#MAGIC CARPET 5E ZIP#

Well, the same spell in 2nd Edition has this little bit of text as part of it: If they chose to not take that risk it would mean that they’d have to think of a way to get across (and they certainly would do) but my big bad would have a few rounds to Curse, Dominate, and blast like his evil heart was born-into-darkness to do!Įxcepting… Excepting Dispel Magic just doesn’t work that way in 5th. Gravity would get its claws into them and they’d tumble into the 10d10 Fire damage per round hell-hole they thought they were so cleverly avoiding. So… I thought to myself, what’s a DM supposed to do? Well, Dispel Magic is 3rd level and that means this particular caster could use it at will… Let them get part way over and ker-blammo! Dispel Magic on the Carpet of Flying, rip it from the weave and all of a sudden they’re on a lovely bit of cloth, with a fantastic pattern but no actual aeronautical ability. The Ranger would stay at the back, shouting every one attack, welcome to a blaze of arrows blitz! It also served to trivialise the terrain features I was putting in to give my big bad a few rounds before the Alpha Lizard (a 10th-level Dragonborn fighter, determined to reach the apex of every predator-tree he could possibly find!) hewed him into bits, the Paladin high-level Smote his undead ass and the two swashbucklers sneak attacked him into further oblivion.

#MAGIC CARPET 5E ZIP#

Originally conceived to get rid of some of the overland travel we’d enjoyed in the exploration part of the game that didn’t suit the latter phases, the carpet just let them zip around to wherever the fun was to be had. However (ahh come on, you knew it was going to be “but” or “however” after an intro like that!), I was possibly going to be hanged by my own pitard as the characters had been rewarded with a Carpet of Flying earlier in the campaign. When the characters are threatened the players’ hearts thump and their palms sweat! They talk about the encounters for months and years and there’s nothing so sweet as that to a DM’s ears.Ī large pool of lava for the burning of Player Characters.

Now I am definitely no killer GM, but I do want to be getting PCs’ health down, their resources depleted and possibly some death saves rolled in an end-of-campaign showdown… I want the players to feel genuinely threatened and I am very fortunate that my players are heavily invested in their characters. Unfortunately those monsters had gone down in a handful of rounds and whilst the moments had been tense, it wasn’t as satisfying as I wanted it to be. The party had shown, time and again, that they could hack-and-slash quite effectively through enemies I thought would’ve held them up for a little while longer. It’s what keeps this particular individual centred on the path of world domination. And by “me time” I mean buffing himself and attacking the party. Betwixt them and him is a substantial lava pool partly for theme reasons, partly to give the party a challenge but mostly so I could ensure that the Big Bad had a bit of setup and uninterrupted me time.

The Big Bad is a very powerful evil dude, with lifetimes of experience dealing with the pitiful mortals that had the misfortune to cross his path.Īs a powerful spellcaster, he would be positioned at one end of a room the heroes would stumble down the stairs opposite and encounter some of the undead minions which they would heroically sweep aside.

So I was sat preparing for the final battle of the D&D 5e campaign I’ve been running.

Magic carpet 5e