Tortle Tank: Birthday Spells, Necromantic Healers and The Potion of Last Resort
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Welcome to Tortle Tank, the show where the world's richest reptiles review your D&D homebrew and decide whether or not to invest their hard-earned eggs. This week, the Torts hear pitches about in-game birthdays, reclassifying healing spells, and a death-defying potion that could help kick your home game into high gear. Let's dive right in!
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Comments
Super late to this, but I made a Thrown Shield spell. 2nd level spell that gives +3 AC to a creature you can see within 60 feet
Hemlock
2025-05-08 15:26:19 +0000 UTCI love that Caldwell drew little smiley faces!! 😊
Christina Michaels
2025-05-06 05:39:14 +0000 UTCi’m late to the party here, pun intended, but a possible fix for the birthday dilemma to prevent the campaign from being to birthday focused, or to have people gaming the system, what if everybody just rolled a D 100 and whatever number you get, that session is your birthday? ie, I roll a 32 so our 32nd session is my birthday, or the nearest next day.
Jarod With
2025-04-14 17:48:06 +0000 UTCI feel like the Upcast Shield spell would only really work in a balanced way if it started at a lower bonus. Maybe you can start at 3 defence for level 1 instead of 5, meaning if you want to hit a +10 defense, you'll have to cast it at an 8th level.
Penpen
2025-04-13 07:21:29 +0000 UTCThe scroll of lies is absolutely some Feywild bullshit. You make it available to your players from a tricksy merchant there who is super shady, and he explains it to them using very precise language about what it does. If they still use it after that, that's on them. I think this is a very cool item as long as it is sufficiently foreshadowed.
Matt Davis
2025-04-12 00:37:33 +0000 UTCEmily as a Cleric of the Holidays has Muppet Christmas Carol energy - like simultaneously all three
Katie P.
2025-04-09 21:23:43 +0000 UTCIn this house we believe potions are enemas and we mew all night and earn all day
Stephen Fike
2025-04-08 17:01:14 +0000 UTC“Can you imagine the night before the final battle and you whip out that birthday cake” yes Caldwell, I can imagine that bc that’s pretty much what you did with Beverly announcing his birthday right after confronting his dad
Jeremy Voigtschild
2025-04-05 01:38:58 +0000 UTCThere is a spell called shield others and mage armor protects squishy wizards. There are also loads of barrier spells that protect multiple people. Shield upgrade is wildly broken
Ilana Galpert
2025-04-04 22:02:04 +0000 UTC
