Modern Cryptid Campaign setting suggestion!
My friend just sent me all this good stuff. Same one as before.
Inspired by a combination of feats, backgrounds, and inspiration from video games ect. These are not balanced yet at all, and some of them are over powered. But it’s a start!
Cooking Club –Everyone needs to eat, and sometimes, you may be starving. In these times, those random uncooked mushrooms just aren’t going to cut it. You gain proficiency with cooking utensils and proficiency with knifes. If you bring a friendly or indifferent NPC food, you gain advantage on persuasion and deception checks with them. When your character builds a fire and cooks, roll the Cooking skill check (Wisdom + proficiency). The DM chooses a dc based on available ingredients, if the dc is met, any player who consumes the meal gains temporary hit points equivalent to the cook’s level and enough nourishment to be sustained for one day.
Drama Club - Based on the actor feat, if you join this club you become skilled at dramatics and gain the following benefits: Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20, you have an advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when talking with police, students and adults. You also gain access to multiple masks and gloves in your equipment.
Occult Club – Adults and other students tend to expect you to be taking part in suspicious or bizarre activity; as such you gain advantage to stealth (adults/police/children ignore you lurking in the shadows) and charisma checks (when you act strangely, such as seeking out odd information or items). However, you will also gain disadvantage when trying to convincing people that something supernatural or mysterious is happening [note, as always, the dungeon master will be the last word of deciding when these will be employed]. You have read much on the supernatural, and as such gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track Fey, Fiends, and Undead, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.
Art Club - You will not be considered suspicious when covered in blood if wearing a painter’s smock. Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20. You also become proficient with a forgery kit (for replicating handwriting) and a disguise kit (when attempting to change appearance using paint).
Music Club - A member of this club is able to walk around with a cello case without being considered suspicious, which can be used to transport dismembered corpses and large weapons ect. Add a music box to your equipment, when opened, this music box plays a single song at a moderate volume. The box stops playing when it reaches the song’s end or when it is closed. Due to your perfect pitch, you can closely mimic the speech of another person or the sounds made by other creatures. You must have heard the person speaking, or heard the creature make the sound, for at least 1 minute. A successful insight check contested by your deception check allows a listener to determine that the effect is faked.
Sports Club – While a member of this club, you can carry sports equipment without being considered suspicious. Also, based off athletics feat, you have undergone physical training and so gain the following benefits: Increase your strength score by 1 to a maximum of 20, when you are prone, standing up uses only 5 feet of your movement and climbing doesn’t cost you extra movement. Add a trinket to your equipment (such as a sporting medal or trophy).
Martial Arts Club - You are exceptionally speedy and agile. You gain the following benefits: your speed increases by 10 feet and when you use the Dash action difficult terrain doesn’t cost you extra movement on that turn. Increase your dexterity score by 1 to a maximum of 20. You can gain access to a small number of Shuriken OR a pair of Nunchaku (treat as darts and nunchaku 3.5e). However, access to them is restricted, often they are reserved for higher standing club members, if you are caught with them will have to explain yourself.
Gardening Club - A member of this club can carry gardening equipment without being considered suspicious. Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. You gain proficiency in the Nature skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. You learn the Druidcraft and Detect Poison and Disease spells. You can cast Detect Poison and Disease once without expending a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. You have advantage on survival checks when foraging for food.
Science Club – Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Over the course of any short rest, you can temporarily improve the potency of one potion of healing of any rarity. To use this benefit, you must have science supplies with you and the potion must be within reach. If the potion is drunk no more than 1 hour after the short rest ends, the creature drinking the potion can forgo the potion’s die roll and regains the maximum number of hit points that the potion can restore. You gain proficiency with science supplies (also known as alchemy equipment). If you are already proficient with them, you double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with them. If you focus for an action, you can identify one potion/acid with 100% accuracy. You must see the liquid for this benefit to work.
Sowing club – Walking around covered in blood or injured will be seen as suspicious by most. You don’t want people to start asking why your groups clothes are always destroyed. As a member of the sowing club you are able to effectively clean up bloodstains and fix up clothing, making them look good as new. You gain proficiency with sowing equipment. You are quick with a needle, increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. If making a medicine check to sew up a wound take advantage, then add you proficiency and medicine modifier.
Me again, I think this all works so well. Love the idea of suspicion from adults and curfews. Been with it since day one.
If anyone else has any suggestions let me know!
