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Thread: Planar Energy Storms
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2016-11-03, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Planar Energy Storms
I'm a first-time DM running a solo campaign for my spouse. I had the idea of incorporating "energy storms" from the main energy planes that boost magic & outsiders of the same type & weaken its opposite, with the chance of an "unaligned" storm creating a temporary wild magic zone.
I'm not sure how this should manifest, though. I'm trying to figure out how to make this work without certain energy basically instakilling everything in the immediate area (e.g. Fire Energy Storms burning down whole towns & forests). It could be that it's not a literal physical storm, but then how do people know about them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated & credited. :)
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2016-11-03, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2015
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- The Astral Plane!!!
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Re: Planar Energy Storms
Maybe energy storms should range in strength, kinda like hurricane ratings, a 1 fire storm would be an extremely hot day with the occasional spontaneous combustion for dryer objects while a 5 fire storm is a wall of flame sweeping across the land feared in legend. Also Energy storm could originate from points where the connection between material and said energy plane is the weakest and radiate on a path from there and get weaker the longer they exsist on the material plane.
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2016-11-04, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Planar Energy Storms
More or less what I was thinking. Also during a weak fire storm flames burn hotter and more easily. During a electrical storm static electricity just seems to build out of nowhere, careful when reaching for something metal, you might get a big spark, not dangerous for weaker storms, but potentially deadly for stronger ones. Acid storms might result in acid rain, for weaker ones it's like the acid rain in our world, it might kill some pine trees or damage crops or stone buildings and statues. Some people you would meat would have scarred up faces, maybe with their hair growing in patches, they were caught outside in a stronger storm and had their flesh ate away at by acid. Even a weak ice storm can be a disaster if it lasts for even a few hours, it destroys crops.
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2016-11-04, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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