I guess that's one way for a dragonborn to finally get a tail.

@darienb1127

4 жыл бұрын

I kinda forget about that and just give them tails in my game anyways. Screw the norm, i do my own.

@nielsdejong

4 жыл бұрын

This is another :) www.gmbinder.com/share/-LpUnq-2W3xSNh2Z0Qx9

@foxydash9992

4 жыл бұрын

Darien B yes

@agsilverradio2225

4 жыл бұрын

And/or wings, and/or random other apendage.

@foxydash9992

4 жыл бұрын

Ag silver Radio I get wings and tail and stuff by making a half dragon Dragonborn (half dragons are what happens when a dragon mates with another race)

This reminds me of when I was a kid playing Fallout 3 for the first time and I thought more radiation would turn me into a mutant so I bathed in the shit hoping for something cool to happen

@Lemus_Delgado

4 жыл бұрын

Transmissions from the Underdark that would have been awesome.

@kingkurok3149

4 жыл бұрын

Another missed opportunity in gaming history

@lucasriddle3431

4 жыл бұрын

You would've been far more disappointed if you tried it irl. And more dead.

@piguy222

4 жыл бұрын

Well you do get the cool mutations of being sterile and cancer!

"I like to treat magical mutations like any other disease." *Loads flamethrower with religious intent.*

I like your homebrew a lot more then most other DMs, it makes sense, is connected/easy to connect to your other homebrew, and my favorite thing is that both PCs and DMs can interact with it. Keep it up man!

@darienb1127

4 жыл бұрын

Can i ask what is it you normally see in homebrew you that you don't like?

@darienb1127

4 жыл бұрын

@Maximilian L i don't think so, but that's not a bad idea!

@Flourikum

4 жыл бұрын

@Maximilian L eh you will have to make up a mini loot table for each monster I suggest capping at three-four parts per monster

@shayalberyp4315

4 жыл бұрын

Darien B it’s not that I dislike other people’s homebrew. It’s that kanekou’s is one I find easy to understand and use. I suppose one thing in particular I like about his homebrew is how it makes the world seem built up, lived in. This helps DMs build more worlds that are detailed without requiring every detail to be predefined to each minuscule piece, and players feel the world is larger by the introduction of these new mechanics, allowing them to interact with creatures, materials and the environment without simply doing Cliché options. To put it simply, it’s so far my favorite homebrew and I think it’s awesome.

This seems like a cool way to introduce the Simic Hybrid race into other settings by passing them off as mutations

@obsidianbeast6308

4 жыл бұрын

I agree since simic hybrids are a really cool race but you need to get real creative with them in other settings that aren’t rivinca(probably misspelled that) I mean my warlock is a simic hybrid and he’s the way he is due to the magic of his patron as part of their deal

@mr.potato2223

3 жыл бұрын

@@obsidianbeast6308 you did

@obsidianbeast6308

3 жыл бұрын

mr. potato thought so

@mr.potato2223

3 жыл бұрын

@@obsidianbeast6308 ravnica I really hope i didn't misspell that

@thelordofpots933

3 жыл бұрын

Another alternative to the simic hybrids are the Mongrelfolk, which are more beastial in appearance and abilities.

*Kanekuo introduces Rad Meter idea* My brain imediently: DUNGEON AND DEATHCLAWS. DO IT NOW.

@dossiebigham6916

4 жыл бұрын

*Party pays for rooms in underworld and the parties "bard" character goes to the bar* Ladies man: *wakes up next morning in underworld naked an rolls over and unfortunately sees a naked ghoul girl* *[You are suffering from extrema radiation poisoning!]*

@commanderjason7786

4 жыл бұрын

Dungeons and Deathclaws. DUNGEONS... *AND DEATHCLAWS.* Why hasn't ANYONE ELSE COME UP WITH THIS IDEA YET?!

@dossiebigham6916

4 жыл бұрын

@@commanderjason7786 I'm pretty sure someone tried to make a Fallout D20 modal but bethesda being bethesda made them not finish instead of working with them. Because bethesda hates all things RPG now especially when someone does their job but better. *cough* fallout new vegas! *cough* The modding community *cough* agh sorry.

