Be proud. You were a fine warrior. Your only mistake was your choice of master. Let the winds lift you, to a higher place.

Well when you arn’t sure if the encounter is balanced from the beginning and the dragons breath would tpk in one hit its kinda better to turn the cone into a line and half the damage so you only have one player down.

Ok so the cult is going to kill them right? Cults kill stuff by sacrificing it to whatever they worship.

Lets also say they do it on the night of a full moon or something so everyone including the villagers knows when it happens.

Let the one dude rally the mob while you have the captured characters make some skill checks to free/arm themselves before the big sacrifice.

Guy with the mob arrives just in time because every villager told him when to show up. Mob busts in Players bust out.

Boom boss fight. You could even make a big bad out of a half summoned evil cult deity. Say the portal didn’t open big enough and only shadowy hands are coming through. These could grapple players and drag them toward the summon portal. Small damage if they actually hit the portal and plenty of chances to get away but it creates tension while they try to kill the summoner. Plus you don’t need equipment for the athletics checks.

The ability to shape steel. Sounds basic but blacksmiths make the tools for everything else.

My DM stopped doing this because we kept trying blood sacrifice and necromancy

here’s the original story, sorry if there are ads my kung fu is too strong https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-sun.com/news/11032258/cruel-hunter-parades-tortured-wolf-animal/amp/

Yeah but I wasn’t for a long time. There was a spiderman cartoon where mary jane was targeted for murder because her name was in a database of organ donors and the villain needed her organs for his wife or something. scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and I had a knee jerk reaction when filling out the form I never really thought about. someone had to directly ask me before I realized I had based this decision on a cartoon I saw when I was 5.

*some humans with a skin condition

“These lines are only visible in those with a mosaic[1][2][3] skin condition or in chimeras where different cell lines contain different genes.” So yeah click bait article

shut up tommy nothing that cool is happening. Less people give a fuck about your dumb desert wizard because you are using him as an excuse to hurt people

detect magic, locate object: egg (2nd use type). Or fill the quarry with water and scoop up the floating rock

Tuning a musical instrument by ear. I have tried to “train” my ear and all that but no dice. I can play well enough but if stuff goes out of tune I have no idea until I check it or someone tells me

If baldur’s gate has taught me anything this means it’s time to start pushing dudes off cliffs

I buy stuff to support authors/artists that I like, and my dollar goes further if I keep as much money as possible out of corporate hands. Oh and if any scum bag puts ads in something I already paid them for I am pirating and seeding the torrents.