I have a druid in my game with the “Elemental Mastery” move but I’m starting to draw blanks on what to demand when he chooses not to “avoid paying nature’s price.” Any suggestions?
I have a druid in my game with the “Elemental Mastery” move but I’m starting to draw blanks on what to demand when…
I have a druid in my game with the “Elemental Mastery” move but I’m starting to draw blanks on what to demand when…
Damage. Change of Alignment. Quests. Transformation of him into an elemental creature…
His skin turns brown as dead leaves, his hair as white as winter snow.
Well, In my game with Bastien Wauthoz, who plays Sinathel the elven druid, Sinathel used it to turn a rock into a flying lumb of lava, flinging it towards a cultist. He rolled a weak hit, and chose “the effect desired come to pass”.
Basically, I let him kill off the cultist, no damage roll, but he took d6 damage, ignoring armor, from the resulting splash (natures price), and the lava started flowing down towards the fighter, who was currently pinned underneath a dead cultist (lose control).
I probably wouldn’t have chosen damage if he didn’t lose control though. I’m not sure damage was a good response either. You’ll have to ask Bastien Wauthoz what he thought of it.
Let’s say damage was the easiest way. Not the most creative though.
But I have to admit that Eric Nieudan and I were hard on bad luck at the worst moments which stretched Kasper Brohus creativity and responsiveness a lot.
Thanks for the suggestions. Up to now I’ve been treating it pretty literally as a “price” to pay the spirits themselves. For example, when he summoned a water spirit to help the party cross a river, the spirit demanded tribute or he would sic his friend (a giant crayfish) on the party. When wind spirits were summoned to help push an airship off course, the spirits have demanded the druid sacrifice a sentient creature’s last breath to the winds (ritual TBD) before he may summon them again.
I may start having more immediate concrete consequences though, since it seems like the costs haven’t been giving the druid much pause as he never chooses it on a hit.
The interesting thing is putting your mind in the space of the elements. It’s a very different bargain than with Death, because you’re paying for it rather than making a trade, you know?