Thursday, January 24, 2019

Basilisk - redoing the 5e MM


My skills in MS paint are unrivaled.

I liked the Chamber of Secrets. The basilisk was cute and had poison fangs and SOMEHOW never quite petrified people.

We ain't playing that game.

Basilisk in the Cage are born from the nightmares Giants have of the snakes that almost killed them. They are taken as pets by the Akumu (Nightmare Pirates) and crawl into dreams when they can. Their Cheshire-Cat-nature allows them to exist in either reality, the dream or the real, whenever they choose.

Their blood is not theirs. And the eyes on their flappy parts are so familiar to you that it's painful. Their hissings make nightmare voices in your ears that act as the spell Suggestion.

To kill them you have to scare them.

As the DM, you have a bit of a challenge at hand. Staring at someone until they run out of things to say. Trying to strike at foes without looking at them. Rolling the dice and picking it up carefully to read the number...

This is better.

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