One of the things in my campaign was supposed to be a “holy” object and the more I thought about it, the urge to make it a bit silly grew. This will not be appropriate for all DW campaigns but my players found it lots of fun.
Duck of Judgment
“A solid Silver “duck”, about 50 cm high and with smudge and dirt all over. There appears to be something written below the dirt on its chest though.”
Roll+Wis when rubbing the chest. 12+ You are found worthy, so no effect. 10+ you’re a duck but can speak like normal. 7-9 You’re a duck, retain the mind of your own but can’t speak. Better hope someone in the party know animal talk! 6- Quack! Your’re a duck in all the ways possible.
The victim is a duck for 1d4/1d4 hours. So all from ~15 minutes to 4 hours.
(Edit: fixed the duration.)
i… i don’t know how to feel about this… my characters are currently looting a Temple for a Blood God, and they just looted some kind of Holy Artifact… is this destiny?
Mark Weis The Warlock/Mage in my campaign rolled a 5. He was a duck for 45 minutes in game, and an hour in real time I think. The druid put a small top hat on his head.
(There was also a sprout lore roll about how this artefact had been used. It turned pretty gruesome as counter-balance. )
Hilarious. I like semi-silly items in games. One of my favorites is the Porcelain Pig of Prosperity. Gimme gimme pork pork now now now!
That’s pretty funny. I can see it fitting in certain groups really well.
The duration is weird though. 1d4-1d4 means if I roll a 4 and a 1 I’m a duck for negative 3 hours? Or is that 1 to 4 hours (ie: variable length)?
Colin Kierans If it goes under one hour, you start to remove 15 minute segments but I see now that might result in zero which was not what I intended. At least that was the initial thought. The maths is probably way off since I’m terrible at it.
The duration was the result of me having 2d4 on the table. Feel free to figure out a better way! (Please!)
Could just make it 1d4 / 1d4 hours. That would range from (1/4) of an hour to (4/1) hours, with a mean of 2.5 hours.