| rowanlobos |
I am currently running Hells Rebels (A song of Silver) and have been having fun with some side quests for my players, currently one of the pc is assisting with tracking down the lair of a grave knight (working on a barbarian/fighter build for a cr 11) imprisoned beneath the city but the wards that held him check have been weakening and are almost broken.
I thought about making a more elaborate backstory where people in the past have been lead to their doom by discovering a book that compelled them to seek out the Grave knight (working name is "The Hollow Hearted Man") So was thinking of the book having some type of compulsion that aside from encouraging them to seek them out it also would trigger a contingency that would have them turn traitor and aid the grave knight, provided they failed the will save during the final confrontation.
Backstory to the GK was going to be revealed through flashback choices as the pc read through the journal.Any thoughts as to how to craft this treacherous book?
| OmniMage |
I don't think it needs to be complicated. Just make it like a Helm of Opposite Alignment.
Just replace change of alignment with a dominate person spell (or whatever effect you want). I don't think it needs much else than that. OK maybe the victim might need to read the book first. Maybe it compels the reader to finish reading the book before they go mad. The first save compels the reading and the second save causes the madness. The second save is triggered by reading the whole book.