Omni-Dimensional Combat: The Table



“Attacking the Character Sheet” is the thought behind creatures and spells which do damage to characters other than by reducing hit points or statistics like Strength or Wisdom. It includes curses that remove letters from your name, traps that blot out inventory slots. If it's written on your sheet, it's fair game. These are Seventh-dimensional attacks against the reality simulating the character.

“Attacking the Table” includes these and similar strategies.

The Contraption of Albus, Who Saw Much

Albus’ Peeping Player

Albus built a fifth-dimensional telescope the size of a mountain. With it, he claimed to see the thoughts spinning within a God's brain. He knew things to come, saw through walls, knew his enemies intimately.

If a player character were to take possession of this object, the intersection of the those five dimensions and ours would take the form of a toy periscope given to the player of that character. This would then be useable by the player to peer over the dungeon master's screen for a total of twenty seconds per gaming session.

The Song of the Freakish Friday

The sirens of the Lohan rarely sing, because the song they know is so powerful that they jealously refuse to let anyone hear it. Should any hear this song, they can recall it perfectly. They do not suffer any effects that siren song may usually hold, however, because the song's effect is present only in the seventh dimension.

The players of characters who fall prey to it (fail a DC 15 Will save) must change seats for the duration of the effect, and play the character previously played there.

If only one character falls under the effect, the game master must change seats with the player of that character. Good luck.

Probability Lava

The floor is dice-destroying lava. Any die falling on the floor no longer exists. Now the table is lava, your dice need to land on this book of they no longer exist. Now the number ‘3’ is lava: roll it and that die is history. Or dice are hitpoints: take 4 damage, lose four dice. If you do not have a die you are required to roll, you may choose another kind of die to roll in its stead. If you have no dice, your character falls into a walking catatonia until you find some. You may burn Luck to retrieve a destroyed die.

Probability lava is actually sought out by those players of characters afflicted with seventh-dimensional curses that manifest as dice.

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