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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello there fellow ex-DM academy scholars, Just left Reddit for good, so I'm here with a question that wasn't answered in under spez's shadow, so I might try it here if I can.

I would like to know if you know of magical items or spells for 5th or similar that would attract ghosts and other spirits : ghosts, banshees, souls, etc.

I would like to take example from an existing item for what I am preparing in a currently used dungeon that I made.

Thank you in advance, and fuck spez

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Second one. Its part of a dungeon that is more or less a flytrap of souls for a Liche to feed its phylactery. One of the room will include unfighting ghosts attracted to an orb that acts as a light to moths for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For artefacts that have little no to no PC use in combat I worry very little about balance or mechanics. Just let it do what I want it to do. Kind of a non-answer I know.

I would actually look more to lair effects and weird things from dungeon rooms for inspiration in this case. Don't have any on hand but it could be another avenue of research.

I am going to steal your idea though and put it in the big ol' good-ideas-that-i'll-forget-about folder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Heh, good enough :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me, this sounds like a custom 'minor detrimental property', as seen in the DMG's guidance on creating artifact level magic items, page 220.

You don't really need specificity for this, if you look at the regional effects of a vampire for example, it reads "There is a notable increase in the population of bats, rats and wolves in the region". And that's enough of a prompt to cement that usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you !