u/DarthEinstein

Ok, I need help getting out of a problem I created.

I gave my players a staff that could cast awaken, but only on plants.

I intended it to be strong, and wasn't worried about the balance, because this is a campaign set in the desert.

I completely failed connect the dots that I had the staff appear... In the middle of a giant building sized plant.

I ended up allowing them to cast awaken on the plant, and it wrecked its way out of there and is now loyal to the party (only for 30 days, sure, but the party is already making it clear their goal is to spoil and love it.)

The problem I'm having is that this is supposed to be a more sandboxy campaign, this was how their first arc concluded (so they are level 4 going on 5), and the plant is very powerful because of it's size.

I'm now worried that this is going to derail a campaign that has otherwise had some great character interactions, and I'm trying to get it back on track. Can anyone give me some advice on how to handle this?

Obviously retconning the plant is an option, but that would feel really weird and bad for the players that made such a big decision that I approved, and I'm not sure how to balance out the campaign otherwise.

As a White American, I feel like I've mostly learned about major discoveries in physics or chemistry by American or European Scientists.

For example, learning about the laws of motion from Isaac Newton, or the lightbulb being invented by Thomas Edison (or Nikola Tesla).

To what extent is my local cultural bias playing into my perception of most major discoveries being made by white scientists? Are there any notably blindspots that my education has likely given me?

To expand:

Let's say I was homeless for most of my life, never had any loans or assets, and have absolutely no living family, even second cousins or anything of that nature.

I have 100 million dollars just sitting in a checking account. What happens to that money while I'm in prison, and what happens to that money when I die?

My main gig is already taking most of my weekends, but I need something I can viably do to get some extra cash. I'm sick of the "Make you work 50 hours a week commission only" doorknocking jobs.

This post on /r/holup has a shelf in the background that resembles LSD, but it definitely has some differences. Does this shelf actually resemble any real molecules?

https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/1t65n2h/chill_disney/

I want to run a One-Shot inspired by the Pitt, with intense emergency room care in a magical modern city. My playgroup is most familiar with DnD 5e, but I can already see the problems that system would present in this type of environment. Does anyone have reccomendations for simple systems I could adapt for this one-shot instead of DnD rules?