Technically speaking, dragons do this by existing. It was thrown out in 5th edition, but originally a dragons mere presence in an area would shift and mutate it

@jodah_eternal

4 жыл бұрын

Personally I think it makes sense for the chromatic dragons cause they are generally assholes Edit: I think i got the right kinda dragon cant remeber

@MrVauxs

4 жыл бұрын

They can change the environment in 5th edition, it's under their lair actions and effects. Red dragons cause magma in the ground, Green makes vines grow, Black poisons waters, etc. Even Vampires have that

@calebkopp7636

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrVauxs I thought they remove that. Thank you.

@andresmarrero8666

4 жыл бұрын

There is that infusion that happens when they die.

@cringejoestar9791

4 жыл бұрын

@@jodah_eternal chromatic dragons are the supposed to be the good ones, at least as far as I know (which is 5e), and it was the non chromatic/normal ones that were evil Edit: I am wrong

Aww, I read the title as "Magical Munitions" so I was looking forward to magic railguns that shoot super eldrich blasts or something

@Nameless_Wretch

4 жыл бұрын

Next TT plz

@mFilipe20

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nameless_Wretch ngl i'm working on something similar

@professornope4792

4 жыл бұрын

YES

@bensagnella757

4 жыл бұрын

A magic mutaion that gives you a third eye that shoots eldritch blasts but give you disadvantage on int or wisdom.

@roykennedy

4 жыл бұрын

@@bensagnella757 The magic eye talks to you through telepathy but its all Eldrich Gibberish that you don't understand

I've always loved the idea of magical radiation and magical mutation even going as far to start making concepts for entire School of magic completely devoted to magical mutation even having a mutation wizards that specialize in providing mutations for better or for worse.

@BookWyrmOnAString

4 жыл бұрын

You should check out the webcomic Aurora! It has a thibg called the Chimeric plague that sounds right up your alley.

@whyamihere5732

4 жыл бұрын

*Laughs in Wild Magic*

Hmmm, that last bit on a rad score seems perfect for a short zombie apocalypse campaign

I already had a magical ore in my world that's mined and incredibly unstable. This would be a great add. Thank you

@morganpriest7726

4 жыл бұрын

Just like uranium! Highly unstable but does some cool shit! Like nukes!

DND 76 Mutations Rock skin: higher dc slow movement Dark eyes: greater dark vision, horrible vision during the day Bull/Demon horns: can disarm foes with your head, DOORS Feel free to add anything else Edit(30 likes, huh) Edit:dullahan: after having your head chopped off from a planeswalker mid teleport, you seem to be alive. That is because you gain the mutation dullahan, your body can fight on its own while you can do whatever you want. Negative: disadvantage on all attacks and perception if the body doesn’t have its head nearby, you are only a head and due to being chopped of your body or players must carry your head

@dr.spycrab4089

4 жыл бұрын

Toxic breath: You gain access to the poison spray cantrip that shoots from your mouth. However, you are disadvantaged on Charisma checks for permanent bad breath, and anyone who has a prolonged conversation with you will need to make a constitution check or be poisoned.

@jackmack4181

4 жыл бұрын

Metallic teeth: Teeth that can bite through anything, disadvantage on charisma and persuasion rolls because with your metal teeth it’s harder to speak now (perfect for barbarians) Backdraft: you can fart Fire now, but you must roll a constitution when not in combat in fear of burning a hole through your pants and chair. Monkey paw: your feet becomes hands

@Trombi01

4 жыл бұрын

fast legs: You can dash as a free action, but need to make con save or suffer one point of exhaustion each time you do it. gentler ears: you have blindsight for 20 m but have to make a dex save everytime something loud happens to cover your ears in time or take 1d4 damage. fancy tail: advantage against going prone, constantly gets stuck on things. winged ears: you look cool, but birds come to defend their territory if you are near. Or to mate with you. red thread of fate: you and an another creature are connected by an unbreakable thread that lets you always know what is happening to the other person and gives +2 to aid checks or simultaneus actions with them, but you can't go futher than 6d6 m away from each other. wings of icarus: lets you fly towards the sun, but you can only stop flying towards it if something stops you.

