Fantasy Heartbreak Workshop

In response to the post: Can you selectively dust of disappearance just an individual? Could you ingest it or slip it into a drink for the invisibility effect? DCs given assume D&D 5th Edition DC. - --- - If the rules don't specifically allow it, I'm guessing that by default it probably isn't intended to work if used in ways other than described. Otherwise it would probably be an ointment or potion. But if players get creative why not allow something to work with side effects and caveats? When snorting or ingesting Dust of Disappearance, roll 1d12 or choose: You snort a line of dust of disappearance. Works. Perfect! But now, each round, make a Constitution save, DC 15. On a failed roll you sneeze, coating the opponent in dust and making them invisible. Lasts the usual dust duration. You're blind! A friend reads the small print: Not meant to be taken internally. May cause retinal transparency lasting up to 16 minutes. You itch like crazy. Allergic re...

Someone on Quora had asked  How would you stat a wendigo in D&D 5e? And I kept thinking there were already stats for a Wendigo, or something like it. But digging through, the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition official sources, I couldn't readily find them. So, with minimal research and a little brainstorming, came up the ideas below. Wikipedia  says of wendigos: The wendigo is described as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. Its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed, cannibalism and the cultural taboos against such behaviors. ... Basil H. Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives a description of a wendigo: The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets,...