Water, dexterity and silliness
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kengrAny fan of the BC comic strip is familiar with Clumsy Carp and his incongruous ability to make water balls.
In a fit of silliness, I once added them to my D&D game. the PCs, came across a room with a stack of spherical objects with a light coating of dust.
They seemed to be semi transparent. And of course, when one them them tied to pick one up, it opped and they wound up with droplets of water on their hand and tracks in the dust on the rest of the stack. plus a small puddle on the floor.
Took them a few to figure out what happened. :-)
No real point to it, just a bit of whimsy to make them wonder.
In a fit of silliness, I once added them to my D&D game. the PCs, came across a room with a stack of spherical objects with a light coating of dust.
They seemed to be semi transparent. And of course, when one them them tied to pick one up, it opped and they wound up with droplets of water on their hand and tracks in the dust on the rest of the stack. plus a small puddle on the floor.
Took them a few to figure out what happened. :-)
No real point to it, just a bit of whimsy to make them wonder.
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Date: 2021-06-30 11:35 am (UTC)Huh, guess you're not the only DM who's thought of that, because as a PC I've encountered those in a homebrew game.
They make handy ammo against fire elementals if you can avoid popping them. Or freeze them enough to give them an ice shell, and anyone can handle them.
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Date: 2021-06-30 12:20 pm (UTC)All the properties of vacuum, except it's a solid.
The players encountered a wall of it across a room. They tried to chip off pieces. didn't seem to work (the chips fell up, not down :-)
Took them a while to discover that while it went all the way to the ceiling, it *didn't* go all the way to the floor.
among other properties I decided it had: Stopped fireballs. did *not* stop lightning. Did stop sound attacks (though they could go around it if there was a gap)