@jackmack4181

4 жыл бұрын

Trombi01 Chamaeleon skin: after drinking a mutated chameleon blood by accident you gain the power to blend in with your surroundings but your skin in sensitive (reduce ac) Crystallized skeleton: due to you being near the radioactive crystals your skeleton has become part crystal, you gain high ac and resistance to magic but you are heavier underwater and you have less health due to the crystals protruding from your body Minor healing blood: your blood becomes part minor healing potion healing you 2-5 every round, but because of this vampires and other animals can smell you better Light nipples: after having your chest burned by holy light you can now activate light through your nipples. Poison: after having a green elder dragon bite you your blood has become part poison granting resistance to poison attacks but you drool poison when ever you speak

@Trombi01

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackmack4181 sneaky legs: +1 to all your stealth checks, you all ways look like you are sneaking. bones made of gold: your bones are made of gold, but they are made of gold. traces of the void: your have lost something that made you and it is replaced with something else. You get +1 to one of your stats based on what is the higest score of the last creature you touched, but you get -1 to a score based on the one creature you touched earlier. silver tongue: your tongue is sharp and made of silver. It does 1d8 to any person you kiss. Roll d20 whenever you eat, and if you get nat 1 you bite your tongue and take 1d4 dmg. haunted by the strings: all dolls and puppets 10 m around you are alive. good as new: You died. You came back. Don't look beneath the skin and you'll be fine. animal ears: you have cute animal ears!

I had an idea involving something like that. I basically just took the idea that WOW had of a large magic bomb, and the setting itself would be a sort of post-apocalypse. The idea for how things got this way is one of two things: 1.) these magic bombs were effectively like the nukes of today and were nothing more then a really powerful weapon that nations had that they ended up using against each other. 2.) a bad guy or group of bad guys succeeded in their goal of blowing up the word, the armies of the world and adventurers having failed to stop them. Anywhere these bombs went off has a magical radiation effect like you came up with but also the laws of physics break down inside them, and wild magic runs rampant.

@platinumchromee3191

Жыл бұрын

Imagine going into crater for da loot and then anomaly warps yo ass into space

I love this. My world was created by magical energies seeping in from other worlds. I feel this could work really well in tandem with that concept.

This is exelent! Could also be very useful to mark the remnants of battlefields of Anchent wars.

*Just finished watching the Witcher season one * Sees Video pop up Me: Ironic.

Oooooooh! I want to see the full drawing of the Rocky Four-armed Orc! That looked awesome, but cutoff!♥️♥️

This homebrew is awesome and works for my high magic setting really well. Do you have a link or a PDF to those mutation tables you talked about?

Oh Sweet I have the same idea. Even build a location into the world where there's a large shield set up to keep a magical radiation zone sealed.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has a creative list

I’m watching this literally right before i leave to dm for my group! Such weird timing

I've been wanting to play around with something like this a lot, so thank you for the additional ideas! Keep up the awesome work!

this is really cool this hole Magical Mutations thing would be an awesome class feature sorcerers to have

Yay finally more cute goblin guys! oH NOOoOOoO

This absolutely transformed a character idea I had, and I wanted to share it with you. So, before this video inspired me Lia the half-elf barbarian was your average werewolf. Bitten, a priest weakened her curse, adventures for a cure. But with this, I got the idea for her to be mutated. So now her character is much more developed as she lives in fear of the time she saw the Thing Beyond The Hills, and prefers not to rage as she transforms into a wolf... except wolves only have one row of teeth and no eyes scattered around their body.

I love these videos you make. They give me so many ideas that I might never use but they help me fantasize.

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU BEAUTIFUL CROW! I love your ideas and I missed ya! This will be great no doubt! Edit: Well! I quite enjoyed it! A nice toe dip without giving away too much! Thank you!

I've wanted some weird magic stuff that makes the arcane seem dangerous and weird.

A superbly helpful and inspiring video! I can't wait to use these ideas in my own game. Thanks for sharing these cool thoughts!

