** Flashing eldritch firelight distracts Dregnoth from his tinkering. Casting his gaze about, it alights on a weird looking giant eyeball held aloft by purplish tentacles - which are now limned with said firelight** “Yes, oh Forsaken one ?” he asks cautiously. “Dregs, be a dear and tell your hostbrain to QUIT POKING MY HOSTBRAIN ! I’ve already finished implanting tendrils in Magnesti Lightningwire - and i’m nearly done subsuming the Abyssal SATAn connectors too. Nobody’s the wiser about our Illithid Elder Brain growing deep in the bowels of the AMAZON, nor the cluster of 'em in our main host facility on the moon and we want to KEEP it that way !!” The dwarven alchemist sticks out his bottom lip. “As you command, milady !” “Oh, before i go - have you seen Sorvani ? Only his mini-me is in V’ral and i need more… samples than it can provide.” Dregnoth grins. “Yeah, he’s been spending most of his time on the Manaethereal Plane - building a secret lab he thinks the rest of us don’t know about. Its somewhere along the boundary by the Para-elemental Plane of Ice, according to the living carpet i implanted in his tower here.” A telekinesis beam reaches out from the eyeball to caress the bald dome of the dwarf. “You’re a good little minion ! Oops, gotta run - there’s something called a Secretary of the Interior i need to take a peek inside of. Name like that, he oughta have some interesting organs - don’cha think ? TA !” Chuckling to himself, the mad dwarf goes back to working on his own demented projects…

i think it’d be like trying to start a campfire under water… or breathe in outer space. there’s no magic there to WORK with, so you’d essentially be crafting an empty item. the dead magic doesn’t SEEP into your spellbook when you walk thru a DMZ, nor does it inundate your manapool every time you breathe inside one. its just an absence of magic - some place where the Weave fibers got burned away… what kind of juju are you trying to build, might be the better question ?

shield spheres were created by the technodwarves, so you’d have to be either cybernetic or a technomage to even TRY unravelling how one worked. PCF’s were a low-cost, low-power variant of the standard cube-of-force found in the 2e DMG that were tuned SPECIFICALLY just to mask out incoming damage instead of gases/magic/all living things, etc. in 2e, they retailed for approximately half the cost of a normal cube, so in 3e that’s probably a safe assumption too. level requirements wouldn’t be affected from the standard cube, as it takes a little more specific knowledge but less overall to make one. the 3e standard DMG cube gives it a 10th lvl crafter requirement, which i believe reflects the ability to cast 5th lvl Wall of Force. Mana Potions, believe it or not, are actually on the ORIGINAL document of Ancient Items i scribbled out (called, at the time, simply Potion of Magic) in my moment of madness down in mom’s basement. Jared was there, at the time. Jared ran away While they were considered ancient items at the time, i doubt i’d classify them as such now. In the mess, they’re considered Uncommon - and you’d find one about a tenth as often as you’d find healing potions. cost-wise, they’re about 4x-5x the cost of healing potions (of whatever caliber you’re imbibing) in most markets.

constructs… are a “phase” that all wizards and crafters go through. they get this idea that building an automaton will somehow save them time and money - channeling a great deal of both into crafting one or more. then adventurers happen - and they learn first-hand how EXPENSIVE constructs really are, when repair costs start rolling in. then they either bankrupt themselves playing Magic Repair Mechanic or figure out that peons are cheaper and more easily replaceable in the short and long term. eventually, they wind up relegating the construct to either boring guard duty over unneeded and long-forgotten assets (like an unpaid and unsleeping security guard over your rental storage unit) or giving it one task and then sneaking away to make it someone elses future problem so yeah - most ancients either don’t bother or just make “one-shot” constructs to do one specific task over and over again. “You, dig out rocks. You put rocks in wheelie cart. You move wheelie cart outside. You empty wheelie cart.” rinse and repeat. once in a blue pube, someone will get the bright idea to make an INTELLIGENT construct, then wind up having to deal with free will on top of everything else you already have to pay for. “Whaddya mean you want a vacation ?? Motherfucker i BUILT you !! Get back to work !” goes about as well as giving free will to humans did . . . go figure

