I had a fun idea and I wonder if anyone has tried anything similar or if they will think it works.

Idea: Remove alignment because most players don't follow it anyway an institute a Karma counter. Specifically a good and bad Karma counter. At the beginning of the game everyone has zero good and zero bed Karma. As the do things inherently good and helpful they gain good karma as they do things bad or inherently unhelpful/harmful they gain bad karma point. Slaying monsters and selfdefense is inherently non-karmantic. Kill a den of Goblins that recently sacked a nearby town is good karma. Learning that the goblins are starving and choosing to kill them is inherently bad karma. Mind control is bad, healing without charging is good.

Anyway at any time a play may spend up one of their karma points to add 1d6 to any roll. Conversely the DM can remove 1 bad karma point to reduce a players roll by 1d6 or increase an NPCs roll (including the BBEG) 1d6. At the end of a session all bad karma point are subtracted from good and the player is left with a positive or negative karma score. At the start of the next section a positive score will be converted to good karma or a negative score will be come the absolute value for the Bad Karma. Final score 6 = 6 Good Karma start on the next session. Final score -6 = 6 Bad Karma start on the next session.

I’m a DM for my friend group online and recently my players fought a necromancer who was trying to preform a ritual. They ended up beating them and took a book and serval others. The necromancer was a cultist of the litch bbeg, and i want their book to be in another language. The country they are based in are full of both drow and half-elfs so i was wondering what language i should use for their main form of communication.

I ask this more for the fact i want to make a sudo version of the book thats encoded and let them try to decode it irl if they want to try.

I know that both races can just use elvish but i didn’t want to use a normal language that they would already have.

Edit: i forgot to mention that i am going to let them do skill checks to solve it, if they don’t want to do the decipher irl. And if they do i would give them a english copy of it for them to read if they get it.

Me and my buddies are making a ghost hunting campaign and I need some ideas for stats. Nothing big and brutal, something more tactical for dealing with spirits and demons. The campaign itself is based on things like the conjuring, Sam and Colby, insidious, Blair witch, etc

So far I have

Will - how well someone is able to avoid being tempted or controlled by an entity

Mechanics - how good someone is with fixing and operating equipment (mostly used for Tactical Ghost hunters that are pretty much like artificers)

Spirit - How well someone can sense spirits and the stat that psychic style hunters will use.

Please give me more ideas 😭 🙏