It’s on the Warlock spell list

I managed to work up an immunity to Poison, so our DM had a drow princess get one last action when she got to 0 hp to attack me with her only attack spell as I had severely pissed her off, and it was cast at 5th level

But her only attack spell was Ray of Sickness

So this could theoretically be a Tome Warlock’s path to immortality?

Yeah seems to be by Robin D Laws in Dragon Magazine 298

Ed can be praised and blamed for a lot of things, but I don’t think this specific bit is him

Looking it up, this is from Dragon Magazine 298 in an article by Robin D. Laws

So the door itself had a sorta embossing design of an incomplete web. You would have to complete the webbing but there is a trap part that, if connected, triggers active, offensive traps. With a good investigation roll, my arcana and a Web spell from the rogue’s cloak, we did the puzzle and the door opened itself

It was sealed with magic (I had detect magic going) and no handles, locks or visible seals

We don’t exactly have a lot of time for that though because a war is on

Hey, we just go through fighting an aspect of the Spider Queen (The local Lolth expy), in which I had my max HP cut in half and was the only one downed because of it. Was kinda fizzled at that point

So it’s funny you bring it up.

This daughter is the second born, and we’re allied with the fifth. The upper district is actually shielded by a massive barrier and is in the ceiling of the massive cavern the city resides in (Fifth daughter resides in The Nest, essentially a massive spider ranch in the lower areas of the cavern). The only reason we were able to get in was because the ring I’m wearing (Which, again, contains the soul of the now dead matron) allows use of the house’s emergency Teleportation Circle. There was, in fact, an emergency system that was supposed to notify guards that said emergency circle was used, but we got it disabled.

In the case of this lady fighting us, she didn’t actually know we were here, just that there was some hubub with her Draegoth half-siblings (Those half-demon Drow things). By all rights, she had no reason to believe anything aside from those things maybe disciplining servants. Because of the hallway construction where we were fighting, she didn’t see how bad things were until it was kinda too late

Throws. Her spell list seemed to be largely summoning, support and Insect Plague as an AoE, but the Plague hadn’t been doing much to me by luck, so she only had Ray of Sickness as a direct damage spell. And because of my little spider construct, I am immune completely to poison

The fact it’s phrased as “Finally found” implies that not only had they not known where it was, they may not have been sure it existed but were determined to find it for some reason

I honestly didn’t even stop to think it was magic. My Autumn side just made a donation of 2 plat to the church (Of the Gnomish kindly trickster god, who teaches and takes. Temple was more like a comfy little home with a fireplace), made a prayer and the old lady minding the place from her rocking chair gave me a flute

So…Just have curses be permanent? Why?

It’s a thing about Law, specifically the realm of Law, Mechanus, who’s power I would guess they carry with them.

One of the (I think optional in 5e) realm rules for Mechanus is you do not make attack rolls. Instead, you treat any roll as a 10 and add your stat and proficiency as the realm removes the idea of random chance and focuses on clockwork regularity. Even damage die default to their average, which makes combat a lot more straight forward but also means you can come up on something you literally cannot hurt.

There’s a handy common level magic item in Xanathar’s Guide, called the Clockwork Amulet, which let’s you skip an attack roll and just take it as a ten, and do so once per day (No attunement, resets at sunrise). It’s a good thing in certain situations

He rose to godhood a century ago using six magical crystal gems, and in doing so both felled an Orc god and an evil Orc champion, the foul Ho’Gann

I remember a point where Magneto trapped Red Skull in a metal bunker underground with just bare minimum supplies then sealed the place

It wasn’t a dungeon, it was a harbor city we were literally just using as a point to teleport to in order to cut a week+ off our travel time. And it’s kind of thrown some wrenches into our long term issues.

As it stands it lead to a Navy Captain and her plattoon coming to see us while we were getting horses near the city gates.

That lead to him revealing to her, in a private talk, that his church has some demonic infiltrators of some sort, which will cause issues with the shade we’ve been having them throw on the Human Queen as she is controlled by the Yellow Diamond (Yes, that one), but as he did not mention that latter bit to the captain for some reason, she just has partial information, meaning she can give this to the queen as cassus belli to have her millitia march on the neutral City of Temples without knowledge that her own monarch is compromised.

If he had just not suddenly added Sir to his name, or doubled down, the worst we’d have is maybe some monster hunters coming for me thinking I’m a hag, which isn’t that bad honestly, but our current plan is less than a week from our big plan to stage an assault on a Drow capital to free them from the demon worshiping leadership, we just got this information that there may be some level of issue among the Paladin’s church, and now we have another timer until the Captain decides to pass this information along and we have the Human Empire marching on the City of Temples.

And the Paladin probably would have been fine if he’d doubled down and stuck with the “Sir”, but backing down to erase it when questioned is going to raise suspicion and make it more obvious he’s lying. With the guard getting a lucky 17 on insight roll from that, it just went downhill

From our campaign sheet, the Church of Macho Madness is Chaotic Good, Light Domain