Is there a list anywhere of where to get mercs of each gender? After my current mercs only + Alain + maiden going to try to do a few genderlocks, and a resource would be nice as opposed to checking every fort manually.
I will still likely recruit everyone so make a few concessions, but having a big list would make army planning a lot easier.
Figured I would jump in. Mine turned out great.
So running this in 5e for the first time, starting in death house. We have a new (and young player) who is doing lol random stuff, despite knowing the tone. I am looking for a good time for thematic consequences for some weird stuff. All this after fighting the spectre, so they all know ita a haunted house. Player is okay with all.of.this BTW.
What I had already: he broke a barrel in the bathroom, random little spider jumped at him. Now all the cobwebs are filled with spiders (to him). He saw a giant spider in the first crypt in the basement, which only he could see. Made him make a wisdom save, he failed (nat 1), and he felt things all over him and saw/felt things moving under his skin. He tried to cut it out, did a bit of damage, but was fine. Nothing came out (this time). Going to have this big spider thing be in the amber temple and offering a Dark gift.
He stabbed the doll in one of the rooms a bunch of times, because it was creepy. With his rusty tetanus 'infected' knife (backstory thing). He saw the same doll clothes on a doll in an empty bedroom jerkily walk toward him, and it looked like him in the doll clothes, and it collapsed into very tight looking muscle spasms. Everyone saw this. Had him make a con save(another 1 he is not lucky) he collapsed with a sudden onspring of hyper tight muscles for a bit, but eventually recovered, but now he has weird scars where he stabbed the doll. Going to have some things with the toy maker for this.
I am leaning jnto horror/madness a lot and trying to curb early random BS and will do stuff like this for all players; but currently he is the biggest one learning actions have consequences. Party paladin has found a couple of the postcards randomly upon waking after a rest or when looking around. Our cleric who smashed a casket and got the centipede swarm (literally in the one tomb where it was keyed) which near instantly dropped him to 0 and death saves due to critting and nearly one shotting him.
He also cut the strings on the harpsichord so nothing could play it (left the harp alone oddly). Seeing as how I have plans with dolls/puppets already so no cutting his strings or the like, what is a good inconvenience to hit him with, and when would it make sense? They are just in the start of the basement and level 2 currently.