I love videos like this, adding things for people to mull over and think about. The perfect sort of ideas to set someone off on building settings or little story ideas with.

Yayyyyy!!!

In my current (and likely future) campaign(s) when a player uses Counter-spell, Dispel Magic, or Anti-Magic Shell I have a random Wild-Magic like effect occur varying in severity based on the level of the Spell negated. This is to show that magic isn't simply destroyed in the setting but rather can only be counteracted by destabilizing it's structure or scattering it. The fact that magic is only dispersed and reabsorbed, not spent and created is actually important to the plot and I use this mechanic to display that to the players. I just wanted to share, and this video reminded me of it.

I love homebrew that's connected intrinsically with the worldbuilding like this. The way its structured, magical radiation kinda has to have some mystical or even mysterious source that could itself act as a catalyst for, maybe, an ancient advanced civilization of magically adept wizards who found ways of harnessing magic in ways that could only be dreamed of by the players.

This actually sums up my current Pathfinder character pretty perfectly. The party basically found her frozen in cryo in this thousands-year-old lab underground with absolutely no memory, and they have a unique thing where every time they take any physical trauma their skin immediately hardens into a texture almost like thick tree bark. They have a hell of a lot of HP as well as damage resistance, and they can do a ton of damage unarmed just from the ability to hit someone as hard as they can and not feel it. But it does have a strain on them, and after exerting themselves for too long they start taking a lot of damage from it. And it's a cellular mutation that's throughout their entire body, and so if they start getting too stressed it starts to trigger in their head and basically causes them to drop to their knees clutching their head for multiple rounds. And both of these effects can (and often do) happen at the same time as each other. And playing this character has been one of the most roleplaying experiences I've ever had, although that's also largely because of the characters around them and the character development they've gone through.

Alien hand syndrome as a mutation would be hilarious for a troll who thinks his arm is sentient and attacks him so keep's chopping it off only for it to regenerate a couple of days later more blood thirsty.

You know what? This is my favourite video of yours. I really want to add this to my game.

DMPC: *casts level 10 spell but it backfires* Player party nearby: "it's not 3 roentgen its 15000"

I love it. Thank you so much bird man from the past

I have a kiiinda variation of this. in my D&D the creation of Dragonborn ties into the environmental effects of Dragon lairs. spontaneous birthings of kobolds, Wyverns start to migrate in. And the arrival of regional dragonborn, which depending on if the dragon is chromatic or metallic will (if it's the former) be painfully transformed from a human, or (if it's the latter) just be born as a standard human baby with metallic skin that when they hit puberty take on the usual archetypical dragon features. still sorta hammering out how other things work in my setting.

Brilliant video as always!

im planing a campain in 6 or 7 months from now and im gonna dm my first game, ive been a fan of dnd and ive picked up a few tips here and there but i must say youve been my bigest inspiration. These little things here and there that are open ended allowing my own creativity to show is truely amazeing. thanks for the amazeing content and keep doin what you love

🤔 very nice, very nice indeed. On my homebrew setting my player are exploring the ruins of a ancient high magical empire. And this ideia fits like a glove! Thanks!

Another great idea I’ll be using in my campaigns thanks

This sort of system is just perfect for demonic/eldritch corruption. I can already imagine things like demonic mutations that grant fire magic, but it is a demonic fire that is very hard to control and can easily get out of hand, causing harm to friend, foe, or even the bearer of the mutation. Another, much more serious mutation could be exposure to aberrant blood that allows gruesome shapeshifting by tapping into eldritch flesh magic... at the cost of random growths that attack anything nearby and perhaps even a gradual transformation into a formless flesh monster the more the power is used. These videos are so Inspiring!

I really like this concept!

I love this channel, thank you so much for the inspiration!

@agsilverradio2225

4 жыл бұрын

Would radiation dammage be like radiant dammage?

@thegaynerdyidiot9709

4 жыл бұрын

@@agsilverradio2225 probably

this is PERFECT, I'm writing a story that has magic that acts exactly like this, mutating anything that has too much exposure to it, thank you so much for your advice, always love watching your vids

This actually helped me expand an idea I had for my D&D inspired book series.

