The party meets in one of these, because apparently destiny begins with cheap ale and suspicious hooded strangers.
What is a tavern?
This cantrip lets you move, clean, soil, chill, warm, or flavor tiny things, making it the spell of petty nonsense.
What is Prestidigitation?
This weapon gives a bonus to attack and damage rolls, but players still act like it is Excalibur.
What is a +1 weapon?
This plane is basically infinite elemental flame, hostile terrain, and a nightmare for unprepared low-level parties.
What is the Elemental Plane of Fire?
“You can certainly try” usually means the player is about to make one of these.
What is an ability check?
This tiny reptilian troublemaker is famous for traps, cowardice, and punching hard.
What is a kobold?
This spell lets you ask a corpse questions, assuming it still has a mouth and is feeling cooperative enough.
What is Speak with Dead?
This portable hole-adjacent item solves inventory problems until someone combines it with the wrong extradimensional space.
What is a Bag of Holding?
Devils mostly come from this lawful evil plane, where bureaucracy and damnation go hand in hand.
What are the Nine Hells / Baator?
“Are you sure?” is often the DM’s final warning before this happens.
What is consequences / death / disaster?
This social skill is often rolled after the bard says something deeply unwise but strangely confident.
What is Persuasion?
This spell creates a duplicate that can make attacks but disappears when hit, making DMs ask, “Which one are you attacking?”
What is Mirror Image?
This deck can grant wishes, ruin lives, delete characters, or make the campaign about itself.
What is the Deck of Many Things?
This gray, joyless plane slowly drains color, emotion, and hope from visitors. Great vacation spot.
What is Hades / the Gray Waste?
“It’s probably fine” is adventurer-speak for activating one of these without checking it first.
What is a trap?
This magic item can turn a normal tavern brawl into a property damage lawsuit involving random animals.
What is the Bag of Tricks?
This spell sounds harmless until the wizard uses it to solve a climbing, stealing, scouting, or “carry the barbarian” problem.
What is Levitate?
This artifact-level hand belongs to a very famous lich and is a terrible fashion choice.
What is the Hand of Vecna?
This chaotic plane links to demons, infinite layers, and the general design philosophy of “what if reality had anger issues?”
What is the Abyss?
“How much damage could it possibly do?” is usually said right before discovering this category of monster ability.
What is a breath weapon?
OWWWWW
What is a d4?
This spell can create a perfect duplicate of a creature, which is exactly as campaign-breaking as it sounds.
What is Simulacrum?
This blade is intelligent, evil, soul-hungry, and absolutely not something you should let the fighter “just test once.”
What is Blackrazor?
This city sits at the center of the multiverse, has portals everywhere, and is ruled by someone you absolutely should not worship.
What is Sigil, ruled by the Lady of Pain?
“It does not appear hostile.” The druid asks whether that means it can be befriended, adopted, awakened, mounted, or legally inherited.
What is party pet acquisition syndrome?