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This is based on a creature from Aztec mythology that was said to lure people to their deaths. Essentially a water opossum with a human-like hand at the tip of its tail, it was the guardian of lakes and fish. Sometimes the ahuizotl would be sent on behalf of the gods to collect the souls of mortals destined for paradise. (Source: Wikipedia)
When the party emerged from a portal from their homeworld of Toril into the new setting of Theia, they fell into a nest of these terrifying dudes at the top of the ruins of a wizard’s tower. Sure, it may have been a bit cruel to unleash 10-legged giant spiders on a party that had just taken on the BBEG of “Lost Mine of Phandelver” but I have no regrets. It was a hard-fought battle but they won in the end. Welcome to Theia, y’all!
During a “Lost Mine of Phandelver” run with Daggerheart, I dropped this item in the Neverwinter Woods for my players to find and they had some fun with it several sessions later when fighting the BBEG’s minions. I’ve made a few adjustments since that initial version just for clarity.
Getting ready to run an Offworlders TTRPG campaign for my kids set in the Star Wars universe, I needed to make some changes. One of the first, obviously, is a class for Jedi/Sith-type characters. Thankfully, the built-in Psychic class is pretty close to a decent Force user so I simply modified it like below…
When a player rolls a critical hit (Natural 20) on an attack roll, they do the maximum normal damage plus the damage die roll.