So, the cleric was in a sort of magical items and ingredients store and he said: “well while I’m here I use my remaining questions from discern realities to search for something useful for the wizard”
I turned myself to the wizard and said to him: “well, in what are you interested?”
The wizard replied: “why, ultimate knowledge of course! I guess the cleric finds some mystical tome or something…?”
Me: “gee I’m tired of tomes and books and whatnot. You, cleric, find a bottle full of big, pink pills which quadratically augment the user’s mental faculties, like they expand their mind to impossible, almost painful levels of intellect.”
BIG PINK PILLS
When you eat a BPP, in the near future you can either trigger a spout lore roll about something you couldn’t possibly know or you can decide to add +int instead of +wis on a discern realities roll and then ask whatever question you like (you still can ask 1 or 3 questions depending on the result). If you miss one of those rolls, it’s considered a 10+ result for the effect of the move, but the GM can go crazy about the side effects of the pills. You can eat more pills at once, proportionally increasing the number of moves you can exploit in this way.
That sounds awesome!
This is great. I love trading fictional damage for mechanical benefit.
PINKY AND THE BRAIN theme song
maybe roll a die each time and when you roll a 1 they are used up?
Thanks guys!
Tim Franzke I don’t know, I sorta don’t like finite charges magic items. In my mind, having a large bowl of them just means you can use them whenever you want. I mean, 10 exploited spout lores are worth the missed 11th one from a gm’s perspective, so why give them a finite number in the first place? If needed, I can hard-move them when they miss an appropriate roll to take them away from the player.
oh yeah, I like that! Do you want to play the bad guy in my next session?
edit: oh wait, you were trying to expose some flaws in the never ending bowl of pills to be exploited? Well, come on, you know how DW works. If you feed too much pills on a npc (that is, a golden opportunity), you can bet my next move would be:
The chemical reaction with this particular recipient is a very singular one: you can see his cranium growing as his brain monstrously expands, while the body gets twisted and hot pink. Small objects around you start to float in midair while he raises his giant head to gaze you in the eyes with empty orbits; you can listen to him speaking in your mind, but his fanged mouth is not moving: <>
Mathew Mailer you just created my next danger — a new thieves’ guild whose leader rose to power by kidnapping people and force feeding them the BPPs. Thanks!