full of whimsy and wonder. No need for Sigil to be all Warhammer style grim-dork.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
The Lady of Pain's power level is almost certainly sufficient to change her size at will... but there's obviously artist interpretation in her height.
My first exposure to the Lady of Pain was in the 4e D&D intro video, where (compared to the gnome interviewer) she's roughly 3m tall:
There are a number of illustrations of the Lady of Pain where I'd guesstimate her at roughly 6-7 meters tall:
Planescape: Torment has a scene where the Nameless One can draw her eye, and they animate her at roughly two and a half times the height of the Nameless One, so... about 5m tall?
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Whichever interpretation of her height has your fancy, you can use. I favor the 3m interpretation because I like the image of her silently gliding into a building and it goes dead silent, which is tricky to do at the larger sizes.
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From reading the previous threads, it seems that ghosts are a Prime Material Plane only phenomenon, since they require a Border Ethereal to be all ghostly.
If a soul refuses to move on while on the other planes, what kind of undead do they manifest as? Are there Outer Plane specific undead manifestations, or are they just a ghost without the ability to disappear into the Ethereal?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
That is an interesting question.
I'm guessing, but I'd assume that on the Outer Planes something like that just can't happen. I mean, the ghost thing is refusal to let go and travel to the Outer Planes, but you are already there.
On the Ethereal, you get a ghost. Would be an unsual ghost on account of not having a haunt, so to speak, at least not without findingn a way into a Border Ethereal.
On the Inner Planes, well,... My head canon is that those planes have Border Ethereals on their own (and therefore could have (flavours of) ghosts), but I understand that that is not canon. It could be that a soul refusing to go on after dieing on the Inner Planes gets dragged into the Ethereal and then becomes a ghost on the Ethereal.
Astral is difficult, but I'd assume that already being on the Astral and so halfway on the way to the afterlife makes it difficult to impossible to resist.
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Tzardok
That is an interesting question.
I'm guessing, but I'd assume that on the Outer Planes something like that just can't happen. I mean, the ghost thing is refusal to let go and travel to the Outer Planes, but you are already there.
On the Ethereal, you get a ghost. Would be an unsual ghost on account of not having a haunt, so to speak, at least not without findingn a way into a Border Ethereal.
On the Inner Planes, well,... My head canon is that those planes have Border Ethereals on their own (and therefore could have (flavours of) ghosts), but I understand that that is not canon. It could be that a soul refusing to go on after dieing on the Inner Planes gets dragged into the Ethereal and then becomes a ghost on the Ethereal.
Astral is difficult, but I'd assume that already being on the Astral and so halfway on the way to the afterlife makes it difficult to impossible to resist.
I assume on the Plane of Shadow they would become a wraith or something instead of a ghost?
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Who knows what Shadow does, especially Deep Shadow? You are lucky to find your way home if you want to in the first place.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
Well, the Ethereal does connect with the Inner Planes, so there is a version of the Border Ethereal on each Inner Plane.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Does
this song fit with Ravenloft, and if so, which Domain?
I'm tempted to presume "yes" because "heaven ain't close in a place like this" certainly fits with a place that's both evil-leaning (making the Upper Planes conceptually far) and on the Ethereal (making all of the Outer Planes physically far)
Furthermore, I'm also tempted to say "Barovia" because it's about both romantic jealousy and seeing the same faces repeatedly.
I wanted to check that my reasoning isn't stupid, though.
Does this check out?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
I return from my long absence, where I was working on some project or other that I'm sure is not linked in my signature or anything, let alone relevant to this thread. So, now that I'm back... let the questions resume! What did I miss, what can I help with, who shall earn my wrath next?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
I think these questions by Bohandas and aj77 still require expertise:
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Bohandas
*What actually triggers the teansformation of dromites into reproductive castes? Is it some kind of a psionic effect or more of a phyaical royal jelly type thing?
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aj77
From reading the previous threads, it seems that ghosts are a Prime Material Plane only phenomenon, since they require a Border Ethereal to be all ghostly.
