if your PC's heard a story about a guy murdering forest animals to gain (or regain) his strength they'd truck out there and teach him a lesson.
Is it a group of druids?
"Mr. Hunter, this Druid wants to have a word with you..."x3
EDIT: ... I hope that don't come for me O.o
Anyway, I would have a minimum hp that the creature has to have before you can take life force from them.
I heavily approve it, in fact it was my very same suggestion some posts ago.WOW-esque (it remembers me how warlocks in wow can get a soulshard) but brilliant! I endorse it.
One simple way would be if you can gain experince from killing it. You cannot get expereince for killing a chicken but something near your level you can.
WHOOPS. Missed it. Elegant, anyway. 2 thumbs up!
I heavily approve it, in fact it was my very same suggestion some posts ago.
Hahahaha, wow, I knew I heard the idea somewhere and my brain is still fried from DragonCon that I could not recall where I heard the suggestion. Right here in the very thread!
It's a great idea, and a simple one.
Maybe a thread should be started to discuss this and flush it out.
One orc is not a threat to an 8th level PC so does not qualify as an enemy. 1000 orcs will eventually kill the 8th level PC. So the question is would an 8th level hungry ghost monk be able to steal ki when fighting the 1000 orc army by himself?
Should the defintion of enemy be based on the CR of the creature or the EL of the encounter?
How about summoned creatures? You do not gain xp from them so would you go with the CR of the creature that summoned them? or would summoned creatures be defined as not enemies? Since it is truely the summoner that is the enemy and the creature summoned is just a spell effect.
Killing and butchering a creature for its hide, skin, and bones to be used in some constructive manner is way of life. Kill or be killed.
Keeping a pet for the sole purpose of sucking out its life force to empower you /is evil/.
We're not talking about someone killing a chicken and roasting it for supper, we're talking about someone sucking the mojo out of a beast for self empowerment.
Even in our own day and time its frowned upon to kill a creature just for a trophy. You get your trophy and you butcher the beast to be eaten- by you or someone else.
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Killing and butchering a creature for its hide, skin, and bones to be used in some constructive manner is way of life. Kill or be killed.
Keeping a pet for the sole purpose of sucking out its life force to empower you /is evil/.
We're not talking about someone killing a chicken and roasting it for supper, we're talking about someone sucking the mojo out of a beast for self empowerment.
Even in our own day and time its frowned upon to kill a creature just for a trophy. You get your trophy and you butcher the beast to be eaten- by you or someone else.
-S
Perhaps the HGM and her party also eat the chickens afterwards?
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To be fair, the Tanners were pretty evil.but I have to wonder about the possible alignment consequences of having a bunch of innocent animals laying around that you do nothing with except murder to make yourself stronger.You heard it here first folks, eating meat in D&D is Evil and butchers are the most evil people in the entire game. Devil? Pffbt. Demons? Laughable. You want real evil, make your BBEG a butcher. Or even worse a tanner.
Damn, beat me to it. Especially the twins.
Sounds like Fowl Play to me.