Lommán Shadyglen's Lascivious Grimoire

Capture Don’t Kill

Creative ideas for dealing with party wipe that don’t involve killing your player characters.

Capture, Don’t Kill X: City Guard

Now that we’ve covered a few kinds of criminals, why not the other side of the coin? For city guards, whether they be sinister or honorable, capturing people and depositing them in the jail is all part of a day’s work, whether it be putting a drunk in a cell [...]

30
Nov

Capture, Don’t Kill IX: Thieves

Thieves are similar to bandits in a few ways and like raiders in a few others, but they are mostly unique since they usually operate inside of settled areas, and especially densely populated cities. Like bandits they will sometimes ambush the unwary in alleyways or at blind corners, and like [...]

23
Nov

Capture, Don’t Kill VIII: Raiders

Wait, raiders? But I did pirates and bandits. For the sake of clarity, I’m using raiders to mean those who predate not by ambush or chasing down victims as they travel, but by attacking stationary settlements whose defenses they think they can overcome, striking from outside [...]

16
Nov

Capture, Don’t Kill VII: Pirates

Didn’t you just do bandits? What’s the difference? In the last entry in this series I covered bandits, which I defined as those who perform opportunistic attacks on land-based travelers far from centers of power, primarily via ambush. By contrast, pirates usually operate by large crewed vehicles and attack other such [...]

22
Mar

Capture, Don’t Kill VI: Bandits

Bandits? Pirates? Raiders? Thieves? What’s the difference? For a number of reasons I will be distinguishing various types of marauding humanoids by their tactics, motives, and circumstances. For the purposes of this post, I am treating bandits as those who primarily engage in opportunistic victimization of land travelers outside of well [...]

15
Mar

Capture, Don’t Kill V: Kuo-toa

The kuo-toa are strange, vile inhabitants of the wetter sections of the Underdark. They are flabby, slimy humanoids that resemble enormous cave fish, and are akin to to the Deep Ones of the Lovecraft Mythos. [...]

08
Mar

Capture, Don’t Kill IV: Drow

And now, we begin the meat of the series. Actual application instead of just cerebral Gamemastering Theory. I’m hoping to begin to cover the specifics of how and why various common sorts of enemies would engage an adventuring party non-lethally. [...]

01
Mar

Capture Don’t Kill III: Is This a Sex Thing?

This question has a short answer with a long explanation, and as such expect this entry to be largely meta-commentary and a bit light on direct gameplay-related content. No, this series of articles or blog posts or whatever you want to call them isn’t about sex or bondage or other [...]

22
Feb

Capture, Don’t Kill II: How?

Now part of this depends on what system you’re using and if it even has any meaningful support for non-lethal defeats without houseruling, but there’s a number of things that can be done regardless of rule set. Communication is important, for example. None of this stuff will have much impact [...]

15
Feb

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring

Fun scenarios and idea you can add to your worlds to allow Player Characters and NPCs to show a little more (or a lot more) skin!

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Celestial Paragons of the Realms 1

Celestial paragons are exceptionally powerful celestials, similar to archfiends but for the outer planes of [...]

22
Jul

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Fiends of the Realms, Part 2

Well, it’s National Nude Day again, so it’s the perfect time to bring Jaybird’s Guide [...]

14
Jul

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Deities of the Realms, Character Hook Edition

When I started doing these entries summarizing suitable deities for naked characters, I figured it [...]

08
Oct

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Fiends of the Realms, Part 1

Let’s take a little break from deities (don’t worry, there’s plenty more) and add some [...]

30
Sep

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Kur Ettesh, Rakshasa Rani

Just a heads up/content warning that since this is a Fiend Pact patron in this [...]

24
Sep

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Deities of the Realms, Part 4

Gee, there sure are a lot of deities in FR, aren’t there? As usual, here’s [...]

18
Sep

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Deities of the Realms, Part 3

You probably know the drill by now. Here’s 5 more Forgotten Realms deities especially suitable [...]

12
Sep

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Deities of the Realms, Part 2

The last post featured five goddesses especially suitable for characters who strip down for devout [...]

02
Sep

Jaybird’s Guide to Naked Adventuring: Deities of the Realms, Part 1

Another thing I intend to do with this blog in addition to offering new options [...]

15
Aug

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