If a soul refuses to move on while on the other planes, what kind of undead do they manifest as? Are there Outer Plane specific undead manifestations, or are they just a ghost without the ability to disappear into the Ethereal?
I also have a question I've been keeping: we already discussed at length the mechanisms by which a soul travels to the Outer Planes after death. How do souls travel from the Positive to their future bodies to be born?
Also, and this question can be ignored if you don't feel like it, assume that the Elemental Plane of Wood has shared border regions with other Inner Planes. What would the border between Wood and Positive look like in your educated opinion?
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Also, and this question can be ignored if you don't feel like it, assume that the Elemental Plane of Wood has shared border regions with other Inner Planes. What would the border between Wood and Positive look like in your educated opinion?
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Also, and this question can be ignored if you don't feel like it, assume that the Elemental Plane of Wood has shared border regions with other Inner Planes. What would the border between Wood and Positive look like in your educated opinion?
...Wait, how would that even work? Wood makes no sense as an elemental plane, as it is not one of the building blocks of creation. The fact that wood is alive, and gives life, means that it would be definitionally aligned with Positive. There's no such thing as a Negative Wood that's actively devoid of life, since even rotting wood is being broken down by living fungi. Wood would have to live at a nexus of earth, air, water, the quasi-elemental plane of radiance, and positive, if it existed as a plane. The elemental plane of earth is a block of earth with small pockets of other elements in specific areas. The plane of air is air with some debris that fell in over eons. Wood makes no sense being a giant block of wood, since we associate it with leaves and branches and all of those necessitate other elements.
I mean. If the quasiparaelemental plane of wood did exist in that weird juncture, the border would be fruit, wouldn't it? The most energy-dense part of the tree, designed to create new life and empower existing life simultaneously. Possibly extended to all kinds of seeds, like acorns, giant samaras, and so on, but it really makes little sense for such a mix of elements to be designated as an elemental plane. It boggles the mind. Trees and proto-trees were also late to the title of 'first land-borne complex organism' by somewhere between 90 to 180 million years, and so would have had to start as something else when elemental planes don't really change.
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Re: afroakuma's Planar And Other Oddities Questions Thread VIII
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Fable Wright
...Wait, how would that even work? Wood makes no sense as an elemental plane, as it is not one of the building blocks of creation. The fact that wood is alive, and gives life, means that it would be definitionally aligned with Positive. There's no such thing as a Negative Wood that's actively devoid of life, since even rotting wood is being broken down by living fungi. Wood would have to live at a nexus of earth, air, water, the quasi-elemental plane of radiance, and positive, if it existed as a plane. The elemental plane of earth is a block of earth with small pockets of other elements in specific areas. The plane of air is air with some debris that fell in over eons. Wood makes no sense being a giant block of wood, since we associate it with leaves and branches and all of those necessitate other elements.
I mean. If the quasiparaelemental plane of wood did exist in that weird juncture, the border would be fruit, wouldn't it? The most energy-dense part of the tree, designed to create new life and empower existing life simultaneously. Possibly extended to all kinds of seeds, like acorns, giant samaras, and so on, but it really makes little sense for such a mix of elements to be designated as an elemental plane. It boggles the mind. Trees and proto-trees were also late to the title of 'first land-borne complex organism' by somewhere between 90 to 180 million years, and so would have had to start as something else when elemental planes don't really change.
I may be talking out of my posterior here since I'm not privy to any previous discussion on the matter here, but I seem to remember there being a write-up for the Elemental Plane of Wood in the 3E Manual of the Planes, and presumably also an Elemental Plane of Metal, since that refers to Chinese/Taoist alchemy where the five "elements" (not exactly, but they're often treated as such) are Earth, Water, Fire, Wood and Metal. IIRC the Elemental Plane of Wood is just a place full of trees and other vegetation coming from seemingly nowhere, I'd have to look it up though.
Oh and of course, congrats Akuma for the 5E MotP! That looks like a really kickass project.