Are those Will-O’-Wisps?

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6kFRvtqDbA&pp=0gcJCRMMAYcqIYzv

The House of Ghosts (1906) // The Haunted House (1907) - a French film says wikiped. 

Time 5:30 or so, fireballs flying around, about 5 inch diameter. Seems like Will-of-the-Wisps to me. Well, wikipedia says something about ball lightning, so maybe it is that. But that's not very ghostly is it? There was a lightning bolt in an earlier scene. 

This blog says the fires are "little ghosties", so yeah, to me that's back to the Will-o'-Wisps. https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-house-of-ghosts-1906.html

Movie- North by Northwest

 The okd classic. Finally watched. Had no idea other than the plane scene (replicated in X files w a helicopter in the corn field, kinda). 

Impressions: 

• It was Cary Grant, not Jimmy Steward. Whoops! 
• Main character was a jerk by his actions… cutting lines at cabs, lying, chey, but that part was all comedy. He was more just a rapscallion. Scoundrel. And I guess it was that personality that let him fight back against the baddies. 
• Watched the whole thing, it was a solid story. Started slow but something watchable about this old movie. 
• Were some of Mount Rushmore scenes real? The hotel with that view maybe?
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FA2 Nightmare Keep module… v high level

 https://m.youtube.com/shorts/h7UPSahM7SQ

Levels 18-20

It’s a Forgotten Realm TSR thing. 

Pathfinder kingmaker - tip vs verdant chambers

 https://www.gamerguides.com/pathfinder-kingmaker/guide/walkthrough/chapter-2-dire-narlmarches-expedition/a-just-reward

I have been suspicious of the dryad. Is this a fight? Gotta solo from super far, inconvenient. 

Next time Drow

The party's melee guys have AC that is like impossible to hit. ~23 AC on fighter(?) and 24 AC on Barb, yeah I accidentally let that get out of control with that DEX item that the Barbarian got. 

Drow might Use a spell similar to true strike, give recipient a +10 or +20 to hit. Cleric will cast on dudes… maybe a wand with limited charges. COMPARE TO PATHFINDER TRUE STRIKE - it gives +20 to hit (gotta use it next round) and hits perfectly thru full concealment like inviz or darkness. 

Maybe they attack while party vs. fire salamanders. 

Next time fire salamanders

 Give helpers. Tiny fire elementals… a bunch!! Surround. +2 flanking. Maybe +4 flanking special. 

I think give resistance to slashing??  MaybE.   Think fire lava children and their resists physical attacks  

Small fire elemental https://www.imarvintpa.com/dndlive/Monsters.php?id=348

• Smallies maybe can mob attack to auto hit or burn  
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• *maaaaybe ill have the small ones merge into a biiiig one, and itll speak once (rare) in a voice of all 10 little ones together. Deep and weird.
•  OOORRRR all the smalls hold them at bay while far away, giant bonfire, drow summon another fire Huge fire elemental. Use 3.5e elder stats. DMG REDUCTION 10. +18 to hit. BLINDFIGHT. 
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• Imprint on ur party mind of the ElderElementalGod - the elementals yell out the n many voices-at the moment of merging the smaller elementals into the LARGE MINI i have
• Statblock for elder fire elemental https://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/elemental.htm
• 35 ft tall!!!!
• Blundsight on 2 biggest
• Two darkness cast on it drom drow to hide it and more darkness cast on party
• Cast light spell to counter… arcana knowledge check

***note in 2e dnd, gotta summon elementals. The Drow did it!!  A big fire pit with them coming out. 

* 2e had 3 sizes, and biggest were 18 hitdice! Bigger or same HitDice than a dragon. Was +15 to hit (thAC0 was 5 on that one). 

Next time Vs. Dragon ideas,

• G3
• Dndbeyind has best tactics
• Reds have climbspeed for tight lairs
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• Elder has more super lair and super legendary things
• Elemental fire helpers
• Retreat into lava tunnel
• Blindsight 
• Darkmantle minions help blindsight
• Kobold helpers — 
• Minions jack up ranged and concentration spells
• Volcanic vents heavy obscure - blindsight— i think tail attack a vent cover!!!
• Grapple — grapple then run to lava?!
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Tenkar below

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npflAw9tzH4&t=207s

Tenkar ideas vs. dragons. 

My ideas plus his

• Dragon room feels like a trap
• In g3, secret exit  - high, low? Is it an illusion floor????
• Would it let anybdrow enter? Firefianta there more like… would it allow tribute or do giants hate dragons? No firegianta down this low actually  this is underdark  
• Is there a gas fire bomb trap? Immune fire. 
• Water hole esxape. 
• Minions???
• Magic items it uses?
• Alarm spell? Silent alarm. Or it just smells and hears. 
• CASTS DIMENSION DOOR, … probably not plane shift
• Wraithformnspell?
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• Have a ring or wand
• Have a permanancy spell w globe of invulnerability 
• Have a trapped wizard it made cast globe invulnerability… maybe wizard in STASIS
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FF B&W art

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28NiCeNXH8s&t=457s  At time 7:35, a monster, sort of dinolike but way meaner and scarier. 

Time 21:21, monster samurai sort of.  Chinese armor i guess.  

Next time and future

 

NEXT TIME MAYBE

The Elghoon , deadliest humanoid in underdark

https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/dr/DragonMagazineAnnual1996/elghonn/

FUTURE WOODS OR SWAMP

Mold man https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Mold_Man_(Creature)

Wood man https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Wood_man

Mold man other https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Mold_Man,_Malatran

Confluence point of crooked river and Shrike River

 Ideas to use from pathfinder km game. 

I just like the description. Reminds me of that confluence of the 2 color rivers around Glacier or Yoho ntl park. 

Underdark minor monsters to include

 Shrieker mushrooms to attract things (dragon?). 

Mushrooms with tentacles… dnd cartoon style  

Other mushrooms? 

That napalm gelat cube? . 

New gelat cube idea, napalm cube

Tenkar talks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCTijqH3uE&ra=m

Comment by Garrickstangle5…

“ made and used (to great effect) a variation called the napalm cube or n-cube. Adventurers have a knee-jerk reaction of Oh, g-cube, use fire. Its 'juice' is partly acid but mostly lamp oil and it catches fire really easily. Two rounds after catching fire, the heat on its outside causes internal pressure which causes it to explode in gobs of burning sticky jelly, out to the same radius as a fireball (hence the name napalm cube). My adventurers don't ignore the clue of 'smells like acid and lamp oil' anymore.”

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The Toadies - new music

 

New album  2026  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrADhEPIXc

The Charmer. Very good song. Lots good. 

And some fans say best album is Hell Below Stars Above. 

Great live version “i burn” maybe my fav somg od theirs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtNQQt4WDw&t=1232s