serendipity
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Post by serendipity on Dec 30, 2007 9:14:34 GMT -6
I'm joining a team to fight all sorts of dark baddies and I'm trying to figure out what I should take with me. So far I've got: 1) silver for weres 2) iron for the fey 3) oil/flames for mummies 4) holy water for undead. What else? Crosses and wooden stakes for vampires? Or maybe garlic? Do those things work against D&D vampires? I've never met one. Frankly, I've never met most of these baddies.  I met a werewolf once, but perhaps she doesn't count, since she was a PC. Though I did learn to wear silver jewelry in case she transformed without due notice. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 30, 2007 9:22:44 GMT -6
Crosses and wooden stakes for vampires? Or maybe garlic? Crosses and garlic are listed in the OD&D equipment list, as is wolfsbane, so I assume that others have walked in these footsteps before us.  There are mirrors, probably good against gaze weapons (basilisk and madusa). They also mention stakes and a mallet, which I always used for staking doors closed in dungeons but I assume were aimed at the anti-vamp folks. What does Belladonna do? Is it poison? It's in the equipment list and I don't remember anyone ever buying it in my games. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2007 13:36:15 GMT -6
How about a blunt weapon (hammer, club, staff, etc.) for skeletons? I'm not sure about Belladonna, but Monk's Hood (Wolf's Bane) is an old way to repel the werewolf (they die if they eat, smell or wear it). I think Belladonna actually cures aconite (the toxic chemical in Wolf's Bane), due to working as an antidote (it contains atropine, neutralizing the Wolf's Bane aconite). Now what this means in game terms, I don't know...  |
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Post by Stonegiant on Dec 30, 2007 15:15:32 GMT -6
Sea salt, I have heard in folklore about people standing inside a circle of salt to protect themselves from the supernatural. I have also heard about mandrake being used for certain monsters. You also probably want a mirror to use in case of gaze attacking creatures (medusae, basilisks, etc.).
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Post by coffee on Dec 30, 2007 18:01:19 GMT -6
Yes, Belladonna is a poison. (Or can be made into one, at any rate.)
(I never knew either, until I looked it up...)
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 30, 2007 18:07:22 GMT -6
See ... this is how OD&D players become educated. They research and find out things that could be really handy in an emergency. I almost feel the urge to watch some vampire movies or Resident Evil to look for additional clues. |
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Post by serendipity on Dec 30, 2007 18:43:52 GMT -6
Oooh, lots of good ideas, guys. Thanks! Mirror, check. Geez, I hope I don't have to use that. Those basilisks scare the bejesus out of me. Blunt instrument, check. Monks Hood, check. Since it can work if they smell it, maybe I can use it as an ingredient in perfume, or perhaps potpouri. Now there's something I doubt I'll find in the buy charts. I'll have to make do with the belladonna costs. Sea salt, check. I'd forgotten about making protective circles. Good one, Stonegiant! As for belladonna, it's a form of nightshade. I know in old times women used it as an eyedrop to make their eyes luminous and their pupils large. (Ah, the foolish things we do to get a guy's attention.) Even now it's in lots of eye medications and it's used to dilate the eyes during exams. I hadn't heard about it neutralizing aconite, oltekos. That's a point to you. Mandrake? It's a root, a narcotic, I think. That's all I know. Never heard of it being used to fend something off. Tell me more, Stonegiant! I may survive this after all--if I'm able to carry everything, that is! --Sere |
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 30, 2007 23:00:40 GMT -6
Mandrake is an aphrodisiac in very small quantities, and a poison in larger ones! Seriously this stuff is dangerous and the only source I ever knew of to get in this country was from Papa Jim's-a voodoo/santeria/wiccan/whatever herb supplier. Does it work as an aphrodisiac? Well I injested a little bit of it once and while I was drinking a fair amount, I didn't notice anything. But the dreams I had later that night.... Ah, to be young and foolish again!
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 30, 2007 23:02:29 GMT -6
Oh and stay away from digitalis (Foxglove), helleborus nigerus, and anything else a Cullpepper's herbal shuns!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2007 17:00:22 GMT -6
No kidding! Ask me about the benefits of trudging through a cow pasture sometime... |
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Post by jrients on Dec 31, 2007 21:22:42 GMT -6
In the old movies mummies were somehow vulnerable to the leaves of the tana plant. I even think that made it into Ready Ref Sheets.
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I met a werewolf once, but perhaps she doesn't count, since she was a PC. Though I did learn to wear silver jewelry in case she transformed without due notice.
