Hey, I know a monkey paw when I see one.
Can’t fool me, not touching that shit with my 11’ pole.
That’s the one you attach a polished silver-backed glass disc to the end of, right? (Not that silverback, unless you like shrapnel.)
Even if the DM hasn’t cursed such a thing, the dice will provide
This is when you pull out The Notebook. A real world artifact created one summer evening, by bored teenagers where if ever given a wish in game, following the rules as written considered and devised a strategy to avoid any ill effects from a DM doing a monkey’s paw. And wrote it down into several pages in a spiral notebook.
What quest unlocks that recipe?
I gave my players a magical sword that got a +1 to damage every time it killed someone. (It was basically the plot MacGuffin for the campaign.)
They were so wary of this thing that they never even used it once.
It didn’t whisper that it loved the time off to finally be free to focus on planning its revenge, and thanking the bearer for granting it this contemplative peace…
Watch them go full murder-hobo in record time! “Saving” the world through senseless, wanton, indiscriminate murder. Oh, wait. Gaming’s for escaping real life, sorry. 😅😶
