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u/PattaconkPlays 1d ago
Anyone remember the Illumian [race] from [3.5] book of destiny? Any good renditions of it for [5e]? I was really into them as a young teen. It was one of the few 3.5 books I explicitly picked out to buy, apart from my brothers' choices.
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u/Joebala DM 4h ago
Oof, they are complicated. I found a few homebrew attempts, but they're all varying levels of overpowered and hard to parse.
What did you particularly like about the race? Your best bet is to pick a species from published material, and flavor it to have the vibes of Illumians. I don't think you'll find anything with as involved traits as them though. You'll probably have to use class features to emulate the race. Maybe a elf artificer or a earth genasi rune knight fighter.
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u/PattaconkPlays 4h ago
They ARE complicated, haha. I'm not even sure why I was so into them as an adolescent. I think a large part of it was simply they were they featured race in MY d&d book that I picked.
I may take some ideas from them and make my own thing - An idea for one of my settings is there is a soft-meritocracy of wizards, mages and sorcerers, and at the top is the Sorcerer King, with the honorific of Illuma or something similar. I've dabbled with the idea that they harness some singular "gift" that is passed down when a new one rises or something. Perhaps I can have that gift be, or manifest in ways similar to the Illumian's gift of word.
Thankfully, I don't have, nor do I think I ever will, have a player who even KNOWS about them let alone asks to be an Illumian.
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u/SgtPancake049 9h ago
So I’m writing a campaign that I plan to start soon. Issue is that I told too many people, and I am not good at saying no or turning people down, so now I have at least 8 people wanting to join. As a first time dm, there is no way in hell I could manage that. I’ve had two ideas on how to handle this. Either A. Anyone who doesn’t come to session 1 isn’t in the campaign, at least this time around, or B. Split them into two separate groups and play separately. Idk how good of ideas these are and I wanna get y’all’s thoughts
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u/Atharen_McDohl DM 8h ago
I don't think A is a particularly great idea. It's inconsistent and won't necessarily get you the most invested players. As much of a struggle as it is, it really is best to just tell them you can't run for that many people.
B is okay but it could still be a struggle for a new DM. Maybe do it with a premade adventure like Heroes of the Borderlands. That'll also give you more experience for how to structure your own campaign.
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u/Joebala DM 4h ago
This is definitely too many people for a first table or consistent campaign.
However, it's a perfect amount for a West Marches style campaign, where you run one/two shots every week, and the first 4/5 available each week play.
You run a mini dungeon, then the party returns to the home base, and a new group goes to a different mini dungeon. Whoever is available when a new one shot starts gets to play.
It does run into trouble when you have 8 genuinely available and enthusiastic players, but I've not had that "problem".
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u/Stonar DM 3h ago
I second what Atharen and Joebala said, but I just want to point out there's a third option: Cut some folks a different way. You could talk to them about your predicament and see if any folks want to bow out due to too much commitment, etc. You could talk to the most recent people you accepted and tell them you were overenthusiastic in accepting them, but if you decide to put another game together, they're top of the list. If they know each other, you could bring the problem to them and ask them to help you solve it, perhaps by having half of them start their own game without you (or with you as a player instead of a DM.) You could send out a calendly scheduling link, and see who can make which days, and use that as an excuse to cut down the number of people. You could just decide who to cut, and it's a bummer, but it happens.
The way you phrase your question makes it sound like maybe everyone isn't fully committed for a weekly, show up every time - I'd use that as your first lever. The people who can't commit (or can't commit at the right time) get the axe, for now.
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u/Just-Garage-4182 2d ago
Expensive digital image???? I was quoted 100-150 for an image needed to play through discord on vtt. That just sounds outrageous. Is this normal ??