I like the idea that unused magic items produce this magical radiation, and so dragons have become immune to it since their hoards tend to put off loads of the stuff. This also makes trying to steal their hoards much, much more complicated.

Hey, I want to say thanks. This gives me a lot more to play around with and implement into game I'm planning.

This sounds really cool!

Awesome ideas man. i am starting an Eberon game soon, and you gave me some fun little things i might want to explore during it.

You might have some of the most creative, interesting fantasy concepts that I’ve ever seen.

Got lots of ideas with this alone for a handful of adventures and world rewrites thanks for the

For this idea, you might also want to raid some other systems for ideas. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Dark Heresy have a similar mechanic built in and in the former case several tables of random mutations to roll that range from bird feet to turning into an inside out pseudodaemon.

So the Mourning from Eberron? Y'know the Magic Nuke

@meowdynyall9284

4 жыл бұрын

ivern Bramblefoot That’s definitely a good application for these mechanics.

Always adore these videos with wonderful artwork but I love how you have taken a bit of the warhammer fantasy warp stone magic that the skaven use and I was working out how to use it effectively and thank you I’ll be using this next session

This is so cool!!! I'm definitely adding this to my campaign!

Your homebrew content is great, I especially enjoy the crafting videos.

Considering i've been slowly building up a "madmax" style D&D setting, this is beyond helpful!

I think this is some amazing homebrew with boundless potential. Some examples I thought of would be a new Race or Subrace for an existing Race that came about due to living near magical radiation and becoming resistant to it (like Purple Dragonborn in this video), magic items used to weaponize or protect against Magical Radiation, a campaign or quest villain experimenting with magical radiation, players incorporating mutation into the character before or during the campaign, potential creatures who feed off the radiation, are weak to it, or perhaps even spawned from it. Maybe even subclass options that incorporate it or new spells that use it. The Potential New Damage Type is frankly just the tip of the iceberg and this iceberg has some real gold in it.

I just found these and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM! I hope its not too much of a bother if I use them as inspiration for the TTRPG I’ve been designing. Its a bit of a mix between 5e and FATE and mostly me trying to fix the systems I don’t like from the original game. Your ideas fit perfectly into some of the goals I’m trying to achieve :)

This is so cool! I totally wanna use this for my game!

This is actually a really useful mechanic if you want to give PCs Acute Radiation Sickness.

Dood I've been using this concept forever but not this well. I love this

Oo, nice new vid! Drop everything!

I love the SCP-106 inspired goblin at 1:20

Oh hell ye, a new Kanekuo homebrew vid

Yooooo, this is awesome!

Man this video, I love your homebrew ideas and how they work so well with stuff that I already came up with. I like to do homebrew stuff a lot and at one point came up with my own homebrew race called Canids. A canine themed race that split off into three sub races Bura, Mara, and Corga. The reason I bring this up is because your thing on magical mutations works well with the sub race Canid Corga. The Canid Corga are a humanoid Fennec fox / Aard Wolf race. Small like dwarfs, but more brain than brawn. The sub race preferred magic for hunting than any other tool. Because of their obsession with magic they accidentally domed themselves to a horrible fate. A Corga has a life span of 250 years, but that life span is very unnatural. They self experimented with magic to improve themselves in the arcane and achieved the higher intelligence, resistance to magic, and longer life span they wanted. These benefits are great until a Corga gets past 120 years of age. After that 120 years the magic the Corga’s have in them begin to overwhelm them due to the unnatural nature of the magic. Many Corga with enough willpower can hold off the effects of their magic, but Over time their magic will cause madness, lose of muscle mass, and magical surges that they can’t control. These symptoms ultimately lead to lichdom, if the Corga hadn’t already incinerate themselves via magical surges. Those who maintain control over their magic will inevitably turn into a Lich. Because of this, many Corga will voluntarily go on suicidal hunts so that they at least die with honor and not turn into a lich. Sorry for the rambling, I just love the homebrewing of D&D content and just thought of sharing a little of mine.

