I love how you can see, in the first frame, how the “shut up rule of cool let it work” voice gains strength, and the “haha nub you lose” voice gets weaker and quieter, over time. Well done.
Perhaps the spell could be thought of as this: undead is non-sentient; undead is turned/dusted/whatever the terminology. Undead is sentient; undead is (temporarily) made calm and focused. That way, the angry mummy charging the party for trekking dust all over the newly raided tomb gets more dangerous but might be bargained with, while the shambling bag-of-bones becomes so much dust in the wind.
That’s how I would play it, I think, and isn’t that god of his connected to concepts of luck and such?
I think you missed the last word bubble, where he cast Lesser Restoration, he didn’t Turn Undead. You don’t have to work that hard.
In fact, I would say that the ruling is pretty supportable, if you say Ufgren was confused, in a condition sort of way, which would make Lesser Restoration fit pretty well.
The thing is that with it’s wording the description of Lesser restoration seems to exclude anything not specifically mentionned.
“You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.”
If it stopped after the first sentence there would be no doubt that something like “confused” can be ended. But with the second sentence clarifying which conditions can be removed this way…
I think Brett has ground to stretch it, because the spell is named “restoration”, and the conditions listed seems to be specifically debilitating one. Since Ufgren is a ghost and his confusion is a long term problem, I’d say it can count. The spells restores his spirit. But RAW wouldn’t allow it.
Legal Use of Spell: technically that ghost was **Confused.**
taking Lesser Restoration’s context of Blinded/Deafened/Paralyzed/Poisoned, this spell would clear his ears to the words of his allies and restore his shrouded sight to see clearly again instead of being lost in his past.
/>
I’m so proud of you Brett.
I love how you can see, in the first frame, how the “shut up rule of cool let it work” voice gains strength, and the “haha nub you lose” voice gets weaker and quieter, over time. Well done.
Old Brett vs. New and Improved Brett.
Brian, you planning to re-work all Brett’s panels in this arc into a “Beginner’s Guide to DMing”
Awesome stuff
I completely second this request and would pay for a PDF of your guide to beginner DMs! 🙂
Rule vs Cool. Always a fun internal debate.
I’d rule it can’t always work like this but this context it wins just because it’s such a cool idea.
Perhaps the spell could be thought of as this: undead is non-sentient; undead is turned/dusted/whatever the terminology. Undead is sentient; undead is (temporarily) made calm and focused. That way, the angry mummy charging the party for trekking dust all over the newly raided tomb gets more dangerous but might be bargained with, while the shambling bag-of-bones becomes so much dust in the wind.
That’s how I would play it, I think, and isn’t that god of his connected to concepts of luck and such?
I think you missed the last word bubble, where he cast Lesser Restoration, he didn’t Turn Undead. You don’t have to work that hard.
In fact, I would say that the ruling is pretty supportable, if you say Ufgren was confused, in a condition sort of way, which would make Lesser Restoration fit pretty well.
The thing is that with it’s wording the description of Lesser restoration seems to exclude anything not specifically mentionned.
“You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.”
If it stopped after the first sentence there would be no doubt that something like “confused” can be ended. But with the second sentence clarifying which conditions can be removed this way…
I think Brett has ground to stretch it, because the spell is named “restoration”, and the conditions listed seems to be specifically debilitating one. Since Ufgren is a ghost and his confusion is a long term problem, I’d say it can count. The spells restores his spirit. But RAW wouldn’t allow it.
Well Done, Brett
My favourite part of any game I run is when I think damn I should have though of that first.
Legal Use of Spell: technically that ghost was **Confused.**
taking Lesser Restoration’s context of Blinded/Deafened/Paralyzed/Poisoned, this spell would clear his ears to the words of his allies and restore his shrouded sight to see clearly again instead of being lost in his past.
I really love these “Gm thought process panels”, and Im glad that we got to see more of these lately!
T_T our little Santa is growing up
Plumbing and handjobs are indeed cool. I don’t think they get enough credit for their coolness, so happy to see that here. 🙂
Also, abominations ahead? Excellent! (said in ‘Mr Burns’ voice).
(*gets more popcorn*) 🙂