Turning into a fiend as a dark gift/failed powers check.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:37 am
So, my lovely party.
They have defended themselves against a number of enslaved-to-vampires-humans, kept them as prisoners for a few days, and when they saw that their systems have started to fail from the lack of vampiric blood, and desperate to get some info on their leader, they devised a plot: they took a chicken, bled it dry, saved its blood in a flask and pretended that it was their blood, so they fed the prisoners in order to get some information out of them. After it worked, they decided to take them out of their misery and mercy-killed them.
So, I decided to just plainly fail their Powers Checks and instead, slowly, interim them into the first stage of fiendhood. I have three (of the four) who participated in the deed: a cleric of Kelemvor, a paladin of Tempus and a gnomish mage/thief. I was thinking of giving them alignment appropriate powers/curses, derived from the fiends' alignments: Baatezu are Lawful (paladin), Ta'anari are chaotic (mage/thief) and Yugoloth are neutral (priest). Also, I have decided not to strip the paladin of his paladinhood, and just keep feeding him spells/powers/boons from the Dark Powers, and slowly turn him into a Demon-Knight.
What are your thoughts on this? Have you ever tried something similar?
They have defended themselves against a number of enslaved-to-vampires-humans, kept them as prisoners for a few days, and when they saw that their systems have started to fail from the lack of vampiric blood, and desperate to get some info on their leader, they devised a plot: they took a chicken, bled it dry, saved its blood in a flask and pretended that it was their blood, so they fed the prisoners in order to get some information out of them. After it worked, they decided to take them out of their misery and mercy-killed them.
So, I decided to just plainly fail their Powers Checks and instead, slowly, interim them into the first stage of fiendhood. I have three (of the four) who participated in the deed: a cleric of Kelemvor, a paladin of Tempus and a gnomish mage/thief. I was thinking of giving them alignment appropriate powers/curses, derived from the fiends' alignments: Baatezu are Lawful (paladin), Ta'anari are chaotic (mage/thief) and Yugoloth are neutral (priest). Also, I have decided not to strip the paladin of his paladinhood, and just keep feeding him spells/powers/boons from the Dark Powers, and slowly turn him into a Demon-Knight.
What are your thoughts on this? Have you ever tried something similar?