Happy for this, if only because my DM promised us early in our current campaign that if we were exposed to "radioactive goblin guts" we'd get super powers. Hell yeah.

Thank you for this idea. I am making my own homebrewed world and it has an ore that has magical properties. Now i will make so they emit magical radiation too.

I have two kobold characters that got crossed with a leopard gecko and a crested gecko that one of them was keeping as pets / experiment subjects. Pan was studying transmutation magic, with leaf helping her by gathering what she needed, and keeping an eye out for anything wrong. Two of Pan’s geckos got out of their cages and fell into a pot she had brewing. Pan and leaf both tried to catch the geckos before they fell in and were close enough when the thing exploded to get swapped with the geckos. Now the geckos looked like mini drakes with a lower stance, and the two kobolds had traits from the geckos. Pan was yellow and tan with spotting and a fat tail and softer scales. Her horns were also smaller. Leaf had a more orangey-red look with a mosaicked pattern across his boy and growths along his head, back, arms, and tail that made him look like a crested gecko.

I like this concept of magic a lot. It’s like a milder form of Warpstone from warhammer fantasy. For those who don’t know what warp stone is, it’s a solid form of magic in Warhammer fantasy. Warpstone essentially does everything that magic substance does that was said in the video, except the negatives are a lot worse.

With a little tweaking, this could make for a neat feature for sorcerers I like the idea for each spellcasting class having a drawback related to the basic idea for the class. "You only get 1 spell and 1 cantrip each level" is... not that, but - spitballing here - a mutation feature (maybe with a different trigger for each subclass, like wild magic surges for sorcerers) where you have to make a charisma save against a DC of 10+your sorcerer level or get a "mutation point", and once you have as many mutation points as sorcery points you get mutated... now that's interesting

Honestly, this is pretty cool! I'll be running an Ebberon style campaign soon and this is something i'm suprised i haven't thought up myslef. Also, this could even work for my Non, D&D world, with that being high magic as well.

What should magic radiation units be called? “3.6 ______, not great, not terrible.” I’m planning a proto-steampunk fantasy campaign set in 1850s Prussia and this is perfect. Totally gonna have a magic Geiger counter. Also, I love the name Mageburn. I was trying to come up with a name for Magic Radiation that sounded better but couldn’t come up with anything.

This is helpful, working on my own magic rad

This video has inspired a goddess of untamed magic in my campaign setting based on Marie Curie. Called Madame Curvosie. Her priests purposely expose themselves to the radiation and she blesses them with beneficial mutations, and curses those who defile her shrines with horrific variations

God I miss these videos

Oh, I like these ideas. And just in time for planning of my group's next adventure too...

Using something *similarish* in one of my old campaigns, I had a player slowly transform into a fiendish creature. It started with a simple color change when they cast burning hands, where the fire turned icy blue. Her skin became pale and ashy over time before also freezing over with a blueish frost, and slender horns began poking out of her scalp over time. Eventually she was killed by another player, but was resurrected as a true fiend. By the end of the transformation, a dubious god found favor with her and gave her name "Ashcloak", giving her a magical mantle crafted from her own ash.

@microhomebrew

4 жыл бұрын

All of this because she found an obviously evil talisman made of fleshy pink stone sitting in the stomach of a hell hound she killed, and she decided to make a necklace out of it!

This concept is RAD!

Back at it again I see

Ah yes, the blessings of the Chaos Gods.

My homebrew world is in what is called the Fifth Age. Thousands of years ago, the Second Age ended with a magical apocalypse that wiped out the main civilisations of the time. I could have certain isolated places where this magical radiation/magical mutation feature comes into play as a result

I'm going to use this ideas for my campaign

My current villain is a combination of mr Hyde, Dr. Frankenstein, and Tesla who made a magic serum called mutiphage which mutates its host depending on what magic they are best at, your bloodline, curses, etc. for example a character who was born with magic sight might grow a giant crystal eye in the center of your face, with many other crystal eyes all over, similar to the monster called the Nothic. Any host who is possessed or infested with other monsters will fuse with the monsters living in the host as well. This is the basics of some things in our dark fantasy d&d campaign.