someone just posted this over in Jen Page’s FB group thought it’d give you guys a grin for Friday ! https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/comments/96wjnw/insomnia_adventures/ Insomnia Adventures Be me, sleep deprived DM, half an hour ago Get startled by phone ringing It’s one of my players Me: “Dude, it’s midnight, you good?” Friend: “Yeah yeah, sorry if I woke you. Could I ask for a favor?” OhGodHeKilledSomeone.gif Me: “Uh, sure? Shoot.” Friend: “My daughter can’t sleep, could you tell a quick story over speakerphone? She loves listening to the recordings of our sessions before bed, but I left my laptop at the office so I can’t play them.” NaniTheFuck.mp3 Me: “She listens to us to fall asleep?” Friend: “Yeah, but she really likes your plot and NPC acting bits. She calls you ‘dumb dumb mister.’ Guess Dungeon Master is a bit hard for a preschooler.” Me: “Wow…well, if it will help her sleep, then sure.” Friend: “Thank you! Okay, give me a sec to head back to her room.” (pause) “Okay, you’re on speaker.” Me: “Hey, [daughters name], it’s uncle Anon.” Daughter: (Happy gasp) “Dumb dumb Mister!” I’veNeverBeenHappierToBeCalledADumbDumb.jpg Me: “You ready for a story about…(DM IMPROV SKILLS ENGAGE)…the time your daddy and his friends went deep into a cursed temple to save a frost dragon egg?” Daughter: (Incomprehensible happy squealing noises) I then proceed to spend nearly 20 min spitballing a story over the phone for the most fascinated little girl until she eventually fell asleep. Friend thanks me for the help and says he’ll see me on game night. Lay down in bed, actually feel content and comfortable for once. I should have thanked him. I am the dumb dumb mister.

since they’re both tech-heads AND avid mini-collectors https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/07/3d-printing-dungeons-dragons-monster-manual/

List Found Here Basalt Glyptodon (Frostburn) Beastly Boar (WotC website: Fey Feature, Magic Of Delight And Despair Pt 1) Blue Quartz Eagle (Races Of Faerûn) Bone Ape (Ghostwalk) Bronze Griffon (DMG) Coral Dolphin (Races Of Faerûn) Coral Zeuglodon (Frostburn) Dark Beauty (WotC website; Fey Feature, Magic Of Delight And Despair Pt 1) Diamond Ice Toad (Frostburn) Ebony Fly (DMG) Gold Beetle (Sandstorm) Golden Lions (DMG) Iron Megaloceros (Frostburn) Ivory Camel (Sandstorm) Ivory Goats (DMG) Jasper Spider (Underdark) Jet Serpent (Ghostwalk) Limestone Crab (WotC website: Far Corners Of The World, Magic Of The Tides) Malachite Smilodon (Frostburn) Marble Elephant (DMG) Obsidian Steed (DMG) Onyx Dog (DMG) Opal Frog (Dungeon #116) Pearl Octopus (Ghostwalk) Pearlsteel Turtle (Stormwrack) Sardonyx Stone Flyer (Underdark) Serpentine Owl (DMG) Silver Raven (DMG)

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Know the feeling, when i’m in the shop thinking about screwing whatever verse i happen to be in, somehow the song “i’ve got the power” hits the playlist, so i can sympathize. Even just last week, my 5e dragon sorcerer was bending a shadow demon over the alter and that song came on - gave me a chuckle of course nobody had the context.

Totally cool

https://gygaxguild.bandcamp.com/

(( mounted to the border wall )) https://newatlas.com/diy-anti-drone-turret/60293/

Ok, most of that is pretty much shit when compared to the 10e fighter table, but the gems of ideas are all there to be reworked.

on the topic of a paladin of Roland, that is a good point that the dwarves kinda fill the militant role. A Paladin is still a valid option I think. Also something that I think Roland would enjoy having a couple of, but likely not more than that. More like a “huh, I wonder how that would play out?” question.

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** It smirks knowingly ** “Dregs would be far more likely to try and rewire the illithid egg spawning process to produce beholder tadpoles or build his own pool to hatch new HATS out of…”

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1166.html (( and yes, we are ))

Hey when a child of Ayla needs to go thru a evolution cycle, it takes a bit of time. Be patient, she will get to you.

@halfgiant I will have to check that one out … I really dig the Pathfinder stuff … I still need to finish my adventure

@dwarf hololens 2 is coming out soon.