Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, an episode of "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" had a snakeman!

He maybe you guys could help me. I'm a DM of about a year of practicing, I have run several short 5e campaigns with several groups and for the most part I absolutely love running games, crafting worlds and adventures for my players but I have a new group of players that I ran across a delicate problem. I have several house rules that I was very up front with these new players, who my wife and I have been playing with for months now, and they haven't been a problem until now. Firstly, is a Coup-de-Gras rule I borrowed from 3e and 3.5. (pretty much copy/pasted it after a bit of translation) Secondly, and the biggest point of contention, is a "Three-strikes and you're out" rule. If the player is reduced to a negative HP number from an attack and reduced to unconsciousness three times between a long rest, that character dies of shock. The reasoning is simple, the mind of characters should only be able to endure so much before it falls apart and getting hit by a fireball, a lightning bolt then a lucky Kobold sling attack crit, eventually your brain just can't handle that much trauma. The rule is meant to try and keep players from doing stupid things I have been very careful with balancing encounters, spending hours pouring over scenarios to make sure that the threat of this is virtually nil at best but certainly a threat at worst in the case of specifically designs boss-fights. The most recent session was a dungeon crawl against kobolds, and giant spider and a Bugbear enforcer who muscled his way and bullied his way into leading this small tribe of kobolds. Keep in mind these players are now level 6 and the party consists of a Barbarian, Rogue and a Druid. All the encounters are easy or medium difficulty and only the Rogue took more than 10 damage. After the session the player of the Barbarian started arguing with me about the house-rules I laid down and began trying to convince me to drop the rule because "I don't know what's going to happen and I feel that I have to retire him." Again, I was caught by surprise and after half-an-hour of trying to explain the rule and the intent behind it, she believes I'm just trying to bully and punish characters for spell and ability choices. (My wife is very fond of Healing Spirit, so the fact her druid did not take that spell seemed to be correlation or causation, just not true). I promised to think on the situation but she still kept trying to get me to completely remove the rule. I don't know exactly what to do, I have thought on implementing the Healing Surge optional rule, but that seems like taking the delicate balance I have been trying to keep in encounters and completely throwing it out of whack. Removing it means that these characters just get to pop up with nary a serious consequence for charging into a hallway full of traps and getting their butts whooped soundly and just pop back up like a sick game of whack-a-mole. After this last session, I'm having some serious doubts about keeping this group going because this is not the first time I've tried bending over backwards for this player specifically and the only other players is her friend and my wife. (I apologize for any misspellings or whatnot, I wrote this with about two hours of sleep)

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@Jake Alvin instablaster ;)

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THIS!!! They've always been my favorite monster race to play, at least since 3E

Hmmm!!!!

@@WebDM If you also want to go REALLY wierd, try the Tlincalli, scorpion people on page 193 of volo's.

@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 Or horseshoe crab folk

@@kingzephyr6878 perhaps. Fish people, for that matter. Kuo-toa.

Absolutely, pssssssychopaths are often very charismatic!

Rick Thompson Sociopaths are charismatic, not emotionless. Sociopaths have limited to no ability to feel human emotion, but they are often experts at mimicking emotion to manipulate people.

Fits even better.

Suggestion reminds me of Ka from Jungle Book

I played a Glamour Bard Pureblood that is exactly like this.

Got a genuine lol out of web dm's comms director with that one. Well done.

Took a second, but that joke hit hard!

It's called Pop!

@@foodomanthemagnificent2650 midwest US childhood?

@@foodomanthemagnificent2650 No, it's a coke, regardless of whether it's Coke, Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper.

Can't beat em, -eat- join em.

On Wednesdays? Sounds like you play someone else on Mondays...

my view is this: When you don't have the luxury of having a community of YT to back you in the 'human territories', what better bodyguards, notorious for racial ambivalence, are there than fabled 'adventurers'?

A casino house called Snake Eyes run by a yuan-ti would be beautiful

A plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it.

And now I have my next character...thank you 😂

@@themediocremaster2388 I think it's best to go for the Retainers too, have them be like the other members of the cast

Accompanied by an Int 3 human Rogue with the Urchin background... ...called Baldrick

What class would he be though? Aside from Rogue

Yeah....yikes

For her pleasure

What is worse. A person with snake hands or a snake with human hands?

Well, I guess I won't offer you a massage then.

@@failureblanket8559 would rather own a cat with a human face or a dog with human hands Facecat or hand dog

Yuan-Ti has weres if you have coin

And maybe a little bit of 7 of 9 mixed in there for good measure

Couatl wound never pervert ones body.

I think OP is saying they were already Yuan-Ti, and the Couatl turned them to side of truth justice and the American way

So...did you manageto get the party eaten or converted ?

So like a 15/20 foot blindsight?

@@caosisaac that only works on things that give off heat. So undead, some constructs, and other types still wouldn't register. I would also give it the range of regular ol' dark vision.