If you're looking for ideas for mutations look up the chaos mutations from warhammer fantasy roleplay with examples of your skull being permanently on fire,bleeding wasps instead of blood,growing a sentient tumor or turning into mass of flesh and limbs and regressing to feral state attacking whatever is nearby.

Personally, I'm not so keen on having Magic work according to the logic of Real Life. So I don't think I'll be using anything as "Scientific" as radiation. It's fantasy, so it doesn't need to operate on anything resembling our modern understanding of how the world works. Rather, my favored way to handle Magic is through Symbolism and Emotion. What matters most is how the Magic is meant to FEEL. In this case, how the Intent behind enchantment and the like has a habit of lingering beyond the effect that generated it. Actions - whether magical or mundane - leave a resonance behind, a lingering impression of the activity and the intent that motivated it. For instance, a knife that was used to perpetrate 99 murders might become cursed. This wouldn't apply to any average Rogue's daggers, unless they're an Assassin who regularly plies their trade, killing in cold blood. A weapon used for defense or war has a far different resonance than one that is used with the sole intent of ending life for its own sake. Whether cold malice or fiery anger, the emotions that motivate the killings cause the knife to become spiritually warped, taking on that bloodlust unto itself. The exact effects can vary, from causing the blade to always drip blood to possessing a wielder with a killing urge. I imagine that spellcasters typically become colored by their Magic. No matter how well heeled, Magic is a wild force at heart, and is fueled by the desires of the ones who wield it. Not unlike a fire is fueled by the materials it consumes, though ideally less _final_ in standard practice. As the spellcaster becomes stronger, their form and/or behavior changes to reflect the Magic they conjure; their intent guides it and is guided BY it. The Paladin's form becomes more majestic, the Necromancer's skin becomes pale and their eyes sunken. The Druid's sweat becomes tinged by the scent of tree sap, and the Alchemist's eyes or hair become tinged by the silver or gold they seek to transmute their spirit into. The changes are always subtle, at first, growing more pronounced as mastery deepens. The difference between a Paladin and the Celestial - or a Necromancer and an Undead - should be one of degrees, not type, when they've reached 20th level. Then, of course, there's lingering magical effects born of Dying Will. Particularly potent spellcasters might, in their dying breath, create an effect far beyond what is possible normally. It is driven by a singular NEED, and thus carries the weight of that need even beyond death. A good example in literature is Mercedes Lackey's character, Vanyel the Herald-Mage. In _Magic's Price,_ his final act of magic was to animate a forest to hold off an army set on invading his homeland. Even centuries after the fact, the forest still defends the lands.

@meowdynyall9284

4 жыл бұрын

Bluecho4 This comment deserves more likes.

@the24thcolossusjustchillin39

3 жыл бұрын

Bluecho4 I’ve come up with a similar thing for a story I’m working just with iconography instead.

@mikechurvis9995

Жыл бұрын

Replying to this so I can find it again later

This help a lot thanks 😊

Makes me think of the one Minecraft mod Thaumcraft and the flux system. You have to make sure you clean it up, or ensure you produce as little as possible or else it'll spread and cause magic corruption. Clever ideas, especially the ways the magic radiation could've started!

Radiation can also be used as a plot point where your party has to clean up another, more murderhobo-ish party's mess, like a dragon's core keeping on the effects of their lair, but with chaotic side effects beacuse, well, corpse. An undisposed corpse.

This is perfect for a campaign I am making.

I definitely want to add some of this in my current game. I already have a bizarre curse floating around that seems to brainwash and mutate people, and this gives me some good ideas for mechanical backing. I’m totally using that rad meter for starters.

Really dig ur artstyle

This. Is SO. FRIGIN COOL!!!

Imagine Coughing up slime, then a while later being able to launch a gelatinous cube from your mouth

I'm kinda inspired to add this with an Eberron campaign setting for a very modern twist on nuclear fission and similar stuff... the Nuclear Bomb was actually the result of an arcane disaster and the now ruined crater that was once the former capital is a mutated wasteland.

I'mma just borrow this for a game setting I've been working on for a little while, I think it'll fit in just right.