Skill: Shows off the blacksmiths massive horse cock. In a time before modern machinery some crazy Germans and Swiss hammered beyond natural human limit. They probably did it as a meme then realised it was actually useful as a weapon. Sharpening a wavy blade would have been a nightmare.
Functional: Good for duelling sword vs sword. A traditional sword allows you to slide off an enemies blade if your swords clash, because the blade is straight. The waves in a flamberg blade creates vibrations which hurts the opponents hands, that doesn’t sound like much but it gives you an advantage. Very useful for parrying since the enemies sword will strike, then the blade gets stuck on your wavy blade or they pull away from the impact shock. Either way you will have an opening to attack. Also the waves cut much deeper similar to a serrated knife. If you got cut once by this blade, you would not be able to stitch your wound shut, you are pretty much sliced bread.
Aesthetic: Someone challenges you to a duel, while they unsheathe their boring longsword, you unwrap your wiggly sword. They immediately apologize and run because you are rich enough to afford a wiggly sword and probably have multiple wenches giving you ankle parchments.
Item:Flamberge; in addition to the old 3.5 stats at the link, while not everyone recognizes the dangers of fighting someone with a wiggleblade, +4 on Intimidation checks against Fighters and others with knowledge of weapons.
Item: sacred texts of the dumb gods, as distinguished from the cool ones. Myths are plentiful about the powerful and wise gods that created the world and guided its people, but you didn’t think that was all the gods, did you? Learn the rituals and rites of the cult of the God of Biscuits, sing the hymns of the Muse of YouTube Comments, learn the legends of the Elder Shadows’ weird nephew that won’t shut up about slot car racing. The book was compiled by a rogue Cleric that slowly gained access to the halls of the various pantheons to interview the gods that don’t get let out much.
An interdimensional monster slayer that heard of mosquitos but doesn’t realise how small they are and is roaming looking for a six legged monster that pounces on people and sucks out all their blood
Spell: Curse of Monkey Music, causes any music a bard plays to use the Donkey Kong Country soundfont, pitting a -2d4 penalty on any bardic spell they attempt to cast.
got the worlds coolest knife at a flea market today
op what quest did you complete?
going with my dad n uncle on their hunts for funko pops
Item: Plump Dagger of Scräggbert, a small but unusually thick and wide dagger that delivers fearful Piercing wounds, and can be used to summon a burst of pink lightning that grants +d6 on Intimidation checks. Such daggers could only be obtained when given out by the royal court as a reward for knights of the blood successfully escorting noblemen on their quest for strange mouthless figurines and idols for their ever-growing collection, dispensed in memory of the elderly Dwarf berserker that used to be the king’s bodyguard on his quests, and possessing a Plump Dagger when not a member of the Order of Scräggbert is a capital crime.
Item: link to the official RandomItemDrop Twitter account
I started an official mirror for @randomitemdrop and @randomencounters on Twitter, since I discovered a fair amount of links were being shared there anyway, responding to comments is simpler, and not to sound like I’m just in this for the fame and money but it seems like nerdy celebs are way more likely to respond to being tagged over there. It’s only been mirroring posts for a couple of days now and it seems like the only way to import everything from before that is to do it one by one, which just…nah. Might share a few of the Top Posts, though, y’all seem to love that damn Teeth Corn and the pool portal.
…Originally I was going to be @randomitemdrop there too, but after I set the blog up I thought it would be funny to set the birthdate to Dec 2, 2017, when the very first post went up, and Twitter promptly locked the blog because a one-years-old baby shouldn’t be on social media.
I don’t know if there’s anybody that follows Encounters and not ItemDrop, but if so, there’s an official Twitter mirror for the two now
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