@@dudemcfurgusson7179 i'm just going off what snakes actually have in dnd 5e. Most, if not all, have blindsight 10 feet.

Novekye True, but this homebrew HV would be geared more towards viper or adder variant Yuan Ti. Not all real life snakes have thermovision abilities.

This is such a COOL IDEA!

The Institute is actually an excellent comparison to the Yuan-Ti, as they view synths very similarly to the way Yuan-Ti view humanoids.

If you are doing Magipunk, might I suggest the Gnomes and Kobolds actively competing for the title of maddest mad scientists?

cthulu 3141 I could see using all three: the Yuan-Ti are more life sciences while the kobolds and gnomes are engineers constantly trying to do outdo each other. Almost like the US and Soviet Union during the cold war

Nice!!! Have a great game!

Thank you!!!

I always thought of them as smooth talkers to get what they want but when it doesn't work they drop the facade. Or perhaps they sorta hypnotize people with their stare like in the jungle book but not as strong just more of a irrational impulse to agree/work with them.

@@asyouwish6633 i always thought of it like a sort of hypnotism like the snake from the jungle book

Use a coautl

Glad you liked it! Have a great campaign!

Sneks...I hate sneks

I don't know about you, but if a masked and robed person specializing in poison and illusion joined my party, our group would immediately suspect them of being all kinds of evil.

@@defiantnight2668 Suspension of disbelief. I imagine all kinds of people in DnD worlds travel around cloaked, hooded or masked. Perhaps they wear the mask because of a horrible disfigurement or because they are on the run from a corrupt tyrant? Or maybe what ever religion they observe require it? Maybe they are trying to look cool and edgy? To the players it might come off as sinister, but to the characters its probably far more common place. As for the magic, poison and illusion magic is not inherently evil like necromancy can be. If it was Wizards would have a serious stigma about them. If we are judging based on appearance and spells then rouges, wizards and warlocks would all be viewed upon with suspicion of evil intent. Rouges often deploy means of trickery and slight of hand. Even going so far as to disguise themselves and pretend to be some one else in a calculated act of deception. Wizards and warlocks both consort with demons and powers beyond common or mortal comprehension. My point is any band of haphazard adventurers that wander around destroying things for money and robbing every corpse they see with no thought of the consequences could also be seen as, to use your own words, "All kinds of evil."

Honestly, I would say "Anathema? NO! but I would be willing to allow you to become an Abomination". Not for nothing, & to be "that person", but the Ritual for an Abomination to become an Anathema, it demands the sacrifices of hundreds of snakes & requires the Abomination to bathe in the blood of its enemies. Transformation is quick but painful.

@@Altyrell So, it literally *does* require a ballpark of children?

@@Oddmanoutre Technically yes, if you looked at the "children" in their comment as referring to Snakes and not as actual humanoid children

@@Altyrell of course some of your enemies may be snake/human children, but that goes without saying.

@@Altyrell Plus, the Yuan-Ti worship Anathema as god-like beings.

Glad you liked it!

Well shucks

Well you see, Poison isn't a _biological_ affliction but a spiritual one! Yuan-ti obviously, _obviously_ don't have souls - much like undead who are also immune to poison. Because they're bad guys, obviously. _Obviously._ While Warforged, being victims of mean old bad people who made them to fight a war - and wars are bad obviously, _obviously._ So the poor, innocent *HUNKS OF WOOD AND METAL* that didn't ask for a war, totally have souls because they're victims, not warriors, definitely not war-makers - just victims, and are therefore good guys because victims are always good guys, never bad - victims don't do bad things obviously, _obviously._ Means the warforged, who are not soulless war-machines, can have their precious soul poisoned by like... A rat, that is more likely to break it's teeth on the metal body of the Warforged. Obviously. _Obviously..._

@@brosephnoonan223 I knew I should've killed Heimskr

WexMajor82 just home brew it

@@guidoguido2245 my DM homebrewed Warforged in his campaigns to be immune to nonmagical fire, because, duh

Some people in the comments apparently!! But we think they're cool!

"Let us make merry, for it is the done thing to do by decree of my god"

I love this, So much! Makes me want to run a High Fantasy Call of Cthulu setting chock full of Cosmic Horror now.

They have that. Look at Yuan-Ti's Innate Magic or Tiefling's Infernal Legacy

Im playing a similar build, but ancients oath, once a yuan-ti spy that developed humanlike emotions and was Spurred into the life of a paladin to uphold the beliefs and views of his human wife who was killed by his own people, He still feels little compassion for other people, but does good in the name of his beloveds memory

Glad to help!

I love your videos we are about the same age and have a similar DND history so our philosophy is very similar!

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Rankerquat yeah, I wouldn't mind swapping around the magic resistance to get the option to play a type 1 or 3 malison.